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Duro PLM
Hosted PLM for hardware startups, sold in fixed user bands with no published price
As of 31 August 2026, Duro PLM's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Duro is a cloud PLM aimed at hardware companies that have outgrown spreadsheets but cannot staff a Windchill or Teamcenter deployment. Softwr lists it under Manufacturing. Duro PLM is made by Duro Labs, available on Web.
Overview
What Duro PLM does
Duro is a hosted product lifecycle management system for electromechanical hardware. It holds the part library, multi-level bills of materials, revisions, engineering change orders and supplier and cost data, and connects to mechanical and electrical CAD so that BOMs come out of the design tools rather than being retyped. Everything runs in Duro's cloud; there is no self-hosted option. The distinguishing decision is packaging. Duro sells Team, Business and Enterprise plans defined by user bands, up to 10, up to 20 and 20-plus, each with a storage allowance of 25, 50 and 100 GB. Customers pay a fixed annual subscription on Net 30 terms rather than a per-seat rate that flexes monthly. Commercially that suits a startup with a stable engineering headcount and punishes one that hires quickly, because crossing a band boundary means moving up a tier rather than adding a seat. Duro does not publish any prices, so every evaluation begins with a sales call. Buyers are venture-funded hardware startups, robotics and consumer electronics teams, and small contract manufacturers who need change control before their first production run. The trade-off is that Duro is deliberately narrower than enterprise PLM: no manufacturing process planning, no requirements management, no quality module, and limited configuration for companies with unusual approval workflows. Teams in regulated industries generally find the audit and workflow depth insufficient.
What people use it for
- A robotics startup imposing change control on a design before releasing it to a contract manufacturer
- A consumer electronics team tracking supplier part numbers and costs against every item in the BOM
- A hardware company whose engineers keep overwriting each other's BOM spreadsheet versions
- A venture-funded startup that needs a defensible change history before a first production build
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Duro PLM.
- No pricing is published anywhere, so budgeting requires a sales conversation and buyers cannot compare against alternatives without entering a pipeline.
- Plans are sold in fixed user bands rather than per seat, so hiring an eleventh engineer moves you to the next tier instead of adding one seat.
- Storage allowances are capped at 25, 50 and 100 GB, which is tight for teams keeping native CAD files rather than only neutral formats.
- There is no self-hosted or on-premises option, which rules Duro out for defence and some aerospace suppliers with data residency or ITAR handling constraints.
- Scope stops at engineering data: no requirements management, no quality module and no manufacturing process planning, so it does not replace the systems a company needs at production scale.
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Pricing
What Duro PLM costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Team
On request
- Up to 10 users
- 25 GB data storage
- Part library, BOMs and change orders
- Fixed annual subscription, Net 30
Business
On request
- Up to 20 users
- 50 GB data storage
- CAD integrations
- Fixed annual subscription, Net 30
Enterprise
On request
- 20 or more users
- 100 GB data storage
- Extended support
- Fixed annual subscription, Net 30
Capabilities
Features
Part library
Central item master with automatic part numbering schemes
Multi-level BOMs
Assembly structures with cost and sourcing roll-up
Change orders
Revision control and engineering change order workflow
CAD integrations
BOM extraction from mechanical and electrical design tools
Supplier and cost data
Vendor part numbers and pricing held against each item
User band plans
Team, Business and Enterprise tiers at 10, 20 and 20-plus users
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Duro cost?
Duro does not publish prices. Plans are fixed annual subscriptions quoted by sales against a user band, billed Net 30.
Can I run Duro on my own servers?
No. It is cloud only, which is a hard blocker for organisations with data residency or export control requirements.
What happens when we exceed our user band?
You move to the next tier rather than adding individual seats, so growth arrives as a step change in cost.
Is Duro suitable for medical device work?
Its change control is real but the workflow configuration and audit depth are lighter than dedicated regulated-industry PLM, so most ISO 13485 programmes need more.
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