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.

You can edit your personal information under My Account - Settings.

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.

Team License is now included free of charge with Unity 5 Professional Edition, both for perpetual customers and subscribers.

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.

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.

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

Please see the different Cloud Build plans here.

No.

Cloud Build will not create builds that are larger than the usage limit stipulated in your plan tier. You will have to decrease the size of your project to stay within the usage limits of your current tier, or upgrade to a higher tier.

Yes. A subscription to Cloud Build is always associated to an organization. When you open a Unity ID, you are automatically assigned an organization by the system. This default organization has the same name as your user name and consists only of yourself. You can use this default organization to purchase of Cloud Build plan for your use only. You can also open a new, public organization, purchase another Cloud Build plan for the public organization, and invite members to join. Each organization may have one Cloud Build plan attached to it.

Credit Card payment is accepted in all countries. We accept the following cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, Diner’s Club International, Maestro, and Union Pay.

Your plan will automatically revert to the free tier, Unity Cloud Build Personal.

Your first payment is made when you purchase a subscription plan, with subsequent monthly payments being charged on the same date. For example, if you buy a plan on the 15th, all subsequent payments will be charged on the 15th of every month.

We are redesigning the Unity Online Store and the customer account system. The redesign will happen in phases over the next 6-12 months to ensure stability and a high quality experience for our customers. In phase one, which launched in January 2016, Cloud Build is available for purchase in the new online store and subscriptions to Cloud Build plans are managed via the new account system, Unity ID.

Unity Pro licenses are still purchased and managed via the legacy account system. Customers should use the same username and password for both the legacy and new Unity ID account systems. To see and manage your Unity Pro licenses, login here

An owner of an organization and members that have been assigned manager access can make changes to an existing plan in two ways: via their Unity ID, or by going to https://www.id.unity.com/organizations

The owner of an organization and members that have manager access can make changes to a Cloud Build plan. You can identify the organization(s) you are associated to at https://www.id.unity.com/organizations.

If you cancel a Cloud Build plan, you will automatically revert to the free tier, Unity Cloud Build Personal.

You can restart a cancelled plan while still in the last monthly payment period.

Your subscription will automatically renew. You will be charged the going rate until you cancel.

Ask the person who administers your organization’s Cloud Build project to add you as a member to the organization. You need a Unity ID to be added as a member. This can be done by going to https://id.unity.com/organizations.

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

Each STANDARD Unity license allows a single person to use Unity on two operating systems that they have exclusive use of. Each EDUCATIONAL Unity license allows a single person to use Unity on one operating system 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 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: https://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)