Entitlements, Licenses, and Subscriptions
People often use the terms entitlement, license, and subscription interchangeably. On the Delinea Platform, each term means something different. This topic defines each term, shows which products use it, and tells you where to check counts, usage, and end dates.
Which Term Applies
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Subscription |
A product your organization buys or trials for a fixed term. A subscription has a start date, an end date, and a number of allocated licenses. The Delinea Platform and Secret Server Cloud use this term. |
A Privileged Remote Access (PRA) subscription that allocates 25 concurrent user licenses for one year. |
Delinea Platform: Marketplace > Subscriptions. See Software Subscriptions. Secret Server Cloud: the Cloud Subscriptions page. |
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License |
A unit of capacity. Each product counts licenses by its own metric, such as named users, concurrent users, servers, hours, or identities. On the Delinea Platform, a subscription allocates licenses, and users or resources consume them. Secret Server On-Premises uses license keys that you enter and activate. |
Delinea Platform: 150 of 200 allocated IT User licenses consumed. Secret Server On-Premises: a license key for 500 users. |
Delinea Platform: Marketplace > Subscriptions shows consumed and allocated licenses. Secret Server On-Premises: the Licenses page. See Secret Server Licensing FAQ. |
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Entitlement |
What a user or tenant is entitled to use on the Delinea Platform. Most often, the term means the entitlement type: IT User or Business User. Each user consumes the license that matches their entitlement. The word has other meanings too. See Meanings of Entitlement. |
A user with the Business User entitlement consumes one Business User license. When they log in, the Delinea Platform opens Credential Manager. |
Access > Entitlements. See Platform Entitlements. |
How the Terms Fit Together
A subscription allocates licenses. A user's entitlement determines which license they consume. For example:
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Your organization has a subscription that allocates 200 IT User licenses and 50 Business User licenses.
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Every user receives the IT User entitlement by default, so each user consumes one IT User license.
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You assign the Business User entitlement to 40 users. Those users now consume Business User licenses instead.
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Marketplace > Subscriptions shows the consumed and allocated licenses for each subscription.
Delinea Platform entitlements aren't license keys. They don't appear on the Licenses tab in the Delinea Support Portal. Use Marketplace > Subscriptions instead.
To learn how each subscription counts license consumption, see Entitlements Consumption Calculations in the Delinea Support Portal.
Find the Right Topic
Use this table to go from a common search term to the topic that answers it.
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If You Searched For |
Go To |
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License count, license usage, allocated licenses, consumed licenses |
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Subscription, renewal, expiration, trial |
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License key, license activation |
Secret Server Licensing FAQ (Secret Server On-Premises only) |
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Entitlements, license type, IT User license, Business User license |
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Vendor license, contractor, third-party user |
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Concurrent user license, PRA license |
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Cloud entitlements, CIEM, excessive cloud permissions |
Meanings of Entitlement
The word entitlement has several meanings on the Delinea Platform. This table explains each meaning and links to the topic that covers it in detail.
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Meaning |
Definition |
Learn More |
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Subscription entitlement |
A product your organization subscribes to, with a number of allocated licenses. To view your subscriptions and license usage, select Marketplace > Subscriptions. |
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Entitlement type (IT User or Business User) |
Determines a user's base Delinea Platform capabilities. Contracts and some Delinea content call entitlement types license types. Every user receives the IT User entitlement by default. To manage entitlement types, select Access > Entitlements. |
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Vendor entitlement |
The limited Secret Server capabilities that apply to users with the Vendor membership type. A Vendor entitlement isn't an entitlement type. A user with the Vendor membership type can't have the Business User entitlement. |
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PRA entitlement |
Privileged Remote Access (PRA) concurrent user licenses. A user consumes one license while they have active PRA remote sessions. |
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Cloud entitlement |
Permissions that cloud identities hold in cloud infrastructure and SaaS tools. Cloud identities are cloud service users and accounts, not Delinea Platform users. Identity Threat Protection (ITP) and Privilege Control for Cloud Entitlements (PCCE) evaluate these entitlements. |
Subscriptions and Licenses Pages
Three pages show subscription or license information. Each shows different information:
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Delinea Platform Subscriptions page (Marketplace > Subscriptions): Lists your current and past product subscriptions, with dates, status, and consumed and allocated licenses. See Software Subscriptions.
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Secret Server Cloud Cloud Subscriptions page: Shows Secret Server Cloud license limits, such as the secret limit and the limits for sites and engines.
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Secret Server On-Premises Licenses page: Lists the license keys you entered, such as user and support licenses. See Secret Server Licensing FAQ.
