Clarizen has no public price today. Since Planview bought it in 2021 the product is sold as Planview AdaptiveWork, and every deal is quoted. Buyers report AdaptiveWork contracts in the mid five figures a year for 50 to 200 users, with implementation of roughly $10,000 to $50,000 on top in the first year. The old published editions, about $60 and $80 per user a month, are still the best anchor for a first budget.
Key takeaways
- Clarizen is now Planview AdaptiveWork. Planview announced the deal on January 12, 2021 and completed it on February 23, 2021.
- Planview publishes no AdaptiveWork price and offers demos and a product tour rather than a self-serve trial.
- Legacy Clarizen editions were listed at about $60 (Enterprise) and $80 (Unlimited) per user a month. Treat them as an anchor, not a quote.
- For a first-year budget, add implementation services, premium support and any add-ons to the license line, because those are where AdaptiveWork quotes grow.
How much does Clarizen cost?
Clarizen, now Planview AdaptiveWork, costs whatever Planview quotes, because there is no public price list. Procurement data puts typical AdaptiveWork deals in the mid five figures a year for 50 to 200 users, and review sites put implementation at $10,000 to $50,000. A PMO with around 60 full users should plan for roughly $53,000 to $95,000 in year one.
That range is wide on purpose. The quote depends on how many people need full licenses rather than lighter access, which modules sit in scope, and how much configuration Planview or a partner does for you. Two PMOs of the same size can land $30,000 apart because one of them wants timesheets, financials and custom workflows on day one and the other only needs portfolio reporting.
Clarizen pricing by edition, then and now
Before the acquisition, Clarizen sold named editions with list prices, and those figures still circulate on software directories. They are useful because they show the per-user level Clarizen was built to sell at, even though Planview no longer quotes in the same packaging.
| Edition or offer | Listed price | Status today | How to use the number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarizen Enterprise Edition | About $60 per user a month, billed annually | Legacy listing on third-party directories, not confirmed by Planview | A floor for full-user pricing in your first budget |
| Clarizen Unlimited Edition | About $80 per user a month, billed annually | Legacy listing, same caveat | An upper anchor if you need the full configuration and integration scope |
| Planview AdaptiveWork | Not published | Current product, quoted by Planview sales | Ask for a per-seat breakdown by license type, in writing |
| Customer Success Plan | Not published | Premium support tier that buyers report includes professional services hours | Price it as its own line, separate from licenses |
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One caution on the old numbers: Planview sells AdaptiveWork alongside Portfolios, ProjectPlace and AgilePlace, and quotes are often built around a bundle or a broader agreement. If the quote you receive is per user and close to those anchors, it is a normal AdaptiveWork deal. If it is a single annual figure with no breakdown, ask for one before you compare it with anything.
What a first-year AdaptiveWork budget looks like
The table below works through a first year for a PMO with 60 full users, using the legacy Enterprise anchor for licenses and the reported implementation range. It is an illustration to take into the budget meeting, not a Planview quote.
| Cost line | Low case | High case | What moves it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licenses (60 users at $60 a month) | $43,200 | $43,200 | License mix: moving occasional users to lighter access lowers this line |
| Implementation services | $10,000 | $50,000 | Custom workflows, financials, integrations and data migration |
| Premium support | $0 | Quoted | Whether you take a Customer Success Plan with services hours |
| Internal administrator time | Part of one role | Most of one role | How much of the configuration you own after go-live |
| Year one cash cost | About $53,000 | About $93,000 plus support | Mostly the services line, not the licenses |
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Year two usually drops by the implementation amount and rises by the renewal uplift. Ask for the uplift cap in the first contract, because a renewal without one is where AdaptiveWork owners most often report surprises.
What drives the Clarizen quote
Five things move an AdaptiveWork quote more than anything else. Knowing them before the first call lets you shape the scope instead of reacting to it.
| Driver | Why it matters | What to ask for |
|---|---|---|
| Full users versus light users | Most people only update tasks, log time or read dashboards | A price per license type and a list of what each type can do |
| Module scope | Financials, resource management and timesheets each add value and cost | The module list behind every feature shown in the demo |
| Configuration depth | Clarizen was sold on configurability, and every custom object needs upkeep | A fixed-price implementation line with named deliverables |
| Integrations | Jira, Salesforce and ERP connectors are often scoped as services | Which connectors are included and which are billed work |
| Term length | Multi-year terms buy a lower rate in exchange for lock-in | The uplift cap for every renewal year |
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The full Planview family is priced on the same logic. Our Planview pricing guide covers Portfolios, ProjectPlace and AgilePlace, and the Planview PPM Pro alternatives and pricing page covers the mid-market product.
Does Clarizen have a free trial?
No self-serve trial is offered for AdaptiveWork. The Planview product page offers a recorded demo and a product tour, and evaluations run through the sales team with a guided demo. If you want hands-on time, ask for a sandbox loaded with a sample of your own projects, and agree in advance what it must prove.
Third-party listings that mention a 14 or 30 day Clarizen trial describe the product before the acquisition. Do not plan an evaluation around them.
Is Clarizen expensive?
Clarizen is mid-priced for an enterprise work management suite and expensive for a team that only needs portfolio decisions. At about $60 to $80 per full user a month plus services, it sits well above per-user work management tools and well below large PPM suites with six figure services projects. Whether it is good value depends on how many seats people actually use.
That last point is where most renewals are won or lost. A PMO that bought 120 full licenses three years ago may find that 40 people configure work and 80 log time once a week. Those 80 do not need what a full seat costs.
How to cut the Clarizen renewal before you sign
Start ninety days before the renewal date. That is long enough to collect evidence and short enough that the vendor still wants to talk.
- Count real usage. Pull the user list with license type and last login, and count who changed something in the last ninety days. If the export is large, it is quicker to query the license and login export in plain English than to build pivot tables by hand. The output is a defensible number of full seats.
- Split the seat mix. Propose full licenses only for people who build plans and workflows, and lighter access for everyone else. Ask Planview to price exactly that mix.
- Separate services from licenses. If a Customer Success Plan or services hours are bundled, ask for them as separate lines, and drop the ones you did not use last year.
- Price one alternative honestly. A real comparison quote from a tool with published prices is the strongest negotiating document you can bring.
- Lock the uplift. Whatever you agree, put the renewal cap for each year of the term in the order form.
Clarizen alternatives with published prices
If the renewal number does not survive that audit, these tools publish enough pricing to build a comparison before any sales call. Each fits a different reason for leaving, and our Clarizen alternatives comparison goes through them in detail, including when staying on AdaptiveWork is the better buy.
| Tool | Published price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| OnePlan | Basic from $10 per user a month, 5 user minimum | PMOs whose work already runs in Microsoft 365 |
| PPM Express | Enterprise plan from $8,000 a year | A portfolio layer over Microsoft Project, Planner and Jira |
| Microsoft Planner | Plan 3 at $30 and Plan 5 at $55 per user a month | Teams standardizing on Microsoft for project work |
| Portfolio Hub | Per workspace, from $24.50 a month billed yearly or $49 monthly | A steering group that needs scoring, a funding line and capacity by role rather than another project workspace |
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Many AdaptiveWork customers use only a slice of the product for the portfolio decision itself: which requests get funded, and whether the people exist to deliver them. If that is your slice, our project intake software comparison shows how to run that decision from the request forms you already have, and the wider field of suites is on our enterprise PPM software buyer's guide.