License Options

Professional License – $199.00

Prepar3D Professional offers professionals a platform to:

  • Experience a mission before it happens to increase effectiveness and reduce response time
  • Learn and test their knowledge in the same environment in which they will operate
  • Re-create scenarios with operational data and experiment with different variables
  • Train for scenarios in aviation, air traffic control, ground vehicle operation and disaster response.

The license is available to those that are training, instructing, simulating, or learning.

Academic License – $59.95

Prepar3D Academic offers the academic community a platform to develop hands-on STEM lessons. In Prepar3D, students can:

  • Take control and see the effects of their decisions
  • Experiment with challenges that develop critical thinking skills
  • Collaborate with students around the world to solve real-life problems and hone their teamwork skills

The Academic License contains a watermark signifying the acceptable use of the license. The Academic license is provided at a discount for students. The Academic license enables the exact same functionality of the Professional version of Prepar3D.

Please see the chart below and the End User License Agreement for more information about acceptable use.

Professional Plus License – $2500.00

Training meets reality with Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3D® Professional Plus simulation software.

Customers around the world rely on Prepar3D for immersive, experiential learning.

Professional Plus offers advanced users a platform to:

  • Experience combat scenarios involving a complement of weapons and sensors
  • Program artificially intelligent (AI) behaviors in scenarios
  • Utilize the Multichannel capability to increase performance on multi-screen and dome setups by running concurrently on multiple systems
  • Connect to a Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) network session and integrate with other simulators
  • Support for the most popular Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) packets
  • Control multiplayer scenarios and modify role-players in real-time using SimOperator
  • Mixed Reality pass-through camera support for blending of physical and digital worlds
  • Experience a mission before it happens to increase effectiveness and reduce response time
  • Learn and test their knowledge in the same environment in which they will operate
  • Re-create scenarios with operational data and experiment with different variables
  • Train for scenarios in aviation, air traffic control, ground vehicle operation and disaster response

The license is available to those that are training, instructing, simulating, or learning.

Developer Licenses – $9.95/Month (Professional) and $19.95/Month (Professional Plus)

Anyone can become a Prepar3D Developer. No matter if you are a seasoned developer, or just starting out, we want to encourage you to develop for Prepar3D.

A single subscription will provide 2 full copies of Prepar3D Professional or Professional Plus for your use.

The Prepar3D Developer Subscription is designed to provide resources needed to develop Prepar3D Compatible offerings. The program is also open to any individual or business who is interested in using Prepar3D to develop applications and add-ons. Developers can employ a rich set of resources enabling you to develop complementary product offerings ranging from scenarios, vehicles, application add-ons or even integrating Prepar3D into a solution for deployment. Developer licenses contain a watermark signifying the acceptable use of this license.

Software Development Kit (SDK)

The Prepar3D SDK is provided for free for anyone that has purchased any Prepar3D license. With the free software development kit that accompanies Prepar3D, developers can create customized training scenarios incorporating features such as people, wildlife, buildings, vehicles and weather. For more information on the SDK, please see the Prepar3D SDK page and the associated online Learning Center documentation.

Prepar3D License Matrix of Acceptable Use

To see which version of Prepar3D is right for you, please reference the chart below.

Acceptable uses of Prepar3D include Simulation, Learning, and Training. An Academic License is provided at a discount for students.

Professional Plus has additional features for advanced simulation training.

  Standard License Developer License
  Academic
$59.95		 Professional
$199.00		 Professional Plus
$2500.00		 Professional
$9.95/Month		 Professional Plus
$19.95/Month
Commercial
Training, Instruction,
Simulation, Learning		      
Military
Training, Instruction,
Simulation, Learning		      
Personal Training
Training, Instruction
Simulation, Learning		      
Graduate Student
Training, Instruction
Simulation, Learning		      
Undergraduate Student
Instruction
Simulation, Learning		        
K-12 Student
Instruction,
Simulation, Learning		        
Software
Development		      
Personal Consumer
Entertainment

Prepar3D is not to be used, offered, sold or distributed through markets or channels for use as a personal/consumer entertainment product.

Please review the End User License Agreement for detailed information.