
Access to all products within the Altair Inspire PlatformAltair Units is a revolutionary license model replacing the traditional way of licensing software. Normally you’d choose a software title for which you’d purchase a license. With Altair Units, you choose a number Units to start any product you want for which you have enough Units. You lease Altair Units per year. Altair Units can be freely distributed within your organization. This way, you can grant access to the software to anyone in your organization. This makes Altair Units the most flexible software licensing model that exists today. |
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Altair Units Model
With Altair Units, customers have full access to every Altair product and Altair Partner product, plus the power to solve on any scale. Therefore, the Altair Units Model is scalable, shareable, and more cost effective than obtaining individual licenses:
- Customers purchase a pool of sharable units;
- Users draw units from the pool to access multiple Altair (partner) products, across any location;
- Units return to the pool after use and become available to all users.

Flexibility to Run Anywhere

Freedom to Choose

Value-based Licensing

All the tools for a successful design
Altair's broad product portfolio is organized into suites of tools that align with the core roles of concept engineering. From designers to engineers, the solutions equip your teams with the tools they need to be successful, under a single, value-based license:
- Access to a rich portfolio of technologies at affordable price points with tailored bundle of products targeting specific users.
- Scalability to maximize the power of existing investment on high-performance computing resources in- house and on the cloud on demand.
- Execute simulations anywhere (on-premises or cloud) without business restrictions.
- Simplicity of a single Altair One™ experience to manage software and its usage.
Altair One - Cloud-based License Management
Explore further with dynamic, collaborative access to simulation and data analytics technology plus scalable HPC and cloud resources, all in one place:
- Mobilize resources quickly to meet real-time demand.
- Cut down time-to-market.
- Scale easily and pay only for what you need.
- Data always at your fingertips and managed for you.
- Leave the integrations to Altair, so you don’t need to be a cloud expert on every platform.

Pricing
The price of Altair Units depends on which products you wish to use. That is why these products are divided into 3 categories:
- Industrial Designer (ID) Suite - € 90,- per Unit per year
- Mechanical Designer (MD) Suite - € 180,- per Unit per year
- Concept Engineer (CE) Suite - € 350,- per Unit per year
Units from a higher category are compatible with products from a lower category, so e.g. CE Units work with products from the MD and ID Suites. Vice versa this is not possible, so ID Units cannot be used for MD or CE Suite products.
Frequently Asked Questions
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