> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.findmydata.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Pricing & licensing

> Per-active-user pricing and how licensing behaves

Find My Data is licensed per **active user** — a person who actually signs in to
and uses the platform (data domain owners, governance admins, reviewers,
auditors). It is never your organization's headcount: in a 100,000-person
company, perhaps a few hundred people ever touch Find My Data, and only they are
billable.

## Editions

| Edition        | Price                            | Includes                                                                                                                                 |
| -------------- | -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Evaluation** | Free for 30 days                 | Scanning + Analyst, 1 deployment, up to 25 active users                                                                                  |
| **Standard**   | **\$49** per active user / month | Scanning, Analyst, Remediation; up to 250 active users                                                                                   |
| **Enterprise** | **\$99** per active user / month | Everything in Standard, plus Teams and Exchange connectors, semantic similarity (embeddings), up to 2,500 active users, priority support |

Start an evaluation, upgrade, and manage your license at
[account.findmydata.io](https://account.findmydata.io). Larger active-user
allotments are available — contact support through the portal.

## What counts as an active user

* A person counts from the moment they **first sign in** to your deployment.
* They **stay counted for 90 days** after their most recent sign-in (a trailing
  window), then roll off automatically. The count rises immediately with use and
  falls slowly with inactivity, so occasional users aren't churned in and out
  month to month.
* People in your organization who never sign in are **never counted** — the
  scanned population is irrelevant to licensing.
* Your deployment computes the number itself from its own session history.
  Nothing about *who* the users are ever leaves your environment; the deployment
  reports only the single count, and you can inspect the exact payload at
  `GET /api/controlplane/telemetry-preview`.

## How licensing behaves

* **Activation:** register at the Account portal, start an evaluation or
  purchase, and activate your deployment with a one-time code
  (`POST /api/controlplane/activate-online`). The license is a signed token your
  deployment verifies locally — no phone-home is required to keep running.
* **Renewal:** the deployment renews on a schedule with an offline grace window,
  so a network outage never bricks anything.
* **Non-destructive expiry:** an expired or exceeded license gates starting
  *new* scans. It never locks you out of your data, your audit trail, review, or
  exports. Your data is yours.
* **True-up:** you choose your expected active-user count at checkout and can
  adjust it as your usage grows; the deployment-reported count gives both sides
  the actual figure at renewal.

## AI costs are yours, directly

Building your organization's data model (taxonomy drafting, analyst planning)
runs on **your own AI provider account** — Azure OpenAI or Anthropic. Find My
Data never meters, marks up, or bills for AI usage. The deployment records
tokens and an estimated cost per task so you can budget: see
`GET /api/governance/ai-usage` and the [platform overview](platform-overview.md).