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Wolfram is $4000/seat for a perpetual commercial license with support. [1] $4000 will only buy a middling Mac Tool tool chest…and not the tools to put in it.

[1] a personal perpetual license is only $400.

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Cost goes down significantly for subsequent years personal. Currently at less than $200 yearly.

Unless you need System Modeler, in which case add another $576 perpetual + $260 annual.

There is a combined license for Mathematica + System Modeler, but it's "Contact us for pricing". Mind you, that's still on the Hobbyist tier. You cannot use its output for anything commercial.

Contrast with Julia's MTK/Dyad that are free for non-commercial use.

Do they still offer a free license on Raspberry Pi?

Not just on Raspberry Pi, wolfram scripting engine is free and works on windows or mac too. You lose the notebook interface, but if you're just using it as a calculator, it does the job.

Oh that would make a great mcp

You can also emulate a Pi using QEMU to run Mathematica (slowly!) on other platforms, see e.g.

https://www.thelinuxvault.net/blog/how-to-run-the-raspberry-...

on a Mac you should be able to emulate it pretty quickly since it's arm to arm

Last anyone tried that in earnest, the binary executable formats were of course incompatible and there were hardware checks.

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