Where can I find the Activation Key and File Installation Key (FIK) for my license?

I am trying to distribute or retrieve the Activation Key for my license in order to have licensed end users link to my license and activate MATLAB. I am trying to distribute or retrieve the File Installation Key to install MATLAB without using the internet. Where can I find these keys?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

IMPORTANT: If you are looking for the File Installation Key for the purposes of installing MATLAB on an offline machine, see "How can I install MATLAB or other MathWorks products on an offline machine?" for complete instructions. Entering a File Installation Key into a MATLAB installer downloaded directly from the MathWorks website will not enable you to install MATLAB on an offline machine.

Administrators

License administrators can obtain the Activation Key and File Installation Keys through through the "Advanced Options" button in the license center. To retrieve your Activation Key and File Installation Key, follow the steps below:

1. Log into the License Center here: http://www.mathworks.com/licensecenter
2. Select the desired license
3. Select the "Install and Activate" tab
4. Click on the "Advanced Options" button
5. The Activation Key along with the File Installation Key will appear on this screen. You can generate a File Installation Key for a different release using the drop down.

End Users

The File Installation Key is produced when you activate your license to a machine. See the following article for more information:

How do I activate MATLAB without an internet connection?

To retrieve a File Installation Key for a license which is already activated:

1. Log into the License Center here: http://www.mathworks.com/licensecenter
2. Click on the desired license
3. Select the "Install and Activate" tab
4. Click the blue arrow under "Get License File"
5. If you do not see the activated machine and blue arrow, press "Update License File" to open the correct menu
6. Select a release
7. Specify that the software is not yet installed
8. The File Installation Key will appear on this screen

End users who are not allowed to perform keyless activations must contact their license administrators to obtain a File Installation Key. End users must also contact license administrators to obtain the Activation Key regardless of their permissions. In the MathWorks License Center, click the "Contact Administrators" tab to get contact information for your license administrators.

[amit baroi]

how to know who is my administrator.

[Scott]

Hi Amit,

If you are not sure who your license administrator is, you should speak with your IT staff or the individual or team who manages software licensing at your organization.

Additionally, MathWorks Support may be able to assist you with determining who your license administrator is, depending on what information about your license is available to you.

See this page for more information on contacting MathWorks support:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

Regards,

-Scott

MathWorks Installation & Licensing Support

[Dhiraj Patil]

Hi,

There's nothing called "Advanced Options" button anywhere in the licencing center page.

I am also facing the similar issue could you please share the solution for this.

[Walter Roberson]

On the licensecenter page, choose a license. Then click on the Activations and Installations page. The Advanced Options is on the lower right hand side of that, provided that you are an authorized administrator for the account

[Michal Szczepanik]

In case it comes helpful to someone, in my case (license administrator) the "Advanced options" button in license center was blocked by uBlock origin firefox extension. Disabling the extension made the button reappear.

[Husan Ahrorov]

How can i find License Number* or Activation Key on matlab

[Walter Roberson]

If you are not using a Student or Trial release, then your license number should be one of the first things displayed by ver

[Nada Ali]

There is no Advanced option here?????

[Walter Roberson]

Mathworks does not believe that your account is associated with the technical contact or purchasing contact for a Standard or Educational license (not sure about Home licenses)

Answer 2

[akde]

Hello I have followed first 3 steps which are

Log into the License Center here: http://www.mathworks.com/licensecenter

Select the desired license (if you are doing this for a trial, select "Trials, Prereleases, and Betas" from the drop down menu)

Select the "Activation and Installation" tab

But in the fourth step there is no "Advanced Options" button. So how can I learn my activation key

[Walter Roberson]

Contact Mathworks for free installation assistance.

[Dhiraj Patil]

I am also facing the same issue. No "Advanced Options" button. Could you please with me that how did you find the Activation Key. If it's possible please reply as soon as you go through this msg as I have got a deadline to meet this Friday.

[Scott]

Please contact MathWorks support if you are having trouble activating MATLAB:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

[Zakira Rahat]

I am having the same problem. Kindly I need activation key for r2014a

[Walter Roberson]

Please contact Mathworks for free installation support.

Note: Mathworks in USA will be on holiday on Monday July 4th. However, there are some support centers in other countries.

[Gerald Mel Sabino]

thank you for the information. it really helps!

[Nada Ali]

Same here I can't find "Advanced options" in 2019a, my computer is Macbook 2017

plz HELPPPPPPPPP

[Darkhan Otegen]

only license administrators can see it

Answer 3

[DJENKAL Karim]

There is no "Activation and Installation" tab ! When i select the trial licence, i have "Trial details" and "End users and licence contat" tabs, but no "Activation and Installation". HELP !

[Darsana Thulasi]

Please contact MathWorks Support: http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

[vaidehi venkatesan]

there is no licences tab when i tried for trial version. it is asking activation key

[Kevin Cahill]

Useless

[Kevin Cahill]

I meant that most MATLAB Answers, documentation, and examples are useless. Matlab should work on their documentation and examples. I didn't mean to single out any particular part of this webpage.

