Students and teachers: save 50% on Live

Educational discounts can’t be combined with any other discount. However, if you purchase Live 12 Intro, Standard, or Suite EDU during the campaign, you’ll get a free upgrade to the equivalent Live 13 edition on release.

Live 13 will be released in early 2027.

When Live 13 is released, your Live 13 license will be registered automatically, and you’ll be able to download the application from your Ableton account. Due to a high volume of requests on the date of release, all downloads may not be immediately available. Thank you for your patience!

Yes, but the education discount is only available when buying a new license and cannot be applied to upgrades.

An EDU license has all of the same features as a regular version of Live. 

Yes, educational licenses can be purchased for a family member or friend, as long as they meet the educational requirements. The purchaser will need to upload the recipient’s details when verifying the license.

It is not possible to use one's own educational documents as verification for another person.

Yes, the educational status is only relevant at the time of purchase of your EDU license. You can keep using the license without any limitations even after you are no longer enrolled.

Rent-to-own lets you rent a Live 12 Suite license on a monthly basis. Once you’ve made enough payments to cover the full license price, you’ll own it in full. You’ll have full access to Live while you’re renting it, and you’ll pay the same amount as you would for a one-off purchase.

With rent-to-own, each payment goes toward owning a full license. Once you’ve completed all payments, the license is yours to keep.

A subscription, on the other hand, involves paying a monthly fee indefinitely, with no possibility of ownership.

No, rent-to-own plans are only available for Live Suite.

If you start a new Live 12 rent-to-own plan from now until Live 13’s release, every payment made counts toward ownership of Live 13. Your plan length won’t change and you'll get access to Live 13 as soon as it's released.

Yes, you can pause your plan at any time. You’ll retain access to Live until the end of your current billing cycle.

If you resume your plan after pausing, you’ll start making payments again and your progress towards license ownership will continue where it left off.

Live needs an internet connection the first time you launch in order to activate your rent-to-own plan. After that, Live will periodically verify that your plan is active. You can use Live offline for up to 3 days between verification checks.

If your computer stays offline longer than that, saving and exporting will be disabled until Live can reconnect and verify that your plan is active.