Your guide to Safe’s new pricing model.
Some important changes are coming.
Throughout these enhancements, our Annual Maintenance prices have remained unchanged and no longer reflect our current product offerings.
Effective August 1, 2025, Annual Maintenance prices will be based on the list price of FME Form and FME Flow.
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You may have questions about how this works.
In 2023, Safe Software introduced FME Form and FME Flow, which replaced the FME Desktop Editions (Professional, Esri, Database, and Smallworld) and FME Server. This change simplified our licensing and maintenance models and ensures that all users receive full functionality and deployment capabilities.
Legacy products (all FME Desktop Editions and FME Server) will be deprecated and updated to FME Form and FME Flow as of August 1, 2025.
Annual Maintenance gives you access to product updates, software updates, security updates, and unparalleled customer support. Annual Maintenance is included with the purchase of all FME products for the first year. Annual renewals are necessary to ensure you continue receiving Annual Maintenance benefits and access to the latest FME updates.
The Annual Maintenance pricing is being updated to reflect the value and advancement of our new FME products. For over 20 years, our Annual Maintenance prices have remained unchanged: these adjustments ensure that we’re aligned with our current market and product enhancements.
The adjusted Annual Maintenance prices will take effect as of August 1, 2025.
Existing licenses with valid maintenance will remain under the previous Annual Maintenance pricing terms until July 31, 2025.
- FME Form includes all functions (formats and transformers) without restrictions and can be used as network or single-user licenses (fixed or floating).
- FME Flow allows distributed deployment of engines, supports dynamic responses to triggers, and can act as a central hub in an information system.
Annual Maintenance pricing for FME Desktop and FME Server will only be available until July 31, 2025. After this date, FME Form and FME Flow Annual Maintenance pricing will apply to all maintenance renewals.
Perpetual licenses without Annual Maintenance may be used, but will not receive its benefits. To receive product updates and user support by reinstating Annual Maintenance at a later date, all missed fees from the original expiration date will need to be paid.
Safe Software provides technical product support on each version of the FME Platform for a period of three years from the public release date. FME versions that are older than three years from their public release date are considered retired releases and are no longer supported.
Find more information on our support policy, here.
If you have any questions or budgeting constraints relating to your current licensing portfolio and needs, please contact sales@safe.com or your local FME Provider to discuss our flexible and affordable subscription pricing options.
Industry-specific subscription models are available offering unlimited access to FME Form and FME Flow. Contact sales@safe.com or your local FME Provider for more details and to discuss flexible subscription pricing options.
All subscription-based pricing includes Annual Maintenance. Through subscriptions, you’ll receive full and continued access to the benefits of Annual Maintenance.
Legacy products will be deprecated and replaced with FME Form and FME Flow and our updated pricing will take effect upon your next Annual Maintenance renewal date.