I’ve made the assumption that these will be 20% a year, compound. In order to compare costs beyond the short term, an assumption must be made about future maintenance price rises. No announcements have been made regarding the cost of maintenance from 2020 onwards, but it’s safe to say that Autodesk won’t be making life easy for its maintenance customers. The rises are compound, so the actual rises from the 2016 cost are 5%, 15.5% and 38.6%. I’ll call this the 2016 cost.Īutodesk has announced that maintenance costs will rise by 5% in 2017, 10% in 2018 and 20% in 2019. Prior to Autodesk’s recent announcement, the annual maintenence cost to keep one copy of AutoCAD up to date was US$540 and the equivalent subscription (rental) cost was US$1680.
Once I’ve gone through all the options, I’ll do a summary post that compares everything, but there are so many variables that a single post that covers all the options in adequate detail would be very long and complex.įirst, I need to describe what I’m using as the basis of my comparison.
In this series of posts, I’ll examine various payment options for CAD software and compare them with the cost of staying on your Autodesk maintenance contract long-term. Note: due to new information from Autodesk, an updated summary has been posted.
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