UNITY: License Comparison

License Comparisons

Below are side-by-side comparisons of the various Unity licenses. You can easily purchase Unity Pro, Unity iOS, Unity iOS Pro and Unity Android Pro by simply visiting our online store. Educational institutions, or those interested in either console development and/or source code licensing, should contact our sales team using our contact form.

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General	iOS Pro	Android Pro
Physics Bring your interactions to life with the built-in NVIDIA PhysX™ physics engine. Read more
Audio (3D Positional and Classic Stereo) Place positional audio-sources anywhere. Tune distance attenuation, volume, pitch, and doppler effect parameters for the most immersive audio experience possible. All powered by FMOD. Read more
Audio Filters Give your players the feeling of total immersion with realistic audio from FMOD powered Audio Filters. Read more
Video Playback and Streaming Import and play back videos. Stream them from the net. Put them onto any 3D surface, or display them in 2D on top of your game. Read more	^{1, 2}	²
Multiplayer Networking with RakNet Unity makes the deep complexities of realtime networking easy to create. Turning a single-player game into a networked multi-player game requires few changes to your existing scripts. Unity does the hard lifting so you never have to think about NAT punchthrough or any other networking technicalities. Read more
Fully Fledged Streaming with Asset Bundles Stream in anything to the web player or application using Unity's Streaming Asset Bundle features. Textures, animated models, complete or partial scenes, new missions and expansions, user-generated characters. See Asset Bundle docs
May be licensed and used by companies or incorporated entities that had a turnover in excess of US$100,000 in their last fiscal year More information in End User License Agreement

Deployment	Unity Pro	Unity	iOS Pro	iOS	Android Pro	Android
One-Click Deployment Publish your game on your desired platform at the push of a single button. Read more
Web Browser Integration When running in a web browser, the deployed Web Player can communicate seamlessly with the container web page. That way you get JavaScript communication and full AJAX capabilities. See browser communication docs
Custom Splash Screen Instead of showing the Unity splash screen when your application starts use your own splash screen or none at all!
Build Size Stripping Keep your applications size small for mobile devices. We'll strip out parts of the engine that you aren't using.

Graphics	Unity Pro	Unity	iOS Pro	iOS	Android Pro	Android
Optimized Graphics Unity has a highly optimized graphics pipeline for both DirectX and OpenGL. Animated meshes, particle systems, advanced lighting and shadows — all will run blazing fast. Read more
Shaders (Built-in and Custom) Unity's shader system combines ease of use, flexibility and performance. Read more
Lightmapping Bring your environments to life with detailed lightmaps. Either generate them with Beast or import your own lightmaps. Read more
Lightmapping with Global Illumination Add that last 10% of realism to your scenes by unlocking the true power of Beast with Global Illumination. Read more
Dynamic Batching Automatically combine your geometry into batches to minimize graphics driver overhead.
Static Batching Create geometry batches for static meshes at build-time so your CPU doesn't spend time recreating the same batches.
Terrains (Vast, Densely Foliaged Landscapes) Vast, densely foliaged landscapes that run smoothly on low-end hardware. All that and they take up almost no disk space. Read more
Render-to-Texture Effects Create water with realtime reflections & refractions, surveilance cameras, or use it to create your own full screen post-processing effects.
Full-Screen Post-Processing Effects Use our built-in image post-processing effects like Glow, Motion Blur, Color Correction, and others, or create your own custom ones. Read more
Low-Level Rendering Access Need to use custom rendering techniques, bypassing Unity's rendering pipeline? The Graphics and GL classes give you access to the bare metal.
Occlusion Culling Wield the performance optimizing power of Occlusion Culling, powered by Umbra, to make your games run as fast as possible. Read more
Realtime Shadows Unity Pro supports realtime shadows with self-shadowing that just work. Read more Without Unity Pro it is of course still possible to use lower-end shadowing techniques, like Lightmaps or Projectors.
Deferred Rendering Take advantage of the latest in AAA rendering technology. Deferred rendering will allow you to create much more realistic scenes at the fraction of the performance cost. Read more

Code	Unity Pro	Unity	iOS Pro	iOS	Android Pro	Android
.NET Based Scripting With C#, JavaScript, and Boo Blazing fast .NET-based scripting, with rich libraries and great documentation. Scripting is flexible and easy, and compiled to native code to run nearly as fast as C++. Read more
Access to Web Data through WWW Functions For access to web-pages and the data they contain, Unity provides an easy to use WWW interface. Both synchronous and asynchronous modes are supported. See WWW interface docs
Open an URL in the User's Browser Use Application.OpenURL to open any URL in the default browser.
.NET Socket Support Use .NET sockets to connect with virtually any back-end technology you want to create network-aware content that offers a dynamic and ever-changing game play experience. .NET socket libraries can be used for real-time networking, by opening TCP/IP sockets or sending UDP messages. They also make speaking XML easy, and can connect to ODBC database connections.
Native Code Plugins Support Have a custom native library that you absolutely must use? Use a C, C++, Objective-C or Java plugin to directly call into it. See plugin docs

Editor	Unity Pro	Unity	iOS Pro	iOS	Android Pro	Android
Integrated Editor Everything is done through Unity's simple user interface. Thousands of hours of thought and spit-polish have gone into it. Read more
Instantaneous, Automatic Asset Importing All major file formats are supported, and almost any art application can be used with Unity. Read more
Integrated Animation Editor Create and edit animation clips directly inside Unity. Animate values of any component, material, or script and insert animation events to call script functions at specific times. See Animation View docs
Integrated Tree Creator Create realistic looking trees from scratch with Unity's completely custom tree creator. Read more
Profiler The Profiler helps you to optimize your game. It reports how much time is spent on rendering, animation, physics, your game logic etc. See Profiler docs
External Version Control Support Unity supports an alternative way of saving metadata for better external version control. When enabled, version control systems such as Subversion, Perforce, or Bazaar can be used without losing import settings or references between assets. See docs
Script Access to Asset Pipeline Get direct access to Unity's asset pipeline from scripts. Need a build machine that churns out builds 24/7? It's just a few lines of code. See AssetPostprocessor docs
Dark Skin Stylish dark toned skin to match the skins of professional tools like Max, Maya, and CS5.

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