[ptrott2017]

Commercial per node. There are also maintenance licenses etc as per most other commercial renderers

You can also rent 10 nodes per week fot $50 (for example rendering on multiple nodes in a small render farm)

For non-commercial there is a free-non-commercial license so you can learn how to use it at no cost.

[mroche]

Also want to toss in that it is free for educational institutions as well. Just reach out to them and verify things and you can get a floating license setup with an agreed upon (iirc) number of licenses). For my university I got 100 licenses (includes 100 separate seats of Tractor, the render queue scheduler) with pretty much no effort, and it (RenderMan) was very easy to setup. Tractor is a different story...

[jhgb]

Renting nodes makes sense these days? I've seen a mailing list post by I think Larry Gritz around 2000 noting that in case of serious productions, bandwidth for assets proportionate to the computational power required or provided would be infeasible for off-premises data centers.

[neya]

Thank you for the information.