[Walter Roberson]

Kevin Cahill:

Please post a standard that you believe that the volunteers who answer the questions in MATLAB Answers should have to conform to. Please also give an analysis of how much time it would take for the volunteers to produce their volunteer solutions compared to the existing situation. The analysis should take into account that it is not uncommon for the volunteers to be posting through mobile phones.

[Adam Danz]

I reference Matlab's documentation and its embedded examples nearly every day and find them very useful. I'm genuinely curious what documentation for other programs others perceive as better.

About Matlab Answers, ~2/3 of all questions get an answer and ~1/2 of those answers are accepted. With more than a hundred questions a day and more than 288,000 answers in the forum, that's a lot of useful content and it doesn't even count the number of existing answers people find every day when searching the site [1, 2].

Answer 4

[Tomislav Perovic]

Hi, I dowloaded matlab from play store for my mobile and i don't have activation code or licence number but i need them to use this program.What is the solution for this?

[Walter Roberson]

What you downloaded from the play store is not MATLAB itself: it is only an interface that would allow you to use MATLAB remotely. You would still need to have purchased a MATLAB license.

[Samuel Echeta]

How do we then access the original MATLAB app please

[Walter Roberson]

MATLAB itself is not an app for iOS or Android . It is only available for desktop Windows, OS-X/MacOS, or Linux systems , x64 architecture .

What is available for iOS and android is an interface that connects to a remote matlab session run on your own desktop system , or run at Mathworks . You need to have purchased a matlab license to use these .

Answer 5

[hua wu]

Are there free activation key?

[Walter Roberson]

No. There has never been a free version of MATLAB.

There have been contests in which a copy of MATLAB was the prize.

Answer 6

[santosh g]

how to download software please anybody reply urgent

[Walter Roberson]

When you purchase MATLAB you will be emailed the download link. If you have an existing license associated with your account then you can download from https://www.mathworks.com/downloads/web_downloads/select_release?mode=gwylf

Answer 7

[fauzi bala]

Where can I find the Activation Key or File Installation Key (FIK) for my license?

[Walter Roberson]

Please follow the instructions above, https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/102845-where-can-i-find-the-activation-key-and-file-installation-key-fik-for-my-license

Answer 8

[Adi Macedo]

Where can I find the Activation Key or File Installation Key (FIK) for my license?

[Walter Roberson]

Please follow the instructions above, https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/102845-where-can-i-find-the-activation-key-and-file-installation-key-fik-for-my-license

Answer 9

[Avi Sharma]

I have no license number , activation key and file installer key. can any one help me please.

[Walter Roberson]

What happened when you followed the above instructions?

If the above instructions do not work for you, you should contact Mathworks for free installation support.

[Adam Danz]

Melisa Solis Arcos's flag moved here as a comment

CUAL ES LA CLAVE DE ACTIVACION SI SOY ESTUDIANTE

[Adam Danz]

@ Melisa Solis Arcos, contact your university's or your department's software coordinator to receive your activation key or check

https://www.mathworks.com/licensecenter/

Answer 10

[Bilal Qureshi]

Same problem Activation key!

[Walter Roberson]

What happened when you followed the instructions in the Support answer?

[Xin WEI]

I didn't find the "advanced button",either.

[Cody Lamke]

Hello,

If you are still experiencing this issue, please contact MathWorks support:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

-Cody Lamke

Answer 11

[Muni Venkatesh]

Where can I find the Activation Key or File Installation Key (FIK) for my license

[Walter Roberson]

What happened when you followed the above instructions?

If the above instructions do not work for you, you should contact Mathworks for free installation support.

Answer 12

[AJISHA BHAKARAN]

i already created a matlab account,till now i didnt got licenses

Answer 13

[Natalia Yeromina]

Where can I find the Activation Key or Key Installation File?

[Walter Roberson]

What happened when you followed the above instructions?

If the above instructions do not work for you, you should contact Mathworks for free installation support.

Answer 14

[Amna El-tawil]

I can't get the activation key; Please I need help

[Walter Roberson]

What happened when you followed the above instructions?

If the above instructions do not work for you, you should contact Mathworks for free installation support.

[Amna El-tawil]

I make an account and in the license centre page there is nothing and I contact with Mathworks they said to me take the activation key from your university. I went to the computer centre at my university they said to me what activation key? we don't have an activation key; so now what should I do for getting the activation key and start using the Matlab online?? I NEED HELP...

[Walter Roberson]

You might need to purchase a student license.

Note: the volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database.

[Amna El-tawil]

I can't take it from the Administrator of the Mathworks?? There is no alternative solution??

[Walter Roberson]

If your university has a campus license that can be used by students, then the university is responsible for activating students and Mathworks will not get involved (because it is up to university policy as to which students are permitted to use the license). In such a case, Mathworks could tell you who the contact person is for the license.

Not all Academic licenses can be installed by students; there are, for example, licenses that are for use in a computer lab only.

For some universities, just registering on Mathworks with your academic email address is enough to get you access to MATLAB Online; https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-online.html

I myself have no access at all to the license database.

