Using software licenses with Deadline Cloud

Usage-based licensing (UBL) – provides on-demand licenses for supported third-party applications and renderers, billed based on the number of hours that your fleet uses them to process a job. There is no set number of licenses, so your fleet can scale as needed. UBL is standard for service-managed fleets. For customer-managed fleets you can connect an Deadline Cloud license endpoint for UBL.

Bring your own license (BYOL) – enables you to use existing software licenses with your service- or customer-managed fleets. You can use BYOL to connect to license servers for software not supported by the Deadline Cloud usage-based licenses. You can use BYOL with service-managed fleets by connecting to a custom license server.