topic Re: New pricing on Fusion is OUTRAGEOUS in Fusion Support Forum

New pricing on Fusion is OUTRAGEOUS

katANU42 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:12:52 GMT

I primarily use other CAD programs (SketchUp, Shapr3D) because AutoCAD has always been WAY too expensive, but I’d seen some YouTube folks using Fusion360 and decided to give it a try. I’m a CAD trainer and thought I could add this to my tool belt.

AND THEN I SAW THE PRICING. $85 a MONTH? $680 a YEAR?

NOPE. I thought $300 a year for SketchUp and $349 a year for Shapr3D was steep. I might consider paying the same for Fusion. At $680 a year, or even $85 a month, I’ll pass. Where to you give feedback to Autodesk? Never mind…they’ve always been greedy. I knew Fusion360 was too good to be true…they’ve gone back to their roots and are charging way too much.

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Re: New pricing on Fusion is OUTRAGEOUS

seth.madore — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:35:52 GMT

You do know we offer a Personal License (for free) that gives you almost all the same tools as Commercial, right?

Re: New pricing on Fusion is OUTRAGEOUS

galea_claudiu — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:31:32 GMT

It's strange that there are always promotions of 30% off just like that. If you have to renew the license at that moment, it's perfect. sometimes only applies to new licenses if I understood correctly. But if you pay the full price and a week later they make a special promo of 30% off...you feel a bit ripped off. Anyways. Nobody makes us buy the Fusion. Still, maybe the best choice of CAD&CAM for money/ what you get in return. R&D will make a lathe simulation in the future. Maybe is worth the extra money for standard features in the machine simulation.

Re: New pricing on Fusion is OUTRAGEOUS

Jedpaull — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:59:31 GMT

Except extremely useful features like Prismatic Mesh Conversion are locked behind the paywall.

Re: New pricing on Fusion is OUTRAGEOUS

TrippyLighting — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:17:37 GMT

The Prismatic Mesh Conversion isn't particularly useful. It mostly only converts very simple geometry that in many cases is easier to redesign from scratch with the native parametric tool in Fusion.

Just for anyone else that reads this thread, SketchUp is a wonderful modeling tool, but it is NOT a CAD application.