Adobe Creative Cloud: Important Licensing Changes (Reminder)

Reminder: On July 1 and September 1, 2025, several important changes were made to the Creative Cloud licensing lineup, including rebranding, various feature upgrades and additions, and price increases.These offerings are available across all routes to market, including VIP Marketplace in commercial and government market segments. Find a summary of changes and a comparison table in this article.

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Changes

Creative Cloud Pro for Teams (formerly Creative Cloud for Teams)

  • Customers whose Anniversary Date falls on or after September 1 renew using the new Creative Cloud offers (anniversary dates can’t be adjusted beforehand).
  • Rebranding: Creative Cloud for Teams will be rebranded to Creative Cloud Pro for Teams.
  • – Price Increase: Effective September 1, 2025, a price increase of approximately 11% applied.
  • + More monthly generative AI credits: Users will now receive 4000 monthly generative credits per user (previously 1000).
  • + Unlimited Adobe Firefly AI generations: Users now benefit from unlimited standard Firefly generations (previously limited to 1000).
  • + Unlimited Adobe Stock standard assets: Users now have unlimited access to Adobe Stock standard assets (previously not included). This means users can access a vast library of high-quality images, graphics, and other assets without additional costs.
  • + Firefly Boards (beta): Ability to create multiple concept boards is now included.

Creative Cloud Pro Plus for Teams (formerly Creative Cloud for Teams All Apps Pro Edition)

  • Customers whose Anniversary Date falls on or after September 1 renew using the new Creative Cloud offers (anniversary dates can’t be adjusted beforehand).
  • Rebranding: Creative Cloud for Teams All Apps Pro Edition will be rebranded to Creative Cloud Pro Plus for Teams.
  • – Price Increase: Effective September 1, 2025, a price increase of approximately 10% applied.
  • + More monthly generative AI credits: Users will now receive 4000 monthly generative credits per user (previously 3000).
  • + Unlimited Adobe Firefly AI generations: Users now benefit from unlimited standard Firefly generations.
  • + Access to premium Firefly features: Premium Firefly features for audio/video use cases are included.
  • + Unlimited Adobe Stock standard assets: Users now have unlimited access to Adobe Stock standard assets.
  • + Firefly Boards (beta): Ability to create multiple concept boards is now included.
  • + IP indemnification: Up to $10,000 per asset.

Creative Cloud for Enterprise Edition 4 (replaced Creative Cloud for enterprise (CEE) Pro Edition in June 2024)

  • Customers whose Anniversary Date falls on or after July 1 renew using the new Creative Cloud offers (anniversary dates can’t be adjusted beforehand).
  • – Price Increase: Effective July 1, 2025, Creative Cloud for Enterprise Edition 4 prices increased by approximately 6%.
  • + More monthly generative AI credits: Users now receive 4000 monthly generative credits per user (previously 3000).
  • + Unlimited Adobe Firefly AI generations: Users now benefit from unlimited standard Firefly generations, including Object Composites, Style Kits, and Lip Sync.
  • + Access to premium Firefly features: Premium Firefly features for audio/video use cases are included.
  • + Unlimited Adobe Stock standard assets: Users now have unlimited access to Adobe Stock standard assets.
  • + Firefly Boards (beta): Ability to create multiple concept boards is now included.
  • + IP indemnification: Up to $10,000 per asset (VIP) and up to $3 million per asset (ETLA).
  • + Admin Features: Advanced controls and Single Sign-On (SSO) for improved organization-wide management

Single App plans

Starting July 1, 2025, new subscribers of some Creative Cloud single app for Teams plans will have 25 monthly generative credits (previously 500). This is Adobe’s attempt to the attractiveness of Creative Cloud offers in comparison. There will be no changes to the pricing of Creative Cloud single app for Teams plans (including Pro versions). Existing subscribers of any paid Creative Cloud single apps for Teams plan will retain the monthly generative credits they currently get with their plan.

Affected Plans

The following Creative Cloud single app for Teams plans are impacted:

  • Photoshop Single App
  • Illustrator Single App
  • Premiere Single App
  • InDesign Single App
  • Lightroom Single App
  • After Effects Single App
  • Audition Single App
  • Animate Single App
  • Dreamweaver Single App
  • InCopy Single App

Unaffected plans

There will be no changes to monthly generative credits for new or existing subscribers of the following Teams-plans:

  • Express Premium
  • Adobe Stock (all plans)
  • Substance 3D Collection
  • Acrobat Standard/Pro
  • Creative Cloud Pro Edition for Teams Single App (all plans)

Generative Credit Notifications (All Plans)

Since June 17, 2025, Adobe has been enforcing credit limits across Creative Cloud worldwide. As part of this implementation, Adobe introduced the following measures to educate customers about their generative credit usage in Adobe products:

  • All generative AI features that consume credits are marked with a symbol.
  • Customers are notified when they use a generative AI feature for the first time.
  • Customers receive alerts when they reach 90% of their monthly credit limit.
  • Customers are not charged for additional credits without consent. Paywalls appear on the screen, allowing customers to either purchase additional credits or dismiss the notification.
  • Credits reset each month based on the customer’s anniversary date.
  • Customers can view their credit balance anytime via the Adobe Account menu in products.

 

New Creative Cloud lineup

The below table shows the new B2B lineup of Creative Cloud offerings in Europe. Please be informed, that, as of July 1, 2025, there is a different product lineup in the United States than depicted below.

Changes in bold formatting:

Creative Cloud Pro for teams (formerly Creative Cloud for teams) Creative Cloud Pro Plus for teams (formerly Creative Cloud for teams All Apps Pro Edition) Creative Cloud for Enterprise Edition 4
Category For Teams For Teams For Enterprise
Pricing changes 2025-09-01: ~11% price increase 2025-09-01: ~10% price increase 2025-07-01: ~6% price increase
20+ Creative apps and services Included Included Included
Core Firefly capabilities Included Included Included
Mobile and web creative apps: Mobile and web apps including Photoshop, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Fresco Full access — free and premium features Full access — free and premium features Full access — free and premium features
Monthly Firefly generative credit allocation per user 4000 (was 1000) 4000 (was 3000) 4000 (was 3000)
Monthly Standard Adobe Firefly generative AI Feature Generations Unlimited (formerly 1000) Unlimited Unlimited

+ Object Composites, Style Kits, Lip Sync

Access to Premium Adobe Firefly generative AI Features to support audio and video use cases Not Included ✓ Included ✓ Included
Unlimited access to Adobe Stock Standard Assets ✓ Included (was Not Included) ✓ Included ✓ Included
Unlimited access to Adobe Stock Audio, Video and Premium assets Not Included Not Included Not Included
Firefly Boards (beta): Ability to create multiple concept boards in Firefly Boards (beta) ✓ Included ✓ Included ✓ Included
IP indemnification (Adobe Stock and Firefly) Not Included Up to $10k per asset Up to $10k per asset (VIP), Up to $3M per asset (ETLA)
Admin Features and Controls Baseline Baseline Advanced;

Single Sign-On (SSO)

 

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