academic labs. New versions are released usually in the spring of even numbered years. AMBER 10 was released in April 2008.

The software is available under a site license agreement, which includes full source and allows use in any number of computers under the same affiliation. AMBER 10 was priced at US$500 for non-commercial and US$20,000 for commercial organizations. AMBER 24 is priced at US$0 for academic/non-profit/government, US$500 for commercial hardware benchmarking and compiler-testing purposes,