# Is Canvas is a open source or linked with the X Pack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686 "2018-12-06T08:49:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sunil_Edupuganti)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/1 "2018-12-06T08:49:27Z")

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Hi,

Is Canvas is a open source or linked with the X Pack?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/2 "2018-12-06T09:17:08Z")

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Canvas is available with the free basic license.

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**Author:** ![Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sunil_Edupuganti)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/3 "2018-12-06T09:40:50Z")

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What do you mean by the basic license?

Kibana is an open source right, We are not using any license now.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/4 "2018-12-06T10:39:05Z")

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Canvas is licensed under the Elastic license and is available as part of our default distribution. It is not part of the OSS distribution.

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**Author:** ![Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sunil_Edupuganti)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/5 "2018-12-06T11:35:21Z")

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How much the license cost will be? (Approximate amount)

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/6 "2018-12-06T11:45:39Z")

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Canvas is part of the free license, so does not cost anything.

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**Author:** ![Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sunil\_Edupuganti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sunil_Edupuganti)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/7 "2018-12-06T11:48:54Z")

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Okay. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-canvas-is-a-open-source-or-linked-with-the-x-pack/159686/8 "2019-01-03T11:48:54Z")

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