Sparx Enterprise Architect Licensing Compare Editions
Compare the key features of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect editions below and choose the license that best fits your modeling and enterprise architecture goals.
Which Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Edition Is Best for Your Needs?
Professional
Best for individual modelers and small projects.
Corporate
Ideal for teams needing collaboration, shared repositories, and version control.
Unified
Perfect for organizations adopting industry standards, advanced modeling, and simulation.
Ultimate
The all-in-one solution with every capability, designed for large-scale, enterprise-wide architecture initiatives.
Compare Enterprise Architect Editions
| Feature | Ultimate | Unified | Corporate | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ada 2012 Code Engineering | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Advanced UML 2.5 Modeling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Allocated Work | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ArcGIS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ArchiMate 2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Archimate 3 Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit Model Changes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Auto Create Diagram Image Map | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automation API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AUTOSAR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| AWS icon set v15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Baseline Diff/Merge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BPEL Generation from BPMN diagrams | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| BPEL 2.0 Generation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| BPMN 2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BPMN Simulation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| BPMN XML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| BMM Profile v15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Business Process Modeling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business Rules Composer | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Chart External Models | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Charts and Dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Cloud Connectivity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Code Engineering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Common Property Dialog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Construct View v15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Custom Progress Bars | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Custom Tables v15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Customized Model Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Data Miner v15 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Database Engineering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Database Engineering DB Builder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| DBMS Repository (Note 2) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Debugging of Jscript, VBScript and JavaScript | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Debug & Visualize Applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Debug using JDWP protocol | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Default Document Handler | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
Diagram Discussions
v14
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Diagram Filters - Filtering on Tagged Values | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Diagram Theme/Visual Style | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Diagram Legends Auto Coloring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
|
Docked Property Windows (all major modeling components)
v14
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Document Fragments in Reporting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Dynamic Documents | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ecore | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Element Discussions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Element List (Tabular Editing) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Executable Code Generation from Behavioral Models | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Executable State Machines | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Execution Analyzer Menu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export Model Reference Data for Calender events, Team Review, Gap Matrix Profiles, and Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
v14
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Feature Matrix v15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Firebird Repositories | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Floating Edition Available | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gantt Charts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gap Analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| GML 3.3 and 3.2.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Hand Drawn Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Heat Maps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hybrid Scripting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Info View | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrated Project management using Kanban | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML)
v14
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Kanban Diagrams | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lazy Load | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Learning Center | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux & macOS installation via WINE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux satellite service | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| MARTE Profile v15 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Math Support built into Script Engines | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| MDG Technologies (Create) (Note 1) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MDG for AML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Metadata/Repository Advanced Search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
Metamodel Views
v14
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mind Mapping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Model Based Add-ins
v15
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Model Chat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Model Driven Architecture (MDA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Model Mail | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Model Repository (EAP & FEAP Project Files) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
Native XML export
v15
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Navigation Bar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| New Report Templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NIEM 4&5 New | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Office 2016 Visual Style | ✓ | ✓ | >✓ | ✓ |
| OMG XMI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Package Menu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perspectives 14 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Portals Window | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Profile Authoring Helpers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
Project Browser Favorites
v15
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Project Management, Maintenance and Testing Windows | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Project Gantt View | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF Report Generation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personal Tasks View | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Profile/Metamodel Extensibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Project Calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Project Tasks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish to Joomla! | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-Time, HDL Code Engineering and Profiles | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Relationship (Traceability) Matrix | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Relationship Matrix Textual Overlays | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Replicate .EAP Projects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Report Generation: HTML and Rich-Text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Report Customization: WYSIWYG Template Editor (for Rich-Text Reports) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Requirements Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reverse Engineer Binaries (Java, .NET) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reverse Engineer User Defined Languages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reusable Asset Service (Read) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reusable Asset Service (Write) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Roadmap Diagrams | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Roadmap Patterns & Profile
v14
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ribbons Interface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Risk, Task and Image Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RTF Reporting API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| State Machines Code Generation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Save Diagrams as PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Schema Composer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Scripting with JScript, VBScript and Javascript | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Scriptlets New | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security (Role-based) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
Security Aware Perspectives
v15
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
Semantic Information Modeling for Federation SIMF
v14
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Shape Scripts/Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shared Models | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Simscape Integration v15.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Simulation of Object Instances | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SOMF 2.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Specification Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Statechart Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SysML 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SysML Parametric Model Simulation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SysML Simulation with OpenModelica | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Task Allocations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Team Library v14 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test Management | ✓ | ✓ | >✓ | ✓ |
| Testpoints | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Testpoints for VB.NET | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Aware Modeling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Total User Interface Themeing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TOGAF Gap Analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| UML Model Simulation (Activity, Sequence, State) (Note 3) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| User Interface Simulation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Version Control Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Version Control TFS 2010, 2012 Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Virtualized Ends | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Visual Studio / Eclipse Links | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Win 32 User Interface Designs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wireframes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Working Sets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WSDL Engineering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XMI Import and Export (2.1, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XML and XSD Editing and Validation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XMI Merge using Baseline Merge sets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| XML Schema (XSD) Engineering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XSLT Debugger | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WAN Optimizer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BPSim Modeling & Simulation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| DDS | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| DOORS Link (Note 5) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eclipse Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Eclipse Link | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Office | ✓ | |||
| SysML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| TOGAF | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Visual Studio Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Visual Studio Link | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| UPDM | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Zachman | ✓ | ✓ |
Enterprise Architect License Pricing
Licenses are perpetual and include 12 months of support and updates.
We offer:
- Single-user licenses
- Volume licensing for teams
- Multi-year renewal support
- Academic and reseller pricing options
Frequently Asked Questions
Are EA licenses perpetual or subscription-based?
EA licenses are perpetual and include 1 year of maintenance and upgrades.
Can I mix different editions in my team?
Yes. You can use a mix of Corporate, Unified, and Ultimate editions within your team.
Do you offer support for license deployment and floating licenses?
Yes. We help with single-user, floating, and cloud-deployed license configurations.
What’s the process to renew my license?
Contact our team before expiry to get renewal quotes and upgrade options.
