
Why didn't the new business model for distributing Wolfram Language change the business model of Mathematica?Īnd why isn't Mathematica free to use? My Background: So what am I missing about Mathematica that makes it reasonable to pay for it? I would think of Mathematica to be kind of like an IDE.īut nobody would pay hundreds of dollars just for an IDE. It seems like you gain practically very little by paying for Mathematica. My Question here is why there are different payment models for Mathematica, WolframCloud and WolframEngine? Is Mathematica an Implementation of the Wolfram Language?Įven though I still can't grasp concretely what the differences are.Can Wolfram Engine do more than Mathematica?.

The differences of Mathematica and Wolfram Engine/Wolfram Language are discussed at other places.

