Teacher/student upgrade (1 year of updates)Īnnual (per year, paid annually in advance)Īnnual competitive crossgrade (per month)Ĭrossgrade from Perpetual to SubscriptionĪnnual (per year, paid annually in advance)* Retail - new user (includes 1 year of updates)Ĭompetitive crossgrade (1 year of updates) Sibelius Ultimate old and new pricing Product This chart only refers to Sibelius Ultimate, the top tier of the Sibelius offerings for information on the mid-tier Sibelius product and for more explanation in general about the changes, see Sam Butler’s post on the Facebook forum or this PDF provided directly by Sam. Let’s sort through the various options you have, depending upon whether you are a current or lapsed user, and whether you wish to purchase a perpetual license or subscription. If you stop paying, the software stops working (in the case of Sibelius, you can still open, read, and play back your files, but you can’t meaningfully edit them, print them, or export them). You pay monthly or annual depending upon your plan, and you get software updates and support as long as you’re an active subscriber. Subscription: Similar to what you might pay now for a streaming music service or a utility.If you don’t pay the annual fee, your software will still work, but you won’t get any more updates. You also get free updates and support for a limited time (one or three years depending on your purchase) after which you pay an an annual fee to continue receiving updates and support. Perpetual: Similar to a more traditional software license, this allows you to use Sibelius for as long as your computer hardware and operating system will allow it.Moreover, right now and through June 30, 2019, a sale is on offer for upgrades to Sibelius at 50% off of the usual price of subscriptions, although with today’s announcement it appears that the sale may be extended indefinitely.įirst, let’s review the difference between perpetual license or subscription, shall we? The myriad of price offerings for Sibelius can seem more confusing than the price variations on a new car. This way, a student can get all the Sibelius Ultimate features for the price of the mid-tier version of Sibelius. Put another way, the main aim for the price adjustment is to better align the mid-tier Sibelius subscriptions to match the educational offering. As far as Sibelius is concerned, Sibelius senior product manager Sam Butler said, “On the whole, most of the changes are affecting our mid-tier Sibelius product, and not Sibelius Ultimate, nor our educational product offerings for either individual students, teachers or schools.” Perpetual and subscriptions will continue to be offered under the new pricing structure. Today Avid sent an e-mail to its customers announcing price adjustments to all of its software products as of July 1, 2019.
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