License Comparison Matrix
| License type |
Commercial |
Personal |
Academic |
Classroom |
Open Source |
| Qualifying users |
Companies and organizations including non-profit and government |
Individual customers using their own funds for purchase |
Accredited educational institutions, individual students and teachers |
Accredited educational institutions |
Open source projects |
| Purpose of use |
General commercial |
General commercial |
Non-commercial, including education and academic research |
Non-commercial, for educating students in classes |
Non-commercial, for development of open source projects |
| Usage restrictions |
A commercial license can be used by any developer/on any machine within a company/organization, provided that the total number of developers using the software at a time does not exceed the number of purchased licenses. |
A personal license can be used solely by the named person who purchased it. License transfer and concurrent usage are prohibited. Personal licenses purchased by a company are invalid. |
An academic license can be used by any student/staff member within the educational institution, unless it was purchased by an individual student/teacher. Concurrent access to the software is restricted to the number of purchased licenses. |
A license can be used by any student/staff member within the educational institution. Unlimited access to the software. |
A license can be used by any member of the open source project. Unlimited access to the software. |
| Term of validity |
Licenses are perpetual for the licensed version of the software |
Licenses are perpetual for the licensed version of the software |
Licenses are perpetual for the licensed version of the software |
Licenses require annual renewal |
Licenses require annual renewal |
| Availability |
$599
|
$249
|
$99
|
Free-requires approval |
Free-requires approval |
