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 |
| License ownership | A company or organization | An individual who purchased a
license | An educational institution, or an individual student or stuff member | An
educational institution | An open source project |
| 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 |
| License usage | A license can be used by any developer within a company/organization.
Concurrent access to the software is restricted to the number of purchased licenses. | A
license can be used by a single developer who purchased it. 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, unless a license is registered to 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 |
