Frequently Asked Questions

by CloudMaster (modified: 2026 Mar 03)

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A Personal license is an option for private individuals who purchase a license with their own funds, and solely for their own use. Personal licenses are not to be purchased, refunded or in any way financed by companies.

An Enterprise license is for organizations and business entities. It comes with maintenance and full support, has no limit on the number of users, covers a variety of platforms, Windows, Linux, Mac OS but also all flavors of Unix, VMS, Embedded. Companies have a direct contact in the development team, are entitled to code reviews, regular exchanges at the technical level, special training sessions. To get a quote for the Enterprise edition contact us.

EiffelStudio Personal: 1 month of customer support - installation and basic questions not answered on the web - (no warranty of time to treat the questions)

With the Personal license, the code analyzer is limited to 5 runs per day (for 20.05, the limitation may change in future versions).
There is no limitation for the
Enterprise licenses.

A perpetual fallback license is an individual license that allows you to use a specific version of EiffelStudio without an active subscription for it.

When purchasing an onetime (annual) subscription, you will immediately the right to get a perpetual fallback license for the exact version available at the time.

If paying on a monthly basis, as soon as you pay for 12 consecutive months, you will receive the right to this perpetual fallback license providing you with access to the exact product version for when your 12 consecutive months subscription started. You will receive the right for perpetual fallback licenses for every version you have paid 12 consecutive months for.

If you have the right to get a perpetual fallback individual license, please request it to the support.