FOR/BOR licensing

[ovi (Viorela Preda)]

1. There are different licenses for FOR and BOR:
   FOR - standalone or are triggered by a user or agent. In this case you need one license per machine.(so, to be more clear, someone has to be always logged in on the machine and manually run the processes on the robot)
   BOR - with this license you can run on locked machines from orchestrator - recommended in production(in this case you don’t need the user/agent permanently logged in on the machine where the robots runs - for example you can schedule it from orchestrator to run at night time)
2. Studio is the designer(development purposes) and when you install it the Robot Service is also installed. The licensing that you buy determines how they will run. (as mentioned above)
3. Yes, they can run on windows server parallely from orchestrator. They are called high-density robots and there are some parameters you need to define in order for this to work properly.

Please let me know if something is unclear and you can also check this post:

Questions: Installer Front Office Robot / Installation instructions

UiPath Studio is the designer but when you install it the Robot Service is already installed. So from a development perspective there is no difference. However, when you go into production you need to purchase licenses so if you are running Back Office robots you need to purchase back Office license to run these. If, however, you still require the use of Studio (typically most people will) then you can continue to work on those particular machines with just the Studio license which is a little …