Unreal Engine licensing options
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- Kind
- Licensing page
- Format
- HTML
- Applies to
- Unreal Engine licensing page and FAQ: royalty and seat models, Unreal Subscription price, Epic Pro Support, MetaHuman and revenue thresholds. No effective date is stated on the page.
- Evidence
- Unreal Subscription costs USD 1,850 per user per year
- Epic Pro Support requires 10 or more Unreal Subscription seats
- Seats may be assigned to external contractors
- From Unreal Engine 5.6 MetaHuman is included in the Unreal Engine licence
- Not renewing keeps access to projects but the EULA still requires seats
- Seat pricing depends on annual gross company revenue
- Plugin developers may use Unreal Engine for free
- Government organizations use Unreal Engine free only for non-commercial purposes
- The USD 1 million threshold is always calculated in USD
- Royalty payments are due 45 days after each calendar quarter