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Co-authored-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com> Co-authored-by: Brian Shumate <brianshumate@users.noreply.github.com>
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### What is a client? ((#what-is-a-client))
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Any unique application, service, or user that authenticates to a HashiCorp
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Vault cluster. The client count metric is a combination of entity clients and
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non-entity clients.
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For billing and consumption, only clients that are active during the billing
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period count toward total usage. Clients are only counted once within a billing
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period, regardless of how many times that client is active and when that client
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authenticates to a cluster, it has unlimited access to that cluster for the
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remainder of the billing period.
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| Installation type | Billing period
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| HCP | monthly
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| Self-managed | annually
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Consult the [clients and entities](/vault/docs/concepts/client-count) overview
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for more information on client definitions.
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### What is the difference between an entity client, non-entity client, and certificate client? ((#eclient-vs-neclient))
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- **Entity clients** map to an active identity.
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- **Non-entity clients** map to an active non-entity token.
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- **Certificate clients** map to an active ACME PKI certificate.
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Consult the [clients and entities](/vault/docs/concepts/client-count) overview
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for more information about how Vault determines entity assignments. |