Foundry moves Nuke to subscription

Foundry has launched a subscription system for its Nuke products.

Nuke products include Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Hiero, HieroPlayer and Nuke Render.

The company claims this will provide a lower initial cost and more flexibility to its customers. Subscription customers will have the same benefits as perpetual license owners, with a choice of either offline or online login-based licensing system (launched recently for Nuke 14.0 onward), and floating rights enabling multiple artists or machines to share the same license.

In addition, each annual subscription of NukeX and Nuke Studio will also include two free Nuke Render subscriptions to help new customers with provisioning render farms, and existing customers looking to expand render farms as workload increases.

New perpetual licenses for these products will continue to be available for existing Nuke customers for the next 12 months until December 31, 2023, after which they will cease to be sold. Quarterly rentals will continue to be available.

Customers who have purchased perpetual Nuke family licences before 31 December 2023 will be able to continue to use and maintain those licences, and customers on active maintenance will continue to receive product updates and technical support. 

Foundry chief product officer Christy Anzelmo said: “We are committed to lowering the barriers to entry for new customers and those adding new seats of Nuke. Subscription pricing enables customers to purchase more flexibly as their business grows and changes with new shows or projects."