Autodesk
Autodesk licensing after the named-user transition
Seats now follow people rather than machines, which changed the economics of occasional users and made collections better value than they used to be. Some old habits now cost money.
Under the old network licensing model, a practice with twenty designers might hold twelve licences because they were never all in the application at once. That is no longer possible: a named-user subscription is assigned to one person and cannot be pooled.
The practical consequence is that occasional users became expensive, and collections became better value. Most practices we review are still allocating seats on habits formed under the old model.
Industries we license for
Architecture
Revit for BIM, AutoCAD for documentation, SketchUp for early-stage design and Navisworks for coordination. The AEC Collection usually covers all of it more cheaply than buying separately.
Engineering
Civil 3D for infrastructure, Revit for building services, and the structural analysis tools. Collection licensing covers occasional use of tools nobody would justify outright.
Construction
Autodesk Construction Cloud for the common data environment, field issue tracking and model coordination against the current model rather than a stale export.
Manufacturing
Inventor for mechanical design, Fusion for CAM and generative work, Nastran for simulation and Vault for engineering data management.
Media & Entertainment
Maya for animation and visual effects, 3ds Max for visualisation, with Arnold rendering included in the subscription.
Where Autodesk spend usually leaks
- Seats held by people who last opened the software eighteen months ago
- Three individual subscriptions where a collection would cost less
- Annual renewal where a stable team would pay less on a three-year term
- Leavers' seats never reclaimed, because reassignment is not part of the offboarding checklist
- Occasional users on full seats where a viewer or web workflow would serve
Autodesk licensing in the catalogue
Autodesk Revit
- SKU
- ADSK-RVT-1Y
- Licence
- Subscription Annual
- Term
- 1 year
₹3,15,000Tentative price, excl. GST (18%) · per seat
Autodesk AEC Collection
- SKU
- ADSK-AEC-1Y
- Licence
- Subscription Annual
- Term
- 1 year
₹3,66,700Tentative price, excl. GST (18%) · per seat
Autodesk Fusion
- SKU
- ADSK-FSN-1Y
- Licence
- Subscription Annual
- Term
- 1 year
₹60,500Tentative price, excl. GST (18%) · per seat
Autodesk Maya
- SKU
- ADSK-MAYA-1Y
- Licence
- Subscription Annual
- Term
- 1 year
₹2,16,000Tentative price, excl. GST (18%) · per seat
Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
- SKU
- ADSK-PDMC-1Y
- Licence
- Subscription Annual
- Term
- 1 year
₹3,86,000Tentative price, excl. GST (18%) · per seat
Frequently asked questions
Each person who opens the software needs their own subscription; seats cannot be shared or pooled. For genuinely occasional users this changed the economics considerably, and it is worth reviewing whether a viewer or a web workflow serves them instead.
Once a user needs two or more Autodesk products it usually is, and the collection also covers occasional use of tools nobody would buy outright. We will price both against your actual product mix.
Get an Autodesk licensing review
Send us your current seats and who actually opens what. We will show where a collection or a longer term costs less, and where seats can be reclaimed.