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    Astah Professional

    N/AN/AAstah Professional is a desktop modeling tool developed by Change Vision, Inc. It combines UML, ER diagrams, data flow diagrams, flowcharts, and mind maps in a single application. It is aimed at software architects and development teams who model across more than one notation. Deployment Astah Professional is an installable desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is not a cloud or SaaS product. Models are saved as local files, so the tool…

    $11.99

    per month per user

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

    Score5.8 out of 10
    N/AEnterprise Architect is the flagship architecture management platform from global, Australian-headquartered company Sparx Systems.

    $229

    per license

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    Astah ProfessionalSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    Editions & Modules
    Monthly subscription
    $11.99
    per month per user
    Academic license
    $48
    per year per user
    Annual subscription
    $129.99
    per year per user
    Organizational license
    $140
    per year per user
    Floating license
    $230
    per year per seat
    Perpetual license
    $279
    one-time fee per user
    Professional
    $229
    per license
    Corporate
    $299
    per license
    Unified
    $499
    per license
    Ultimate
    $699
    per license
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Astah ProfessionalSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAstah Professional is available under six license types: a monthly subscription ($11.99/month), an annual subscription ($129.99/year), a perpetual license ($279), a floating license ($230), an organizational license ($140), and an academic license ($48). A 20-day free trial is available. AI features (AI Chat Copilot, the MCP server, and AI-Powered Code Reverse) require the user's own API key for a supported AI service: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. API usage is billed separately by the AI provider and is not included in the Astah license price. Astah Viewer, which opens Astah Professional models for review, is free.—
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    User Testimonials
    Astah ProfessionalSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
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    Change Vision Inc.
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    Sparx Systems
    Enterprise Architect can be used to capture business requirements, design and management of all successive models, algorithms, process flows/workflows, design of business data objects and other artifacts. The strong point is the ability to link the items in all models with each other, the more time the analysts and designers "invest" into making nice and clearly defined models, the higher the future pay-off by any successive changes to the systems. Enterprise Architect is not a good tool for capturing rather unstructured business requirements, use e.g. Confluence or other solutions instead. EA should comprise the extracted models with very little unstructured information. Management of the changes process should not be done in Enterprise Architect, rather use JIRA/Confluence or similar.
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    Pros
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    Sparx Systems
    • Open Architecture - A wide and extensive set of options, plug-ins and customization options make Sparx EA more of a tool kit than just a tool. Most tools allow customization but Sparx EA is built from the ground up with this in mind.
    • Wide variety of formats, lexicons, standards and data import export capabilities allow different roles to interact with the information in different ways.
    • Automated report generation allows architects and designers to spend less taking on word processing and more time on performing architecture and design.
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    Cons
    Change Vision Inc.
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    Sparx Systems
    • Needs someone that is very conversant with business modelling terminology
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    Change Vision Inc.
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    Sparx Systems
    The support team of Sparx EA, based in Australia, is always willing to help and give direction.
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    Sparx Systems
    BiZZdesign represents a different new concept to enterprise architecture, its gravity center is not technical modelling, but rather a view on capturing the whole end-user experience or customer journey. It also allows to grasp areas as internal company capabilities, required for adoption/changes and operation of the solution, uses the same Archimate modelling language. This solution is in my opinion a new generation enabling to not only design the solutions, but also manage the whole application portfolio with respect to capabilities and requirement parameters.
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    Return on Investment
    Change Vision Inc.
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    Sparx Systems
    • This program speed up the development process. It generates the actual code with my model classes after modeling
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    Astah Professional Screenshots

    Screenshot of UML class diagram built with AI Chat Copilot in Astah Professional. Describe your design in plain language and Copilot creates and updates the model.Screenshot of UML sequence diagram created with AI Chat Copilot, showing how objects exchange messages step by step.Screenshot of ER diagram for an online shop generated with AI Chat Copilot, with tables, primary and foreign keys, and relationships color-coded by domain.