How much does AVEVA PI System cost?

AVEVA PI System publishes 3 tiers, from On request for Data Archive up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is On request.

Does AVEVA PI System have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: AVEVA PI System is listed as one-time. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Data Archive and Operations on AVEVA PI System?

Operations costs On request against On request, and adds pi vision dashboards, af analytics, event frames, notifications.

Does AVEVA PI System charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 AVEVA PI System 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 AVEVA PI System against before paying?

The closest energy tools in this directory are Emerson Ovation, Novity, Bently Nevada System 1, Cutsforth InsightCM. Each has a side-by-side comparison with AVEVA PI System covering price, platforms and features.

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AVEVA PI System pricing

AVEVA PI System publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, AVEVA PI System pricing is on request across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: On request
Model: One-time
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Not on record

AVEVA PI System 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.

AVEVA PI System pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Data Archive	On request	5	Entry tier
Operations	On request	5	Priced on request
Enterprise	On request	5	Priced on request

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.

Data Archive

On request

The entry tier. It covers time-series data storage, high-speed data collection, data compression, asset framework, standard interfaces.

Operations

On request

Over Data Archive, this tier adds:

PI Vision dashboards
AF analytics
Event frames
Notifications
Mobile access

Enterprise

On request

Over Operations, this tier adds:

PI Integrator
Cloud connectivity
Advanced analytics
ML integration
Global support

What the product covers

The full AVEVA PI System 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.

Other

Real-time data collection
Time-series data storage
Asset framework
Visualization
Analytics
Event management
Notifications
Data integration

Integrations

SCADA systems
DCS
PLC
ERP systems
Azure
AWS
Spark
Python

Security

ISO27001
IEC 62443
SOC2
Cybersecurity

Deployment

On-premise deployment
Cloud deployment
Hybrid deployment

Platform

Desktop support
Web support
Mobile support
Api support

Localization

English language support
German language support
Japanese language support
Chinese language support
Spanish language support

People bring AVEVA PI System in for industrial data collection and storage for oil, gas, and chemical processing, real-time operational data visualization and hmi dashboards, supply chain and asset performance monitoring across sites, compliance and audit trail management for regulated industries, integration with scada systems and manufacturing execution. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to AVEVA PI System are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Energy

Too few energy tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

AVEVA PI System entry price against other Energy tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
AVEVA PI System (this page)	On request	one-time	-
Emerson Ovation	On request	quote	-	vs AVEVA PI System
Novity	On request	quote	-	vs AVEVA PI System
Bently Nevada System 1	On request	quote	-	vs AVEVA PI System
Cutsforth InsightCM	On request	quote	-	vs AVEVA PI System
Cognite Data Fusion	On request	quote	-	vs AVEVA PI System
iHawk by Cyberhawk	On request	quote	-	vs AVEVA PI System

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the AVEVA PI System badges page.

Before you pay for AVEVA PI System

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: 3 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare AVEVA PI System against the tools that do have one before committing.

AVEVA PI System runs on desktop, web, mobile, api, and is published by AVEVA of Cambridge, UK. The full record is on the AVEVA PI System review, and the rest of the category is under best energy tools.

AVEVA PI System pricing on the vendor's own site