How Much Does A CEETRON SDK Cost?
By Jonathan Girroir • How Much Does A CEETRON SDK Cost?
Utilizing a Software Development Kit (SDK) is a strategic decision for your company. This is not a quick impulse purchase: you are selecting a critical software component that you will depend on for the next 10 to 20 years. You need a product that can grow and adapt with you, from a reliable partner committed to supporting you and your success.
The CEETRON suite of products aims to aid in the development of engineering applications in CAE spaces. CEETRON Access allows for unified interoperability for CAE file formats. CEETRON Mesh offers automatic reliable, fail-free mesh generation. CEETRON Solve is a high-performance CAE platform for building and solving FEM models. Finally, CEETRON Envision allows for remote and desktop CAE data analysis and visualization.
To any developer, these fantastic capabilities come with an important caveat: what is a CEETRON SDK going to cost us?
The simplest version of the answer is it depends. Any one-size-fits-all number we threw your way would be likely inaccurate.
What we can do is provide transparency as to the various pricing options available to our partners, and give you an outline of which might be best for you. This is unlikely to give you an exact number but it will help serve as a benchmark for your decision process and a springboard for your conversations with us.
At Tech Soft 3D, we have helped over 700 different companies accelerate their 3D engineering software development with our SDKs. We believe in creating a Strategic Technology Partnership specifically tailored to you, and this includes the price. We will cover our pricing models, what influences them, and some common FAQs.
The Two Parts of CEETRON Licensing Fees
Whether you license one CEETRON product. The Partnership Fee and the Distribution Fee, the latter of which has several different options.
Partnership Fee + Chosen Distribution Fee Method = Total Cost of a CEETRON SDK
Part One - Partnership Fee:
The Partnership fee begins once you sign a contract with Tech Soft 3D and continues throughout the duration of our partnership. This fee is usually paid quarterly but can be charged annually, depending on your needs.
For this fee, you get continuous access to product updates, engineer-to-engineer support, and access to our consulting team. The fee also covers the site development cost.
| Purchase Option | Annual Partner Fee |
|---|---|
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$30,000 USD |
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$30,000 USD |
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$30,000 USD |
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$30,000 USD |
Part Two - Distribution Fee
The Distribution fee is the most variable part of the cost of a CEETRON SDK. Industry, size, usage, and other factors will greatly influence the numbers we discuss here. Once we get to know your application and its distribution plan during the partnership process, we will be able to give you a custom proposal with numbers suited to you.
Unlike the Partnership fee, you won’t be charged right away for this part of the pricing. The Distribution fee does not come into effect until you actually ship your product. Our entire partnership ethos is based on mutual success and cooperation, and our pricing is intended to reflect that.
CEETRON products come with a minimum annual distribution of $20,000 per year.
There are several ways we can structure this part of the pricing model. The most common Distribution Fee models used are Revenue Share based on a percentage of Revenue, Flat Fee, and royalty per seat or user.
The Flat Fee option is exactly what the name suggests: you pay a base cost to Tech Soft 3D, determined by a variety of factors including revenue, expected usage, size of company, support demands, and more. This fee is intended to grow with your company, either at a fixed rate based on your projected growth or a variable rate tied to your actual growth.
The Revenue Share option will typically range from 3-5%, based on what SDKs you license and how you are using them. This range is a guideline for those who are planning to use our SDK as part of a larger application. This range reflects a guideline commonly seen in our extensive experience and is not representative of every situation. We will work with you to create a customized percentage, based on how you use our SDKs.
Royalty per seat or user is a third option, offered to those who wish to pay an amount based on your user count. The only real way to give you an accurate estimate for this model is to talk to us and help us understand your organization.
Partnership Fee +
| Revenue Share | Flat Fee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase Option |
% of Revenue |
Minimum Quarterly Revenue Share | Tailored specifically to you based on your scale, usage, and growth forecast. |
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| CEETRON Access  |
Typically 3-5% |
$5,000 USD |
The Quarterly Minimum is $5,000 for any purchase option Your rate will change in one of the following ways |
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| CEETRON Envison  |
Typically 3-5% |
$5,000 USD |
Fixed Growth: The fee increases at a consistent, annual rate, usually related to how you expect to grow OR Tied Growth: Your fee increases at a rate directly tied to the growth rate of your company |
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| CEETRON Mesh  |
Typically 3-5% |
$5,000 USD |
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| CEETRON Solve  |
Typically 3-5% |
$5,000 USD |
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| Best for: This is a generalization, but in the past, the Revenue share model is often used by smaller organizations, startups, and those with fewer applications being developed with us. This model is great at growing with your organization with a level of flexibility |
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| Best for: Organizations with larger, more complex revenues and/or those who have many products licensed from Tech Soft 3D. These models can save you time and costs associated with reporting revenues. |
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Distribution Fee FAQs and More Information
How Are Distribution Fees Determined for Internal Use Applications?
Organizations that intend to use CEETRON products on a purely internal application will be charged based on the number of expected users. This is often done with an approximate number of users, used to generate a flat annual fee that grows with user count or a modest fixed percentage.
We Want a CEETRON Product but are Not Willing to Share Revenue Information. What’s Next?
We get it, some organizations are not comfortable with or not able to share revenue with Tech Soft 3D for a variety of reasons. If this is your case, there are many ways we can make a licensing model to allow for mutual success and growth. We will have some questions, such as:
Would you be willing to share the number of users or seats?
Are you able to share your year-over-year growth?
The most important part is that our team is happy to work with you to find what works within your constraints. Our goal is to be in this together: we succeed when you do.
How Do You Count the Users of Cloud Applications?
While we normally do a percentage of revenue for Cloud Applications, we can create a royalty model based on a per-user method.
CEETRON Pricing Summary
We are committed to transparency in helping you understand your costs in a deeply complicated market. This involves helping you find a pricing model that works best for your organization and ours. We understand you have unique constraints, circumstances, and objectives, and you deserve a pricing experience as unique as those needs
This is intended to be a rough guide to our pricing for CEETRON products. You should have a better understanding of the options available to you and a framework to guide your decision-making process.
If nothing else, you have hopefully learned that we want to work with you in every capacity. In order to get a true picture, reach out and talk to us so we can learn more about you while you learn more about us.
