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QAD pricing
QAD publishes 2 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
- $2000/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
QAD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $2000/month | 4 | Entry tier |
| Premium | $4000/month | 4 | +$2000/month, 4 more features |
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
$2000/monthThe entry tier. It covers financial management, manufacturing, supply chain, standard support.
Premium
$4000/monthOver Standard, this tier adds:
- Advanced modules
- Analytics
- Priority support
- Custom integrations
What the product covers
The full QAD 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
- Financial management
- Manufacturing
- Supply chain
- Inventory management
- Quality management
Integrations
- REST APIs
- EDI
- IoT integration
- Third-party systems
Security
- Enterprise encryption
- Access controls
- Audit logging
- SOC 2 compliance
Platform
- Cloud support
- On-premise support
- Web support
People bring QAD in for erp for manufacturers covering production execution and scheduling, supply chain planning, purchasing and inventory control, quality management, traceability and supplier management for regulated manufacturing, field service and enterprise asset management. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to QAD are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for QAD
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: 2 tiers between $2000/month and $4000/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare QAD against the tools that do have one before committing.
QAD runs on cloud, on-premise, web, and is published by QAD Inc. of Santa Barbara, California, USA. The full record is on the QAD review.
QAD pricing questions
- How much does QAD cost?
- QAD publishes 2 tiers, from $2000/month for Standard up to $4000/month for Premium. The cheapest paid tier is $2000/month.
- Does QAD have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: QAD 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 Premium on QAD?
- Premium costs $4000/month against $2000/month, and adds advanced modules, analytics, priority support, custom integrations.
- Is the Premium plan on QAD worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is advanced modules, analytics, priority support, custom integrations. It costs $4000/month against $2000/month 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 QAD?
- The record lists 16 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for erp for manufacturers covering production execution and scheduling, supply chain planning, purchasing and inventory control, quality management, traceability and supplier management for regulated manufacturing.
- Does QAD charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 QAD 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 QAD against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to QAD to make a useful price comparison.