Free Software
Intel provides free software tools, libraries, and code samples to the developer community, as well as special programs for academic researchers, instructors, and students.
Free Software Tools
Arduino Create*
This integrated development environment (IDE) provides a single cloud-based development solution that supports Intel®-based boards and libraries. Use with your C++ development to enable streamlined prototyping of commercial applications based on Intel® architecture.
Free Performance Libraries
Get free community licensing for powerful, award-winning Intel® Performance Libraries to create better, more reliable, and faster software applications.
Intel® System Studio
Speed development of system and IoT device applications, boost performance and power efficiency, and strengthen system reliability with this easy-to-use, comprehensive, cross-platform tool suite. Includes optimizing compilers, highly tuned libraries, analyzers, debug tools, and advanced cloud connectors, as well as provides access to over 400 sensors. Get started with a free 90-day renewable commercial license.
Intel® Media Server Studio
Deliver fast video transcoding using a media SDK, runtimes, and a suite of tools when developing and deploying enterprise-grade media solutions on Intel® Xeon® and Intel Core™ processor–based platforms.
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Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit
Access computer vision accelerators from Intel and take full advantage of Intel® processor power across CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Quickly deploy computer vision algorithms and deep learning inference.
Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0
Integrate hand/finger tracking, facial analysis, speech recognition, augmented reality, background segmentation, and more into your apps.
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Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers
Debug, analyze, and optimize your game and media applications.
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Intel® Software Development Kits (Intel® SDKs)
Add specific functionality to your apps with these free software development kits. You may be required to review and accept a license agreement before downloading.
Tools for Non-Commercial Use
Qualified students, educators, academic researchers, and open source contributors with access to our tools at reduced or no cost.
Intel® System Studio for Microcontrollers
This Eclipse*-integrated software suite empowers Intel Quark™ microcontroller developers to create fast, intelligent things.
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Intel® VTune™ Amplifier
Get rich profiling data and powerful analysis tools to tune the performance of CPU, GPU, threading, memory, cache, and storage.
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Intel® Advisor
Design and optimize vectorization, threading, and flow graphs. Use the cache-aware Roofline Analysis to identify high-impact, under-optimized loops and get tips for faster code.
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Intel® Inspector
Find and debug data races, deadlocks, memory leaks, corruption, and persistent memory errors.
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