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DSpace pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for DSpace. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The DSpace catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the DSpace review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full DSpace 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
- Self-submission workflows
- Configurable metadata schemas
- Persistent identifiers (DOI, Handle)
- OAI-PMH support
- Full-text search
- Statistics and reports
- SWORD deposit
- ORCID integration
- Embargo management
Integrations
- ORCID
- Crossref
- DataCite
- Sherpa/Romeo
- Google Scholar
- OpenAIRE
Security
- LDAP
- Shibboleth
- OAuth
- IP-based access
Deployment
- Self-hosted deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Portuguese language support
- Chinese language support
People bring DSpace in for institutional repositories for universities and research libraries, subject-based and dataset repositories, long-term preservation of mixed digital formats including pdf, image and audio-video, group-based access control over restricted collections, exposing records to orcid and openaire. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to DSpace are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for DSpace
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
DSpace runs on web, and is published by Lyrasis of Atlanta, GA. The full record is on the DSpace review.
DSpace pricing questions
- How much does DSpace cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for DSpace, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does DSpace have a free plan?
- Yes, DSpace is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with DSpace?
- The record lists 29 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for institutional repositories for universities and research libraries, subject-based and dataset repositories, long-term preservation of mixed digital formats including pdf, image and audio-video.
- Does DSpace charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 DSpace 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 DSpace against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to DSpace to make a useful price comparison.