Now Deadline is completely free for everyone?

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Hi, im wonder to use Deadline at Company.
I heard Deadline is free, but no one use it in my country.
Is it free for Company user? (Like, 30+ machines), and any of others use now it free?
Please tell me thx.

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@BlitzShin, All AWS Thinkbox product, including Deadline is now available cost free for everyone and would not need a License. You can read through this blog post for more information: AWS Thinkbox products now available free of charge | AWS for M&E Blog

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Hey @karpreet could you clarify the expected license for Deadline?

I’m seeing some information on Amazon and Thinkbox docs that says it is “free on AWS” and others like the post you responded to “free for everyone” which seems a bit misleading if it is indeed only free when render nodes are on AWS. Specifically here I’m referring to the Deadline core (the scheduler). The docs and terms are a bit unclear on this, any clarification would be much appreciated.

I’ve only recently found this link: Deadline Licensing — Deadline 10.1.23.6 documentation that says it is “Free on AWS” which is very different from “Free for everyone” or “Free of charge”

The blog post on the other hand says

AWS Thinkbox products Deadline, Draft, Frost, XMesh, and Stoke are now available at no cost. Thinkbox tools simplify rendering, VFX, and simulation workflows, and are in use by top studios around the world.

From the changelog for 10.1.23.6:

This release makes Deadline free to use. Customers no longer need to purchase Deadline licenses to use Deadline. See the release notes below for more information.

and

Deadline is now free to use. Deadline licenses are no longer required to use Deadline.

On the usage based licensing checkout from the Thinkbox marketplace portal, the ubi-info link seems to just redirect to the original blog post

We’ve been doing light prototypes with Deadline and would love to be abiding by the terms but it’s been a bit difficult to figure out what’s permitted and what’s not.

Would it for example, still be free to use Deadline with on-prem render nodes or render nodes from other data centers (non-AWS)?

Thank you!

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It’s free everywhere for everyone, if you are using the older version which was only free on AWS, you can generate a license in the AWS portal which give you 999,999 licenses on a flexlm license. If you use the newer version 10.2? onwards, it’s just built in free. you can use it free on GCP & Azure also.

It does seem though that if you now want support then that is paid for.

DeadlineCloud however, which is a different product completely, does incur some kind of onsite cost (which is stupidly low like 0.001c per hour)

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