License Comparison Matrix

License type	Standard Edition				Lite Edition
	Commercial	Personal	Academic	Student	Freeware
Qualifying users	Companies and organizations including non-profit and government	Individual customers using their own funds for purchase	Academic and educational institutions	Individual students and teachers	Individual customers, companies and organizations, academic institutions
Purpose of use	General commercial		For educational purposes or non-commercial* academic research	Solely for educational purposes	General commercial
Usage restrictions	A commercial license can be used by any user and on any computer system within a company/ organization.	A personal license can be used solely by the named person who purchased it. License transfer is prohibited. Personal licenses purchased by a company are invalid.	An academic license can be used by any student/staff member within the institution.	A student license can be used solely by the named person who purchased it.	Unlimited access to the software.
			Any commercial use, including contracted research, is prohibited.*
	Concurrent access** to the software is restricted to the number of purchased licenses.
Term of validity	Licenses are perpetual for the licensed generation (major version) of the software				Perpetual
Availability	$ 400 (€ 311.41)***	$ 160 (€ 124.57)***		$ 100 (€ 77.86)***	Free
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^* "Non-commercial" means you are not getting compensated in any form for the products or services you provide using licensed software (i.e., you do not receive a salary, or funding, etc.)

^** "Concurrent access" means an simultaneous use of the software by several users.

^*** Prices in € are given for comparison and may vary depending on current exchange rate. Prices are considered net prices, excluding VAT. The final buyer price in EU countries is the net price defined plus VAT.

Prices and terms are subject to change without notice.

Last modified: June 12, 2011