Licensing

Licensing#

2026-03-02

12 min read

Plans#

You can find an overview of the available plans and purchase licenses here.

The same installer is used for all plans and can be downloaded from here.

Free#

Plus#

Pro#

Educational#

Non-Commercial#

Other Services#

Purchasing Licenses#

Licenses can purchased on the Plans Page of the Prism website.

Choose between a Prism Plus and Prism Pro plan.

For both plans monthly and annual licenses are available.

License Count#

Change License Count#

Increase or decrease the amount of your licenses at any time during your subscription.
In the Prism User Account on the website, go to My Subscriptions and click on the Manage Subscriptions button.
This will bring up a page were you can manage your subscriptions, payment details and invoices.

Click on Update Subscription and change the number of licenses to your desired amount.

Increase License Count#

Increasing the license count will charge you immediately the costs for the remaining days of the additional licenses until the next renewal date of your subscription.

You will see a breakdown of the calculation and all costs before you confirm the change.

Decrease License Count#

Decreasing the license count will calculate the unused time of the removed licenses and calculate how much you already paid for these time.

The unused amount will be added as credit to your Prism account and will automatically be applied for your next payments.

License Management#

Prism licenses are connected to your Prism Account and managed by an online licensing system.

First Launch#

When you launch Prism for the first time, you will be asked to login with your Prism account.

After logging in with your Prism account or an Access Token, Prism will use one available license from your Prism account.

Network Connection#

For acquiring and validating the license, an internet connection is required.

Prism grants you a 6 hours grace period in which you can use Prism even if the network connection is temporarily not available.

For permanent offline usage please see here.

License Usage#

Prism will require a license for every workstation it is used on.

Manage Licenses#

To see how many licenses are available in your Prism User Account or to manage your license usage, go to the My Subscriptions page:

Alternatively, licenses can be checked in the Prism Settings via the Prism Desktop app:

Prism User Settings > General > Manage Licenses

A new window shows available licences and displays which workstation is currently using a licence:

Using Access Tokens#

Access tokens provide a way to login into Prism without a username and password.

This is the recommended way to share licenses from a Prism account across a studio.

The access token can be used to log in on other computer using a license from the account who generated the access token.
By sharing this access token with team members, you can give them access to licenses connected to your Prism account, without sharing the account password.

Users who logged in using an access token do not have permissions to view and manage the account licenses and access tokens.
An access token is an automatically generated token consisting of letters and numbers.

Generating Access Tokens#

To generate a new access token go to the My Subscriptions page:

Alternatively, access tokens can be generated in the Prism Settings via the Prism Desktop app:

Prism User Settings > General > Manage Licenses

In the "Access Tokens" tab you can create and remove access tokens for your Prism account:

License File#

A license file can be used to specify license information for one or multiple workstations and to skip the manual login in the login dialog.

This can be useful when automating the setup of workstations like on a renderfarm.

To use a license file set the environment variable PRISM_LICENSE_FILE to a json filepath, where you want to save the license file. For example C:/files/prism_licenses.json.

This file doesn't need to exist yet.

There are two ways how to add content to the license file.
The easier way is to launch Prism with the PRISM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable defined.
Prism will then create the file if it doesn't exist and add it's mac address to it.
The other option is to manually add the mac addresses of your workstations to the json file.

The structure of the license file looks like this:

{
    "auto_add_workstations": false,
    "default": {
        "access_token": "",
        "preferred_license": "Plus"
    },
    "workstations": {
        "F2:C9:AB:0A:7A:29": {
            "name": "WS-001",
            "access_token": "",
            "preferred_license": "Plus"
        },
        "FB:97:23:4D:6D:55": {
            "name": "WS-002",
            "access_token": "",
            "preferred_license": "Free"
        }
    }
}

You can edit the file in a text editor and fill out the access_token field for the workstation.
To generate an access token see here.
You can also specify an access_token under the default key.
It will be used by workstations, which don't have an access_token assigned under the workstations key.
Only access tokens can be used in license files at this point.
Usernames and passwords are not supported because of security considerations as the license file is not encrypted.
auto_add_workstations can be set to true to add workstations automatically to the list of workstations, when they are accessing the license file. This option is available since v2.0.7. In previous versions it was the default behavior, that workstations were added to the file automatically.

If you are using offline licensing you can specify an activation_code in place of the access_token.

The preferred_license key can be used to let workstations acquire a specific license type if a license of that type is available.

Offline Licensing#

The offline licensing is available in the Prism Pro plan.

After purchasing Pro licenses please contact us to get access to a specific offline installer.

Licensing

Contents

Licensing#

Plans#

Free#

Plus#

Pro#

Educational#

Non-Commercial#

Other Services#

Purchasing Licenses#

License Count#

Change License Count#

Increase License Count#

Decrease License Count#

License Management#

First Launch#

Network Connection#

License Usage#

Manage Licenses#

Using Access Tokens#

Generating Access Tokens#

License File#

Offline Licensing#

Frequently Asked Questions#

Plans#

Licenses#

Payments#

Licensing

Contents

Licensing#

Plans#

Free#

Plus#

Pro#

Educational#

Non-Commercial#

Other Services#

Purchasing Licenses#

License Count#

Change License Count#

Increase License Count#

Decrease License Count#

License Management#

First Launch#

Network Connection#

License Usage#

Manage Licenses#

Using Access Tokens#

Generating Access Tokens#

Login with an Access Token#

License File#

Offline Licensing#

Frequently Asked Questions#

Plans#

Licenses#

Payments#