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For Individuals
AMPL Community Edition
Free, full-size license for individual, academic and commercial use, best for individuals looking to trial commercial solvers, prototype models, or for long term open source solver use.
For Professionals
Academic Researchers
Only available for academic researchers, this license is a paid license, discounted at ~90% of the standard price list, and is best for individuals needing more than 30 days of connectivity to a commercial solver.
See details below
For Teams & Businesses
Standard AMPL Licenses
This licence is made for teams and businesses needing the long term connectivity to commercial solvers, and extra security of not needing an internet connection.
For Individuals
AMPL Community Edition
For prototyping, testing, and individual modelers.
For Professionals
Custom Licensing Options
Special offers and licenses for Academic Researchers, New Graduates, Instructors, Non-Profits, and Consultants.
See details below
For Teams & Businesses
Standard AMPL Licenses
The license for teams and businesses needing nothing standing in their way.
Teams & Businesses
Academic Researchers
Teachers
New Graduates
Consultants
Non-Profits
Individuals & Students
For Teams & Businesses
What's Included
Community Edition
Free, full-size license for individual, academic and commercial use, best for individuals looking to trial commercial solvers, prototype models, or for long term open source solver use.
Enterprise/Academic Research
The Community Edition is a free, full-size license for individual, academic and commercial use. This license is best for individuals looking to trial commercial solvers, or for long term open source solver use.
Courses
The Community Edition is a free, full-size license for individual, academic and commercial use. This license is best for individuals looking to trial commercial solvers, or for long term open source solver use.
New Graduates
The Community Edition is a free, full-size license for individual, academic and commercial use. This license is best for individuals looking to trial commercial solvers, or for long term open source solver use.
Non-Profits/Consultants
The Community Edition is a free, full-size license for individual, academic and commercial use. This license is best for individuals looking to trial commercial solvers, or for long term open source solver use.
AMPL system (APIs, IDE, Data Connectors, Extended Function Library, Constraint Programming Extensions)
Connects to commercial solvers
Only for 30-day trials
Equipped for teams
Connects to open source solvers
Unlimited problem size
Priority technical support
For Teams & Businesses
| Community Edition | Academic Research | Enterprise | For Courses | For New Graduates | For Non-Profits | For Consultants | |
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| Free - No credit card required! | |||||||
| Paid Licence | Paid license - price varys based on the solver you choose. | Yes! This is a full-featured license with long term connectivity to commercial solvers. | Yes! All AMPL licenses come with a full AMPL system for optimization. | This license is intended to be used if you require long-term commercial solver use. | Yes! Explore our pricing page for scaled pricing based on single-user, single-session, or multi-user licenses. | Purchase this license if you have used your 30-day free trials of solvers and require long term use of a commercial solver. | |
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| Community Edition | Standard Licence | |
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| Community Edition | Free Licenses - no contracts, no credit careds | Not permanently. This license is intended to use open source solvers free, forever with your free AMPL Community Edition license. You can activate a one-time only trial of commercial solvers for 30-days each. |
| Standard License | Paid license - price varys based on the solver you choose. | Yes! This is a full-featured license with long term connectivity to commercial solvers. |
For Academic Research
| Paid or Free | Connects to commercial solvers | Includes the AMPL system (APIs, IDE, Data Connectors and more) | Intended Use | Can teams use this license? | In summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Free Licenses - no contracts, no credit careds | Not permanently. This license is intended to use open source solvers free, forever with your free AMPL Community Edition license. You can activate a one-time only trial of commercial solvers for 30-days each. | Yes! All AMPL licenses come with a full AMPL system for optimization. | Use the Community Edition for all modeling projects that do not require long term connectivity to commercial solvers. Use free forever with open source solvers. | No. This is a single-user license and cannot be share with others. You can, however, carry this from machine to machine. | Use this license if you are looking to prototype, trial commercial solvers, or use only open source solvers. |
| AMPL for Academic Research License | Paid license - save 90% on all standard prices | Yes! This is a full-featured license with long term connectivity to commercial solvers. | Yes! All AMPL licenses come with a full AMPL system for optimization. | This license is to allow academic researchers to model with all the benefits of a standard commercial license. | No. This is a single-user license, or a single-session license intended for individual use. | Purchase this license if you have used your 30-day free solver trials and require long term use of a commercial solver. |
