How much does Maya cost?

Maya publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Student License up to $1945/year for Annual Subscription. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Maya have a free plan?

Yes. The Student License tier costs nothing and covers free for 3 years (watermarked). Paying starts at $3/per token for Autodesk Flex.

What is the difference between Student License and Autodesk Flex on Maya?

Autodesk Flex costs $3/per token against Free, and adds pay-as-you-go option.

Is the Annual Subscription plan on Maya worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is full features. It costs $1945/year against $3/per token for Autodesk Flex. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which film & tv tools can I use without paying?

1 of the 4 film & tv tools listed alongside Maya have a free tier: DaVinci Resolve.

What am I actually paying for with Maya?

The record lists 20 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, collaboration, platform. In practice it is brought in for film production, game development, tv animation.

Does Maya charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Maya prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Maya against before paying?

The closest film & tv tools in this directory are Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Maya covering price, platforms and features.

Film & TV · pricing

Maya pricing

Maya publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free, then $245/month
Model: Not recorded
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Yes

Maya plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Maya pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Student License	Free	1	Entry tier
Autodesk Flex	$3/per token	1	+$3/per token, 1 more feature
Monthly Subscription	$245/month	1	+$242/month, 1 more feature
Indie License	$305/year	1	+$60/year, 1 more feature
Annual Subscription	$1945/year	1	+$1640/year, 1 more feature

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Student License

Free

The entry tier. It covers free for 3 years (watermarked).

Autodesk Flex

$3/per token

Over Student License, this tier adds:

Pay-as-you-go option

Monthly Subscription

$245/month

Over Autodesk Flex, this tier adds:

Full features

Indie License

$305/year

Over Monthly Subscription, this tier adds:

Full features for revenue under $100k

Annual Subscription

$1945/year

Over Indie License, this tier adds:

Full features

Where Maya stops being free

Student License, Free

Free for 3 years (watermarked)

Autodesk Flex, $3/per token

The first thing you pay for:

Pay-as-you-go option

What the product covers

The full Maya feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

3D modeling
Character animation
Visual effects
Simulation
Rendering

Integrations

Arnold renderer
Mental Ray
V-Ray
RenderMan
Game engines

Security

License management
Network rendering
Asset protection

Collaboration

Scene sharing
Team workflows
Version control
Pipeline integration

Platform

Windows support
Macos support
Linux support

People bring Maya in for film production, game development, tv animation, vfx creation, architectural visualization. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Maya are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Film & TV

Across the 3 film & tv tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $22.99/month. Maya starts at $245/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.

Maya entry price against other Film & TV tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Maya (this page)	Free, then $245/month	-	-
Adobe After Effects	$22.99/month	subscription	-	vs Maya
Adobe Premiere Pro	$22.99/month	-	-	vs Maya
DaVinci Resolve	Free	-	-	vs Maya
Final Cut Pro	$12.99/month	-	-	vs Maya

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Maya badges page.

Before you pay for Maya

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between Free and $1945/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Maya runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by Autodesk Inc of San Rafael, CA. The full record is on the Maya review, and the rest of the category is under best film & tv tools.

Maya pricing on the vendor's own site

Maya pricing questions

How much does Maya cost?: Maya publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Student License up to $1945/year for Annual Subscription. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Maya have a free plan?: Yes. The Student License tier costs nothing and covers free for 3 years (watermarked). Paying starts at $3/per token for Autodesk Flex.
What is the difference between Student License and Autodesk Flex on Maya?: Autodesk Flex costs $3/per token against Free, and adds pay-as-you-go option.
Is the Annual Subscription plan on Maya worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is full features. It costs $1945/year against $3/per token for Autodesk Flex. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Is Maya expensive for a film & tv tool?: It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 3 film & tv tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $22.99/month; Maya starts at $245/month.
Which film & tv tools can I use without paying?: 1 of the 4 film & tv tools listed alongside Maya have a free tier: DaVinci Resolve.
What am I actually paying for with Maya?: The record lists 20 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, collaboration, platform. In practice it is brought in for film production, game development, tv animation.
Does Maya charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Maya prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Maya against before paying?: The closest film & tv tools in this directory are Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Maya covering price, platforms and features.