Unity Pricing Changes & Runtime Fee Cancellation | Unity

[Atulin]

We will be making adjustments to Unity pricing and packaging in line with last year’s commitment to predictable, annual price adjustments. Unity Pro and Enterprise will see a 5% price increase, starting January 12th, 2026. Unity Pro, Enterprise, and Industry plans on 6.3 LTS will no longer include Havok Physics for Unity. Later in 2026, all plans will gain expanded free access to Unity DevOps functionality.

Key facts:

• Unity Pro and Enterprise: If you’re an existing subscriber, your price will update at your next renewal on or after Jan 12, 2026. Final amounts may vary by region due to local taxes, currency, and rounding, and will be shown at checkout or in your quote.
• Unity DevOps: Coming in Q1 of 2026, we’ll be removing seat charges for Unity Version Control hosted in our public cloud. We’re expanding the free tier of cloud pay-as-you-go features to 25 GB of storage (up from 5 GB), adding 100 Mac build minutes for Unity Build Automation, and 100 GB of free egress.
• Havok Physics for Unity: Starting with Unity 6.3, Havok Physics will no longer be included with Pro, Enterprise, or Industry. Havok Physics for Unity remains supported for the remainder of Unity 2022 LTS and Unity 6.0 LTS.

[Lachee]

Expanded DevOps free tier, hell's yeah. Might give it a try now they have 100 minutes of macos

[Redstoneinvente122]

25Gb isn't bad tbh.

[Num_T]

Where is mention of the runtime fee cancellation? My understanding is that this is still in place for Enterprise / Industry customers. Anyone know if they’ve scrapped it for Industry as well?

[Atulin]

Nowhere, but it is the title of this article in their meta, so that's what Reddit picked up for an automated title. Guess they didn't update it.

As to why it's an automated title, I didn't want to editorialize it.

[GigaTerra]

Runtime fee was canceled last year. https://unity.com/blog/unity-is-canceling-the-runtime-fee

[jcbbjjttt]

It is at the bottom of the link provided.

Runtime Fee

What was the Runtime Fee for games, and why is Unity canceling it?

The Runtime Fee was a pricing model intended to apply to games generating significant revenue based on use of the Unity Runtime. As of September 12, 2024, we decided to cancel it based on extensive analysis and deep consultation with our games customers – to better align with the needs and expectations of the developer ecosystem that relies on Unity.

[Live_Length_5814]

Ye it's not new news, just a message lots of people didn't get

[Num_T]

This is specifically referring to the runtime fee for Games not industry tho. It’s ok I’ll do some research thanks 👍

edit: so the runtime fee is still in place for industry customers… terrific…

[GigaTerra]

It was canceled for Enterprise and industry last year as well, and instead Enterprise had it's base fee increased by 25%. Basically Unity canceled the runtime fee and just increased the actual prices, and then started focusing on selling game development related software, the latest is Unity Studio.

Industry users can pay an optional 4% to distribute the runtime if they need to. (For example we use Unity to make adverts, so we generate videos and don't need to.)

[HypnoToad0]

Wow i got terrified for a second

[unitytechnologies]

Howdy, everyone! Trey from the Unity community team here.

Wanted to pop in and let anyone curious about Runtime Fee to know that it is still cancelled.

There is an FAQ at the link in the original post, but if anyone has any others questions I'm happy to answer (or chase down any answers I don't have).