Manage paid access for users

TFS 2018

You can assign and remove users and get billed according to those assignments, rather than complete a purchase process. This article helps you take advantage of the tools we have for managing paid access for users. This way you only pay for what you need.

For more information, learn how to manage paid access to Azure Boards, Azure Repos, and Azure Test Plans.

Visual Studio subscribers get access included with their subscription, and their subscription gets detected when they sign in to Azure DevOps for the first time.

Tip

To estimate costs for Azure DevOps, see the Pricing calculator or the Azure DevOps pricing page.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following items in place:

Pay via Azure

Complete the following steps to pay via Azure.

  1. Create an Azure DevOps organization, even if you don't intend to use it.
  2. Set up billing using an Azure subscription and add users or buy CI/CD.
  3. Assign licenses to users.

You're entitled to the same number of user licenses to be used in the server.

Next steps