Those with no Octane 4 will have the opportunity to buy a perpetual license? Obviously in a way, if you say I prepay for several years ahead and later as you mentioned I only have one plugin without support...etc.

when the free version about maya and houdini will post? Q1 2019 already gone.

I think there will be no free version of Octane for Houdini or Maya, because none of these are free softwares. Based on the informations so far Octane for Blender will be free very very soon in Q1 2019 or early April ...

when the free version about maya and houdini will post? Q1 2019 already gone.

I think there will be no free version of Octane for Maya or Houdini, because none of these software are free. The next version coming is Octane for Blender.

https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/c/f/3 ...

Any news about the release date of the Free Tier? Thanks.