Purchase or upgrade a LABView license.

[shakeel.ahmad]

Dear Sir/Madam,

We want to purchase a LabVIEW license(s) (Base /Professional). In this regard I have some questions:

1. Can a base license be upgraded to Professional license after some time (few months/years). If so what would be the cost of upgradation?

2. Can we use one Base/Professional LabVIEW license at two different locations (i. e. different cities) within the same company by same or different users? if so which license we should buy?

3. Can you please send me the details of prices for different types of licenses?

I waiting for you prompt response.

Regards,

Shakeel

[rolfk]

LabVIEW is a subscription nowadays. You pay to use it for an amount of time, usually a year, and when you don’t extend the subscription at the end of that period you loose access to LabVIEW as programming environment (but are allowed to use the Community Edition to look at it, but not execute or modify anything if it is even remotely commercial, any use of LabVIEW as part of an employment or to sell something is considered commercial use).

when you want to move to a different edition you simply state so when renewing and pay the according subscription price.

2) Not really, you are allowed to install LabVIEW on up to three computers but not for parallel use by multiple people. Basically if there is a chance that it can be run at the same time, you need separate licenses.

3) Contact your distributer or nearest NI representative for quotes. This forum is not monitored by NI sales people and requests for quotes on here are consequently not fulfilled. 

[Gregory]

Just to add a little bit to what Rolf said: I can view pricing in the US here: https://www.ni.com/en/shop/labview/select-edition.html

The LabVIEW license covers the development environment (where you make the LabVIEW code). If you opt for the professional version, you get access to the "Application Builder". This allows you to build your code into an executable on the development PC. You can install executables on as many computers as you like.