OpenBOM
by OpenBOM
A cloud product-data platform connecting CAD to bills of materials, part catalogs, change management and procurement. The engineering side of the house, usually feeding an ERP rather than replacing one.
Why it is classified this way
We call this a BOM & inventory product. Tracks product structure, parts, costs, and purchasing without a complete plan-and-execute production loop.
It is not labeled Full MRP because we have not verified that it accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule; nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming; explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials; uses lead times or required dates; and produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations. That is a statement about the evidence we found, not a claim that the product is weak, see the capability table and the sources below.
The six Full MRP tests, and how OpenBOM does on each (1 of 6)
- YesIt represents a bill of materials, recipe, or formula.Evidence: openbom.com(opens in a new tab)
- PartialIt accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule.Not established. Only partly shown: the evidence covers some of this but not all of it, so the test is not established.
- PartialIt nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming.Not established. No evidence found yet.
- UnknownIt explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials.Not established. No evidence found yet.
- UnknownIt uses lead times or required dates.Not established. No evidence found yet.
- UnknownIt produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations.Not established. No evidence found yet.
These rules are applied identically to every product and enforced at build time, a record cannot be published as Full MRP unless all six pass with a source attached. Read the methodology.
Best for
- Engineering teams whose BOM originates in CAD and needs to stay in step with it
- Companies needing revision control and engineering change orders on product structure
- Shops that want the BOM feeding an existing ERP rather than a second ERP
Not a fit when
- Anyone looking for MRP. Production planning here stops at quantity gaps against stock, with no dates or lead times
- Batch and recipe manufacturers
- Small teams sensitive to per-seat pricing on top of CAD licenses they already pay for
Pricing facts
What it costs to do manufacturing in this product.
Advertised from
$30/user/month
Useful entry price
$30/user/month
Billing basis
Per user
Free trial: 14 days.
What moves the real bill
- Priced per user. The monthly figure multiplies by every person who needs an account.
- Annual billing assumed. The advertised rate requires paying for a year up front. Monthly billing costs more.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Add-ons and setup |
|---|---|---|
| Professional TeamBilled yearly, shown per month | $30 per user/mo | — |
| 2,000 data records included; 5,000 records is $100 a month more on yearly billing. Read-only users are free. Per editor seat. A CAD add-in is $25 per editor per CAD system on yearly billing. | ||
| Professional TeamBilled monthly | $55 per user/mo | — |
| 2,000 data records included; 5,000 records is $180 a month more on monthly billing. Read-only users are free. Per editor seat. A CAD add-in is $45 per editor per CAD system on monthly billing. | ||
| CompanyBilled yearly, shown per month | $90 per user/mo | — |
| Adds CAD file management, revisions and change management. | ||
| CompanyBilled monthly | $165 per user/mo | — |
Cheapest paid plan that manufactures, by paid users
- 1 user: Professional Team, $30 a month (billed yearly, shown per month); first year $360.
- 5 users: Professional Team, $150 a month (billed yearly, shown per month); first year $1,800.
- 10 users: Professional Team, $300 a month (billed yearly, shown per month); first year $3,600.
Pricing detail
Professional Team is $55 per editor seat billed monthly, or $30 a month billed yearly. Company is $165 billed monthly or $90 billed yearly. This is the tier with CAD file management, revisions and change management. Enterprise custom. CAD add-ins are a further $45 per editor per month billed monthly ($25 billed yearly) per CAD system. Every plan includes 2,000 data records (the vendor says so in a 2026 video); larger record tiers are priced separately, starting at $180 a month billed monthly ($100 billed yearly) for 5,000 records. Read-only users are unlimited on paid plans, which softens the per-seat model considerably. Free plans exist only for education, personal and non-commercial use, on application; commercial use needs a paid editor seat, and read-only users are free and unlimited.
Price history
- Team $65 and Company $90 per seat per month billed yearly ($78 and $108 per seat billed monthly); Enterprise by quote. Archived page, January 16, 2024(opens in a new tab)
- Team rose to $75 and Company to $99 per seat per month billed yearly ($156 and $216 per seat billed monthly). Archived page, August 20, 2024(opens in a new tab)
- Team rose to $100 and Company to $150 per seat per month billed yearly ($190 and $270 per seat billed monthly). Archived page, March 21, 2025(opens in a new tab)
- New price list: Team $30 and Company $90 per seat per month billed annually ($55 and $165 billed monthly), and CAD add-ins $25 per seat per month per CAD system annually ($45 monthly). Archived page, April 18, 2026(opens in a new tab)
- Team renamed Professional Team at the same $55 monthly and $30 yearly per seat; data-record tiers from $180 a month, or $100 at the yearly rate, for up to 5,000 records. Archived page, September 6, 2026(opens in a new tab)
From copies of the vendor's pricing page kept by the Internet Archive.
