Licences for Molpro are available for different combinations of "type" (who can use the licence, and where) and "duration" (how long the licence lasts). All licences are normally offered for a fixed term of one, two, three or four years (longer term licences on request). These licences include patches and updates to the latest version of the software throughout their duration.
Holders of a group licence may use Molpro for teaching by their group members. In the case of site licences, teaching is permitted for all members of the institution at the site for which the licence is valid.
Node-lock licences are issued for one specific computer, with a maximum number of cores. For example, a licence of type node8 will work on a computer with up to 8 cores, but not on a computer with 12 cores.
Optionally, licences for the graphical user interface gmolpro are available. gmolpro needs a valid licence for Molpro also.
| Licence fees, in Euro, for academic institutions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Description | Licence conditions |
First year | Annual Renewal | Up-front extension per year |
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| group | Molpro for a research group, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 1550 | 1300 | 1050 | ||||
| site | Molpro for a site, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 4650 | 3900 | 3150 | ||||
| service | Molpro service licence, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 6200 | 5200 | 4200 | ||||
| node16 | Molpro for a single designated Mac or linux workstation with up to 16 cores, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 500 | 425 | 350 | ||||
| node32 | Molpro for a single designated Mac or linux workstation with up to 32 cores, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 800 | 675 | 550 | ||||
| group | Graphical User Interface gmolpro for a research group, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 1400 | 1175 | 950 | ||||
| site | Graphical User Interface gmolpro for a site, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 4100 | 3450 | 2800 | ||||
| node16 | Graphical User Interface gmolpro for a single designated Mac or linux workstation with up to 16 cores, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 450 | 375 | 300 | ||||
| node32 | Graphical User Interface gmolpro for a single designated Mac or linux workstation with up to 32 cores, non-commercial, 1 year. More... | 450 | 375 | 300 | ||||
Discount for up-front extension: when a licence is initially bought for more than one year. For example, if a group licence for 4 years is bought, then the up-front extension discount is applied for 3 years. The price would be: (first year licence fee) + 3*(up-front extension fee)
Discount for annual renewal: when an expired licence is renewed without break in continuity. E.g. if a licence expires on February 15, 2025, and it is supposed to be extended by 1 year, then continuity means that the renewal will run from February 16, 2025 until February 15, 2026.
Besides the discounts for extending an existing licence, the following discounts apply:
Concurrently running group licences: 30% for second and subsequent instances of a group licence, provided the first licence is valid for the current Molpro version. The additional licences must be for the same organisation or university at the same geographical location, and running concurrently with the first licence. If the licences do not have the same start and end date, then the discount is applied for those periods when the licences run concurrently.
Licence upgrade:
We will also discount by the remaining term value of any licence which is superseded by a more expensive new licence. This could apply, for example, if a single-machine licence is replaced by a group licence.
If a site licence is purchased, the remaining term value of any other licences purchased within the same institution at the same geographical location will be discounted.
Licence upgrades and renewals can be ordered at any time, including in advance of any renewal date.
The procedure for making an order can be found here.
We offer 1-month trial licences (linux or Mac); to submit a request go here.
We operate a scheme to make Molpro available to researchers in selected developing countries; see here for further information.
Molpro as distributed contains libraries provided by Intel under licence, and we are therefore unable to distribute Molpro to certain countries (Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and parts of Ukraine) because of U.S. Export Administration Regulations and other U.S. law.
Molpro is normally distributed in binary format for deployment on workstations and laptops, and this should be adequate and give close to optimum performance. For optimum building of the software on parallel and/or specialist architectures, you can apply for access to source code, in order to optimise the use of compilers and libraries. Those who hold service licences are automatically given access to source code; holders of group and site licence may be given it on request.
We welcome enquiries from those who would like to extend Molpro, and will normally be able to offer access to the version-controlled code repository to those licensees who need it. Various general interfaces are available for adapting to other codes.