All BARON licenses give full access to the software for any problem size and unlimited simultaneous uses. By licensing the software, you can run BARON on any computer, processor, and operating system using any combination of MATLAB, YALMIP, JuMP, Pyomo, or BARON's native modeling language.

Affiliates of the University System of Georgia, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and sponsors of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making get free licenses.

BARON Licenses

Academic Pricing

Academic licenses can only be used at universities or other educational institutions for research purposes, not commercial applications. Licenses at academic rates come with full features and have no restrictions on problem size.

Maintenance and Support

Maintenance and support provides technical support, as well as upgrades to any new versions released during the period of the license. It is available for all perpetual licenses, and is included for annual and monthly licenses.

Delivery

We deliver the license files via email. You can download the software itself from our BARON Downloads page. 

Licensing Agreement

The BARON End-User License Agreement governs our BARON licenses.

Ordering

To purchase a BARON license, please email sales@minlp.com, and we will send you electronic payment information. Once you complete your purchase, we will email your license file and software activation instructions.

Please provide the following information in your request:

•   name, email, and institution of the end-user (to receive software activation instructions here)
•   name, email, and institution of the person managing payment, if different than the end-user (to receive payment instructions here)
•   license type (perpetual or annual and multi-user or single-user)

Consulting

When needed, our developers provide model development and tuning using their deep expertise with the BARON solver. Contact us at sales@minlp.com for a free initial consulting session to determine if we can help.