Checked on October 9, 2026. Source: openbom.com(opens in a new tab). Prices change. Check before you buy.
Manufacturing capability
13 of 25 fields resolved. "Unknown" means we have not found first-party evidence. It is not a No.
Planning
Working out what to buy or make, and when.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Accepts dated demandYou can tell it what is due and when, sales orders with dates, a forecast, or a production schedule. | Partial | The 2024 production planning manual builds an Order BOM for a customer order, with a unit count ("Number of Units in Order: 20") and a description, but shows no due or required date on it. That is demand without a date, which is why this is partial. This comes from a worked example in the manual.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.openbom.com › Openbom production planning user manual best practices guide(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Nets against stock on handIt subtracts what you already have before telling you to buy more. | Yes | The 2024 production planning manual defines the gap: "A Quantity Gap is the difference between the quantity required for production and the quantity you currently have on hand." A 2019 blog post describes the same calculation. It shows netting against stock, not time-phased planning.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.openbom.com › Openbom production planning user manual best practices guide(opens in a new tab); openbom.com › Openbom 101 production planning and quantity gap calculat…(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Counts incoming ordersIt knows about purchase orders and production orders already placed, so it does not tell you to order twice. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation showing open purchase or production orders included in the supply picture.Know the answer? |
| Uses lead timesIt works backwards from when you need something to when you must order or start it, using supplier and production lead times. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation showing lead time fields that shift a suggested order or start date.Know the answer? |
| Produces dated buy/make suggestionsThe output is an actionable list with dates, order this much by this date, start this batch on this date. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation or a screenshot of replenishment or planning suggestions carrying dates.Know the answer? |
| Capacity planningChecks whether your people and machines can do the work in the time available. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of work-center or resource capacity being compared against load.Know the answer? |
Production
Recipes, bills of materials, and running the work.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of materialsA list of the parts and quantities needed to make one of something. | Yes | BOM management is the core of the product, with single-level, multi-level, flattened and configured views.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: openbom.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Multi-level BOMSub-assemblies inside assemblies, a part that is itself made from other parts, nested as deep as you need. | Yes | Multi-level BOMs show "the full product structure with assemblies and subassemblies".Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: openbom.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Recipes & formulasBatch-style production by weight, volume, or percentage, including scaling a batch up or down. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of recipe or formula records, ideally with batch scaling.Know the answer? |
| Work / manufacturing ordersA record authorising and tracking the making of a specific quantity. | Partial | Production batches, called Order BOMs, act as build orders and can be released to production. The help center notes a limit: "In the current implementation of Order BOM, only one batch (i.e. Order BOM) can be opened, meaning you cannot create a new batch (i.e. Order BOM) without releasing it (see step 6, above) or deleting a previously created batch (i.e. Order BOM)." That page dates from 2021, Order BOMs are a paid-plan feature, and there are no operations or work-in-progress tracking.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.openbom.com › How to create an order bom(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Routings & operationsThe ordered steps a product goes through, and which machine or station does each one. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of operation sequences or routings attached to production.Know the answer? |
| Shop-floor trackingOperators report progress, time, and completions as the work happens. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a shop-floor, operator, or terminal interface for reporting production.Know the answer? |
| Quality controlsChecks, tests, holds, and non-conformance records tied to production or receiving. | Partial | Native quality support is document storage: "Quality management documentation (such as policies and compliance data) can be uploaded to the system and added as a property to an item and/or BOM." Inspections and non-conformance come through a third-party QMS, Orcanos: "OpenBOM provides out-of-the-box integration with the QMS system." Which plans include the integration, and what Orcanos costs, are not stated. Checked 2026-09-19.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: openbom.com › Quality management(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Inventory & traceability
Knowing what you hold and being able to trace it.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Batch & lot traceabilityWhich incoming material lots went into which finished batch, and where those finished goods went. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of lot or batch numbers tracked through consumption into finished goods.Know the answer? |
| Expiry & shelf lifeBest-before dates on materials and finished goods, with warnings before they lapse. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of expiry, best-before, or shelf-life date fields.Know the answer? |
| Serial numbersUnique identifiers on individual units, for warranty or field service. | Partial | Serial numbers appear in the Support and Service BOM used for after-sales: "It tracks serial numbers, spare parts, and service procedures, ensuring efficient after-sales support." We found no serial tracking of individual units through receiving, stock and shipping.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.openbom.com › Xbom types(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Commerce & accounting