For Teaching
| Paid or Free | Connects to commercial solvers | Includes the AMPL system (APIs, IDE, Data Connectors and more) | Intended Use | Can teams use this license? | In summary | |
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| AMPL for Courses | Free! No payments, contracts or credit cards. | This license comes with all the commercial solvers we sell for the length of the license (6 months). | Yes! All AMPL licenses come with a full AMPL system for optimization. | AMPL for Courses is for teaching AMPL in your classes for 6 months. | Yes - this license comes with an easily distributed license file you can email to your students. They will have full access to the same license as you, with support, documentation and teaching resources. | Use this license for teaching courses. With the easily distributed license files and teaching materials, you have everything you need to teach AMPL for free. |
For New Graduates
| Paid or Free | Connects to commercial solvers | Includes the AMPL system (APIs, IDE, Data Connectors and more) | Intended Use | Can teams use this license? | In summary | |
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| AMPL for Courses | Free! No payments, contracts or credit cards. | This license comes with all solvers we sell, free, for 12 months. | Yes! All AMPL licenses come with a full AMPL system for optimization. | This license has been designed to help you on your way to permanent employment after graduation. | Yes! Take your license to your place of employment and enjoy free use of AMPL and commercial solvers for 12 months. | Use this license while you are 1 year after your graduation. |
Community Edition
Prototype, pitch, share, and learn mathematical optimization all with a free AMPL license, open source solver bundles, and trial the world's most powerful commercial solvers. No contracts, no credit cards. Free for anyone to use for commercial, research, teaching and general purposes.
Unlimited problem size
No limitations on the number of variables or constraints. AMPL supports models with millions of variables and constraints, while still solving at lightning speed.
Use the worlds most popular solvers
Use open source solver forever with your free Community Edition license, and trial all commercial solver we sell for free for 30 days each (*does not permanently connect to commercial solvers).
Community Support
Receive support in your model building through the AMPL forum (discuss.ampl.com), documentation (dev.ampl.com), education materials, and non-priority email support.
Internet connection required
You must maintain an internet connection for license validation.
Instructors & Educators
AMPL for Courses is an easy to obtain and easy to distribute, full AMPL license with no limitations and no internet requirement. All solvers including commercial solvers, are included in the bundle file for free use for 6 months.
Easy to distribute files
AMPL and solvers are provided in a single compressed download for each platform. Packages are easily installed on any computers used in conjunction with the course, including personal computers of professors, teaching assistants, and students.
Free, full-featured AMPL
No limitations on the number of variables or constraints. AMPL supports models with millions of variables and constraints, while still solving at lightning speed.
Access to all commercial and open source solvers for AMPL
Teachers decide which solvers to include in the course packages. Choose from the complete lineup of commercial and open source solvers that we currently distribute.
Community and professional support
Receive support through email from our tech team, on the forum (discuss.ampl.com), our documentation (dev.ampl.com), and education materials found on our website.
Getting started
Sign into our create an account in the license portal
Fill in our simple request form
We will contact you with complete download and installation instructions
New Graduates
AMPL for New Graduates is a licensing bundle with a fully featured, free AMPL license, with all open source and commercial solvers for free use for 12 months.
Free, full-featured AMPL
No limitations on the number of variables or constraints. AMPL supports models with millions of variables and constraints, while still solving at lightning speed.
World's most popular solvers
12 months free use of the same solvers we sell to our enterprise customers.
For commercial and research use
You are welcome to use your AMPL and commercial solver licenses commercially or for research in the new teams you join, and we look forward to seeing what you build.
Easy to obtain
Fill out a simple form in the License Portal. We will contact you to send you your downloadable license file.
Getting started
Sign into our create an account in the license portal
Fill in our simple request form
We will contact you for verification and set up your license.
Consultants
Consultants and Non-Profits can now purchased commercial solvers at the single-user licensing price and connect them to a free AMPL Community Edition license. Enjoy free solver trials for 30 days and when ready, contact us to purchase your commercial solver(s), or use open source solvers for free, forever.
Free, full-featured AMPL
No limitations on the number of variables or constraints. AMPL supports models with millions of variables and constraints, while still solving at lightning speed.
