Offers & Plans
We offer different subscription plans to choose the best for your needs.
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Subscription plans
You will need an active subscription to use Consteel software. Different subscription plans include basically a software license (defining the software seats, access) and Consteel Community Membership levels. There are one non-commercial (Trial) and three commercial plans.
The Trial plan is ideal for getting started with Consteel and to try its features for 30 days for free.
The Personal plan is for straight personal use where the contractor, payer, and end-user is one person.
The Team plan is suitable for companies where more engineers are using Consteel as end-users and the contractor and payer is not necessarily an end-user. In this plan, the use of Consteel can flexibly be managed and updated if necessary by the End-user management tool.
The Trial Premium plan is a special offer for those who would like to try Consteel without limitations. Under a risk-free contract that can be canceled at any time, we provide commercial use and Premium support to get the most out of your work for free for a month.
| Trial ideal for getting started | Trial Premium to try the full potential of Consteel | Personal for individual professionals | Team for structural design offices | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software access type | Non-commercial | Commercial: Full | Commercial: Starter/Full | Commercial: Starter/Full |
| Commitment | No commitment | Riskfree, cancellable contract | Signed contract | Signed contract |
| Number of software seats | 1 | 1 | 1 | Optional |
| Number of software access | 1 | 2 | 1 | min. 2 access/seat |
| End-user management tool | | |||
| Protection type | Online | Online | USB dongle or Online | USB NET dongle or Online |
| Membership | Pro | Premium | Optional (Basic, Pro or Premium) | Optional (Basic, Pro or Premium) for each access |
| Valid for | 30 days | 30 days | According to pricing model | According to pricing model |
Request a Trial Premium to try Consteel with Full functionality and Premium Membership even for commercial projects or request an offer for a commercial plan
For more information about online protection and licensing, please visit our Licensing FAQ page
How to assemble your subscription plan?
1. Do you work alone or in a team?
In a Personal plan, you only need to choose a software limitation (Starter or Full) and a Consteel Community Membership level (Basic, Pro or Premium) for your needs.
Teams are free to request different numbers of seats and access within the software license plan and various Consteel Community Membership levels associated with the software accesses. See how flexible a Team plan can be here.
2. How complex are your projects?
Depending on the complexity of the projects, we offer two different solutions (Starter and Full) for commercial needs.
Compare software access types
| Non-commercial | Starter | Full | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available plans | Trial/Educational | Personal/Team | Personal/Team |
| Offline use | Not available | Available based on membership level | Available based on membership level |
| Modeling | | | |
| Analysis/Design | |||
| Connection Design | |||
| Documentation | For models up to 50 bar and/or 10 surface elements. For larger models, it is not available. | ||
| Save | Only cloud save available | Cloud and local save | Cloud and local save |
| Import/Export | IFC, Tekla, Excel, Idea Statica, Rhino-Grasshopper for models up to 50 bar and/or 10 surface elements. |
3. How much additional service do you need?
We offer a wide range of additional services within the multi-level Consteel Community Membership system, which is linked to all end-users through their software access to help them to work with Consteel more efficiently.
For paid subscriptions, there are three membership levels to choose from so that each user can receive the services they need (Basic, Pro, or Premium). For each software access a Basic level Consteel Community Membership is automatically assigned, Pro and Premium levels are available for an additional fee. Trial subscriptions automatically include Pro or Premium levels.
Consteel Community Membership
| Services | Basic | Pro | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offline use limit | Available for 3 hours | Available for 24 hours | Available for 72 hours |
| Direct support | Basic support regarding licensing issues through the Help Center Support regarding software functions through the Help Center | Basic support regarding licensing issues through the Help Center Support regarding software functions through the Help Center Advanced support regarding structural analysis and design issues through the Help Center or by phone Model review Project-based consultancy | |
| Knowledge base | Access to Basic materials | Access to Basic and Pro materials | Access to Basic, Pro, and Premium materials |
| Script Library | Execute only access to Basic scripts | Execute and write access to Basic scripts Execute only access to Pro scripts | Execute and write access to Basic, Pro, and Premium scripts |
| Cloud services | Cloud save of models Online view of saved and shared models 100 MB/month bandwidth limit | Cloud save and share of models and results Online view of saved and shared models and results Desktop view and write of shared models and results 4 GB/month bandwidth limit | Cloud save and share of models and results Online view of saved and shared models and results Desktop view and write of shared models and results 10 GB/month bandwidth limit |
| Community services | User conference participation | User conference participation Access to user contest Access to Beta versions | User conference participation Presenting at user conference Access to user contest Access to Beta versions |
4. Which payment method would suit you best?
The subscription fees of the paid (Personal and Team) subscription plans cover two basic types of services, the software license, and the Consteel Community Membership. Basic level Consteel Community Membership is free of charge, the Pro and Premium levels are optional choices for any of the software accesses with an additional fee.
We offer two pricing models:
Subscription without entry fee
Classic subscription model with periodically billed fees of equal amounts. The subscription can be ended and restarted at any time. Ideal for project-based software use. Two types are available:
- Monthly subscription
- Yearly subscription
Subscription with entry fee
A modified subscription model where the first, entry fee is a larger amount followed by an equal periodic fee term with significantly lower fees compared to the subscription model without entry fee (similar to the one-time license fee and yearly upgrade fee model). The subscription can be paused with special conditions. Ideal for company-based software use.
- Only yearly subscription is available.
How do software seats and access work?
With an active subscription, the end-user can use always the latest software version. During the subscription period, the software license grants the use (and in the Team plan the end-user management) by software accesses and software seats, the number of them is defined in the subscription plan.
Software access: grants the end-user the right to access and use Consteel software through software seats. Every access is connected to a Consteel Community Membership level.
Software seat: the software seats ensure simultaneous, independent software access as one seat can be taken only by one user at a time.
The licensing system allows the use of Consteel exclusively, but also to share a seat with several people if users need to work with Consteel less often.
In the Team plan, each software seat comes with two software accesses by default, but more software accesses can be requested for an additional fee if required. Any access can be flexibly connected to any seat in the end-user management tool. A quantity discount is available for multiple software seats.