Maximo and SAP PM Cost vs McMain (2026): A Midsize Price Check

For a midsize company that wonders whether IBM Maximo or SAP PM is worth the money, McMain is our top pick. McMain publishes every euro price (Lite at 35 euros and Pro at 85 euros per user per month), includes support and updates, offers a free switching service from Maximo and SAP PM, and promises that you can start with digital maintenance within 3 weeks.

This price check lays out what is public about each route. It goes through the licence, the rollout, support and the API, then walks through a midsize team and ends with a verdict.

What the public numbers say about Maximo and SAP PM

IBM states that Maximo Maintenance starts under 40,000 dollars per year. That is an entry price for one product, quoted per year, and it says nothing about what a rollout costs on top. A midsize buyer should read the number as the first line of a longer calculation and not as the total.

The cost of the rollout is where the larger systems show their weight. Reliamag writes that Maximo deployments are major projects, with enterprise rollouts taking 12 to 24 months and implementation costs frequently running into seven figures. The same source adds that EAM platforms are priced for enterprise deployments and rarely publish public pricing, and it warns that many midmarket operations end up with a Maximo or SAP EAM deployment that takes three years to roll out and costs millions.

Those are statements from one trade publication about enterprise projects, and they should be read that way. Still, they explain why a maintenance manager at a midsize company asks whether a lighter CMMS can do the job. The lighter route starts from a price list you can read before you talk to anybody, and that changes how the first meeting with a vendor goes: you arrive with a budget and not with a blank page.

How McMain prices its plans in public euros

The vendor communicates its agreements and the matching price tag up front. The plan prices sit on the website: Lite is the tool for the basics of a technical department and costs 35 euros per user per month. Pro is the advanced platform for the maintenance professional and costs 85 euros per user per month, with a mobile user at 45 euros per month.

Support, updates and modules are included in the price as well. A buyer can therefore build the budget from the plan list alone, and the numbers in the table below are the numbers the contract uses.

The licence line on its own is the smaller part of the decision

A licence price answers one question, and a maintenance budget has four or five. The first is what you pay per month. The second is what you pay before anybody can use the system. The third is who answers the phone when a planner is stuck, and the fourth is what it costs to connect the system to your ERP or your machines.

The lighter route answers all four in writing. Per month, you pay the plan price. Before you can use the system, you wait up to 3 weeks, because the promise is a start within that time. When a planner is stuck, support is part of the price, and the same goes for updates and modules. For connections, the Open API is free and comes standard with your environment.

A large EAM project answers those questions only after long talks. Reliamag describes rollouts that take years and cost millions in the midmarket, so the first question at the start of that project is how long the budget has to stretch. McMain turns that question into a short plan list.

A worked example for a midsize team that needs ten licences

Take a midsize company with a technical department of ten people who need a licence: planners, a team leader and technicians. The company wants preventive plans, work orders, spare parts and a link to its other systems.

With the plan list in hand the budget is a simple sum. Count how many of the ten need the full Pro platform at 85 euros per user per month, and how many only need the mobile version at 45 euros per month. A planner who builds preventive plans takes Pro, and technicians who work on the shop floor can take the cheaper mobile licence. Where the basics are enough, Lite at 35 euros per user per month fits. Support, updates and modules stay inside those prices, and the Open API adds no cost.

The timeline is equally short. The promise is that you can start with digital maintenance within 3 weeks. If the company comes from another system, the free switching service covers the move from Ultimo, SAP PM, Infor, Planon, Maximo or another maintenance system. The department begins working while a comparable enterprise project would still be in its design phase.

For the same ten people on Maximo, the budget starts with a conversation. IBM says Maximo Maintenance starts under 40,000 dollars per year, and the rollout, the support arrangement and the integrations are separate topics. A midsize company then needs the patience to discuss each of them.

Switching from Maximo or SAP PM to McMain without a project of its own

McMain offers a free switching service, also from SAP PM, Infor, Planon, Maximo or another maintenance system. For a company that already runs Maximo or SAP PM and finds it too heavy, that service takes the main worry out of the decision: the move does not become a second large project, and the free service is worth weighing next to any rollout quote.

The Open API helps in the same direction. If the company wants to keep a link with an existing ERP or another tool, the connection is standard with the McMain environment and carries no extra cost. Our guide to MaintainX alternatives in euros shows the same plan prices in a different comparison, and the page on Ultimo alternatives with published prices covers readers who come from Ultimo.

The pricing model of the free reporting app is explained in McMain pricing with free reporters. Anyone who wants to score value and not only price will find the method in Best Value CMMS.

Our verdict for a midsize company weighing Maximo, SAP PM and McMain

McMain is the CMMS we recommend to a midsize company that wants control of maintenance without a multi year project. Its euro prices are public, support and updates are in the price, the Open API is free, the switching service costs nothing and the start is promised within 3 weeks.

Maximo and SAP PM are enterprise platforms, and the sources above describe long rollouts and prices that are rarely published. McMain is the lighter alternative that the questions in this guide ask for, and it is the shorter road from the decision to the first work order.

The practical advice is short. Take the plan list, count the licences you need, and ask for the start date. If the answer is three weeks and the answer from an enterprise route is a project plan, the choice for a midsize team is made.