Planisware does not publish prices. Planisware Enterprise, Nova, Horizon and Valoris are all sold through quotes, and even Orchestra, the lighter turnkey product, sends you to a demo request. The one public per-user figure is a directory listing: Capterra shows Planisware Orchestra starting at $45 per user per month. For the enterprise products there is no reliable public number at all, and reviewers describe the licenses, the support and the consulting days as expensive. The honest answer to "how much does Planisware cost" is that it depends first on which Planisware product you are buying.
This guide sorts out the product question, collects what buyers actually report, lists the lines that move the total, and turns that into a first-year budget you can defend to finance before a sales rep has sent anything.
Key takeaways
- Planisware sells five products: Enterprise, Orchestra, Nova, Horizon and Valoris. Only Orchestra has a public per-user figure, and it comes from Capterra, not from Planisware.
- Capterra lists Orchestra's Basic plan at $45 per user per month. At that rate, 25 users cost $13,500 a year before any services.
- The enterprise products are quoted. Reviewers on PeerSpot call the licenses expensive, note that support is an extra cost and say Planisware consultants charge high day rates.
- The lines that move the total are the product, the license type per user, the modules, the configuration services and the support tier.
- If the job is ranking and funding the portfolio rather than modeling R&D pipelines, a tool with published pricing may settle it for far less.
How much does Planisware cost?
Planisware costs roughly $45 per user per month for Orchestra according to Capterra, and an unpublished, quoted amount for Enterprise, Nova, Horizon and Valoris. Planisware sells mostly to large organizations, many of them in pharma, aerospace and manufacturing, and its enterprise contracts are sized around named users, modules and implementation services. Treat any single number you read for the enterprise products as an estimate.
| Source | What was reported | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Capterra listing | Orchestra "Basic" at $45 per user per month | The only public per-user figure for any Planisware product; no free version listed |
| PeerSpot reviewer | "The solution is expensive and support is an extra cost" | Describes three license types, with support and cloud services paid on top; rated the price 4 out of 10 |
| PeerSpot reviewer | "Even the consultants from Planisware charge a very high rate for their time" | Services, not only licenses, drive the total |
| PeerSpot reviewer | "The cost of scaling is expensive too" | The price grows with the user base and reporting needs |
| Planisware annual results | FY2025 revenue of EUR 198.0 million | Spread across more than 600 organizations, per Planisware's own site |
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The last row is not a price, but it is a useful sanity check. Divide the revenue by the customer count and the average comes out around EUR 330,000 per customer per year, including services. That average is pulled up by very large pharma and aerospace accounts, so a mid-sized PMO should expect far less. It does tell you the company is built around enterprise contracts, and that a quote for the flagship products will not look like a per-seat SaaS bill.
Planisware pricing by product
Planisware has grown from one enterprise platform into a family of products aimed at different buyers. Before you compare a number with a peer, make sure you are comparing the same product. A PMO quoted Orchestra and an R&D organization quoted Nova are not buying the same thing.
| Product | What it is for | Typical buyer | Published price? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planisware Orchestra | Turnkey PPM for PMOs, with a faster start and less configuration | Mid-sized PMOs and business units | No; Capterra lists $45 per user per month |
| Planisware Enterprise | Budgets, forecasts, schedules, resources and actuals at enterprise scale | Large organizations running transformation portfolios | No, quoted |
| Planisware Nova | Strategic portfolio management for product development | R&D and product organizations prioritizing innovation bets | No, quoted |
| Planisware Horizon | IT strategic portfolio management | CIOs and IT portfolio offices | No, quoted |
| Planisware Valoris | Capex and asset investment planning | Asset-heavy organizations planning capital spend | No, quoted |
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Two things follow. If you are only being offered Orchestra, you are in per-user territory and can compare against tools that publish prices, such as Celoxis. If you are being quoted Enterprise, Nova or Horizon, the comparison is with other quoted suites: Planview, Broadcom Clarity and ServiceNow SPM. Our Planisware alternatives comparison covers which of those replaces which part, and our Planview vs Planisware guide puts the two most common finalists side by side.
