Free Edition

These desktop editions of Analytica 4.4 can be used for Free:

The free Player edition
Analytica Trial (which can be used free for one 15-day period)
Analytica for the classroom: A educational (Professional level) edition is free to students in an approved college course that incorporates Analytica in the curriculum.

In the near future, Lumina plans to offer an actual (i.e., not just an expiring Trial) Free Edition. This page will describe that edition and its limitations. We plan to debut the Free edition with the 4.5 release.

Short Free Edition summary to be inserted here

Limitations

The free edition allows you to create models having up to 101 user objects. One of those objects is the model itself. The remaining 100 objects may be variables, modules, input/output controls, text blocks on the diagram, and pictures.

Individual indexes are limited to 30,000 elements, the same as in Analytica Professional.

No 64-bit version of the Free edition is offered. The Free edition runs as a 32-bit process, and is thus limited to a maximum of 4GB of memory usage. (If you are using a 32-bit edition of Windows, then you are limited to 2GB, or if you add the /3GB flag in your C:\boot.ini file, to 3GB).

Images that are copy/pasted or pages that are printed are branded with a watermark. (TBD: There may also be some watermarks on the screen).

You must agree to allow Lumina to collect usage information. This may include information on which features or functions you have used, error messages you encounter, information about program crashes, frequency of usage, information about the computer and operating system that you are running this on, and titles and identifiers that appear in your model. We will not collect model proprietary details such as variable definitions, input or computed values, descriptions, contents of data bases or data files, etc. Lumina is not obligated to collect any of this information, nor do we guarantee that we are collecting it, but we simply reserve the right to collect it while you are using the Free edition.

TDB: We may also require the computer to be connected to the internet (or to be connected periodically) so as to support the information collection described in the previous paragraph.

Libraries

When using the Free Edition, you may freely use Libraries that ship with Analytica (available from the File→Add library..." menu). The functions contained in those libraries do not count as user objects, so use of these functions does not decrease the number of variables or other objects that you can create.

Player mode

With the Free Player edition, you may use (but just not edit) models that contain more than 101 user objects. A model with more than 101 objects will have been created by someone using a non-free edition of Analytica. When you open a model with more than 101 objects, the Free Edition is locked into browse mode. You can change inputs and evaluate results, but you cannot enter edit mode, so you cannot add or remove objects, or change the attributes of objects (other than the definitions of input variables).

If you need to edit a model that contains more than 101 user objects, then it may be time to purchase one of the non-free editions of Analytica (i.e., Professional, Enterprise or Optimizer).