Licensing And Editions

A Sendense licence sets two things: how many VMs may be protected, and which recovery paths are permitted. The rest of the product does not change between editions — the same repository format, transport, scheduling, retention and recovery evidence are present in all of them.

Editions are sold either as a subscription or as a one-time project licence. Each edition's commercial model, pack size and protected-VM ceiling is listed below.

The entitlements on this page are generated from the same capability matrix the appliance enforces, so what is documented here is what the licence gates actually apply.

Most of the licensing model turns on a single axis: whether an operation lands back on the hypervisor family a workload was protected from, or on a different one. Restore, replication and failover each appear twice in the matrix for that reason.

Backup does not sit on that axis at all. A backup has no destination platform, so no edition scopes it by hypervisor; the axis only starts to matter at the point of recovery.

Each edition below lists its commercial model, its protected-VM ceiling, and the operations it permits. Where an edition permits an operation only inside a specific workflow, that scope is shown in brackets rather than as a plain inclusion.

The same entitlements read the other way round: what each capability means, and which editions hold it.

A subscription term does not end in a cliff. A licence moves through three states, and the appliance shows which one it is in.

Restore only is a floor rather than a lock. Data that was already protected stays recoverable for as long as the repository holds it, but nothing new is protected and no replica moves forward.

A one-time migration licence is a project licence rather than a tier. It pays for the move itself, and for nothing after it.

A unit binds to one named VM and is permanently consumed when that migration is committed. It is not released back into a pool afterwards and cannot be re-pointed at another workload.

Ongoing protection is a separate purchase. Once the workload is running on its destination platform, protecting it needs a subscription licence sized for that estate.

Subscription capacity is sold in packs, and each edition's pack size is listed with it above. A protected-VM ceiling, where an edition has one, is the largest estate that edition may be licensed for; the entry edition is the only one that carries a ceiling.

Enterprise Plus is priced on a quote rather than a published price, and is scoped with the sales team. Current published prices for the other editions are on the Sendense pricing page.