Costs, purchasing, storefronts, and the books.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Product costing & COGSWhat it costs you to make one, and the cost of the goods you sold. | Partial | Costs roll up through assemblies with a roll-up formula column: "OpenBOM can do single level and multi-level roll-ups." Only one roll-up column can be active per BOM, and we found no cost of goods sold reporting.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.openbom.com › Working with formulas totals and roll ups(opens in a new tab); openbom.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | Yes | RFQs and purchase orders are supported, with inventory management alongside.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: openbom.com(opens in a new tab); openbom.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | Yes | In a 2026 vendor walkthrough, OpenBOM pushes a purchase order into QuickBooks Online: "As you can see, the purchase order has been created in QuickBooks. OpenBOM automatically created the vendor with the same name as in OpenBOM." A 2025 vendor preview of the Xero connector, then in testing and due in October 2025, shows the same one-way push of purchase orders ("After a few moments, we'll receive a message that the ... bike purchase order has been created in zero."), and neither video shows anything coming back from the ledger into OpenBOM.Source: openbom.com(opens in a new tab); Vendor video, 2026, at 1:57(opens in a new tab); Vendor video, 2025, at 2:35(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Ecommerce connectionPulls orders and pushes stock levels to a storefront or marketplace. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a named storefront or marketplace integration.Know the answer? |
Openness & your data
Getting data in, out, and away if you leave.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| APIA documented programming interface so other software can read and write your data. | Yes | A REST API is included with paid plans, though API usage is metered through the data-record pricing.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: openbom.com(opens in a new tab); openbom.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| WebhooksThe system can notify other software the moment something changes. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of outbound webhooks or event subscriptions.Know the answer? |
| MCP supportA Model Context Protocol server, letting an AI assistant read or act on this data. Useful, but it has nothing to do with whether the product plans materials. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: a first-party mcp server, or documentation of one.Know the answer? |
| CSV exportYou can get your lists out as spreadsheet files. | Yes | Import and export are listed in the Professional Team plan.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: openbom.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Full data exportYou can take everything, including history and relationships, not just a few screens' worth of rows. | Partial | "OpenBOM allows you to export all of your data, such as catalogs, BOMs, orders and purchase orders in various formats that are compatible with most systems." Exports are done one page at a time, in CSV, Excel or PDF or through the API, and we found no single export of a whole account.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.openbom.com › Data export(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Deployment, licensing and your data
- Deployment
- Cloud (hosted for you)
- Licensing
- Proprietary SaaS
- Team sizes
- 2–5 people, 6–20 people, 21–50 people, 51+ people
- Manufacturing styles
- Countable assembled products, Kits & bundles
Integrations
- SOLIDWORKS
- Onshape
- Autodesk Fusion 360
- Autodesk Inventor
- Solid Edge
- Siemens NX
- PTC Creo
- CATIA
- Altium
- KiCad
- QuickBooks Online
- Xero
- NetSuite
- Odoo
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Katana
Jobs this product qualifies for
Derived from the capability table above, not hand-assigned.
Editorial notes and cautions
Things we would want a friend to know before buying.
- OpenBOM typically sits upstream of a manufacturing system rather than replacing one. If you are choosing between this and an MRP product, you may need both, or neither, if your BOM already lives happily in your ERP.
- The advertised per-seat prices are the discounted yearly rates. List prices are roughly 80% higher, and the CAD add-in is charged per seat per CAD system.
- Metering by data records rather than users is easy to underestimate. Every unique part number, BOM line and managed CAD file is a record, so count those in your real assemblies before committing.
Evidence and verification
Pricing structure and integration list are precisely sourced. The manufacturing capability fields are mostly unknown, and appropriately so. This is a PLM-adjacent product, not a manufacturing system. A 2026 vendor video explains the data-record meter: "A data record measures exactly three things." They are unique part numbers, BOM lines and managed CAD files; properties, quantities and revisions add none, and every subscription includes 2,000. Promoted to Verified on 2026-09-19: 13 of 25 fields resolved, mostly on help-center articles (orders, formulas and roll-ups, data export) rather than marketing pages, which clears every Verified rule.
Sources we checked (11)
openbom.com
help.openbom.com
What we still want to confirm
We publish our gaps rather than hiding them. If you can point us at a first-party page for any of these, we will update the record and credit the correction.
- Check whether an Order BOM is still limited to one open batch at a time. The 2021 page still says so, but the help site's search index now titles it "How to create an Order BOM (made private)", and the 2024 production planning manual neither repeats nor retracts the limit. Needs a trial account.
Still unknown: counts incoming orders, uses lead times, produces dated buy/make suggestions, capacity planning, recipes & formulas, routings & operations, shop-floor tracking, batch & lot traceability, expiry & shelf life, ecommerce connection, webhooks, mcp support.