All Archicad Perpetual Licenses Terminated at the end of 2026

[mthd]

After the end of 2026 we are all required to proceed with a subscription only for Archicad. We will probably be left with last perpetual upgrade version that we have acquired while our SSA/FW contracts are still active ?

There has been an official announcement that has been sugar coated as I see it and put forth for discussions. Maybe hoping to somehow soften the blow for up and coming mandatory subscriptions after 2026 whether we approve of it or not.

Here is a link if you haven’t already read it from the main community page.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Graphisoft-Insights/Important-update-Next-phase-of-subscription-...

I personally do not approve of this move and feel like I am being coerced to accept it by a process of gradual announcements. I am not interested in changing to other CAD packages but if Graphisoft comes up with more significant improvements after 2026 we are now required to take out a subscription.

How do others feel about this up and coming change that we have no control over ?

[Mauricio_br]

You are certainly not alone.

It is a serious blow to users' trust that Graphisoft unilaterally changes the rules of the game at the whim of the wind.

There is nothing more in keeping with this post-truth era in which we live than the existence of a perpetual license with a prophecy that announces that perpetual things now have an expiration date. A day and time to cease to exist.

For now, I will not send them any more money. I will wait, wait and see where the winds will take them in the future.

Maybe everything will change again...

[Sharpeyespanda]

 All Archicad perpetual licenses will be terminated at the end of 2026. This does not mean you'll lose the software you've already licensed — Graphisoft has made that promise, and I expect they'll uphold it. What it does mean is that going forward, you won't be able to upgrade your license unless you switch to a subscription model. The changes are significant: Archicad has already doubled in price, and now comes the subscription push. Personally, I don’t like it either. I prefer a straightforward model "you pay, you get". Not one where I invest my time, effort, sweat, and tears, to suddenly find myself kind of "on the hook". That's not nice is it? What do you say Daniel???

[torben_wadlinger]

Of course, GS will not switch off the licence servers immediately. But we have no statement by GS for how long they will let them run. Maybe five years, maybe ten, but for sure not twenty!

But how knows what will be in ten years ...

[jl_lt]

i have yet to meet someone who likes the idea of buying  a car and then happilly pay the seller a monthly rent for driving it.