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License Overview

Bytebase offers 3 pricing plans: Free, Pro, Enterprise. Both Pro and Enterprise plans require purchasing license. You can contact us to request a 2-week free trial.

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Workspace vs Instance Licenses

Bytebase uses a two-tier licensing model: Workspace License
  • Applied to your entire Bytebase workspace
  • Unlocks plan-level features (Pro or Enterprise)
  • Must be configured first before assigning instance licenses
Instance Licenses
  • Applied to individual database instances to activate instance-specific features
  • Allocated from your workspace license quota
  • Can be assigned/unassigned as needed to optimize costs
You must first upload a workspace license, then assign the instance license quota to specific instances that need advanced features.

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License Quota

A license includes an instance quota, which defines:
  • The number of active database instances (with assigned instance-level licenses)
  • The total number of instances allowed under the plan

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Plan Details

  • Under the Pro plan, purchasing 1 to 20 user seats includes 10 active database instances at no additional cost.
  • Under the Enterprise plan, you must purchase a license with a minimum quota of 5 active instances.

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Feature Availability

  • Enterprise-wide features, such as SSO and Watermark are not instance-specific and are available as long as you hold an Enterprise license.
  • Instance-specific features, such as Dynamic Data Masking, require assigning quota to individual instances to be activated. For full details, see our pricing page.
To reduce costs, you can license only a subset of your instances (e.g., production instances only).
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Configure Workspace License

Navigate to the Settings > Subscription, paste your license and click Upload License. subscription

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Configure Instance License

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Assign License from the Instance Page

You can assign and unassign license to an instance on its instance page. instance-assign

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Assign License from the Subscription Page

You can assign your license to instances in the following ways:
  1. Go to the Settings > Subscription, click the instance area or the edit icon button, the license configuration drawer will appear. edit-assign
  2. On the Manage instance License drawer, tick the instances you want to assign license to, and click Confirm. assign-licenses

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Assign License via Gated Features

You can also assign instance license when coming across a gated feature. To assign for a table particularly so that you can operate on sensitive data:
  1. Go to Database > Databases to choose the database this table belongs to.
  2. Find the row representing your table, and click the Classification field you want to apply data masking. database-license
  3. On the table detail drawer, click the edit icon. There will be a popup containing Assign License button. license-data-masking