# Users and licences

## Users

In the Paradime platform, the mechanism for controlling and managing access to your account involves the use of licenses. This approach ensures a structured and secure way to allocate user permissions and roles. 

To accommodate various levels of access and responsibility, Paradime offers three distinct types of licences:

* **Active seats** — These can develop code using the Paradime Code IDE, manage and run production schedules using Bolt and access other Paradime features.
* **Read-Only seats** — These have read-only access to the platform and can view Catalog, Lineage and Production schedules logs.
* **Management seats\*** — Can manage users, groups, and licenses, among other permissions at the account level or workspace level.

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**\*Management seats** are available only on the [Security Pack](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/role-based-access-control).
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## Licences

In Paradime, we have a set of roles available depending on the selected tier. **We only charge for Active Seats**, in other words - for users with write access to the Paradime Development Environment and/or Production Environment.

Business users have only read-only access and you can have unlimited business users signed up to the Paradime platform. These do not count towards the active usage seats.

Management seats are available only on[ ](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/role-based-access-control)[Paradime Security Pack](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/role-based-access-control) and do not count towards the active usage seats.

Refer to [Paradime Pricing Plans ](https://www.paradime.io/pricing)for more information about licenses available within each plan.

| Role type                      | Active seats | Read-Only | Management |
| ------------------------------ | ------------ | --------- | ---------- |
| **Admin**                      | ✅            |           |            |
| **Workspace Admin\***          | ✅            |           |            |
| **Developer**                  | ✅            |           |            |
| **Analyst\***                  | ✅            |           |            |
| **Business**                   |              | ✅         |            |
| **Workspace Settings Admin\*** |              |           | ✅          |
| **Security Admin\***           |              |           | ✅          |
| **Billing Admin\***            |              |           | ✅          |

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**Role Types with marked with (\*)** are available only on the[ ](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/role-based-access-control)[Paradime Security Pack](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/role-based-access-control).
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### Related Articles

For details on the default roles and permissions associated with the standard Paradime Tiers, click the following link:

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[roles-and-permissions](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/roles-and-permissions)
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For details on Paradime role-based access control feature included with the [ ](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/role-based-access-control)Paradime Security Pack, click the following link:

{% content-ref url="role-based-access-control" %}
[role-based-access-control](https://docs.paradime.io/app-help/documentation/settings/users/role-based-access-control)
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