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RAD Studio vs Free Pascal: catalog facts
RAD Studio	Free Pascal
Paid Commercial licence with an update subscription; free Community Editions of Delphi and…	Free Free and open source; the compiler is GPL and the runtime library uses a modified LGPL.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Delphi and C++Builder in a single IDE Visual designers for building application interfaces	Targets a very wide range of CPU architectures and operating systems Supports Pascal and Object Pascal dialects
Full product is commercial and sold with a subscription Centred on Delphi and C++, not a general-purpose editor	Compiler only; a graphical IDE such as Lazarus is a separate project Some targets such as WebAssembly are only in the development version
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License: Proprietary	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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