Autodesk Maya vs. Houdini

Houdini

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Autodesk Maya	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Autodesk offers Maya, a 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering tool available to artists, animators, and educators, used to create realistic characters, models, and scenes, as well as effects such as explosions, cloth movement, etc.	$234 per month
Houdini	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	N/A	$175 per month

Pricing

Autodesk Maya

Houdini

Editions & Modules

Monthly: $235
per month per user
Yearly: $1875
per year per user
3-Year: $5625
3 years per user

Basic: $175
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Autodesk Maya	Houdini
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Maya is also available through Autodesk's Flex plan and pricing. Tokens expire 1 year from date of purchase. Not all products and features are available with Flex. Students and teachers at qualified academic institutions worldwide are eligible for free access to Autodesk software for one-year through the Autodesk Education Community.

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Community Pulse
	Autodesk Maya	Houdini
Considered Both Products	Autodesk Maya Verified User Team Lead Chose Autodesk Maya The UI of 3ds Max is not that good and very old, not the best. Blender is the best for everything, especially its modeling and animation tools are not the best as compared to Autodesk Maya. Cinema 4D is good for motion graphics and create vibrant renders but it has limited … Incentivized Helpful?	Houdini No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Autodesk Maya	Houdini
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Autodesk Maya	Houdini
Likelihood to Recommend	Autodesk Autodesk Maya is a great software, it has so many tools that you can create a full movie without even jumping to any other software. Although it's pretty hard to learn but there is nothing more fun, once you get a hang of it. In general, its tools are best for modeling and animation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Side Effects Software No answers on this topic
Pros	Autodesk Easy to build workflow due to strong customizability. Industry share. Easy to collaborate with other companies. Strong cooperation with other software. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Side Effects Software No answers on this topic
Cons	Autodesk Right now Maya has no good viewport like Blender 2.8 has. It is good that Maya 2019 devs focused on performance and stability but it's strange to see that mainstream soft aren't on trend in developing really cool and helpful tools. Maya LT is very good for artist who don't need complex FX tools. So the devs must add python API to Maya LT. Add more helpful tools to modeling section especially for retopology. Incentivized Miroslav Bobryshev 3D Asset Artist / 3D Generalist Read full review	Side Effects Software No answers on this topic
Usability	Autodesk As Autodesk Maya was one of the first softwares I learned, so I feel very fun to work with it. The overall usabilty feels very natural to me and I felt it's easy to learn but tough to master kind of software. Some people find it very difficult to learn, so I deduced some rating points. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Side Effects Software No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Autodesk We were evaluating the products within the Adobe portfolio like Adobe Animate, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe After Effects majorly among few others before finalising on the Autodesk Maya. One of the major reasons for that was earlier experience with the Autodesk Maya tool for the engineer and also it has more to offer than Adobe with multiple products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Side Effects Software No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Autodesk Effectively able to get the designs created and visualised Video creation for concepts has become easy ROI has been good, but if the costing is brought down then its even more amazing Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Side Effects Software No answers on this topic
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