Open source & licensing

Open where science needs it.

Research results should be checkable by anyone, and rerunnable without a license. So theModellum engine is open source. The desktop app is what we sell.

Open source · AGPL-3.0

The engine and command line

The statistics, the language, the file readers, the graphs and the modellumcommand-line tool. Read the code, cite the version, run it on a cluster.

  • Free for everyone, including companies using it internally
  • Reproduce any published analysis without buying anything
  • Modify it freely; share your changes if you distribute it or offer it as a network service
Commercial

The desktop app

Data grid, dialogs that write the syntax for you, Explain mode with typeset math, interactive graphs, and the polish that turns an engine into a tool you'd use every day.

  • Modellum's main source of income
  • Yearly or perpetual licenses, from students to whole campuses
  • See pricing

Commercial engine licenses

If you want to build the Modellum engine into a closed-source product or a hosted service without the AGPL's obligations (publishing your source code), we offer a commercial license instead. Typical cases: statistical features inside a SaaS analytics product, survey or clinical platforms, or an OEM bundle.

Write to sales@modellum.app with a sentence on what you're building.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Because the engine is offered under both the AGPL and commercial terms, contributors sign a short Contributor License Agreement that lets us include their work in both.

Which do I need?

You want to…You need
Run do-files from the command line, on any machine, for any purposeNothing: the engine is free
Publish code and data so others can reproduce your paperNothing: readers use the free engine
Use the desktop appA Student, Academic or Professional license
Use the app for paid client or company workA Professional license
Ship the engine inside a closed-source product or serviceA commercial engine license