Academic License

ThingSpeak academic licenses are for academic research and teaching. Pricing is based on the number of channels required and on a count of messages to be processed and stored in a one-year period. ThingSpeak is available as a free service for small non-commercial academic projects (<3 million messages/year or ~REPLACE_FREE_MESSAGES_PER_DAY messages/day) with limits on certain features. For larger projects and for expanded limits, an academic license is available. See the table and Pricing Calculator below for details. ThingSpeak is bought in units, where one unit allows 33 million messages to be processed and stored in a one-year period (~REPLACE_PAID_MESSAGES_PER_DAY messages/day). One unit (academic license type) also provides the ability to create a create up to 250 channels on ThingSpeak. See Licensing FAQ for more details.

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Why Buy a Academic License?

With an academic license, you can send more data to ThingSpeak, and you can update ThingSpeak as fast as once per second. Using the MATLAB apps built into ThingSpeak, you can develop custom visualizations of your data and schedule analytics to run on your sensor data as it is passed to ThingSpeak. You also have access to live technical support, private channel sharing and MQTT subscriptions.

Connect more sensors

Share channel views with colleagues and students

Faster update rates

Extended compute time for analytics

Live tech support


	FREE For small non-commercial projects	ACADEMIC For academic use by faculty, staff, or researchers at degree-granting institutions⁽¹⁾
Scalable for larger projects	No. Annual usage is capped.
Number of messages	3 million/year (~REPLACE_FREE_MESSAGES_PER_DAY/day)⁽²⁾	33 million/year per unit (~REPLACE_PAID_MESSAGES_PER_DAY/day per unit)⁽²⁾
Message update interval limit	Every 15 seconds	Every second
Number of channels	4	250 per unit
MATLAB Compute Timeout	20 seconds	60 seconds
Private channel sharing	Limited to 3 shares	Unlimited
Technical Support	Community Support	Standard MathWorks support
Max image size	Image feature unavailable	5 MB
Messages used per image		100

⁽¹⁾Not for government, commercial or other organizational use.

⁽²⁾Based on constant update rate.

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