# Change a machine

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/change-a-machine/5997>\
**Category:** Getting Started\
**Tags:** usage\
**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/change-a-machine/5997 "2022-10-03T05:04:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/change-a-machine/5997/2 "2022-10-03T12:53:09Z")

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hi @freemaple456!

Thanks for your question and welcome to the Prodigy community 👋

You don't need to purchase a new license 🙂.

Prodigy's license apply to people (developers), not machines. For example, if you have a personal license, that provides you (the person listed on the license) to install Prodigy on an unlimited number of machines with an unlimited number of annotators. What you can't do is provide someone else access to your code base since you are the only one listed on the license.

Here's a post for more details.

> [@how to use the prodigy licenses?](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-use-the-prodigy-licenses/4541/2):
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> Hi! The pack of 5 licenses lets up to 5 developers use Prodigy at the same time. How you do that is really up to you and your requirements – you can run Prodigy on a local machine on localhost, run multiple instances on differen hosts/ports or deploy it in the cloud. The licenses apply to the people using Prodigy, not the machines (since that'd be really impractical). In a typical workflow, you'd probably have the developers running Prodigy on their local machines during development and to quic…

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