How does licensing work with WP multisite?

Generally, for a multi-site network running on a single WordPress instance with sub-sites on the same domain, it is considered a single domain, and a single license key with 1 limit should suffice. However, there can be some complications explained below.

If your multi-site setup has sub-sites with slightly different URI paths on the same domain (e.g., https://example.com/site-a, https://example.com/site-b, etc.), you only need one license with the default 1 website limit. All sub-sites are considered part of the same domain and you will see on your license page only one domain listed.

If each sub-site in our multi-site setup is hosted on a subdomain (e.g., https://site-a.example.com, https://site-b.example.com, etc.), in this case, our system will see them as independent websites, however, they will be just aliases. Any installation that is tagged as alias does not affect your subscription renewal cost and only is kept for audit.

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If for any unknown reasons you notice that sub-sites starting to count as independent domains on our license page under "Activations" then please inform us. We will adjust the records and your subscription accordingly.