Tutorial 22

View and manage your License

Why this matters

Auxot is open-core — you can run it forever on the free tier with one user, unlimited agents, unlimited inference providers, and the full set of base features. Paid tiers (Team, Business, Enterprise) unlock multi-user accounts, multi-team isolation, and enterprise capabilities. Your license key tells Auxot which tier you’re on. The License page is where you install it, see what you’ve got, and decide if it’s time to upgrade.

Today, get your license key in (if you have one), or take a clean look at what the free tier covers (if you don’t). Either way, you’ll leave knowing exactly which capabilities your team can use right now and which ones a higher tier would unlock.

Quick start

1. Sign in — open Auxot in your browser and log in.
2. Open License settings — click Settings in the left menu, then License.
3. Install your key (if you have one) — click Install or update license key, paste the key from your purchase email or invoice (it starts with auxot_lic), click Save.
4. Review your tier — check the cards at the top: Tier, Renews, Max users.
5. Scan the License features list — see what’s enabled at your current tier and what’s locked behind higher tiers.

Done? Your tier is confirmed, and you can see exactly which capabilities your team can use today.

The agent can do that?

License decisions sit at the intersection of “what can my team do” and “what does it cost.” Three prompts that turn guesswork into reasoning.

1. Have the Admin Agent decide if you should upgrade

Open chat with the Admin Agent and ask:

My team uses Auxot for [brief description — e.g., "small marketing agency, 6 people, mostly drafts and content review"]. We're currently on the [tier name] tier. Looking at what's locked behind the next tier up — [paste the locked features from the License page] — would upgrading actually change anything we'd do, or are we fine where we are? Be blunt.

Why it’s non-obvious: The Admin Agent reasons about whether the locked features are ones you’d actually use, not just ones that sound nice on a comparison chart. You go from “the marketing page says Team tier has more features” to “we’d actually use exactly two of the eight Team-tier features, so it’s worth $X” — or “no, we wouldn’t touch any of them, save the budget.” Decision based on your work, not the pricing page.

2. Have the Admin Agent draft the upgrade memo for finance

If you decide to upgrade, finance is going to ask why. Don’t write that memo from scratch:

We're upgrading from [current tier] to [target tier] on Auxot. Draft me a one-page memo for finance that explains what changes for the team, what the cost is, what we couldn't do before but can do now, and the timeline for getting it set up. Make it sound like a real person wrote it, not a vendor pitch.

Why it’s non-obvious: The Admin Agent drafts the memo using your specific reasoning and the actual feature differences — not boilerplate. Saves you 30 minutes of writing AND avoids the “we should upgrade because, uh, more is better” framing that gets memos rejected.

3. Have the Admin Agent audit which locked features you’d actually use

Inverted-usage move. Before you decide anything, paste the full feature list:

Here's everything Auxot's tiers offer, with the gates: [paste base features and the locked features from the License page]. Looking at how my team actually works — [briefly describe], pretend I asked you to recommend a tier. Which tier would you pick, and which features in your recommendation would I genuinely use vs ignore? Don't tell me what's "best practice" — tell me what fits.

Why it’s non-obvious: Inverts the typical “salesperson pitches features” flow. The Admin Agent reads YOUR work and tells you which features actually map to it — and which are noise. Most people upgrade based on a feature comparison chart and use 30% of what they paid for. This finds you the right tier instead.

Go deeper

What the free tier actually includes

The free tier is genuinely usable, not crippled — that’s the open-core model. With no license key installed, you get:

• Unlimited inference providers and LLM routing
• Unlimited tool policies and tool-connector keys
• Unlimited agents
• Unlimited credentials
• Unlimited OAuth providers
• A single user account on the default team

The things free tier doesn’t have are inherently multi-user / multi-team things: invitations, concurrent sign-ins, separate teams. If you’re a solo developer or a one-person business, the free tier is the right answer indefinitely. If you have two or more people who need to use Auxot, that’s when you start looking at Team tier.

What each paid tier adds

• Team tier — unlimited user accounts, invites, concurrent sign-ins. The “we’re a small business and want everyone in one shared workspace” tier.
• Business tier — unlimited teams with per-team resources, credentials, and published agents. The “different departments need their own walled gardens” tier. Tutorial 20 covers multi-team isolation.
• Enterprise tier — capabilities defined in your contract. Specific feature set varies; if you’re at the size where Enterprise is the question, you’ll have a sales conversation that defines it.

License keys and renewals

License keys always start with auxot_lic. They get tied to your organization (the Licensed to line on the page). Keep them private — share them only as your agreement allows.

