Capture One Pro: Should you buy a perpetual license or a subscription?

UPDATE (April, 2021): Please note this article is no longer relevant and is kept here online for reference only. If you want to know the most affordable route to working with Capture One 21, please see the updated feature here for more details. If you want to try Capture One 21 before buying, it can be downloaded and used without restriction for free for 30 days, or you can buy or upgrade directly from Capture One [affiliate link].   If you’ve decided to use Capture One Pro as your RAW converter and editor of choice, then Capture One offers a couple of methods to buy into it. You can either opt for the traditional perpetual license model or pay for a subscription. The price of a perpetual license is $299/£299 [affiliate link to the official store] for three seats (or two seats for Capture One Pro for Fujifilm or Sony), which means a single user can install it on separate devices, so long as they’re not being used simultaneously. As a 'perpetual license', you w