PlanetTogether pricing and PlanetTogether APS cost for one plant, worked out over three years

No dollar figure. PlanetTogether, sold as CAI PlanetTogether since it joined CAI Software in 2026, describes how you buy it and how long integration takes, and leaves the price to the sales call.

• The pricing page has no plan names and no rates. It ends in a Talk to Sales button
• The buying process is three steps on its own site: a reply from a PlanetTogether expert, a discovery call about your planning problems and current systems, then a personalized demo if there is a fit
• Integration has a published range. PlanetTogether says many APS integrations can be completed in about 4 to 8 weeks, depending on the systems involved, data quality, integration method, field mappings and project scope
• G2's pricing page for PlanetTogether says the vendor has not provided pricing, and SoftwareConnect lists "pricing requires consultation" among its cons

That is the usual shape for enterprise advanced planning and scheduling software. It also means the number you get depends on how many planners, plants and ERP connections are in the room on the discovery call.

With nothing official, the numbers in circulation come from software directories and from one rival vendor. They do not measure the same thing, so read each as a clue, not a rate card.

User Solutions sells a rival scheduler, so its 80,000 to 300,000 USD first year total for a mid size deployment deserves caution. It is still the only source that prices the project and not just the seat, and it describes PlanetTogether's target customer as a company of 100 to 5,000 or more employees.

Search results also still show older PlanetTogether pages with a pricing calculator and paid onboarding plans, including a dedicated solution engineer billed by the month. Those addresses now lead to the demo request form, so we leave them out of the math.

• Users. The Capterra figure is per user, and every planner who edits the schedule is a seat. A plant with a planner, a scheduler on second shift and a plant manager is three
• Plants. Multi plant scheduling with transfers between sites is one of PlanetTogether's real strengths, and each site adds scope
• Integration. PlanetTogether is built to run on ERP data and its site names connectors for SAP, NetSuite, Kinaxis Maestro, AVEVA and Aptean Ross. The 4 to 8 week range is its own, and User Solutions puts a typical full rollout at 3 to 6 months
• Data quality. An optimizer is only as good as the routings, run rates and inventory it is fed. If the schedule reads from a nightly ERP extract or a warehouse, data observability that flags a stale or half loaded feed is worth having before you trust the first published plan
• Services. Data mapping, configuration, testing and planner training are sold as services on top of the software
• The new owner. CAI Software took over in 2026 and says the product stays standalone. New ownership tends to bring new contract paper, so ask what happens to the price at renewal

Take a single plant where three people edit the schedule. The sketch uses the two directory figures as they are listed. It is arithmetic on listings, not a CAI PlanetTogether quote, and it leaves out integration and training.

Now add the project. At User Solutions' estimate of 30,000 to 100,000 USD for implementation, the three seat plant lands between 138,000 and 208,000 USD over three years. That is in line with what the same source calls a mid size deployment.

ProductionPlanning.ai over the same three years is 2,682 USD on Line or 7,722 USD on Plant, paid yearly, with every planner, shift lead and operator included and no implementation fee. It is not a like for like comparison, and the next section says why.

PlanetTogether's money buys optimization across plants, deep constraint modeling and ERP connectors that a food, chemical or consumer goods manufacturer with a planning department may truly need. If SAP or NetSuite already feeds your schedule and several planners run it, PlanetTogether is a fair candidate and the price reflects that. If you run a 30 person plant on QuickBooks and a spreadsheet, you are pricing an enterprise optimizer to answer one question: which orders will be late. Our PlanetTogether alternative page sets the two products side by side, feature by feature.

• Is the price per named user, per concurrent user or per plant, and is there a minimum?
• Which edition is quoted, and what does the next one up add?
• What does integration with our ERP cost, and is the 4 to 8 week estimate for our system or the general case?
• How many days of configuration and planner training are in the quote, and what is the day rate if it runs over?
• Is support in the subscription or a percentage of the license each year?
• What is the annual increase, is it capped, and did the CAI acquisition change the contract terms?
• How long until planners publish a schedule the floor actually follows, not just a go live date?

Put the answers in one sheet next to the same questions asked of every other vendor. Our best production scheduling software roundup, the Preactor pricing article on Siemens Opcenter APS and the advanced planning and scheduling software page give you the same facts for the other APS tools on a typical shortlist.

PlanetTogether does not publish a price. Capterra lists its Basic plan from 1,000 USD per user per month and SourceForge shows a starting price of 1,500 USD per month. For one plant with three planner seats that is 54,000 to 108,000 USD in subscription over three years, before integration, configuration and training.

Yes, but it lists no prices. The PlanetTogether pricing page has no plan names or rates and ends in a Talk to Sales button. The process it describes is a reply from an expert, a discovery call and a personalized demo. G2 states that the vendor has not provided pricing.

PlanetTogether publishes no implementation price. It says many integrations finish in about 4 to 8 weeks depending on systems and data quality. User Solutions, a competing vendor, estimates 30,000 to 100,000 USD or more in implementation services and 3 to 6 months for a mid size rollout.

SourceForge lists a free trial as available, but PlanetTogether's own site offers a personalized demo after a discovery call, not a self serve trial. Ask on the first call whether you can load your own orders and routings before signing. ProductionPlanning.ai has an open demo you can run on a sample week of orders.

CAI Software. PlanetTogether joined CAI's manufacturing software portfolio in 2026 and the product is now sold as CAI PlanetTogether. CAI says it continues as a standalone advanced planning and scheduling product. Quotes, reviews and older listings still use the plain PlanetTogether name.

For enterprise APS, buyers compare PlanetTogether with Siemens Opcenter APS, DELMIA Ortems and Asprova. For a small plant that needs finite capacity and a late order list without an ERP integration project, ProductionPlanning.ai costs 149 USD per plant a month on Line or 429 USD on Plant, with unlimited users.