Licenses and seats

An organization is created from a license. A license has a number of seats, and those become the organization’s seats. Model usage is never billed by Rivets.

Get a license

You get a license during sign-up, on the Get Rivets for your team step, in the web app or the Mac app.

Set the number of Seats and choose Continue to checkout.
Finish checkout in your browser. Rivets waits on Finish checkout in your browser and moves on as soon as checkout completes.
On You’re licensed, choose Continue. The license is already linked to the account you used.
On Create your organization, enter a name and choose Create organization. The license’s seats become the organization’s seats, and you become its first owner.

Each license creates one organization.

Use a license key

After checkout, Rivets emails a license key that starts with lic_. You only need it to set up the organization from a different account, for example when someone else bought the license. On the Get Rivets for your team step, choose I have a license key, paste the key, and choose Use license key.

A key works once. After it has created an organization, it shows as already in use.

How seats are counted

A seat is used by each member of the organization, owners included, and by each pending invite. In the web app, Settings › Organization shows seats used, broken down into members and pending invites. The Mac app shows the organization’s seat count under Settings › Account.

When every seat is used, owners cannot send more invites.
Revoking a pending invite frees its seat.
Removing a member, or a member leaving, frees their seat.
Accepting an invite turns the pending invite into a member, so the count does not change.

See Teams and permissions.

Model usage

Rivets has no app-side AI and bills no inference. Every agent run, and every feature that uses a model (task naming, commit messages, pull request descriptions, reviews), runs on your workers through your own Claude Code or Codex login. Usage counts against your own Anthropic or OpenAI subscription.

Home shows how much of each worker’s subscription allowance is left. See Clusters and routing.