[brudgers]

Wolfram is $4000/seat for a perpetual commercial license with support. [1] $4000 will only buy a middling Mac Tool tool chest…and not the tools to put in it.

[1] a personal perpetual license is only $400.

[nwatson]

Cost goes down significantly for subsequent years personal. Currently at less than $200 yearly.

[Archit3ch]

Unless you need System Modeler, in which case add another $576 perpetual + $260 annual.

There is a combined license for Mathematica + System Modeler, but it's "Contact us for pricing". Mind you, that's still on the Hobbyist tier. You cannot use its output for anything commercial.

Contrast with Julia's MTK/Dyad that are free for non-commercial use.

[CamperBob2]

Do they still offer a free license on Raspberry Pi?

[krackers]

Not just on Raspberry Pi, wolfram scripting engine is free and works on windows or mac too. You lose the notebook interface, but if you're just using it as a calculator, it does the job.

[alex7o]

Oh that would make a great mcp

[UncleSlacky]

You can also emulate a Pi using QEMU to run Mathematica (slowly!) on other platforms, see e.g.

https://www.thelinuxvault.net/blog/how-to-run-the-raspberry-...

[adgjlsfhk1]

on a Mac you should be able to emulate it pretty quickly since it's arm to arm

[rcarmo]

Last anyone tried that in earnest, the binary executable formats were of course incompatible and there were hardware checks.