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> You cannot use the product if your subscription ends You can buy a perpetual home non-commercial license for $365. https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/prici

• srvmshr 5y ago
  That service model purchases the available version of the product without any updates (patches are free for some (3?) months, but needs a recurring SLA if you want to update anything or call their online API). That quickly turns out to be even more expensive than the subscription if you realistically want to develop something on that platform (for e.g a data analytics course, mapping overlays, queries - pretty much anything standard which one needs to teach or demonstrate to students. It isn't even a power-usecase) PS: I made that mistake with v11.3. Abandoned it later.
  • phonon 5y ago
    I think updates are free for a year, the desktop version can still connect for 3,000 monthly Wolfram|Alpha API calls perpetually, and you can use the basic cloud version perpetually (but files are only saved for 60 days.) I may be wrong. Might be worthwhile to check!