Free licenses

FortiIdentity Cloud offers the following free licenses:

• 30-day trial license

• Free three-user license

30-day trial license

If you have registered under FortiCloud on support.fortinet.com, FortiIdentity Cloud (FIC) automatically enables your 30-day free trial when you log into the FIC portal (FIC.fortinet.com) for the first time. The free trial license supports up to five end users, five realms, five applications, and five user sources.

After activating the free trial license, you will receive a welcome email. The email includes, among other things, the expiration date of the free trial license and instructions about how to purchase a paid license.

If, at the end of your free trial, you want to continue using FIC service, you can purchase a license (SKU) that best fits your needs. For licensing information, see Licensing options.

You will receive another welcome email when activating a paid license. The email shows, among other things, the user quota and expiration date of your license.

Free three-user license

FIC also offers a free three-user license. To be eligible for this free license, you must have a valid FortiCare support contract, such as an active FortiGate or FortiAuthenticator license. You can activate this free three-user license from the GUI or CLI of the Fortinet device by selecting Activate Trial or by adding a new user. You can also activate it directly from the FIC portal.

The license supports three end users, three realms, five applications, and one user source. The license remains active as long as the device’s support contract is valid; it expires when the support contract ends.

If you have a valid FortiCare support contract, you will be prompted to activate the free three-user license instead of the 30-day trial license when you log into the FIC portal for the first time. You can switch to the 30-day trial later using the 30-day trial button in the upper-right corner of the FIC Dashboard page. However, if you activate the 30-day trial license first, you cannot switch to the free three-user license right away. You must wait until the 30-day trial license has expired to be able to activate the free three-user license.

If you have users configured in FIC during the 30-day trial and you still have a valid FortiCare support contract when the 30-day trial has ended, the system will automatically activate the free three-user license when the 30-day trial license has expired.

Neither the 30-day trial license nor the free three-user license includes SMS service. And neither can be added to or combined with any paid FIC license. They become expired when a paid FIC license is added to your account.

FortiSASE customers with FortiProduct contract but no FIC license

If a licensed FortiSASE customer does not have a paid FIC subscription but instead has a valid license for a FortiProduct, such as FortiGate or FortiAuthenticator, they will be eligible for a free three-user license quota along with free FortiSASE user quota in FIC.

For example, if you have a FortiSASE license for 150 users and a valid FortiGate or FortiAuthenticator license, you are eligible for the following resources:

No. of resources	FortiSASE	FortiProduct license	Final rule
Users	150	3	The two combined.
Applications	5	5	The greater of the two.
Users sources	2	2	The greater of the two.
Realms	1	3	The greater of the two.