Renewals run on a schedule defined by your purchase: monthly licenses get a 15-day renewal window before expiry, annual licenses get a 30-day window. You can re-install or replace a key only inside that window — outside of it, the renewal check at expiration handles it automatically.

The Danger zone

Experimental features

If you’re an org admin and a license is installed, you’ll see an Experimental features section with feature flag toggles (currently includes “Agentic apps”). These are preview features — they work, but expect rough edges. Toggling them on doesn’t affect your tier or billing; it just changes what surfaces in the product for your org.

Troubleshooting

• “No commercial key is installed yet” — you’re on the free tier. If you have a key from a purchase, click Install or update license key and paste it.
• Install failed with “Something went wrong.” — likely a copy-paste issue. The key needs to be the full string starting with auxot_lic. Re-copy from your purchase email — make sure no leading or trailing whitespace.
• Tier shows “free” after I installed a key. — the install probably failed silently. Re-open the modal, paste, save, refresh the page.
• I’m not an admin and Install/Uninstall buttons are missing. — license management is admin-only. Ask your org admin.

Variations & edge cases

• Free tier doesn’t show a “Renews” date. — there’s nothing to renew.
• “Max users: Unlimited” — paid tiers don’t impose a per-seat ceiling on the License page itself. Your billing arrangement might still have seat counts, but the License page doesn’t enforce them.
• License view is readable to all users. — non-admin users can see what tier the org is on and what’s enabled, but can’t install or uninstall.
• Pricing page link — when you’re on the free tier, the page shows a “Compare plans and pricing” link to https://auxot.com/pricing.

Walkthrough

Step 1: Sign in

Open Auxot in your browser and sign in. You need to be an org admin to install or change a license key.

Step 2: Open the License settings page

Click Settings in the left menu, then License. You’ll see one of two states depending on whether a key is installed.

Step 3: If no key is installed — review the free tier or install yours

Without a key, the page shows:

• An alert saying “No commercial key is installed yet, so this workspace runs on the free tier.”
• A link: Compare plans and pricing →
• A button: Install or update license key

If you don’t have a key, you’re done — the License features list shows you exactly what the free tier includes. If you do have a key, click Install or update license key, paste it (it starts with auxot_lic), click Save.

Tip: Paste the key exactly. Auxot does some basic validation on save — if it can’t read your key, you’ll see “Something went wrong.” Common cause: stray whitespace from the copy-paste.

Step 4: Review your tier

The top of the page shows three cards:

• Tier — Free, Team, Business, or Enterprise. Tied to the key you installed.
• Renews — the date your license renews. (Free tier shows nothing here.)
• Max users — the cap on user accounts on this org. Free shows “1,” paid tiers show “Unlimited.”

If you see Licensed to: [Org name] above the cards, that’s the org name embedded in your key.

Step 5: Scan the License features list

Below the tier cards is a feature list. Each row shows either Enabled (you have it) or a tier gate label like Team tier / Business tier / Enterprise tier (you’d need to upgrade to get it).

Base features are always enabled regardless of tier. Tiered features are gated. Look at the locked rows — those are what an upgrade would unlock.

Tip: Don’t decide on an upgrade by counting locked features. Use Power Move 1 above — have the Admin Agent reason about which of those locked features your team would actually use.

Step 6: (Optional) Toggle experimental features

If you’re an org admin and a license is installed, scroll to Experimental features. You’ll see toggles for preview features (currently “Agentic apps”). These are works-in-progress; flip them on if you want to try them, off if you want stability.

Step 7: (Only if needed) Uninstall the license

The Danger zone section at the bottom holds the Uninstall license button. Use this when:

• You need to switch to a different key (uninstall the old one first).
• Your team is downsizing and the paid tier is no longer needed.
• You’re troubleshooting a license-related issue and want to verify free-tier behavior.

A confirmation modal appears before the uninstall actually fires. The workspace immediately drops back to the free tier.

What’s next

• → Tutorial 09: Connect a cloud AI model — your license is sorted; now connect the AI providers your agents will use.
• → Tutorial 20: Set up multi-team isolation — if you’re on Business tier, this is the killer feature. Walls between teams, shared brain underneath.
• → Tutorial 21: Customize your Profile — the other settings page worth knowing.

Reference

• Pages in Auxot: Settings → License
• License key format: starts with auxot_lic
• Free tier covers: unlimited agents, providers, tools, credentials; single user
• Tiers: Free / Team / Business / Enterprise
• Renewal windows: 15 days (monthly), 30 days (annual)
• See also: Tutorial 09: Connect a cloud AI model, Tutorial 20: Set up multi-team isolation