Licensing.

Here you'll find information on our different licensing options, links to help, tools and other resources

Changes to Foundry Licensing

We're updating our licensing to offer a better user experience and provide more control over the licenses you own. 

The new ‘Login-Based Licensing' model is completely optional and retains the flexibility of our existing licensing, with the added benefits of accessing and managing your licence entitlement from the cloud. Customers who switch to the new model can access their licence anywhere and can easily switch from working from the office or working from home, or even roam for 30 days.

If you are not ready to make the switch, no problem. Our existing licensing models are not changing and no changes are required. 

License types

Nodelocked
  • Locked to a specific machine
  • Does not require a license server
  • Can be used whether the machine is offline or online, it is not tied to any network
  • Moving to another machine requires submitting a license transfer form and deleting the old license file
Floating
  • Locked to a specific machine that acts as a license server to enable any machine on the network to run the application
  • Requires installing and running license server software on the server machine
  • Machines have to be on the same network/VPN as the license server
  • Moving to another server machine requires submitting a license transfer form and deleting the old license file
Individual Login
  • License tied to a single foundry.com account
  • Can activate on up to two machines at the same time
  • No need for license transfers - users can deactivate from one machine if they want to use the license on a different machine
  • Requires internet connection for initial activation and refreshing of licenses (max 37 days offline)
Team Login
  • Licenses tied to a team in the licensing system, users within that team have access to the pool of licenses
  • Floating license behaviour, licenses are freed up when users close applications
  • Admin user controls all users and licenses for the team
  • Requires internet connection throughout application use (or can check out a license for max 30 days offline use)

Login Licensing Compatible Applications

  • Individual Login Licensing
  • Modo 15.0
  • Nuke 14.0 - 16.0
  • NukeX 14.0 - 16.0
  • Nuke Studio 14.0 - 16.0
  • Nuke Indie
  • Hiero 14.0 - 16.0
  • HieroPlayer 14.0 - 16.0
  • Mari 7.0
  • Team Login Licensing
  • Nuke 14.0 - 16.0
  • NukeX 14.0 - 16.0
  • Nuke Studio 14.0 - 16.0
  • Nuke Render 14.0 - 16.0
  • Hiero 14.0 - 16.0
  • HieroPlayer 14.0 - 16.0
  • Mari 7.0
  • Modo 17.0v1 (Powersubd and Powertranslators plugins are not supported via login licensing on Mac ARM)

Login licensing benefits

Time Saved
  • No need to find a system ID, install license files or setup and maintain a licence server (for floating licenses).
  • No need to reinstall license keys at renewal each year
Better Control
  • Individual users, groups and access permissions are easier to control using the admin dashboard
  • You can reserve licenses for specific users or create groups of users and license pools to control who has access to your different licenses
Easier Remote Access
  • Any authorized user with an internet connection can access their license
  • No need to maintain VPN access to your license server's network for remote users

How login licensing works

Individual Login Licensing

  • Create
    1. Create your Foundry account
  • Purchase
    2. Purchase license
  • Download
    3. Download software
  • Login
    4. Login to application with Foundry account

Team Login Licensing

  • Create
    1. Create Foundry Account for Admin user
  • Purchase
    2. Purchase license(s)
  • Invite
    3. Invite your users, they can create Foundry account as part of team invitation flow
  • Download
    4. Download software
  • Users
    5. Users login to applications with their Foundry account

Ready to make the switch?

If you are ready to make the switch and move to login based licences, you can get started by using the Migration Request Form.

For Team Login Licences, once the licences have been migrated, you can invite your users to use your pool of licences using the web dashboard.  You can bulk import all your users to make the process even easier.  Your users will receive an email to validate their email address and create a Foundry.com account if they don’t already have one.

Request license migration

Tools, support and help with licensing

Support

Licensing Tools - Foundry Licensing Utility

Licensing concepts and terminology

What is a Maintenance Plan?

What is a Permanent License?

What is a Rental License?

SystemID

Activation Keys

Login FAQ

Terms and Conditions

Will login-based licensing be available for all Foundry products? When?

What product versions are available with login-based licensing?

Does login-based licensing change our perpetual license rights?

Migration Process

Is it possible to migrate some of our licenses to login-based but leave others on their current offline model?

Is this a one-way migration or can I switch back to offline licensing if I have issues?

Is it possible to trial the new licensing system before migrating?

Authentication

Can I access login-based licensing in all geographic locations?

Can I install and run the product on multiple devices?

Does every user have to have a foundry.com account? What does this entail?

Administration

I'm the system administrator but do not use the software. Will I need to purchase a user license to continue to administrate?

What is the difference between an Individual and a Team?

Can admins group users into custom groups to control access to different licenses e.g. across different sites or departments?

More questions?

Not ready or have more questions? That’s fine, the new licensing model is optional and you can request to migrate your license at any time, or simply continue as you are.  Below you will find the answer to some common questions. For our full Q&A, please click here

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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