FAQ: Licensing & activation

No, Unity does not charge on a per title basis and you do not pay royalties or pay revenue share, even for games and applications made with the free version.

No, Unity does not charge an annual fee or maintenance fee.

No.

No sorry, Unity licenses may not be sold and are otherwise non-transferable.

Please go to the Get Unity page to read about what features are included in Unity 5 Professional Edition and Unity 5 Personal Edition.

Subscriptions to student licenses are available through Studica. We also have educational licenses available to accredited educational institutions. Schools can contact us using our contact form for more information. Note that reduced-price versions available through Studica have a single activation and not the two activations that you get when you purchase a full-price Unity from the unity3d.com web store.

Yes, you are free to create content with Unity Personal and combine it with content created in educational versions of Unity.

Developing commercial content using the Personal and Professional editions of the Unity editor simultaneously is not allowed. Please see our Software License Agreement for further information.

No. You must purchase or subscribe to a Unity 5 Professional Edition and iOS Pro and/or Android Pro add-ons to deploy to those platforms. Please refer to our Software License Agreement for further information.

Yes, if you meet the requirements to use Unity Personal Edition, mainly, that you did not earn/receive more than $100,000 in revenue/funding in the last fiscal year. Please refer to our Software License Agreement for further information.

To continue using Unity you would have to purchase a Unity 5 Professional Edition license, which you can do in the Online Store or through your regional Unity sales representative.

Yes, you are free to license content from a third party for use in the development of your game, irrespective of which version of Unity that content was originally created in.

Unity Technologies will provide product updates, bug fixes, and support for Unity 5.x Professional Edition for a period of 24 months from the release date of Unity 5.0, until March 3, 2017.

Nothing! Team License is now included free of charge with Unity 5 Professional Edition, both for perpetual customers and subscribers.

Unity Personal Edition users can purchase Team License for $20/month. There are also a number of free and inexpensive version control extensions are available from the Asset Store. Many of them work with Unity Personal Edition, and they include extensions that allow Unity users to benefit from simple Perforce integration.

If you or the company you represent do not fulfil the criteria necessary to license Unity Personal Edition (read more), you may still download and use Unity Personal Edition for a period of no more than 30 days, for the sole purpose of evaluating the product. After 30 days, you must uninstall and cease using Unity Personal Edition, or upgrade to Unity Pro.

We license Unity source code on a per-case and per-title basis via special arrangements made by our business development team. As this can be quite expensive, we do not generally license source code to smaller operations, educational institutions, nor to companies in countries which do not have adequate legal intellectual property protection.

Please see the console section on our multiplatform page for guidelines on using Unity to develop for consoles.

We have a reseller program for businesses which qualify. Feel free to use our contact form with more information about your business to apply.

Yes, all assets in our tutorial and example projects may be used in both commercial and non-commercial use in Unity-based projects. The assets themselves may not be resold, however.

We offer a special extension of the Unity Webplayer which can cache asset bundles locally. This is licensed under an agreement made by our business development team. Generally it is licensed to developers with a large anticipated revenue and not on a smaller scale basis.

Unity Personal Edition includes deployment to Android and iOS with the Personal Edition splash screen. To deploy to iOS and Android without the Personal Edition Splash Screen you must purchase Unity Professional Edition together with iOS Pro and/or Android Pro deployment add-ons.

No, it is no longer possible to apply for a refund. The deadline for submitting a refund request was May 1, 2015. Requests submitted before that deadline will still be processed, but we will not accept new requests.

Unity is delivered online as an electronic download. There is no disc, box or manual. Consequently there are no shipping fees with your purchase.

No, Subscription add-ons cannot be added to Perpetual licenses. However, perpetual license holders are eligible for a special price on a Unity Pro subscription. For example, for only $80/month a perpetual license holder can subscribe to Unity Pro and one Unity Pro add-on. Please see the sub-category, “Subscription offer for perpetual license holders” under the Subscription FAQ

Each STANDARD Unity license allows a single person to use Unity on TWO machines that they have exclusive use of.

Each EDUCATIONAL Unity license allows a single person to use Unity on ONE machines that they have exclusive use of.

Yes you can. You will need to install the two versions in different directories on your machine to avoid the installer overwriting.

You can upgrade your licenses via your webstore account at https://store.unity3d.com/account/licenses.

You will not have an account automatically created on purchase and you will need to add the license to the account if you have not already.

Yes, it is now possible in Unity 5.x to activate your license via the command line with the specified serial key using "-serial ". It is recommended to pass “-batchmode -quit” arguments as well, in order to quit Unity when done, if using this for automated activation of Unity. Please allow a few seconds before the license file is created, as Unity needs to communicate with the license server. Make sure that the License file folder exists, and has appropriate permissions before running Unity with this argument. In case activation fails, see the Editor.log for more info

You can now return activations via your web store account. (this will only work with 4.5 editor activations and later).

1. Go here: https://store.unity3d.com/account/licenses
2. Add your serial number if it is not already added to the account.
3. Click “Activations” to the right of the serial number.
4. Click “Disable all Activations”.

Unfortunately you cannot return single activations this only resets them.

Unity 4 and 5 users can also return their licenses within the editor:

1. Open Unity 4 or Unity 5.
2. Click "Help" (“File” on Mac).
3. Click "Manage License..."
4. Click "Return License".

This must be done prior to reformatting or a hardware change. You must also have an uninterrupted connection to the license server. This does not tend to be the case when behind a proxy or being without internet connection.

You can now return activations via your web store account. (this will only work with 4.5 editor activations and later).

1. Go here: https://store.unity3d.com/account/licenses
2. Add your serial number if it is not already added to the account.
3. Click “Activations” to the right of the serial number.
4. Click “Disable all Activations”.

Unfortunately you cannot return single activations this only resets them.

Unity 4 and 5 users can also return their licenses within the editor:

1. Open Unity 4 or Unity 5.
2. Click "Help" (“File” on Mac).
3. Click "Manage License..."
4. Click "Return License".

This must be done prior to reformatting or a hardware change. You must also have an uninterrupted connection to the license server. This does not tend to be the case when behind a proxy or being without internet connection.

You can now return activations via your web store account:

1. Go to the Unity Store: https://store.unity3d.com/.
2. Click "My Account" and sign into the account which is linked to the license. Or, if you haven’t assigned your license yet, click Add License.
3. Click "Activations"
4. Click "Disable all activations" on the license added.

This error is caused when the information contained in the license file no longer matches the machine it is living in. This can commonly be caused by reformating a machine and using the old license file.

Give the steps below a try, and let me know how you get on! The files may be hidden.

1. Uninstall Unity
2. Delete this file:
   • Windows: C:ProgramData/Unity
   • Mac: Library/Application Support/Unity
3. Restart
4. Download Unity again from our website, since your original install might be corrupt: http://unity3d.com/unity/download.
5. Reinstall and test

Unity 4.x and 5.x Owner:
You can now return activations via your web store account, this was created to allow Unity Pro 4.x owners to revoke their own machine activations. Go here

Unity 4 users can also return their licenses within the editor:

1. Open Unity 4
2. Click "Help"
3. Click "Manage License..."
4. Click "Return License"

This must be done prior to reformatting or a hardware change. You must also have an uninterrupted connection to the license server. This does not tend to be the case when behind a proxy or being without internet connection.

Unity 3.x Owner:
You will need to e-mail the support team via support@unity3d.com with the following information:

• The Serial number you are using (R3/U3-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX)
• The name of the individual the Serial has been assigned to (Ben Stoneman)
• The name of the machine you wish to migrate from (Ben-PC/ Ben's iMac)