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# Licensing models

## Comparison of the licensing models

Below is a table showing the specifics of the plans available. For more information on the details of your current plan, please refer to your contract or contact your CSM.

<table data-full-width="true"><thead><tr><th width="151.20001220703125">Model name</th><th>Resource consumption unit</th><th>Consumption per environment</th><th>Hosting Platform</th><th>Shared or private Platform</th><th>Platform Usage quotas</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Pipeline-based model</strong></td><td>Licenses</td><td>Prod and Test deployments consume the same License package.</td><td>Shared hosting</td><td>Shared Platform</td><td>Doesn’t apply</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Subscription-based model</strong></td><td>RTUs (Runtime Units)</td><td>Prod and Test deployments consume different RTU packages.</td><td>Shared hosting</td><td>Shared Platform</td><td>Uses Platform Usage quotas</td></tr><tr><td>Consumption-based model</td><td>Credits (based on GB-seconds, executions, and egress traffic)</td><td>Usage is calculated based on actual consumption metrics, regardless of the environment.</td><td>Shared and Private hosting</td><td>Shared and Private platform</td><td>Uses Platform Usage quotas</td></tr></tbody></table>


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