# Is the Sense Plugin for free? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 19, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-sense-plugin-for-free/60841 "2016-09-19T07:41:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TWalter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/twalter/32/41239_2.png) [@TWalter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TWalter)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-sense-plugin-for-free/60841/1 "2016-09-19T07:41:37Z")
Hello everyone, can I use the Sense Plugin everytime for free, also if I use it commercial? Someone said that i can use it for free only for development and after publishing, i have to pay for it. Can you please tell me what's right? Thank you for your help =) ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-sense-plugin-for-free/60841/2 "2016-09-19T08:07:29Z")
In Kibana 5, it's part of the CONSOLE which is built-in in the open source solution. Under Apache2 License. Sense plugin (ancestor of CONSOLE) is available under Apache2 License here: [https://github.com/elastic/sense](https://github.com/elastic/sense) ---
**Author:** ![TWalter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/twalter/32/41239_2.png) [@TWalter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TWalter)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-sense-plugin-for-free/60841/3 "2016-09-19T12:23:51Z")
Okay thanks =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-sense-plugin-for-free/60841/4 "2017-07-05T22:19:13Z")