Akeneo sits at an unusual point in product information management: a free open-source edition you host yourself, and a cloud Product Cloud with a Growth package, an Advanced one and a Premium one. Teams look elsewhere when the self-hosted edition costs engineering time, when the paid tiers stay quote-only, or when they want a different ownership or country profile.
Sebastiaan SmitsFounderShort answer: Looking for a replacement for Akeneo? Ergonode, Plytix and Sales Layer come first in our PIM software ranking. Smaller vendors fill the top three places where the category offers them, and the household names start at place 4. Start with Ergonode if you want printed annual prices and a permanent free tier of 1,000 products. Every one of the 11 products below comes from Best PIM Software in 2026, with a note on how it departs from Akeneo.
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Akeneo's packages page lists Growth as starting at $0 annually with a free trial, while Advanced and Premium say call for a quote and ask for a demo request. A buyer comparing budgets before a sales call finds a number for the first tier only, and the step between tiers stays unknown until then.
On the same page, collaboration workflows for validation and approvals, rights by user, team or scope, and channel-ready data governance arrive with Advanced. Growth lacks them. Governance trees and SIEM integration come with Premium. A team that needs approvals from the first week therefore plans for a quote-only tier.
The Community Edition is described as free and open source, downloaded and hosted by you. Its page names MySQL, Elasticsearch and Memcached on the backend and Symfony on PHP. Support comes from a community of over 3,000 members, the Help Center and partners, with professional services as a paid option, so the running cost shifts to your own staff.
| Alternative | Headquarters | Free option | Pricing model | Switch if | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ergonode | Poland | Yes | Published | you want printed annual prices and a permanent free tier of 1,000 products | #8 |
| Plytix | Spain | Yes | Published | your catalogue is under 25,000 SKUs and you want monthly prices per band | #1 |
| Sales Layer | Spain | No free tier | See profile | you want a long trial and fixed caps to size the contract against | #3 |
| Quable | France | No free tier | See profile | you manage up to 50,000 products and want a French vendor with a two-tier structure | #2 |
| Bluestone PIM | Norway | No free tier | On request | you want to start on a short contract and pay for the volume you really use | #7 |
| Viamedici | Germany | No free tier | On request | you want PIM, DAM and configuration pricing from one German vendor | #6 |
| Pimcore | Austria | Yes | Published | you want open-core software with published on-premises prices instead of Akeneo's quotes | #13 |
| Inriver | Sweden | No free tier | On request | you run a large brand catalogue and want a Swedish vendor with a four-step tier ladder | #11 |
| Stibo Systems | Denmark | No free tier | On request | you need master data for suppliers, customers and products in one governed platform | #5 |
| Centric PXM (formerly Contentserv) | Germany | No free tier | On request | you accept a multinational ownership chain with German product roots | #12 |
| Salsify | United States | No free tier | On request | you sell through large retailers and prefer the US market leader despite its location | #9 |
Poland · Published
Ergonode, from Poland, publishes an annual ladder: a free plan with 1,000 products and 2 users, Advance at 5,990 euros a year and Scale at 19,990, with Enterprise on request. The roadmap is public, but the product is proprietary. A team can price a year of use without any conversation.
Switch from Akeneo if you want printed annual prices and a permanent free tier of 1,000 products.
Read our review of Ergonode (position 8 of 13 on the PIM software list) →
Spain · Published
Plytix is a Spanish product with plans banded by SKU count. Standard is free to 100 SKUs and then 49 to 349 euros a month up to 25,000 SKUs, with Pro and Enterprise bands above it. Add-on modules are priced separately at 49 to 399 a month, and 500 free AI credits are listed monthly.
Switch from Akeneo if your catalogue is under 25,000 SKUs and you want monthly prices per band.
Spain · See profile
Sales Layer, based in Valencia, states user and SKU caps for each tier, reaching 35 users and 200,000 SKUs on Enterprise, while keeping the price itself to a quote. Its trial runs 30 days with no automatic charge, which is double the Growth trial window on Akeneo's page.
Switch from Akeneo if you want a long trial and fixed caps to size the contract against.
Sales Layer review, listed at 3 of 13 PIM software products →
France · See profile
Quable is a French PIM founded in 2013 and part of Ibexa Group since 2023. Standard caps at 50,000 products and Advanced removes every cap; both are sold by quote. The vendor includes an AI layer it calls Agentic Core in the product, rather than selling it as a separate module.
Switch from Akeneo if you manage up to 50,000 products and want a French vendor with a two-tier structure.
Quable comes 2 of 13 when PIM software products are ranked here →
Norway · On request
Bluestone PIM is a Norwegian cloud service priced by actual usage, with contracts as short as three months and typically three to twelve. Founded in 2016, it merged with WebOn in 2018 and took growth investment in 2024. No list price is published.
