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title: Licensing & Usage
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Coder Agents is licensed differently depending on whether your deployment holds a Community license or an AI Premium license with a purchased Agent Time allocation.

## Community licenses

Community licenses support up to five concurrently active agents deployment-wide.
Coder doesn't limit how long those agents can run or how many tasks they complete over time.
Agents will queue when more than five agents are active at a time.
With this agent pool, individuals and small teams can experiment with Coder Agents at no cost.

## AI Premium licenses and Agent Time

AI Premium licenses include a customizable amount of Agent Time.
Agent Time is shared across the deployment, allowing unlimited agents to run concurrently while consuming from a shared pool of purchased working hours.
This usage-based model is designed for enterprise workloads, where large development teams, background automation, and API-triggered tasks can create highly variable bursts of agent activity without being constrained by a concurrency limit.

## How Agent Time is measured

Agent Time is the cumulative duration during which an AI agent is actively processing a task for the user.
It is measured per interaction step and summed across the duration of a conversation.

**Includes:**

- Large language model inference time
- Tool execution (such as file operations, terminal commands, and workspace provisioning)
- Automated error recovery attempts

**Excludes:**

- Time the customer spends composing or reviewing messages
- Time between conversation turns when the agent is not processing
- Tool execution delegated to external systems outside the agent's direct control

Agent Time does not accrue when a conversation is inactive or awaiting user input.
Agent Time is measured with millisecond precision and is rounded down to the nearest minute for billing purposes.

## Concurrency and usage limits

Coder handles concurrency and usage limits differently, depending on the license you use for Coder.

### Community concurrency limit

When a Community license deployment reaches its limit of five concurrently active agents, any additional agents are placed in a queue.
As soon as an active agent completes its task, the next queued agent begins its work, so no work is lost and no action is required from the user.

### AI Premium Agent Time exhaustion

Coder sends deployment administrators an in-app soft warning message as the deployment approaches its maximum allotted Agent Time, so they can purchase additional Agent Time before the concurrency fallback takes effect.