Pricing
Reach compliance
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with Z-CMS
Z-CMS turns the Cyber Resilience Act into step-by-step action items. Your engineers bring what they already know best, your products, and Z-CMS brings the CRA. EN 18031 (RED DA) features are included in every license.
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- All features included
- Free trial
- Substantial saving
How licensing works
One license per product family, not per product
You can group sufficiently similar products into a product family and bring them into compliance together. Products in a family share the components that matter for cybersecurity, so they yield the same technical documentation.
Product family 1
Shared foundation
- Operating system
- Software
- Interfaces
- Access control
- Communication
- Update mechanism
Product family 2
Different firmware
A substantial difference that affects cybersecurity
Example
20 products that can be grouped into 5 product families need only 5 licenses. Document and justify your grouping rationale in your risk assessment. This approach is aligned with Notified Bodies' guidelines.
20
products
5
product families
5
licenses
Manual vs. Z-CMS
No CRA expertise required
Your engineers are already experts in your products, and that's the knowledge compliance needs. Z-CMS brings the CRA: follow it from top to bottom and complete each action item. The regulation and standards are only a reference for cross-checking.
Cost per product family
Manual
€30,000–€100,000
With Z-CMS
€960–€4,000
Effort per product family
Manual
37 person-weeks
With Z-CMS
5 person-weeks
Preliminary study of the standards
Manual
≈ 800 pages, 10 weeks
With Z-CMS
1 week
Manual compliance
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Your whole team studies the CRA
Product owners, developers and testers all need to read and interpret nearly 800 pages before the real work starts.
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Expertise walks out the door
When your CRA expert leaves, the next person starts learning from scratch.
With Z-CMS
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Your product knowledge is what counts
Z-CMS translates the CRA into action items. Your engineers complete them with what they already know about your products, not with niche regulatory knowledge.
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Work continues when people change
New team members pick up the project in Z-CMS where others left off, without becoming CRA experts first.
The reading pile
What a manual CRA project asks your team to read and interpret.
≈ 790 pages
Manual: ≈ 10 person-weeks across your team to read and interpret
With Z-CMS: ≈ 1 person-week. The standards become a reference for cross-checking
Effort per product family
Full-time person-weeks for a first CRA project.
32 person-weeks saved (86% less)
| Step | Manual | Z-CMS |
|---|---|---|
| Preliminary study of the standards | 10 wk | 1 wk Standards become a reference, not something to study |
| Risk assessment | 8 wk | 2 wk |
| Drafting of documents* | 8 wk | 0 wk Generated by Z-CMS |
| Vulnerability handling policies | 3 wk | 1 wk |
| Review for consistency and completeness | 8 wk | 1 wk |
| Total | 37 wk | 5 wk |
* Generated by Z-CMS v2.16: risk assessment documents and data flow diagrams according to prEN 40000-1-2 and prEN IEC 62443-4-1. More documents to come in future versions.
Estimates based on our experience. Done manually, effort stays similar for each additional product family: product owners change, and complexity grows with the number of products. In Z-CMS, you can reuse forms and information across product families.
Our cost estimation of €30,000 baseline per product family is in line with the European Commission's estimate for CRA self-assessment (€18,400) plus documentation and reporting (€12,600): ≈ €31,000 per product.
Source: European Commission, Impact Assessment SWD(2022) 282
Covering the RED DA (EN 18031) too? Every Z-CMS license includes EN 18031 features, so your savings are even greater.
Simple pricing per product family
One license covers one product family for 12 months. The more product families you bring into compliance, the lower your average price: automatically, no negotiation required.
From €960 per product family at scale
| Licenses | Unit price per license / year | Average per product family at the top of the range |
|---|---|---|
| 1–4 Starting tier | €4,000 | €4,000 |
| 5–10 | €3,000 | €3,400 |
| 11–30 | €1,000 | €1,800 |
| 31–40 | €900 | €1,575 |
| 41–50 | €800 | €1,420 |
| 51–60 | €700 | €1,300 |
| 61–70 | €600 | €1,200 |
| 71–80 | €500 | €1,113 |
| 81–90 | €400 | €1,033 |
| 91–100 Best rate | €300 | €960 |
| More than 100 Custom | Contact us → | |
Prices per license per year, excl. VAT. Pricing is graduated, like a tax bracket: each tier's unit price applies only to the licenses within that range. The average shows what each product family costs when you buy up to the end of that range.
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What's included in every license
CRA compliance
EN 18031 (RED DA)
Platform & support
Calculate your savings
See how much you save with Z-CMS compared to manual compliance work.
1 product family = 1 license
Avg. cost per product family
Manual
€30,000
With Z-CMS
€3,400
Total annual cost
Manual
€300,000
With Z-CMS
€34,000
You save
€266,000
89% of the manual cost
Tier breakdown
Manual baseline: €30,000 per product family.
Z-CMS pays for itself with your first product family
A first license costs €4,000, compared with about €30,000 and 37 person-weeks of manual compliance work for the same product family.
Free trial
Try Z-CMS free for one month
Access to all features for one product family, with no payment upfront.
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Request your trial
Email us your company name, number of product families and a contact person.
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Sign the trial contract
We exchange the contract. No payment upfront.
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Receive Z-CMS
We ship Z-CMS and a trial license key. It runs on-prem, in your own infrastructure.
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Use it for one month
Access to full features, for one product family.
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Continue or cancel
Continue: we send a 12-month license key and an invoice, and your work carries over. Or cancel up to one business day before the trial ends.
Transparent terms: your free trial converts into a 12-month license unless you cancel at least one business day before it ends. After that, licenses never renew automatically.
The free trial is available to manufacturers of products that fall under the RED DA or the CRA.
FAQ
A single license allows you to create a CRA compliance project for one product family in Z-CMS, for 12 months.
For a project, you can generate the following documents:
- CRA Risk Assessment (.docx), based on prEN 40000-1-2 and EN IEC 62443-4-1
- CRA Vulnerability Handling Policy (.docx), based on prEN 40000-1-3
- CRA gap analysis report (.pdf and in dashboard), based on:
- prEN 40000-1-3 (vulnerability handling requirements)
- prEN 40000-1-4 (product requirements)
- CRA Annex II (Information and Instructions to the User)
- EN 18031-* Technical Documentation (.xlsx)
- EN 18031-* Test Plan (.docx)
For EN 18031-*, all and any combination of EN 18031-1, -2 and -3 standards are supported.
Additional details:
- There is no limit to how many times you can generate or download your documents.
- Z-CMS is not a per-seat application — you can create unlimited users within your organization.
Start your CRA compliance with a free trial
The CRA's main obligations apply from 11 December 2027. With about 37 person-weeks of manual work per product family, starting early matters. Try Z-CMS free for one month, for one product family, with no payment upfront.
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