Here is a summary of the license options that are available for the different Qlik Sense related products. Licensing allows you to manage the usage of the Qlik Sense software in your organization.
For detailed information on Qlik Sense licensing options, see Qlik's legal terms, product terms, and Licensing Service Reference Guide:
Qlik Licensing Service Reference Guide
Product activation
All Qlik products are entitled and enforced by a License Enabler File (LEF). The LEF is the artifact that is downloaded during the production activation. A Qlik product is licensed and activated using either a serial and control number, or a signed license key. The use of a signed license key is required for Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS deployments, and for the use of capacity based licenses.
With a signed license key, you need internet access (direct or through a proxy) to access the cloud-based license backend, for user assignments, analytic time consumption, and product activations.
Unified license
You can use a unified license in multiple deployments. A unified license shares the same signed key between:
- multiple Qlik Sense Enterprise deployments
- multiple QlikView Server deployments
- QlikView Server and Qlik Sense Enterprise deployments
Applying the same signed key to multiple deployments lets you share the same users and access types. Users can access all connected deployments using the same Professional or Analyzer access allocation.
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Qlik Sense Enterprise is the server version of Qlik Sense that you can deploy on a single node, or on multiple nodes. Qlik Sense Enterprise deployments are licensed and activated using a serial and control number, or a signed license key. Your Qlik Sense Enterprise license is based either on access types, or on tokens.
Access types
Access types licenses are the Professional and Analyzer Users licenses (user-based) and Analyzer Capacity licenses (capacity-based). You can combine these for a subscription based license if you use the signed license key when your deployment is activated. You can combine only user-based licenses if you are using a perpetual license.
Token
You use tokens to allocate access passes to users so that they can access Qlik Sense. The LEF determines the number of tokens that you can allocate to different access passes. A user without an access pass cannot access apps.
With a Qlik Sense Token license you use tokens to allocate access passes to users. You can allocate user access and login access.
Core-based site
Qlik Sense Enterprise core-based sites are licensed based on the number of CPU cores on which the software will operate. A Core means a single processing unit within a processor or CPU, whether physical or virtual, including a vCPU or virtual core, which is capable of executing a single software thread at a time.
Qlik NPrinting
You can install and configure Qlik NPrinting to connect to QlikView documents or Qlik Sense apps. The licensing requirements and procedures are different depending on if you connect Qlik NPrinting to QlikView or Qlik Sense.
Qlik NPrinting versions 16.0.0.0 and later are licensed by a LEF. If you are using an earlier version of Qlik NPrinting, we suggest that you upgrade to Qlik NPrinting versions 16.0.0.0 or later.
For details regarding licensing Qlik NPrinting with QlikView, QlikView Desktop, and Qlik Sense, see