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.

Altair Inspire products are licensed by so-called Altair Units. Altair Units are valid for one year and are available each.

The nice thing about the Units is that when there are enough Units you can open all programs that ask for the same number or less. So if you have 15 Altair Units on your computer, you can open any program with 15 Units or less. You don't have to buy extra Units, only if you want to open it on another computer as well. So, the more Units you have, the more software titles you can start or the more people can work with the software at the same time.

Altair Units is the Altair licensing model and replaces the old-fashioned purchasing of a license. If you have enough Altair Units, you can start Altair products. You can lease a Altair Unit per year. 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
• Mechanical Designer (MD) Suite
• Concept Engineer (CE) Suite

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.

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.

Altair offers the software in various Suites, in order to offer an appropriate price/quality ratio to the target group. We offer:

• Industrial Designer (ID) Suite
• Mechanical Designer (MD) Suite
• Concept Engineer (CE) Suite

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.

You no longer buy a software title, but you lease a number of Altair Units per year or per month. The Units are linked to an account. If you log in with that account in the Altair One Portal, you will see an overview of your available Units. You will also find the downloads for your products here. You can create additional user accounts who you grant access to the Altair Units. Now download the software, start the software and log in using your account in the software. The number of required Units is deducted from you available Units and you can get started. When you close the software, the Units will be returned to the pool.

Altair Units Industrial Designer

• Example 1: 5 Units. If you have 5 Units you can start 1x Altair Inspire Studio (1x5=5) or 2 people can work with Altair Inspire Render (2x2=4).
• Example 2: 10 Units. If you have 10 Units, 2 people can start Altair Inspire Studio (2x5=10), or 5 people can work with Altair Inspire Render (5x2=10), or one person can start Altair Inspire Studio and two people can start Altair Inspire Render (1x5+2x2=9).
• Bonus: Because using Altair Inspire Render (2 Units) does not exceed your total (5), you can use both Altair Inspire Studio and Altair Inspire Render on your system!

Altair Units Concept Engineer

• Example 1: 15 Units. When you have 15 Units you can start Altair Inspire. You will have access to the modules Structures, Motion with the OneStep Solver and Baseline Optimization. The Print3D and Advanced Optimization modules are not accessible in Altair Inspire with 15 Units.
• Example 2: 30 Units. If you have 30 Units you can start Altair Inspire including all modules, including the modules Print3D and the Advanced Optimization. You can also have 2 people start up Altair Inspire without these features because you only need 15 Units per session.
• Bonus: Because all software in this category requires a minimum of 15 Units, you also have direct access to the products from the Industrial Designer Suite: Inspire Render and Inspire Studio.

The biggest advantage is flexibility. In addition, it can mean cost savings if you already use multiple Altair products. You will have access to more Altair products and do not have to choose anymore.

No, unfortunately, Altair Units are only available per year.

Yes you can, but you have to pay the regular Altair Units price.

Yes, the main account can create additional accounts in the Altair One Portal. Each account is entitled to use the Units.

Yes, provided that the company you work with is at least 51% owned by your company.

Yes, because Altair works 'leveled,' and not 'stacked'. Suppose that person A uses 5 Units, then 5 Units remain for person B. Both persons can also start a product that costs 2 Units because they do not exceed 5.

Yes, you can check "Offline" when you log into the software and then the Units remain on your machine for two weeks.

You can find all software titles in your Altair One Portal and you can also download them from there.

Yes. As long as you have sufficient active Altair Units you simply download the newer version from you portal and start using it.

Yes, you can request a trial account here that will give you access to 30 Units for 15 days. Or contact us for trial possibilities!

No, that is only possible after the lease term has ended.