R-Studio
R-Studio combines a full standalone recovery product with narrower NTFS/FAT editions and separate Corporate and Technician licensing for network and service workflows. The important distinction is not only feature scope but also where the license may be installed and whether it permits servicing third-party devices.
Prices verified August 2026 directly from the vendor's own order pages, in USD. Software pricing changes without notice — treat the figures below as a starting point and confirm the current price on the official site before buying. The current demo can scan and preview normally and save found files smaller than 1024 KB each.
R-Studio (base)
ConsumerThe full-featured base edition — deletion, formatting, RAW drives, and RAID reconstruction across the file systems R-Studio supports. This is the edition most people mean when they say "R-Studio."
- File systemsFAT/exFAT, NTFS, HFS+/APFS, Ext2/3/4, UFS1/2, and more
- RAID supportIncluded
- LicenseStandalone license for local recovery; not the service-provider license for third-party devices
- ActivationAssigned per machine after activation; current vendor terms say Standalone licenses are not transferable
R-Studio NTFS
BudgetA lower-cost edition restricted primarily to NTFS-family recovery rather than the broad file-system coverage of the full R-Studio product.
- ScopeNTFS only
- LicenseSame personal/business, non-commercial-service terms as the base edition
R-Studio FAT
BudgetThe same idea for FAT/exFAT drives — common on cameras, USB sticks, and memory cards — at the lowest price point in the lineup.
- ScopeFAT/exFAT only
- LicenseSame personal/business, non-commercial-service terms as the base edition
R-Studio Corporate
ProsumerAdds network-based recovery — reaching a remote machine over a network to recover it without physically removing the drive — plus the ability to create VMDK/VHD/VHDX/VDI virtual disk images from a physical drive.
- AddsRemote/network recovery, virtual-disk image creation
- LicenseBusiness use; check current terms for third-party servicing
R-Studio Technician
ProfessionalThe edition actually licensed for recovering other people's drives commercially — a hex editor, E01/AFF forensic image support, and integration with DeepSpar imaging hardware. This is the tier a paid recovery service is supposed to run on.
- AddsHex editor, forensic image formats, DeepSpar hardware integration
- LicenseCommercial use & third-party device servicing explicitly permitted
- Service useDesigned for transferable professional recovery workflows; current activation options include a supported offline activation USB
R-Studio's base, NTFS, FAT, and Corporate licenses are sold for your own use — not for running a recovery service on other people's drives. Only R-Studio Technician is explicitly licensed for that. If a business is being built around recovering other people's data, this is worth checking directly against the current license terms before relying on a cheaper edition.