Bifrost Licensing

Licensing for Bifrost is based on the EULA you agree to when you install the plug-in. By installing the Bifrost plug-in, you agree to the Autodesk Terms of Use and the Bifrost special terms of use described below.

Your Maya license entitles you to run Bifrost through the official Bifrost for Maya plug-in; in addition, it also entitles you to three Bifrost Engine licenses.

If you run Bifrost in standalone mode via the bifcmd tool, you start consuming Bifrost Engine licenses.

One Bifrost Engine license entitles you to run an unlimited number of bifcmd jobs on a single machine. You can run bifcmd on up to three different computers at the same time, since you are entitled to three Bifrost Engine licenses per Maya license.

Alternatively, your ECP Collection license entitles you to 15 Bifrost Engine licenses.

If your company has 10 Maya licenses, you can run bifcmd on up to 30 machines at once. If you have 10 ECP Collections, you can run bifcmd on up to 150 machines at once. These entitlements are included in addition to running Bifrost through Bifrost for Maya.

For example, a single Maya user with a single Maya license may simultaneously:

• Use Bifrost in Maya via the Bifrost for Maya plug-in, and
• Compute six bifcmd jobs on three other computers.

In this case, Bifrost would be running on four computers - the one that is running Maya plus the three that are running bifcmd - while only one Maya license is required.