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Licenses Overview
To enable specific Salesforce functionality for your users, you must choose one user license for each user. To enable more functionality, you can assign permission set licenses and feature licenses to your users or purchase usage-based entitlements for your organization.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Edition requirements vary for each user, permission set, and feature license type. |
For example, to view contracts, a user must have the Read permission on contracts. To assign a given permission to a user, that user’s license (or licenses) must support the permission. Multiple licenses can support a single permission.
Think of permissions as locks and of licenses as rings of keys. Before you can assign users a specific permission, they must have a license that includes the key to unlock that permission. Although every user must have exactly one user license, you can assign one or more permission set licenses or feature licenses to incrementally unlock more permissions.
Continuing our example, the Salesforce user license includes the key to unlock the Read permission on contracts. The Chatter Free user license doesn’t. If you try to assign that permission to a Chatter Free user, you get an error message.
You can view your Salesforce org’s licenses on the Company Information page in Setup. To
learn how to check your remaining licenses, watch 
How Many Licenses Have I Used? (English
Only). You can also track the number of active user licenses, permission set
licenses, and feature licenses with the Active Licenses tab in the Lightning Usage App.
Salesforce provides these types of licenses and usage-based entitlements.
- User Licenses
Every user requires a user license to access Salesforce. Depending on your product, edition, and add-ons, there are various types of user licenses available. See how user licenses work to ensure you’re allocating them appropriately and effectively. - Permission Set Licenses
Permission set licenses entitle users to access additional features not included in their assigned user license. Users can be assigned any number of permission set licenses. - Unmetered Platform Developer and Admin AI User Permission Set License
The Unmetered Platform Developer and Admin AI User permission set license (PSL) provides access to unmetered Agentforce Vibes and certain AI-powered developer and admin tools. Unmetered usage doesn’t consume Flex credits. - Feature Licenses Overview
A feature license entitles a user to access an additional feature that isn’t included with his or her user license, such as Marketing or WDC. Users can be assigned any number of feature licenses. - Usage-Based Entitlements
A usage-based entitlement is a limited resource that your organization can use on a periodic basis. For example, the allowed number of monthly logins to a Partner Community is a usage-based entitlement.
