--- description: Learn more about Altium Develop price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Australia. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Altium Develop Cost & Reviews - Capterra Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Engineering CAD Software](/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) > [Altium Develop](/software/175058/altium-designer) # Altium Develop Canonical: https://www.capterra.com.au/software/175058/altium-designer Page: 1 / 9\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/175058/altium-designer?page=2) > Cloud-based PCB design collaboration software with BOM management, design reviews, and requirements traceability. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 182 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Altium Develop? Built for PCB designers, electronics engineers, hardware development teams, and manufacturers needing PCB collaboration, BOM management, requirements traceability, and product data management. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 182 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Altium - **Founded**: 1985 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 1,990.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Altium Develop is a cloud-connected PCB design and engineering collaboration solution for engineers and small-to-midsize electronics development teams. Pricing starts at $1,990 per year and includes one Altium Designer Author seat, a secure shared workspace for projects, libraries, and design data, and unlimited collaborator access for stakeholders who need to review designs, provide feedback, manage tasks, or access BOM information. Organizations can scale their design capacity by adding up to four additional Author seats for $995 per user per year, allowing teams to expand while maintaining a centralized design environment. Unlimited workspace users can participate in reviews and collaboration activities without requiring additional paid author licenses. Built on Altium's cloud platform, Altium Develop combines professional PCB design tools with data management and collaboration capabilities, helping teams streamline development from concept through manufacturing. Included capabilities support: • PCB design and schematic capture • Native 3D PCB design and ECAD-MCAD collaboration • Component and library management • Cloud part libraries and design data management • Real-time BOM management and supply chain visibility • Requirements traceability and lifecycle documentation • Design review, commenting, and approval workflows • Revision history and project collaboration • Manufacturing handoff and production readiness Altium Develop is designed to help engineering teams improve collaboration, maintain design traceability, reduce rework, and accelerate electronics product development while providing secure cloud access to design data and project information. A free trial is available for organizations evaluating the platform. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Falkland Islands and 51 more ## Features - 2D Drawing - 3D Imaging - Access Controls/Permissions - Bills of Material - CAD Tools - Change Management - Collaboration Tools - Data Import/Export - Data Storage Management - Design Analysis - Design Management - Document Management - Manufacturing Design Data - Version Control ## Integrations (1 total) - Altium Develop ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Engineering CAD Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) ## Related Categories - [Engineering CAD Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) - [Collaboration Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/15/collaboration/software) - [Product Data Management Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30599/product-data-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. [AutoCAD](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/174021/autocad) — 4.7/5 (3213 reviews) 2. [SolidWorks Premium](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/93121/solidworks-premium) — 4.6/5 (759 reviews) 3. [MATLAB](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/125813/matlab) — 4.6/5 (2097 reviews) 4. [Alibre Design](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/172312/alibre-design) — 4.7/5 (184 reviews) 5. [CATIA](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/100453/catia) — 4.6/5 (224 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Altium 365: A tool every hardware designer should know" — 5.0/5 > **Fatih** | *5 June 2025* | Aviation & Aerospace | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: What I liked the most is that its feature of being able to share design files instantly with team members, view changes live, and comment on specific parts of the PCB layout saved us a lot of time and eliminated version control issues. It brought true cloud-based hardware design to our workflow. > > **Cons**: What I liked the least about Altium 365 is that it is hard to learn the full functionalities. While the platform is powerful, setting up permissions and navigating between design, BOM, and documentation tools could feel overwhelming at first without proper training. > > Overall Altium 365 is a great tool and everyone in the field of hardware design should use it. It helped me starting from my academics projects and now for professional projects. ----- ### "If they can solve tech support responsiveness issues, this is a great tool" — 3.0/5 > **Doug** | *10 December 2024* | Industrial Automation | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10 > > **Pros**: Industry acceptance, good integration, active BOM feature > > **Cons**: Tech support responsiveness has been abysmal > > All good except tech support is slower than I've ever experienced. ----- ### "What a great design tool: Altium 365" — 5.0/5 > **Mahmut** | *15 June 2025* | Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The thing I liked the most about Altium 365 is that its feature of online accessibility of designs and design collaboration features. > > **Cons**: The thing I liked the least is that availability of free resources to learn the tool is not abundant > > Overall Altium 365 is a greate cloud based collaborative design platform and it helped me throughout my career. I love this tool. ----- ### "Design together with Altium 365" — 5.0/5 > **Bethlehem** | *29 May 2025* | Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like its seamless cloud-based collaboration. Unlike traditional design environments that rely on file-based sharing and manual version control, Altium 365 allows real-time access and editing of PCB projects from anywhere. > > **Cons**: The thing I don't like about Altium 365 is that the pricing for subscription is a little expensive. It could make it unaffordable to beginner designers. > > Overall I'm good using Altium 365, starting from day one it helped me a lot through my professional projects. ----- ### "Altium 365 and its use" — 5.0/5 > **Binyam** | *20 May 2025* | Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like Altium 365 feature of automatic Bill of Materials (BOM) generation, I also liked the interactive web based design viewing and storage capability of Altium 365 > > **Cons**: Some of the features are hard to learn at first glance since there aren't plenty of free resourses to learn about it. So it might be hard to understand for beginners > > I am good using it, I mean it helped me a lot since day one. It allowed me to collaborate with my team in a single workspace while doing projects. ----- Page: 1 / 9\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/175058/altium-designer?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/175058/altium-designer) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | | sv | | ----- ## Structured Data