Pricing

Pay once. Refract forever.

No subscription. Perpetual license for the current major version, with free updates inside the same version.

Pricing

$89 per seat. One-time.

Perpetual license for the current major version, with free updates inside the same version. Buy one seat for yourself, or pick up several at once for your lab — same price, same license, just more seats to hand out.

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seats · perpetual license · current major version

Bulk
$ one-time · $89 ×

Seats

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Need more than 50 seats? Email us.

  • Perpetual license — current major version
  • Free updates inside the major version
  • Assign individual seats to your team from the Lab Manager dashboard
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
  • Community support via https://discourse.refractions.app/

How seats work

Each seat activates Refractions on one Mac, for one human. The buyer becomes the Lab Manager for the purchase: they keep their own seat and can hand out the rest from a dashboard. Teammates get their key by email — the Lab Manager never sees individual keys.

Common scenarios

  • Solo researcher: buy 1 seat.
  • Small lab (PI + 4 trainees): buy 5 seats — issue one to yourself, four to your team.
  • Core facility: buy 10+ seats, reassign as people leave.

Seats are reassignable — if a teammate leaves, revoke their seat and issue it to someone else. The buyer's seat cannot be revoked by a co-admin (a safety invariant against lockout).

FAQ

Questions, briefly answered.

Prism 9 and later (modern .pzfx format). Prism 8 support is best-effort.
No. The document stays a real OLE-embedded Prism file. Windows users double-click as normal.
Email support to deactivate the old machine. We can free a seat on demand.
Every seat is $89 — no volume discount, no “Lab” tier markup. Buy one for yourself, or ten at once if you're a PI buying for your group. Each seat activates one Mac for one human. The buyer becomes the “Lab Manager” for purchases of two or more seats, and can assign or reassign the rest from a dashboard.
No. All processing happens locally on your Mac. The only network calls are license validation against refractions.app.