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It's not cheap but actually quite reasonable and the quality is very good vs free solvers. If you are building a product that needs MILP it's worth it.

• aleph_minus_one 1y ago
  > If you are building a product that needs MILP it's worth it. Rather: if you are building a product that will for sure make a lot of money, and needs MILP, it's worth it. A lot of product concepts that nerds create are very innovate, but are often some private side projects.
  • __alexs 1y ago
    The on demand pricing is pretty reasonable.
    • aleph_minus_one 1y ago
      > The on demand pricing is pretty reasonable. Test case for your claim: someone privately intensively develops some open-source product that uses Gurobi as optimization backend. I guess on-demand will become very expensive.
      • __alexs 1y ago
        It would be best to develop against open models and plug Gurobi in separately in this situation I expect. If you are working on a problem that NEEDS Gurobi's level of quality, someone will pay you to build it (and probably keep it closed source.)
        • aleph_minus_one 1y ago
          > It would be best to develop against open models and plug Gurobi in separately in this situation I expect. That is basically what I did in the end. > If you are working on a problem that NEEDS Gurobi's level of quality, someone will pay you to build it Here I vehemently disagree: there exist quite a lot of problems that would insanely profit from a great MILP solver: - Only a small subset of these problems have a (huge) commercial potential (i.e. are suitable for making some customer money). - Even if there exists an insane commercial potential, building great applications/models, and being able to convince someone with huge pockets (or even get access to them) are completely unrelated skills.