Pricing Plans
Annual commitment and monthly payments required; early termination will attract a cancellation fee.*
Upgrade price available from Adobe Captivate 8
*Cancellation Policy: If you cancel within the first 14 days, you will get a full refund.Otherwise, you'll be billed 50% of your remaining contract obligation. If you ever need to cancel, just call Customer Support.
Prices listed above are the Adobe direct store prices in the U.S.; reseller prices may vary. Prices do not include tax or shipping and handling.**
Buying Programs
Individual License
Adobe.com subscription
A subscription is a new, more flexible way to get access to Adobe software. It gives you ongoing access to the software for a low monthly fee, as well as access to all upgrades at no additional charge as long as your subscription remains active. You can subscribe to Adobe Captivate for € 36,59/mo.
Perpetual Licenses - CLP
Set an initial discount level. Save incrementally.
The Cumulative Licensing Program (CLP) is a two-year licensing program in which members place an initial order for Adobe Captivate, Adobe Presenter, Adobe Presenter Video Express and other desktop software products. The initial order sets the discount level for that order and additional orders. Members can improve their discount level by accumulating points through the purchase of additional licenses or Upgrade. CLP helps organizations that want to extend discount levels globally and to their affiliates and subsidiaries.
- Two-year membership
- Accumulate points for greater savings
- Manage and deploy with Adobe Licensing Website (LWS)
Perpetual Licenses - TLP
No requirements, no contract.
The Transactional Licensing Program (TLP) makes it easy to get volume pricing on Adobe Captivate, Adobe Presenter, Adobe Presenter Video Express and other desktop products. There are no membership requirements and no contracts to sign. TLP is ideal for organizations that want administrative simplicity and a quick-and-easy one-time transaction.
- One simple transaction
- No agreements to sign
- Manage and deploy with LWS
Term licenses - ETLA
Meet your unique enterprise-wide needs.
With Enterprise Term Licensing Agreement (ETLA), organizations can create an agreement to deploy licenses throughout the enterprise over a three-year term. Once the software subscription needs are defined, the organization will make three predictable annual payments on a set anniversary date. Deployment through the Adobe Enterprise Dashboard is simple and allows the organization’s IT Admin to build customized deployment packages and apply the latest updates when ready.
- For stable or growing organizations
- Three-year commitment
- Consolidated Purchasing
Perpetual Licenses - Perpetual licenses are licenses of a particular product and version, which users deploy using Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) and serial numbers. Once users purchase a perpetual license, they own that license going forward. You can buy a perpetual license under the CLP and TLP programs.
Term Licenses - Adobe Buying Programs are ideal for large organizations that want to get the right tools into the right hands in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The Adobe Enterprise Term License Agreement (ETLA) program provides a host of options for purchasing, deploying and managing multiple licenses of essential software.
Want to know more?
Find out how Adobe Buying Programs can help your organization.
Call Adobe at 800-915-9428
Mail to everythingelearning@adobe.com
Version Comparison Chart
| Adobe Captivate 9 | Adobe Captivate 8 | Adobe Captivate 7 | |
| Adobe Captivate Draft | ✓ | ||
| Multistate objects | ✓ | ||
| Responsive Motion Effects without programming | ✓ | ||
| Asset store | ✓ | ||
| Interactive slide shows with multistate objects | ✓ | ||
| Multistate support for drag-and-drop interactions | ✓ | ||
| In-product LMS preview | ✓ | ||
| iOS device capture | ✓ | ||
| Knowledge Check questions | ✓ | ||
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support | ✓ | ||
| Publish to Adobe Captivate Prime and other LMSs | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Multiscreen responsive elearning authoring | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Shared Advanced Actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| All-new, intuitive user interface | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Best-in-class screen capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multidevice previews | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Responsive themes | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Geo-location support | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gesture-enabled mobile Learning | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Native support for HTML5 objects | ✓ | ✓ | |
| MinMax object sizing | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Relative smart positioning of objects | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Retina display support | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Colors and effects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native app publisher | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Popup Blocker | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Device-aware eLearning delivery | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Best-in-class HTML5 publishing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Themes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enhanced interactions library | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiformat publishing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Responsive drag-and-drop interactions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accessibility support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio-video support and synchronization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comprehensive quizzing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple question types | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Equation editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Right-to-left language support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Social media engagement | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Roundtripping with Microsoft PowerPoint | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| High-definition screencast | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Actors | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customizable Smart Shapes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pretest and branch-aware quizzing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comprehensive scoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remediation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Professional project templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Master Slides | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text to speech | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rollover slidelet, images and captions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scenario branching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for right-clicking in simulations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-text captions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table of contents and Aggregator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text enhancements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pan and zoom support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customizeable skins | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Randomized quizzing and question pools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Roundtripping with Adobe CC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unicode support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
**This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services (“Online Services”). Online Services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms of use and Adobe’s online privacy policy (see www.adobe.com/go/terms_it). Online Services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration, and may be discontinued or modified in whole or in part without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.
Prices listed are the Adobe direct store prices in the United States. Reseller prices may vary. Prices do not include tax or shipping and handling.