Compare Altair® Compose® Editions
| Standard Edition | Academic Edition | Personal Edition | |
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| Licensed to | Consumers and businesses | Schools, universities, students and researchers | Anyone |
| Permitted Usage | Business and personal activities | Course instruction, project-based learning, and research | Business and personal activities |
| Architecture | Windows Linux |
Windows Linux |
Windows Linux |
| Cost | Annual subscription | Annual subscription for installation on university-owned computers |
Free | Licensing | Standard Altair licensing options | Altair Units enable access to Altair's entire portfolio of software as an all-in-one bundle | 1-year automatic license |
| Altair Compose core product including IDE for scripting, executing, debugging, and visualizing | check_circle | check_circle | check_circle |
| Extensible OpenMatrix Language (OML) with bridges to Python and TCL provided | check_circle | check_circle | check_circle |
| Built-in tools for signal processing, control systems, system identification, optimization, and more | check_circle | check_circle | check_circle |
| Altair® CAE Readers and Writers | check_circle | check_circle | cancel |
| Altair® HyperWorks® integration (via function registration and reuse) | check_circle | check_circle | cancel |
| Special-purpose Libraries and extensions *see details below |
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| Download and Access | Create an account in the Altair One Marketplace |
Request your academic edition software |
Instant download and activation |
Special-purpose Libraries and Extensions
| Standard Edition | Academic Edition | Personal Edition | |
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| OML library for UI creation | check_circle | check_circle | check_circle |
| OML library for Altair® H3D & ABF format reader/writer | check_circle | check_circle | cancel |
| OML library HDF5 Library (reader, writer) | check_circle | check_circle | check_circle |
| OML library for HyperWorks® CAE Readers & Writers | check_circle | check_circle | cancel |
| OML library for Advanced Optimization | check_circle | check_circle | cancel |
| OML library for Computer Vision (OpenCV) | check_circle | check_circle | check_circle |
| Altair Integration (HyperStudy PyFit support; Multibody processing) | check_circle | check_circle | cancel |
| OML extension Altair® romAI for reduced order models creation |
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*supported with specific license |
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*supported with specific license |
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| OML library for Machine Learning | check_circle | check_circle | check_circle |
| OML Redistributable Creation | check_circle | check_circle | cancel |
| Altair APA Libraries |
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*supported with specific license |
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*supported with specific license |
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