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Valispace
Requirements and systems engineering for hardware teams, with published per-seat pricing
As of 31 August 2026, Valispace starts at $999/year. A browser-based requirements and systems engineering tool where requirements carry live numeric values that propagate through budgets and analyses. Softwr lists it under Research. Valispace is made by Valispace GmbH, part of Altium (Renesas Electronics), available on Web, On-premise, API.
Overview
What Valispace does
Valispace is a systems engineering environment for hardware development. Requirements, components, verification and validation activities and engineering analyses live in one linked model, and the numbers inside them are live objects rather than text. A mass requirement referencing a subsystem value updates when that subsystem changes, so mass, power and link budgets stay current instead of being rebuilt in a spreadsheet before every review. That parametric behaviour is the difference from document-centric requirements tools. In aerospace and defence the alternative has historically been a heavyweight requirements database plus a set of margin spreadsheets that nobody trusts by month three. Valispace collapses those into one place, which is why it took hold with satellite, launcher, drone and other small hardware teams who cannot staff a configuration management office. The ownership story is the fact that should change a shortlist. Altium acquired Valispace at the end of 2023, and Renesas acquired Altium in 2024, so this tool now sits inside a semiconductor company. The technology has been repackaged as the Altium Requirements Portal on Altium 365, aimed at pulling requirements management into the electronics design stack. Valispace continues to be sold under its own name with its own pricing page, but buyers should ask directly how long the standalone product line will be maintained separately from the Altium 365 version.
What people use it for
- A small satellite team keeping mass and power budgets live across a design cycle instead of rebuilding spreadsheets before each review
- A drone manufacturer that needs requirement traceability for a certification authority but cannot justify an enterprise requirements database
- A university engineering department teaching systems engineering with real traceability under the flat education rate
- An electronics-heavy hardware startup wanting requirements linked to the PCB design work happening in Altium
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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 Valispace.
- The three-seat minimum means a solo consultant or a two-person startup pays for a seat nobody uses, roughly 3,000 US dollars a year before anyone logs in.
- Ownership has changed twice in two years, from independent to Altium to Renesas by way of the Altium acquisition, and the technology has been repackaged as the Altium Requirements Portal, so the standalone roadmap is genuinely uncertain.
- It is not a certified DO-178C or ARP4754 toolchain component in the way established requirements databases are, so highly regulated aerospace programmes may still need a recognised tool alongside it.
- The parametric model rewards teams who structure their data properly at the start; teams that import a flat requirement list get a slower version of a document tool and none of the budget automation.
- Integration depth outside the Altium and Jira world is limited, so linking to an existing PLM or a CAD-driven mass properties source usually means writing against the Python API yourself.
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Pricing
What Valispace costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Valispace
$999 /yr
- Minimum three users
- Requirements, components, V&V and analysis modules
- ValiAssistant AI beta
- SSO and MFA
- API access
- Cloud hosted
Enterprise
On request
- On-premise deployment option
- Staging servers with controlled update timing
- Advanced support terms
- Priced on application
Education
$1,000 /yr
- Flat annual rate for an institution
- Unlimited students and professors
- Non-commercial projects only
Capabilities
Features
Live requirements
Requirements containing parametric values that update when linked data changes
Budgets and margins
Automatic mass, power and data budgets derived from the component tree
Component tree
Hierarchical system decomposition linked to requirements and analyses
Verification and validation
Test definitions and results linked back to the requirements they close
Python API and Jupyter
Scripting access to the model for custom analyses and report generation
ValiAssistant
AI assistance for drafting and reviewing requirement text
SSO and MFA
Enterprise authentication on both plans, not held back for Enterprise only
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Questions people ask
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Who owns Valispace?
Altium acquired it in December 2023, and Renesas Electronics acquired Altium in 2024. It is therefore a Renesas-owned product, despite frequent reports elsewhere linking it to defence groups.
Is it the same thing as the Altium Requirements Portal?
They share a lineage. Requirements Portal is the Altium 365 packaging of Valispace technology. The standalone Valispace product is still sold with its own pricing.
What does it actually cost?
999 US dollars per user per year with a minimum of three users, billed annually. Enterprise with on-premise deployment is quoted separately.
Can it replace a requirements database like DOORS?
For small and mid-sized hardware programmes, often yes. For programmes with contractual tool mandates, no.
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