Details
- All users of C4D have to buy C4D cmdline licenses to render on a non-Maxon farm.
- The minimum order is 100 seats.
- The cmdline licenses are $1.95 a seat, no price breaks on larger volumes.
- Optional at $0.50/seat is a Maxon Service Agreement, entitles users to newer versions of the cmdline licenses.
- cmdline licenses require a Maxon license server, if you already have a floating copy of C4D, you already own a license server.
- If you don't own a license server, you can buy one on a sliding scale.
- To convert one or more stand-alone C4D interactive licenses to floats, you just buy the license server
- 1-4 seats, $995
- 5-10 seats, $495
- 11+, it's free.
Summary
At the end of the day, the cost for all of this depends on the number of C4D seats you already own:
- 1-4 C4D seats is $1,190: $195 for the cmdline licenses and $995 for the MAXON license server
- 5-10 C4D seats is $690: $195 for the cmdline licenses and $495 for the MAXON license server
- 11+ C4D seats is $195: $195 for the cmdline licenses and the MAXON license server is free