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LabVIEW pricing
LabVIEW publishes 5 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 31 August 2026, LabVIEW pricing is on request across 5 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
- Quote
- Tiers
- 5
- Free tier
- Not on record
LabVIEW 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LabVIEW Community Edition | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| LabVIEW Base | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| LabVIEW Full | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| LabVIEW Professional | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| LabVIEW+ Suite | 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.
LabVIEW Community Edition
FreeThe entry tier. It covers free for personal, non-commercial use only, full labview feature set for hobbyists, no commercial deployment rights.
LabVIEW Base
On requestOver LabVIEW Community Edition, this tier adds:
- Core acquisition, control and user interface capability
- Suited to simple test and measurement applications
- Available as subscription or perpetual licence
- Price quoted by NI or a reseller
LabVIEW Full
On requestOver LabVIEW Base, this tier adds:
- Adds advanced analysis and signal processing
- Recommended where mathematics and filtering are required
LabVIEW Professional
On requestOver LabVIEW Full, this tier adds:
- Adds application builder, source control and deployment tooling
- Includes the Nigel AI assistant
LabVIEW+ Suite
On requestOver LabVIEW Professional, this tier adds:
- LabVIEW Professional plus TestStand, InstrumentStudio, FlexLogger and DIAdem
- Bundled for full test system development
Where LabVIEW stops being free
LabVIEW Community Edition, Free
- Free for personal, non-commercial use only
- Full LabVIEW feature set for hobbyists
- No commercial deployment rights
No paid tier on record
LabVIEW lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full LabVIEW 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
- Graphical dataflow programming
- Front panels
- Instrument driver library
- Hardware integration
- Real-time and FPGA targets
- Analysis and signal processing
- Application builder
- Nigel AI assistant
- Community Edition
People bring LabVIEW in for an automotive supplier building an end-of-line test rig that must drive a power supply, read a scope and log pass/fail against a serial number, a semiconductor lab characterising devices across a pxi chassis where deterministic timing between instruments matters, a medical device manufacturer needing a validated, documented test system with an operator front panel a technician can run unsupervised, a research group prototyping a control loop on compactrio where part of the logic must compile down to an fpga. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to LabVIEW 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LabVIEW (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Poseidon Systems | On request | quote | - | vs LabVIEW |
| IBM Maximo Application Suite | $3150/month | Per year by AppPoint pool | - | vs LabVIEW |
| Kepware Server | On request | quote | - | vs LabVIEW |
| Samotics | On request | quote | - | vs LabVIEW |
| COPA-DATA zenon | On request | quote | - | vs LabVIEW |
| Rockwell FactoryTalk | On request | quote | - | vs LabVIEW |
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 LabVIEW badges page.
Before you pay for LabVIEW
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: 5 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare LabVIEW against the tools that do have one before committing.
LabVIEW runs on windows, linux, macos, and is published by NI, part of Emerson of Austin, Texas, United States. The full record is on the LabVIEW review, and the rest of the category is under best manufacturing tools.
LabVIEW pricing questions
- How much does LabVIEW cost?
- LabVIEW publishes 5 tiers, from Free for LabVIEW Community Edition up to On request for LabVIEW+ Suite. The cheapest paid tier is Free.
- Does LabVIEW have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: LabVIEW is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between LabVIEW Community Edition and LabVIEW Base on LabVIEW?
- LabVIEW Base costs On request against Free, and adds core acquisition, control and user interface capability, suited to simple test and measurement applications, available as subscription or perpetual licence, price quoted by ni or a reseller.
- What am I actually paying for with LabVIEW?
- The record lists 9 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an automotive supplier building an end-of-line test rig that must drive a power supply, read a scope and log pass/fail against a serial number, a semiconductor lab characterising devices across a pxi chassis where deterministic timing between instruments matters, a medical device manufacturer needing a validated, documented test system with an operator front panel a technician can run unsupervised.
- Does LabVIEW charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 LabVIEW 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 LabVIEW against before paying?
- The closest manufacturing tools in this directory are Poseidon Systems, IBM Maximo Application Suite, Kepware Server, Samotics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with LabVIEW covering price, platforms and features.