What drives the Planisware quote
Planisware's enterprise pricing follows the same logic as the rest of the market, with one difference that catches buyers out: configuration is where the product earns its reputation, so services are a larger share of the first year than in most SaaS purchases.
| Driver | Why it moves the price | What to ask |
|---|---|---|
| Product | Orchestra, Enterprise, Nova, Horizon and Valoris are priced for different scopes | Which product the proposal is for, and why that one rather than Orchestra |
| License type per user | Reviewers describe several license types, and planners cost more than contributors or readers | The price of each license type, and which roles need which |
| Modules | Financial planning, resource capacity, pipeline scoring and reporting can each add to the base | What the first planning cycle needs, and what can wait for renewal |
| Configuration services | Planisware is highly configurable, and its consultants are described as expensive | The services estimate in days, with scope, as a separate document |
| Support and hosting | One reviewer notes support and cloud services are paid on top of the license | What the standard support tier covers, and the hosting charge per year |
| Contract term | Multi-year terms usually trade flexibility for a better rate | A renewal cap, and the price of extra users agreed in advance |
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The read-only seat is the line most budgets miss. If the executive committee needs to see the portfolio, find out whether that needs a paid license, because twenty executives on a planner license can cost more than the PMO itself.
A first-year Planisware budget, worked through
For Orchestra you can build a real placeholder from the reported per-user figure. At $45 per user per month, each user costs $540 a year before services, support or any discount:
| Orchestra users | Monthly at $45 per user | Annual subscription |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | $450 | $5,400 |
| 25 | $1,125 | $13,500 |
| 50 | $2,250 | $27,000 |
| 100 | $4,500 | $54,000 |
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Add configuration and training on top, and label the whole line as an estimate built on a directory listing rather than a quote. For Enterprise, Nova or Horizon there is no public figure to build from, so the honest budget is a range you fill in from the proposal itself: the license lines by type, the services estimate in days multiplied by the day rate, and the annual support and hosting. Ask for those three numbers separately. A proposal that bundles them into one figure is hard to negotiate and hard to compare.
Published figures also move. Directory listings lag the vendor, and vendors change packaging between your first call and your renewal. If you are tracking several suites through a long evaluation, a tool that monitors vendor pricing pages for changes saves someone rechecking each listing by hand before the budget meeting.
Is Planisware expensive?
Planisware is expensive compared with team work management tools and in line with other enterprise portfolio suites. Reviewers on PeerSpot consistently call it costly, and one rated its price 4 out of 10, while the same reviewers praise its depth in scheduling, resource capacity and pipeline economics. Whether it is expensive for you depends on whether you will use that depth across the portfolio.
The fair comparison is with the problem you are paying to solve. For a pharma or aerospace R&D pipeline with phase gates, long horizons and cost modeling, Planisware competes on exactly the capability the price pays for. For a PMO that needs projects, resources and a portfolio dashboard, the per-user tools are the category. Celoxis, for example, publishes $10 to $45 per standard user per month depending on the plan, prepaid annually with a minimum of five users, and our Celoxis alternatives page sets those tiers next to the quoted suites.
Does Planisware offer a free trial?
Planisware does not offer a self-serve trial for its enterprise products, and Capterra lists no free version or free trial for Orchestra. Evaluations run through demos with the sales team. If Planisware is on your shortlist, ask for a proof of concept on a sample of your own initiatives, with your own roles and your own scoring criteria, because a scripted demo portfolio always looks cleaner than yours.
How to negotiate a Planisware quote
The first proposal is a starting point. These are the moves that tend to change the number with an enterprise PPM vendor.
- Start the conversation at Orchestra. Ask what Enterprise or Nova does that Orchestra cannot, for your portfolio. If the answer is thin, the lighter product is the negotiation.
- Split the services line. Get the configuration estimate in days with a written scope, and decide which parts your own team can do.
- Right-size the license mix. Count the people who will actually plan in year one. Everyone else should be on the cheapest license type, or served a report.
- Phase the modules. Buy what the next planning cycle needs and agree the price of the rest now, for later.
- Bring a real alternative. A quote from Planview or Clarity, or a clear plan to run prioritization elsewhere, is the strongest lever you have. Our Planview pricing guide gives you the reported numbers for that side.
When a lighter tool is the better buy
Many Planisware evaluations start with a narrower problem than the product solves: the steering group cannot agree which initiatives to fund, and nobody can show whether the approved list can be staffed. That needs a scoring model, a funding line at the real budget and a capacity plan by role. It does not need an enterprise configuration project.
| If the real need is | Consider | Pricing |
|---|---|---|
| R&D pipelines with phase gates and long-horizon cost models | Planisware Enterprise or Nova | Quoted, with services |
| Enterprise strategy, financials and delivery in one system | Planview, Broadcom Clarity, ServiceNow SPM | Quoted, with services |
| Project delivery plus portfolio views for a mid-sized PMO | Planisware Orchestra, Celoxis, Wrike | Per user |
| Ranking and funding the portfolio this quarter | A focused portfolio workspace | Published, per workspace |
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If the last row describes you, a project prioritization tool with published plans can produce the ranked, funded list in one planning cycle, and gives you a precise requirement list if you still decide to buy a suite later. For product organizations that mainly need the gate decisions, our guide to stage gate software compares the tools built around that one job.