# Licensing – Flex Plan

> Maestro licensing under the Flex Plan, covering feature access by plan tier, Agent Units consumption, and user license requirements.

This page describes Maestro licensing under the **Flex Plan** model.

Under the Flex Plan, feature access depends on the assigned plan tier and user license.

## Platform tiers (Flex Plan)

| Feature | Standard | Advanced |
|----------|----------|---------|
| Process modeling | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process implementation | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process operations | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process monitoring | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process optimization | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process simulations | ❌ | ✅ |

## User rights (Flex Plan)

| Feature | Unlicensed | Basic | Action Center | Process Mining Business User | Attended User | Citizen Developer | Automation Developer |
|----------|------------|--------|----------------|------------------------------|----------------|-------------------|---------------------|
| Process modeling | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process implementation | ❌ | ✅* | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process operations | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process monitoring | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Process optimization | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Process simulation | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |

\* Personal use only.

## Consumption logic (Flex Plan)

Maestro consumes **Agent Units** based on usage.

| Activity | Metering unit | Agent Units consumed |
|-----------|---------------|----------------------|
| Process execution | Process instance | 5 |
| [Business rule](https://docs.uipath.com/maestro/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/business-rules) execution | Business rule executed | 1 |

:::note
Debugging a process does not consume Agent Units.
:::

For general licensing information, refer to the [Automation Cloud admin guide](https://docs.uipath.com/automation-cloud/automation-cloud/latest/admin-guide/about-licensing).