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Workday Adaptive Planning pricing, formerly Adaptive Insights, from its published sources, and the other costs to budget in year one: implementation, modeling, training and consumption.
License prices are the visible part of the cost of an analytics tool. This page sets out what Workday Adaptive Planning, sold as Adaptive Insights until Workday bought the company in 2018, publishes about its price, from sources checked on September 24, 2026, and the other lines a finance team should put in the first-year budget before comparing options.
| Deployment | Estimated annual cost | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Small pilot | about $25,000 a year | CFO Shortlist |
| Mid-market, 200-500 users | $80,000-$300,000 a year | CFO Shortlist |
| List price | not published | Workday |
Workday does not publish Adaptive Planning prices. CFO Shortlist estimates about $25,000 a year for small pilot deployments and $80,000-$300,000 a year for mid-market deployments of 200-500 users. The estimates cover the subscription; the lines below are the rest of a first-year budget.
| Line | What to ask | Your figure |
|---|---|---|
| Licenses or seats | Which roles need a paid license, and the price per role | |
| Consumption | Whether queries, refreshes or AI questions are metered, and at what rate | |
| Implementation | Who does it, how many weeks, and the day rate | |
| Data model | What must be built before the first answer, and who maintains it | |
| Warehouse or platform | Whether a separate warehouse or compute is required, and its cost | |
| Training | How many people, how long | |
| Year two | What recurs, and what the renewal terms are |
Covirage starts from the exports your systems already produce, so there is no warehouse to build and no modeling language to learn. We set it up for you within a week. Prices are on one sheet, shared in a conversation, and the tiers are described on the pricing page.
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Facts about other products were checked on September 24, 2026 from the pages below. Product names are trademarks of their owners; Covirage is not affiliated with them.
Workday does not publish Adaptive Planning prices. CFO Shortlist estimates about $25,000 a year for small pilot deployments and $80,000-$300,000 a year for mid-market deployments of 200-500 users. Actual contracts vary with users, data volume and edition; ask the vendor for a written quote.
Yes. Workday bought Adaptive Insights in 2018, and the product is now sold as Workday Adaptive Planning. Prices quoted for Adaptive Insights refer to the same planning product.
Implementation, the modeling work before the first answer, training, and consumption or usage charges where they apply. Ask what implementation services are included and how the price changes with contributors.
Three tiers on one sheet, shared in a conversation: a single-user tier with no human in it, a business tier where we set it up, and an enterprise tier with connections built with your team.