Obtaining a Gurobi license

You will need a license in order use Gurobi Optimizer. There are several ways to obtain one, depending on your situation.

Commercial users

• If you would like a free evaluation license, please email us at sales@gurobi.com to request one.
• If you have purchased a license from us, that license should be visible through your User Portal > Licenses page on our website (you will need to log in to your account to see this page).
• To use a Gurobi Instant Cloud license, you'll need to download a Cloud license from your Cloud Manager.
• To use a Web License Service (WLS) license, you will need to download a WLS client license from our server.
• To use Gurobi as a client of a Gurobi Compute Server, you will need to create a Compute Server client license.
• To use Gurobi as a client of a Gurobi token server, you will need to create a token server client license.

Academic and Research users

• If you are a faculty member, student, or staff of a recognized degree-granting academic institution, you can obtain a free academic license from our website.
• If your university has an Educational Institution Site license already in place, you will need to create a token server client license.
• If you are a research staff member of a research institute, we may be able to provide you with a free research license. Please submit a support request:
  • Specify your current Gurobi usage as Academic.
  • Specify the type of issue as License issue.

Other users

• Recently graduated? With the Take Gurobi With You (TGWY) program, you can continue to get free, unrestricted access to Gurobi after graduation.

• Sign up for our free Gurobi Online Course License. It has limited capabilities (max 2000 decision variables and 2000 constraints)—but it is robust enough for new learners.