How much does ETAP cost?

ETAP publishes 3 tiers, from $5000/year for Standard up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is $5000/year.

Does ETAP have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: ETAP 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 Standard and Professional on ETAP?

Professional costs $15000/year against $5000/year, and adds advanced analysis, protective device coordination, harmonics analysis, premium modules.

Is the Enterprise plan on ETAP worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is real-time monitoring, scada integration, custom modules, unlimited users. It costs On request against $5000/year for Standard. 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 ETAP?

The record lists 25 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for electrical power system modelling, simulation and analysis, arc flash, load flow and protection coordination studies.

Does ETAP 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 ETAP 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 ETAP against before paying?

The closest energy & utilities tools in this directory are PowerFactory DIgSILENT, Azelio Energy Storage, Aurora Solar, Enel X DER Optimization. Each has a side-by-side comparison with ETAP covering price, platforms and features.

Energy & Utilities · pricing

ETAP pricing

ETAP 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.

Entry price: $5000/year
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Not on record

ETAP 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.

ETAP pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Standard	$5000/year	4	Entry tier
Professional	$15000/year	4	+$10000/year, 4 more features
Enterprise	On request	4	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.

Standard

$5000/year

The entry tier. It covers load flow analysis, short circuit analysis, arc flash analysis, basic modules.

Professional

$15000/year

Over Standard, this tier adds:

Advanced analysis
Protective device coordination
Harmonics analysis
Premium modules

Enterprise

On request

Over Professional, this tier adds:

Real-time monitoring
SCADA integration
Custom modules
Unlimited users

What the product covers

The full ETAP 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

Load flow analysis
Short circuit analysis
Arc flash analysis
Protective device coordination
Harmonics analysis
Transient stability
Cable sizing
Panel schedule design

Integrations

AutoCAD
Revit
SCADA systems
GIS
PI System

Security

License management
Data encryption
User authentication

Deployment

On-premise deployment
Cloud deployment

Platform

Windows support
Api support

Localization

English language support
Spanish language support
Chinese language support
Arabic language support
French language support

People bring ETAP in for electrical power system modelling, simulation and analysis, arc flash, load flow and protection coordination studies. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to ETAP are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Energy & Utilities

Too few energy & utilities 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.

ETAP entry price against other Energy & Utilities tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
ETAP (this page)	$5000/year	subscription	-
PowerFactory DIgSILENT	On request	quote	-	vs ETAP
Azelio Energy Storage	On request	quote	-	vs ETAP
Aurora Solar	$250/month	subscription	-	vs ETAP
Enel X DER Optimization	On request	quote	-	vs ETAP
Bidgely UtilityAI	On request	quote	-	vs ETAP
AVEVA PI System	On request	one-time	-	vs ETAP

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 ETAP badges page.

Before you pay for ETAP

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 $5000/year and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare ETAP against the tools that do have one before committing.

ETAP runs on windows, api, and is published by Operation Technology Inc of Irvine, CA. The full record is on the ETAP review, and the rest of the category is under best energy & utilities tools.

ETAP pricing on the vendor's own site

ETAP pricing questions

How much does ETAP cost?: ETAP publishes 3 tiers, from $5000/year for Standard up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is $5000/year.
Does ETAP have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: ETAP 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 Standard and Professional on ETAP?: Professional costs $15000/year against $5000/year, and adds advanced analysis, protective device coordination, harmonics analysis, premium modules.
Is the Enterprise plan on ETAP worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is real-time monitoring, scada integration, custom modules, unlimited users. It costs On request against $5000/year for Standard. 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 ETAP?: The record lists 25 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for electrical power system modelling, simulation and analysis, arc flash, load flow and protection coordination studies.
Does ETAP 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 ETAP 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 ETAP against before paying?: The closest energy & utilities tools in this directory are PowerFactory DIgSILENT, Azelio Energy Storage, Aurora Solar, Enel X DER Optimization. Each has a side-by-side comparison with ETAP covering price, platforms and features.