Onshape 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Onshape

4.5

(340)

Pricing

Starting at $1,500.00 per year

About Onshape

Onshape by PTC is the leading cloud-native CAD & PDM platform that runs on any device, anywhere-requiring zero IT. Onshape is for product design companies who are fed up with the errors, time waste, and hidden costs of outdated file-based CAD & PDM.

Only Onshape:

Eliminates CAD crashes and never loses data
Enables secure, real-time collaboration
Tracks all activity and provides infinite restore
Has built-in PDM with branching and merging

Users can see who have made changes to the design or content with the control and monitor access feature. With the latest version of Onshape, you won’t face any configuration, operation, or compatibility problems.

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Onshape Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,500.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Standard

$1,500.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Part & Assembly Modeling
Drawings
Runs on Web & Mobile
Direct Technical Support

Professional

$2,500.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Part & Assembly Modeling
Drawings
Runs on Web & Mobile
Direct Technical Support
Formal Release Management
Approval Workflows & Notifications
Complete Data Management
Custom Properties & Metadata
Company-level Admin Tools
Consolidated Billing

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Part & Assembly Modeling
Drawings
Runs on Web & Mobile
Top Priority Technical Support
Formal Release Management
Approval Workflows & Notifications
Complete Data Management
Custom Properties & Metadata
Company-level Admin Tools
Consolidated Billing

Startups

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Everything from Onshape Professional

Onshape Features

Popular features found in 3D CAD
2D Drawing
Animation
Bill of Materials Management
Data Import/Export
For 3D Printing
For Architects
For Manufacturers
More features of Onshape
3D Design & Modeling
3D Imaging
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Annotations
API
Bills of Material
CAD Tools
Change Management
Collaboration Tools
Component Library
Configurable Workflow
Configuration Management
Content Library
Customizable Branding
Customizable Templates
Data Visualization
Design Analysis
Design Management
Document Management
Electrical
File Management
For Solar Companies
Manufacturing Design Data
Mechanical
Mechatronics
Modeling & Simulation
Multiple Format Support
Multiple Projects
Product Data Management
Project Templates
Real Time Comparisons
Real-Time Updates
Reference Management
Reporting/Analytics
Role-Based Permissions
Rules-Based Workflow
Secure Data Storage
Sketching and Annotation Tools
Solar Design
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
Visual Analytics
Workflow Management

Onshape Integrations

SimScale

OnScale Solve

SimSolid

Duro

Onshape User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

59%

35%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.7

Functionality

4.1

Murilo A.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Great software for 3D printers hobbyist

We can find easier tools on the internet like Tinkercad, but Onshape can deliver much more, like a professional and expensive tools can deliver, but you get it for free, you just need to spend a little time learning how to use it, but this time learning is very well paid off.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

During this pandemic period I bought a 3D printer and started using it printing mainly already defined and available 3D models on the internet. Then I realized that I could myself produce my own 3D models and I found on Onshape the perfect tool for it. It also has great features that allows you to produce perfect models.

Cons:

At the beginning Onshape seems complicated to use, but it is not, you just need to watch on Youtube some tutorials to start modeling your own 3D models. Anyway I can not complain about this tool, as the free version delivers what I need and much more.

Reasons for switching to Onshape

Using Onshape I can better design the models, with perfect control of distance between parts of the model, producing models with higher quality.

Urs E.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2025

Best Data Management for CAD Data

It is very comfortable working with onshape. No worries about files, versions or saving your work. No check-in/check-out. Just focus on your design! And never worry about loosing your work due crashes. Onshape never-ever crashed during all those years. Most of our users do not want to go back to the old CAD anymore. Administering Onshape is incredibly easy. Most things are pre-set decently. There is only little to adjust. Never worry about CAD Software updates anymore.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

File-less datamanagement with easy versioning. CAD design is mostly about managing geometric relations between many parts. There is no other CAD system in the world adressing this so well. It is a game-changer! Customer Support works also very well with direct sharing of affected documents.

Cons:

The lack of floating license is a pitty. It does take some time to update drawings. Also releasing a group of assemblies, parts and drawings takes up quite an amount of time.

Reasons for switching to Onshape

Onshape has better CAD Data Management and is always up to date

Zachary M.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Works well, wish they hadn't done a bate-n-switch on small users

It's still super impressive to me to pull up a model on mobile and show friends/customers how it looks, parts that move. The platform is great, just wish it was a little more generous like at the start.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 5

Value for money

Previously 4

Functionality

Previously 5

Pros:

Really, REALLY slick web interface and mobile app. Designing parts and mechanisms from any computer, just wow! Quickly sharing, very good version tracking - it's the real deal.

Cons:

They started out positioned very nicely for small-time users, 10 private documents, but switched to "public only" free documents at the same time as they aggressively pushed for subscriptions.

Glendon K.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2025

Reliable and Accessible CAD

We've been very pleased with Onshape because of its accessibility and reliability. Unlike some of its competitors, there is no initial "purchase" required, and the annual subscription is very competitive with other annual subscriptions. This means the value is realized immediately.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Natively cloud CAD means you can do design work in your browser. Completely platform agnostic and reliable, Onshape is very accessible to even low-power computers. Database documents mean that collaboration on models is very easy and allows for simultaneous viewing and editing.

Cons:

The drawings package is not native to Onshape, so its features are different from the rest of the platform. For example, it is very easy to collaborate on part and assembly tabs, but drawings only allow one user to have them open at the same time. This is a bit frustrating because drawings are the one feature most engineers need to collaborate on.

Reasons for choosing Onshape

Fusion is still based on files, whereas Onshape documents are actually databases.

