Altium adds free 30-day trial with no sales contact, no credit card required
What happened
Between the Jul 6, 2026 and Jul 13, 2026 captures of Altium's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Added a new 'Free 30-day trial, no pressure attached' section spelling out trial policy: no sales contact unless requested, optional technical support, design any board, no credit card required. Pulse files it as a packaging change (trial change) with a neutral direction. The current page lists Altium Develop at $1,990 and Additional Altium Designer Author at $82.92.
It lands 49 days after Altium's previous change, "Altium replaces app marketplace with $995/year design author add-on" (May 25, 2026). Altium has been tracked since 2026-05-22.
In the same window X also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · TrialAddedNo 'Free 30-day trial'Free 30-day trial
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Trial | No 'Free 30-day trial | 'Free 30-day trial | Added |
Values as written on Altium's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Altium's pricing page (www.altium.com) from Jul 6, 2026 and Jul 13, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where 'Free 30-day trial now appears.
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Altium, the last 90 days
Full history- Jul 13, 2026packagingAltium adds free 30-day trial with no sales contact, no credit card required · this change
- May 25, 2026packagingAltium replaces app marketplace with $995/year design author add-on
Across Software Development & Testing in the same window
All Software Development & Testing changes- XJul 13X swaps flagship model — grok-4.5 costs more, sees less, drops coding model
- XJul 4xAI: Grok lineup replaced (grok-4.3, grok-build-0.1), smaller context windows
- XMay 29X launches Grok coding model and image/video/voice API pricing
- XMay 19X updates capabilities: New video generation feature added with audio.
- XMay 5X debuts grok-4.3 at $1.25/$2.50 per 1M tokens, slashes grok-4.20 rates
Questions about this change
Did Altium raise prices in July 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jul 6, 2026 and Jul 13, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: trial change.
What changed on Altium's pricing page between Jul 6, 2026 and Jul 13, 2026?
Trial: No 'Free 30-day trial → 'Free 30-day trial, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jul 6, 2026 and Jul 13, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Altium change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Altium in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Altium replaces app marketplace with $995/year design author add-on" on May 25, 2026; Altium has been tracked since 2026-05-22.