Switch from Akeneo if you want to start on a short contract and pay for the volume you really use.
Germany · On request
Viamedici of Germany combines product data, master data, asset management and configuration pricing in its EPIM/5 platform. It states more than 100 million records managed and over 40 languages. Every price is given after a demo, which makes it a bundle decision, not a PIM-only one.
Switch from Akeneo if you want PIM, DAM and configuration pricing from one German vendor.
Viamedici comes 6 of 13 when PIM software products are ranked here →
Austria · Published
Pimcore GmbH is registered in Salzburg and offers a free open-core Community Edition under the POCL licence, limited to non-production use, non-profits or companies under 5 million euros or dollars of revenue. Professional costs 9,900 dollars a year and Enterprise 29,900. A majority-owner sale to a London investor is pending.
Switch from Akeneo if you want open-core software with published on-premises prices instead of Akeneo's quotes.
Sweden · On request
Inriver is headquartered in Malmö and states more than 1,600 brands as customers, naming Michelin, New Balance and John Deere. It sells four tiers called Foundation, Core, Professional and Enterprise, none with a published price. Its history page says Thomas H Lee Partners invested in 2022.
Switch from Akeneo if you run a large brand catalogue and want a Swedish vendor with a four-step tier ladder.
Denmark · On request
Stibo Systems is a Danish master data platform in which product data is one domain among several. It belongs to a group run as a foundation and was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM. Pricing is set per organisation through sales, so expect an enterprise-scale project.
Switch from Akeneo if you need master data for suppliers, customers and products in one governed platform.
Where Stibo Systems stands: place 5 of 13 in the PIM software ranking →
Germany · On request
Centric PXM, formerly Contentserv, started in Rosenheim and is now sold by Centric Software, a Silicon Valley company owned by France's Dassault Systèmes. No price is published. The chain of owners matters if you chose a European supplier for its location.
Switch from Akeneo if you accept a multinational ownership chain with German product roots.
#12 out of 13 PIM software products: read the Centric PXM (formerly Contentserv) review →
United States · On request
Salsify is a Boston company that sells product experience management and is being acquired by Cinven, a European private equity firm, as announced in July 2026. It remains US-headquartered and publishes no pricing, so we place it last for teams who want a European operator.
Switch from Akeneo if you sell through large retailers and prefer the US market leader despite its location.
Ergonode: A free plan covers 1,000 products and 2 users, then Advance is 5,990 euros a year and Scale 19,990.
Plytix: Standard is free to 100 SKUs and paid bands run to 25,000 SKUs.
Sales Layer: The trial lasts 30 days with no automatic charge, and tier caps are published.
Bluestone PIM: Contracts run from three months and the price follows actual usage.
Pimcore: Professional costs 9,900 dollars a year; the free edition has revenue and use limits.
Akeneo is a sound choice when you have developers and want to start without a licence fee, since the Community Edition is free, open source and has a public download count above 80,000. It also suits growing catalogues that want a well-known vendor with 900 or more enterprise customers, offices across Europe and a free-to-start Growth package. If your worry is only price, test Growth before leaving.
Attributes, families and channels from Akeneo have to be mapped onto the new tool's own structure. Export a full product sample, including variations and bundles, and run it through an import before you sign anything.
Community Edition users often rely on REST or Events API integrations and some of the 100 or more community connectors. List each one, check whether the new vendor supports it, and plan time for rewriting those that feed your shop or marketplaces.
The Community Edition is free and open source, and you host it yourself. The Product Cloud Growth package is listed as starting at $0 annually with a free trial. Advanced and Premium are quote-only.
Akeneo lists a Data Architect Agent, composable products for variations and bundles, and AI-assisted descriptions and asset extraction. Collaboration workflows and advanced rights start at Advanced.
Ergonode lists annual prices, Plytix monthly prices by SKU band and Pimcore on-premises prices per year. Sales Layer publishes caps but no price, and the others in this list are quote-only.
Pimcore has an open-core Community Edition, but its POCL licence limits free use to non-production, non-profits or companies under a revenue cap. Akeneo's own edition is plain open source.
Ergonode (Poland), Plytix and Sales Layer (Spain), Quable (France), Bluestone (Norway), Viamedici and Centric PXM (Germany), Pimcore (Austria), Inriver (Sweden) and Stibo (Denmark). Salsify is American.
Sales Layer offers a 30-day trial and Ergonode and Plytix have permanent free plans of 1,000 products and 100 SKUs. Akeneo Growth offers a free trial of its own.
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Author and fact-checker: Sebastiaan Smits. This page was last reviewed on 6 November 2026; our review process is public.