Reasons for switching to Onshape

The pricing of SolidWorks is high, and reliability is low.

Bias R.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2025

Useful main-feature of Onshape: Collaboration

I am very happy with the onshape experience. I would like to share this insight to my relations that this product is so useful for team designing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Collaboration, make us very easy as a team to make 3d design together. The database that used for doing some part standard and materials library was so easy because of the collaboration feature.

Cons:

The version, looks very complicated and sometimes we are facing editing different version that it is old. So we have to recreate the progress

Reasons for switching to Onshape

need colaboration, struggle to manage the 3D design if sharing (have to copy the files, no reference of 3D Design in online files)

Stewart F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2025

User since the beginning and I still think this is the best product out there

During Covid, I went several years where I was not doing any updates to things, but I kept my account active. Relearning it after a couple of years was quick and easy. The interface is certainly user-friendly for designers. I would not use any other product unless I was forced to.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have been a customer since since the first or second week it went into beta many years ago. I have watched it change and improve over the years. All my design work is for 3-D printed parts, so there are certainly a lot of features that I have looked at, but have no direct need for. I have found it much easier to edit from the web interface on my Mac then on an iPad, but I like the fact that when I need to show something, I can quickly login to the app and just hand the person my iPad to look at the part. Seamless integration and I have even at times worked on a part from both interfaces briefly and found that everything just happens as you would expect. And of course I’m going to make the pitch that the users who mistakenly just have a “free“ account are missing out. I have had a professional account since the day they started charging and I have had no regrets in paying for it every month. This is a superior product and is well worth the money. have taught a number of classes to associates as well as the general public at the local maker spaceover the years in basic 3-D modeling design, and the ability to share a “class“ folder with people who have just signed up for free accounts is wonderful. I always encourage them to strongly consider paying for the professional account.

Cons:

It tends to get confused about what was most recently opened, and I wish there were a way to tag and catalog classifications of parts and search for them rather than just by the name. Of course this feature may exist, and I’m just not aware of it. :-)

Reasons for choosing Onshape

It was the best option, and it was also the easiest to convert my designs from solidworks. I picked illustrator simply because it was in the list. None of the products that I looked at are in your list. Of course this was a decade ago or so, or however long Onshape has been around, so most of them don’t exist anymore.

Reasons for switching to Onshape

Too many reasons to list them all. The worst was that I had to keep a Windows virtual machine running on my Mac because solid works did not run on Apple products at least not when I left them many years ago

Brad T.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed November 2025

Best Cloud Native CAD Experience

Being able to hand a fresh CAD user Onshape and they can turn around and understand our product immediately has proven to be exactly what we needed to make our company move in the right direction

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Fast implementation and cloud native. We are a company that exists in 2D CAD and our transition to 3D has been very straightforward. After a few weeks of training we can get any of our users up to speed and designing our products. We are now natively integrated with our ERP and our time to production ins monumentally faster.

Cons:

It's missing some features the larger CAD software has, such as a not robust plugin system. Most integrations require vast implementation costs compared to counterparts.

Reasons for choosing Onshape

Customer support was better, and implementation was much faster.

Reasons for switching to Onshape

Outdated way of doing CAD, and not flexible enough to meet our business criteria.

Justin L.

Verified reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2025

Great for startups focusing on high-level design

Extremely satisfied- the design and engineering capabilities of the tool, the data management and collaboration functionality, and the training and support ecosystem provides a first-class experience. It’s really enabled me to take on projects and do things that would have been more expensive and time consuming with most other tools.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I’ve been very impressed with onshape’s capabilities for mechanical design, especially the sheetmetal tools. For my purposes (product design and analysis) it is every bit as capable as any other tool I’ve used in my career (mostly CREO, some solidworks). However, the data management functionality and collaboration tools are what really makes it stand out to me. In addition, the web-based aspect makes Onshape extremely cost-effective. This helps me keep my overhead expenses low while also providing extremely high-quality work.

Cons:

Coming from CREO, the part studio concept was a little bit of a learning curve, as was the assembly constraints. However now that I’m used to the workflow, I dread when I have to work with any other tool. The training material provided by Onshape is very high quality and is time well-spent.

Reasons for choosing Onshape

Cost of the license, version control functionality without a separate pdm, and web-based nature were critical.

Kalvis A.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2025

up to date

Have been daily user for 7years, more than happy with the dirrection and performance of this CAD solution, newer stops improving.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Pace of development. Worflow, data organising, document structure, mates. Support, availability across users.

Cons:

Large assembly performance, I understand it is a difficult issue to manage, but still that is what can feel in day to day use.

Reasons for switching to Onshape

Functionality and price, the added functionality Onshape promissed even at early stage was promissing and was wery affordable since our company was new

Maurice M.

Verified reviewer

Furniture

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2025

Best and reliable CAD ever invented

My overall Experience with Onshape is great, after spending some time designing with it, you really get used to it and are able to do some incredible projects. The rendering of 3d models is great if you want to show it to your customers. An other great features is the import/ export options, you can export in every filetype you could need or print out drawing to give in Production.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really the the fact that I will never loose any progress I made when my pc crashes because Onshape is fully cloud based. It’s really easy to Lears designing with Onshape due to there integrated learning Centre. There Costumer Support is always really quick, friendly and helpful, they never lead me down. In conclusion for me as a small growing business, Onshape is really worth it’s money.

Cons:

The only thing that annoyed me is that all project are public in the free version. So if you want to do some project that not everyone should see, you need to pay for it.

Reasons for switching to Onshape

I switched to Onshape because it’s was way more intuitive to used and had a lot more features which provided a greater experience.

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