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This is not my experience.

Mathematica has a LOT more integrated into the base product. Matlab requires a toolbox for nearly everything and many toolboxes cost more than a Mathematica license. I enjoy Mathematica, but find Matlab to be inferior to Python development and very expensive.

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I think Matlab is starting to realize this, at least at the institutional level they are starting to offer all the toolboxes for a fixed price (much much lower than buying all the boxes individually)

That is good to hear about!

> many toolboxes cost more than

They're all priced the same for home use.

https://www.mathworks.com/store/link/products/home/ML

I don't care about home use. If my company wants to use Matlab, they shouldn't have to pay like $5k for the database toolbox and $5k for the optimization toolbox on top of my license.

It's still better than value-based pricing where you have to call for a quote and they try to figure out the maximum you'll pay.

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