Connect purchased commercial solvers to your free AMPL license
AMPL sells the world's most powerful solvers used by the top performing companies world-wide.
Simple to obtain
Fill out a simple form in the License Portal. We will contact you to set up your contract and send you your downloadable license file.
Single-User License
Your license can only be used by one user, the person who has qualified, and can be used one machine at a time.
Getting started
Contact our sales team to request your free AMPL license and connect purchased commercial solvers.
Non-Profits
Consultants and Non-Profits can now purchased commercial solvers at the single-user licensing price and connect them to a free AMPL Community Edition license. Enjoy free solver trials for 30 days and when ready, contact us to purchase your commercial solver(s), or use open source solvers for free, forever.
Free, full-featured AMPL
No limitations on the number of variables or constraints. AMPL supports models with millions of variables and constraints, while still solving at lightning speed.
Connect purchased commercial solvers to your free AMPL license
AMPL sells the world's most powerful solvers used by the top performing companies world-wide.
Simple to obtain
Fill out a simple form in the License Portal. We will contact you to set up your contract and send you your downloadable license file.
Single-User License
Your license can only be used by one user, the person who has qualified, and can be used one machine at a time.
Getting started
Contact our sales team to request your free AMPL license and connect purchased commercial solvers.
For Teams & Businesses
Commercial AMPL and Solver Licences
Full powered, commercial solver license, and premium tech support. This is the license for teams and businesses needing nothing standing in their way.
Unlimited problem size
No limitations on the number of variables or constraints. AMPL supports models with millions of variables and constraints, while still solving at lightning speed.
Licenses and pricing for your projects situation
AMPL offers single-user, floating, and multi-user licenses in both one year subscription and purchase + maintenance pricing for both AMPL and solver licenses.
Priority support
Commercial customers receive full priority support via phone, email and video conference.
Offline on your machine for security and convenience
No internet connection required. Our commercial licenses never require customers to connect to the internet for license verification.
Getting started
To get started with commercial AMPL and solver licenses, see our pricing page. Contact us to discuss all your needs.
Choose the AMPL and commercial solver license that works best for your team or business
Contact us so we can help get started
In the meantime, download a free Community Edition license to start modeling right away.
The AMPL system included in every license and bundle
AMPL IDE is a ready-to-go visual development environment with built-in controls for optimization model development and testing.
Integrate your optimization models with spreadsheet and relational sources, locally or in the cloud. AMPL’s table handlers establish fast connections for data input and result output.
Try out the features of all the best solvers, without changing your model or data. AMPL’s standard interface lets you focus first on modeling and then choose the optimization engine that meets your needs.
Build optimization into your enterprise systems or software products, using AMPL’s application programming interfaces. AMPL offers fast connections to Python, R, C++, C#, MATLAB, and Java, while maintaining your model in its
original, readable form.
Master the AMPL language and system quickly with our introductory materials, examples, and documentation. The AMPL book provides a complete tutorial introduction (and it’s great for teaching, too).
Extensive documentation for newcomers and experts alike. Learn how to install, use, integrate and deploy AMPL models and applications.
Count on our team to help you in all stages of application building. Our technical staff provides expert advice on AMPL, solvers, and optimization, and our consulting service can help you build and integrate your models.
Join the conversation in our support forum at discuss.ampl.com. Our expert technical support team can answer all your questions and provides continuous content upgrades.
The Community Edition licenses require a constant internet connection to maintain license validation.
Yes! Anyone can use the Community Edition. See terms and conditions here.
We keep the process simple. Fill in your application form in the license portal, or contact sales to request your license. We will contact you to ask a few validating questions and set you up with your license.
Contact our sales team and we will get your started on a custom package that works best for your situation.
More ways to use AMPL
NEOS Server
To simplify the work of comparing and testing solvers, we have made AMPL and solver resources available online in collaboration with the NEOS Server project.
AMPL offers a full one month trial of our commercial AMPL license without limitations on problem size, equipped with all commercial and open source solvers.
For getting a fast start on learning what AMPL is like and how it works, download a size-limited demonstrations version.
How can we help you?
Explore our licenses and offerings or create an account to get started right away. You can also contact us to design the right solution to meet your business needs.