when you want to go commercial, which is about anything people do on Rendo marketplace (think files in MD format or OBJ format for money), an Enterprise licence is required. That's a one-off excluding upgrades, for either single-machine or network (single user each moment).

I'm not that sure whether selling MD (based) renders for money is considered commercial, but as it's hard to tell which tools are used from an image alone, I guess it's not.

For non-commercial use, the Personal licence can be obtained in Basic and Advanced style, either on a one-off basis excluding upgrades, or on a monthly fee including upgrades. When you tend to take each upgrade, the latter usually is cheaper. (Other software, like Vue, if offered the same way, some people like that). At the moment, the monthly fee version paid annually is at a 50% rebate.

Poser comes as one-off, in Poser and Pro, (about yearly) upgrades have to be paid for separately, and you're allowed to go commercial with anything you make out of it. Once or twice a year there is a rebate-round.

When you compare Poser and MD Personal Advanced, either both on rebate or both without, on the long term with regular upgrades, on a monthly costs basis, then MD is about ten times as expensive as Poser.

MD is good, and worthwhile the money for those who are active in that area and willing to spend that money for it, and relates to Poser quite well.

But as I said in an earlier post above, I don't feel comfortable when it's compared to Poser Cloth Room, they are just completely different leagues. The latter is a 15 (!) year old module within a piece of software, which can handle various kinds of tri-mesh geometries as well as hex, pents and quad, and can handle multi-garment multi-object animations, and can handle dynamic/conforming (hybrid) mixtures as well. And might benefit from an upgrade on speed, fault-handling, interface, documentation, and more, but that aside.

But OP did not (mean to) compare, he just informed us. Which I thank him for.

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