# Using software licenses with Deadline Cloud
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Deadline Cloud provides two methods of providing software licenses for your jobs:
+ *Usage-based licensing (UBL)* – provides on-demand licenses for supported third-party applications and renderers, billed based on the number of hours that your fleet uses them to process a job. There is no set number of licenses, so your fleet can scale as needed. UBL is standard for service-managed fleets. For customer-managed fleets you can connect an Deadline Cloud license endpoint for UBL.
+ Bring your own license (BYOL) – enables you to use existing software licenses with your service- or customer-managed fleets. You can use BYOL to connect to license servers for software not supported by the Deadline Cloud usage-based licenses. You can use BYOL with service-managed fleets by connecting to a custom license server.

**Topics**
+ [Combining BYOL and UBL](license-combine-byol-ubl.md)
+ [Connect service-managed fleets to a custom license server](smf-byol.md)
+ [Connect customer-managed fleets to a license endpoint](cmf-ubl.md)