Licensing & Usage

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.