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Inventor pricing
Inventor publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $29/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
Inventor plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventor | $2085/month | 3 | Entry tier |
| Product Design & Manufacturing Collection | $2475/month | 1 | +$390/month, 1 more feature |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Inventor
$2085/monthThe entry tier. It covers full mechanical design, simulation, documentation.
Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
$2475/monthOver Inventor, this tier adds:
- Inventor + AutoCAD + more
What the product covers
The full Inventor feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Parametric modeling
- Assembly design
- Sheet metal
- Simulation
- Rendering
- Technical documentation
- Frame generator
Integrations
- AutoCAD
- Vault
- Fusion 360
- Nastran
Security
- Autodesk Account
- License management
Platform
- Windows support
People bring Inventor in for mechanical design, product development, manufacturing documentation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Inventor are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Inventor
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between $2085/month and $2475/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Inventor against the tools that do have one before committing.
Inventor runs on windows, and is published by Autodesk Inc of San Rafael, CA. The full record is on the Inventor review.
Inventor pricing questions
- How much does Inventor cost?
- Inventor publishes 2 tiers, from $2085/month for Inventor up to $2475/month for Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. The cheapest paid tier is $2085/month.
- Does Inventor have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Inventor is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Inventor and Product Design & Manufacturing Collection on Inventor?
- Product Design & Manufacturing Collection costs $2475/month against $2085/month, and adds inventor + autocad + more.
- Is the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection plan on Inventor worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is inventor + autocad + more. It costs $2475/month against $2085/month for Inventor. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Inventor?
- The record lists 14 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for mechanical design, product development, manufacturing documentation.
- Does Inventor charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Inventor prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Inventor against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Inventor to make a useful price comparison.