PADS Professional Pricing Overview

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Free Trial

PADS Professional Term-Based

Starting at $249.00

Per Month

PADS Professional Term-Based

Starting at $2,999.00

Per Year

Additional features and license options may affect price.

PADS Professional has 2 pricing editions, from $249 to $2,999. A free trial of PADS Professional is also available. Look at different pricing editions below and see what edition and features meet your budget and needs.

Pricing information for PADS Professional is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase PADS Professional must be conducted with the seller.

Pricing information was last updated on October 10, 2024

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PADS Professional Pricing Reviews

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Mohit J.

Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/27/2023

"Very Handy to design PCB"

5/5

What do you like best about PADS Professional?

It provides advanced routing automation, rigid-flex design capabilities, and multi-point signal integrity simulation to streamline hardware development. Also its new AI features helped me to save my lot of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PADS Professional?

PADS team should look over the back-annotation problems, errors in the Decal Editor, and constraints management type of issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Yolanda Dong of PADS Professional

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Thank you for your feedback, Mohit! We're delighted to hear that you find PADS Professional user-friendly, user-centric, and advanced in PCB design. The cloud connectivity adding flexibility is a great point. Your insights are valuable, and we appreciate you taking the time to share your positive experience!

Shrouk E.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/30/2025

"AI features have not been released in the UK yet, so looking forward to trying them out but"

3.5/5

What do you like best about PADS Professional?

cautiously optimistic about the new AI features, can't figure out how the smart data sheets will work and how many vendors will support them, also the predictive commands sound great on paper but not sure if it will be Microsoft word's clippy style annoying? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PADS Professional?

I guess that it is not as capable as Xpedition, but the price reflects that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.