Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

The Free Wolfram Engine for Developers is available for pre-production software development.

You can use this product to:

Develop a product for yourself or your company
Conduct personal projects at home, at school, at work
Explore the Wolfram Language for future production projects

Licensing FAQ

Additional licensing options for the Wolfram Engine:

Wolfram Engine licensing is included in the Wolfram Technology System for Education and other site licenses.

The Free Wolfram Engine for Developers includes a license for Wolfram Cloud Basic.

The Wolfram Engine automatically accesses the Wolfram Knowledgebase and downloads any resources it needs.

Usage Patterns

Command Line (WolframScript)

Use WolframScript to get your current geographical position (latitude and longitude):

$ wolframscript -code 'GeoPosition[Here]'
GeoPosition[{40.11, -88.24}]

Use a high-level machine learning function to detect the sentiment of a piece of text:

$ wolframscript -code 'Classify[ "Sentiment", "The Wolfram Engine is really cool!" ]'
Positive

Calculate the sunrise time for a city, like Chicago or New Orleans:

$ wolframscript -function "DateString[Sunrise[#]]&" -signature City -args "windy city" 
Tue 14 May 2019 05:31

Script

Give an image URL, import it and identify the content of the image:

image-identify.wls

url = InputString["Give image url: "];
image = Import[url];
entity = ImageIdentify[image];
Print["This is a: ", entity["Name"]];

$ ./image-identify.wls
Give image url: https://bengal-cat.jpg

Language Integration: Python

Set up your Wolfram Language session:

>>> from wolframclient.evaluation import WolframLanguageSession
>>> from wolframclient.language import wl, wlexpr
>>> session = WolframLanguageSession()

Evaluate any Wolfram Language code from Python:

>>> session.evaluate(wlexpr('Range[5]'))
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Immediately call all 6,000+ built-in Wolfram Language functions in Python:

>>> session.evaluate(wl.MinMax([1, -3, 0, 9, 5]))
[-3, 9]

Language Integration: C++

Use the WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol) to call the Wolfram Engine from a C or C++ program:

#include "wstp.h"
/* Send an expression from C to the Wolfram Engine for evaluation */
void evaluate_expression(WSLINK lp)
{
    WSPutFunction(lp, "EvaluatePacket", 1);
    WSPutFunction(lp, "ToExpression", 1);
    WSPutString(lp, (const char *)"3+4/Sqrt[19.2]");
    WSEndPacket(lp);
}

Interactive Access

Here is an example for how to use the Wolfram Engine interactively. You can type Wolfram Language commands after each In[] prompt, and outputs appear after the corresponding Out[] prompt:

$ wolframscript
Wolfram Language 12.0.0 Engine for Microsoft Windows (64-bit)
Copyright 1988-2019 Wolfram Research, Inc.

In[1]:= url = "https://wolfr.am/Cax0fT0X";
In[2]:= image = Import[url];
In[3]:= entity = ImageIdentify[image];
In[4]:= entity["Name"]
Out[4]:= Labrador retriever