Pricing · draft
No tier based on the number of assets, no surcharge per notation, no module sold separately. You pay for authors — the people who read do not count, and there is no limit on them.
Cartano is in alpha: access is free and guided. The table below is an intention, published so that you can argue with it — it will be settled on 1 October, when subscriptions open. See where we stand.
A lone architect, a consultant, a school, someone who wants to judge on the evidence.
no lock-in period
A team that wants to stop mapping in a spreadsheet.
unlimited readers, free
An IT department that has to hold an application portfolio and prove it.
unlimited readers, free
Consultants and integrators working for several clients.
from · by quotation beyond
Prices excluding VAT, per month, with no minimum term. An author is someone who creates or modifies; viewing, commenting and exporting consume no licence. The applicable conditions are in the terms of sale.
Because one euro filters, and that is its only purpose. A free sign-up costs nothing to abandon: you end up with thousands of empty workspaces, a clogged support queue, and no signal at all about what anyone actually cares about. One euro does not protect our revenue — it protects your attention and ours.
In exchange, Solo is not a crippled version: the twenty-six canvases, the repository, the checks and the complete export are all there, with no notation held back. What is missing are the functions that only make sense as a team, and the agent workshop, which costs money on every call.
Because an architecture tool at a few euros a head reassures nobody. A manager who has to defend a choice to their IT department needs a credible budget line, not an expense hidden in overheads — and a price that looks too good raises the question of what happens in two years.
The benchmark is simple: enterprise architecture suites are negotiated an order of magnitude above this table, standalone modelling tools an order of magnitude below. We are in the middle, and that is exactly where the product sits.
We would rather say it here than at the third meeting.
Cartano does not plug into ServiceNow, Azure or your CMDB yet. The repository is filled by CSV/JSON import, or by hand. If your first need is to synchronise an existing inventory, an architecture suite will serve you better today — tell us, and we will tell you so too.
Having 200 records confirmed by 200 owners, with reminders, is not tooled for. It is on the plan; it is not here.
No ready-made library of business capabilities by industry. The meta-model is extensible without development, but you start from your own taxonomy.
The agent workshop runs on your own model key, or on ours at cost, re-invoiced. No hidden margin on tokens.
Monthly, with no lock-in. You leave when you want, with your data — the complete export is a function of the product, not a favour.
Someone who creates or modifies a document. Viewing, commenting and exporting consume no licence: readers are unlimited and free, on every plan, Solo included.
You export the entire workspace — documents, repository, layouts — in a documented format, and the Git mirror hands you files that are readable without Cartano. The round trip is verified by our tests, not merely promised.
In France, at OVH, by default. On a dedicated instance or against your own database on the Cabinet plan. We document the latency, the outbound traffic and what it costs.
Yes: 90 days, no credit card, by invitation during the alpha — the alpha programme. At the end, Solo is €1 a month and you are committed to nothing.
For the team plans we would rather offer a thirty-minute demo on your own cases: an unaccompanied trial of an architecture product often ends in an empty workspace and a distorted opinion.
Beyond ten authors, yes. Let's talk.
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