FME Platform Technical Specifications

Introduction

This article outlines the technical specifications for the FME 2026.3 Platform. To review the technical specifications for previous years, please see Legacy FME Technical Specifications.

Operating Systems

Virtualization

FME Flow should run on almost any virtualization provider's platform on any supported operating system. FME Form additionally requires GUI support (most leading vendors, such as AWS and DigitalOcean provide this, but a small number of other services may not).

Custom Installation of FME Flow

The recommended installation option for FME Flow is either Express or Distributed. If you need to perform a custom installation of FME Flow, then you can learn more about the recommended web application servers, databases, and more in Planning an FME Flow Installation.

Hardware Requirements

Safe Software is no longer recommending hardware requirements. Although FME can operate on legacy hardware, additional memory, a faster CPU, and disk will significantly improve processing time.

FME Flow's processing power can be scaled by purchasing additional FME Engines. For optimal performance, we recommend that each engine have a dedicated CPU core. To deploy FME Flow without the constraints of hardware, learn more about FME Flow Hosted.

Languages

Please note that in languages other than English, not all product components have been translated. Language pack availability and scope of translation may vary by release.

For more on Safe developed language packs, see FME Multi-Language Availability. To share feedback on a language pack, see the Language Pack Feedback Guidelines.

FME Realize

FME Realize is an augmented reality app for iOS that displays FME data in real-world context in the field. Experiences are authored in FME Form, published to FME Flow, and delivered to the app.