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IBM Maximo Application Suite pricing
IBM Maximo Application Suite publishes 4 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 1 September 2026, IBM Maximo Application Suite pricing is $3150/month across 4 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
- $3150/month
- Model
- Per year by AppPoint pool
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Not on record
IBM Maximo Application Suite 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials (SaaS) | $3150/month | 4 | Entry tier |
| Standard (SaaS) | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
| Premium (SaaS) | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
| Customer hosted | On request | 3 | 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.
Essentials (SaaS)
$3150/monthThe entry tier. It covers entry saas tier for a small user population, one production environment, core manage functionality, apppoints consumed by users, applications and environments.
Standard (SaaS)
On requestOver Essentials (SaaS), this tier adds:
- Larger AppPoint pool
- Additional applications and environments
- Priced on application
Premium (SaaS)
On requestOver Standard (SaaS), this tier adds:
- Full application set including Predict and Visual Inspection
- Multiple environments
Customer hosted
On requestOver Premium (SaaS), this tier adds:
- AppPoint entitlement bought outright and run on your own OpenShift cluster
- Infrastructure, OpenShift and administration costs are yours
- Annual support and subscription contract required
What the product covers
The full IBM Maximo Application Suite 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
- AppPoint pooling
- Maximo Manage
- Maximo Health and Predict
- Maximo Visual Inspection
- Industry solutions
- OpenShift deployment
People bring IBM Maximo Application Suite in for a transmission utility managing hundreds of thousands of linear and point assets with regulatory reporting that a mid-market cmms cannot produce, an airline or rail operator needing configuration control and maintenance history depth that survives a regulator audit going back years, a manufacturer wanting condition-based maintenance and work order execution in the same system rather than integrating a predictive tool to a separate cmms, a defence or nuclear estate where the industry solution and long-term vendor viability matter more than the licence cost. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to IBM Maximo Application Suite are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Manufacturing
Too few manufacturing 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Maximo Application Suite (this page) | $3150/month | Per year by AppPoint pool | - | |
| Poseidon Systems | On request | quote | - | vs IBM Maximo Application Suite |
| Kepware Server | On request | quote | - | vs IBM Maximo Application Suite |
| Samotics | On request | quote | - | vs IBM Maximo Application Suite |
| COPA-DATA zenon | On request | quote | - | vs IBM Maximo Application Suite |
| Rockwell FactoryTalk | On request | quote | - | vs IBM Maximo Application Suite |
| Litmus Edge | $1500/month | Per site by data point count | - | vs IBM Maximo Application Suite |
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 IBM Maximo Application Suite badges page.
Before you pay for IBM Maximo Application Suite
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: 4 tiers between $3150/month and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare IBM Maximo Application Suite against the tools that do have one before committing.
IBM Maximo Application Suite runs on web, cloud, on-premise, ios, android, linux, and is published by IBM of Armonk, New York, United States. The full record is on the IBM Maximo Application Suite review, and the rest of the category is under best manufacturing tools.
IBM Maximo Application Suite pricing on the vendor's own site
IBM Maximo Application Suite pricing questions
- How much does IBM Maximo Application Suite cost?
- IBM Maximo Application Suite publishes 4 tiers, from $3150/month for Essentials (SaaS) up to On request for Customer hosted. The cheapest paid tier is $3150/month.
- Does IBM Maximo Application Suite have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: IBM Maximo Application Suite is listed as Per year by AppPoint pool. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Essentials (SaaS) and Standard (SaaS) on IBM Maximo Application Suite?
- Standard (SaaS) costs On request against $3150/month, and adds larger apppoint pool, additional applications and environments, priced on application.
- Is the Customer hosted plan on IBM Maximo Application Suite worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is apppoint entitlement bought outright and run on your own openshift cluster, infrastructure, openshift and administration costs are yours, annual support and subscription contract required. It costs On request against $3150/month for Essentials (SaaS). 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 IBM Maximo Application Suite?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a transmission utility managing hundreds of thousands of linear and point assets with regulatory reporting that a mid-market cmms cannot produce, an airline or rail operator needing configuration control and maintenance history depth that survives a regulator audit going back years, a manufacturer wanting condition-based maintenance and work order execution in the same system rather than integrating a predictive tool to a separate cmms.
- Does IBM Maximo Application Suite charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 IBM Maximo Application Suite 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 IBM Maximo Application Suite against before paying?
- The closest manufacturing tools in this directory are Poseidon Systems, Kepware Server, Samotics, COPA-DATA zenon. Each has a side-by-side comparison with IBM Maximo Application Suite covering price, platforms and features.