Upgrade to a commercial license

The commercial upgrade is for a subscription license. You will be able to purchase the first year of a commercial subscription at 70% off our normal list price.. After the first year, you will have the option to renew your subscription license for continued access to the software, at the normal commercial subscription price

No, you have a few options. While you are still a student, you will continue to have access to the student license either via our discounted student license or with a home-use license from your school. Once you graduate, you can purchase an extension of the student license, known as our Graduate license. The Graduate license gives you the opportunity to keep access to the Education Collective for one additional year after completing your studies. The commercial upgrade option is available at any time while you have a student or graduate license and up to 6-months after your educational license has expired. You can go from a student license to a graduate license then to a commercial upgrade or skip straight from a student license to a commercial license if you prefer.

*Please note, our graduate license is a one-year, node-locked license for the full Education Collective (Nuke Studio, Modo, Mari, and Katana). At this time, it is not available as log-in-based or floating and can not be renewed.

No, we do require you to have a Student or Graduate license that was active within the last 6 months to qualify for the discounted upgrade.

Please email us at education@foundry.com and we can discuss options with you.

Faculty members do not qualify for the commercial upgrade. Instead, you can apply for a Faculty license here

If you have a node-locked license and need to transfer it to a new computer, please complete the license transfer form and email it to licenses@foundry.com.

Yes, if you are upgrading to one of the products below then login licensing is available. Please note, if upgrading to the full Production Collective, log-in-based licensing is not an option yet. It will only be possible to use login-based licensing for collectives after all the constituent products in that collection have been made available for login-based licensing. Please look out for future announcements about our licensing for our collectives. Login-based licensing can currently be used with:

• Nuke / NukeX / Nuke Studio and Nuke Render from 14.0v1
• Hiero from 14.0v1
• Hiero Player from 14.0v1
• Modo from 15.0

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

Node-locked licenses are tied to a single workstation system ID, so you can only use the license on that machine. The educational student and graduate licenses are node-locked so this license model would match what you had with your educational license. Floating licenses are installed on a license server, so any workstation networked to that server can use the license, but only one workstation can use the license at any time. Individual login-based licenses are tied to your Foundry website account, rather than to a specific machine. These licenses allow you to easily activate or deactivate the program on different machines, provided you have an active internet Connection. More details on the licensing options can be found here.

Yes, customers who have purchased perpetual licenses can continue to use and maintain those licenses, while customers on active maintenance will continue to receive product updates and technical support. If you own a perpetual license and would like to change to a subscription license, please email us at sales@foundry.com to discuss your options