[Amna El-tawil]

Thank you very much for a help.

[Amna El-tawil]

I want to know who is the contact person for the license? My university told me again they don't have a license number.

[Walter Roberson]

I do not have any access to the license database, but I have sent a note to someone who does.

[Andreas Goser]

I am that someone - happy to help :-D

Amna, if I pull all information together:

1. You do not have a MATLAB installation, otherwise you could enter the command "license" and would have the license number.

2. You are interested in using MATLAB Online. But you may or may not know that this is not a free service, it is connected to having one of a couple different license types.

3. The domain of the email address you use here ("MathWorks Account"), points to a university that indeed has no license that allows the use of MATLAB Online.

[Amna El-tawil]

Now, you can give me a license number? I will use it nearly for 2 months for my course that I have this semester

[Walter Roberson]

You will need to purchase a MATLAB student license in order to use MATLAB Online.

Answer 15

[Ida Nissen]

I could also not find the activation key and finally called the support center. Apparently the trial licenses only work for the latest version of matlab, which I do not use. Therefore I could not select the license number. That might be the reason why others also cannot find the activation key.

Answer 16

[Reshma M Nair]

hai all,

I am using the trial academia version of matlab. While I downloaded the file I got a license id. When I tried for file installation they asked for an activation key for my license. I followed the steps mentioned aboe in tis group but it never lead me to a solution. Can anyone help me to sort out this issue. Expecting a quick reply. Thanking in advance.

[Andreas Goser]

If you browse through this thread, you will see the repeated recommendation to contact MathWorks installation support. Did you try that it is still it is not successful?

[Amna El-tawil]

If you cannot get activation key, you can use matlab online.

Answer 17

[pablo raez]

me llamo Pablo

[e-mail]

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Intento instalar matlhlab en mi PC, pero necesito una : "activation key"

como obtenerla?

Gracias.

[Colin Fraser]

Hi,

If you are still experiencing this issue, please contact MathWorks support:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

-Colin Fraser

[Weiguo Li]

my license is 4xxxxxxxx from China University of Petroleum

[Walter Roberson]

The volunteers here do not have any access to the account database. We are not able to assist you in finding your license or installation key. You must contact Mathworks support.

Answer 18

[sachin devinda]

yes

Answer 19

[Aya Abuzaid]

Hi , i want to ask if I can use the Matlab online , because i do not want to install it on my laptop, :)

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-online.html#license-types

To access MATLAB Online, you must be current with one of the following license types:

• MATLAB and Simulink Student Suite
• MATLAB Student
• Campus-Wide License
• MATLAB Primary and Secondary School Suite
• Academic Individual
• Standard Individual
• MATLAB Home

Answer 20

[ANTHONY ULOEKWE]

After installing Matlab I downloaded to my system and installing I wasn't able to find any INSTALLATION KEY . How can I get installation key??

[Cody Lamke]

Hello,

The File Installation Key is only required for installations.

If you are still experiencing this issue after referring to the instructions on this article, please contact MathWorks support:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

-Cody Lamke

Answer 21

[Thama Mudau]

Where can I find my installation key?

Answer 22

[Antonio Tamaku]

where can i find my activation key?

Answer 23

[ari ali]

License No. or Activation Key i need

[Walter Roberson]

If you purchased the product from Mathworks, contact Support for installation assistance.

If you are using a university license, or a commercial license with a license server (your workplace is providing the software) then the IT administration will have to provide you with the activation information.

Answer 24

[Isaac Femi]

matlab product keys

[Walter Roberson]

If you purchased the product from Mathworks, contact Support for installation assistance.

If you are using a university license, or a commercial license with a license server (your workplace is providing the software) then the IT administration will have to provide you with the activation information.

[Constancio Pinto]

Dear...

How I could get activation key for matlab & simulink activation R2019b?

[Cody Lamke]

Hello,

If you are still not able to locate the Activation Key after following the accepted answer above, please contact MathWorks support:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

-Cody Lamke

Answer 25

[Fariha Nawaz]

i will trying the matlab online license key but not a answers

Answer 26

[VIVEK JAISWAL]

Need File installation key

[Walter Roberson]

None of the volunteers who answer questions here have access to the license database, so you will need to contact Mathworks support (if you have an individual license), or your organizations IT support people (if your license is provided by your organization.)

Answer 27

[Tahani Alshaiban]

whats file installation key for license?

[Walter Roberson]

A File Installation Key is a long authentication string that can be used to activate a MATLAB license, even if you do not have internet access.

Answer 28

[ahmed soliman]

activation key

[Image Analyst]

Again: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/102845-where-can-i-find-the-activation-key-and-file-installation-key-fik-for-my-license#comment_409134

If you still can't figure out how to install MATLAB, then simply CALL them for fast, free, and instantaneous help - way faster than waiting for something here.

Answer 29

[Teky Tengis]

license

[Walter Roberson]

None of the volunteers who answer questions here have access to the license database, so you will need to contact Mathworks support (if you have an individual license), or your organizations IT support people (if your license is provided by your organization.)