It depends on whose point of view you're referring to. This is a win-win for Autodesk.
Let's take Inventor as an example.
Inventor cost 8 tokens a day. For simplicity sake, lets say you buy them 1000 at a time, which cost $3 per token. Ok, now we know it costs $24/day to run Inventor. There are 261 working days in 2021, so subtract vacation and sick days, and let's say our Inventor operator is going to need Inventor for 245 days a year.
245 days * $24/day = $5,880 for the year.
So what they have basically done is added a "daily" cost to the rental lineup that has existed for a while now.
Inventor 3 year rental = $5,915
Inventor 1 year rental = $2,190
Inventor 1 month rental = $275
Inventor 1 day rental = $24
Now let's break them down into the daily rate based on 245 working days a year.
Inventor 3 year rental = $5,915 / 735 working days = $8.05/day
Inventor 1 year rental = $2,190 / 245 working days = $8.94/day
Inventor 1 month rental = $275 / 22 working days = $12.50/day
Inventor 1 day rental = $24 = $24/day.
One more math problem. $275/$24 = 11.5 days. So unless you are going to use Inventor for 11 days or less, you're better off going with a monthly rental, which is probably the vast majority of cases.
I feel like when it's all said and done, they won't be selling many tokens at all, and that that they were made this expensive so as to drive people towards what has been the ultimate goal for several years now, monthly, or better yet, annual rentals.
