---
title: "Get approximate license count"
method: GET
path: "/rest/api/3/license/approximateLicenseCount"
tags: ["License metrics"]
---

# Get approximate license count

`GET /rest/api/3/license/approximateLicenseCount`

Returns the approximate number of user accounts across all Jira licenses. Note that this information is cached with a 7-day lifecycle and could be stale at the time of call.

**[Permissions](#permissions) required:** *Administer Jira* [global permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/x4dKLg).

## Response `200`

Returned if the request is successful.

- LicenseMetric — A metric that provides insight into the active licence details
  - `key` string — The key of a specific license metric.
  - `value` string — The calculated value of a licence metric linked to the key. An example licence metric is the approximate number of user accounts.

## Other responses

- `401` — Returned if the authentication credentials are incorrect or missing.
- `403` — Returned if the user does not have permission to complete this request.

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