Katana Pricing and Katana MRP Advantage Plan Cost

Katana pricing now has two plans on Katana's own pricing page: a Free plan at $0 that is capped at 30 SKUs, and Katana Advantage at a custom price on one annual contract. The old self-serve Core plan (from $299 a month plus sales order usage) and its published add-on prices are no longer listed. Anyone who needs more than 30 SKUs now books a call and gets a quote scoped to their business, with implementation included.

That is a big change for buyers who bookmarked a $299 figure. Katana's FAQ says customers still on Standard, Professional, Professional Plus or Core will be contacted directly about any changes to their plan. Below is what each plan includes today, what the last published paid prices were, how to budget for a quote, and what cheaper tools cover if your real need is reordering rather than production.

Katana pricing plans at a glance

Plan	Price	SKUs and users	What you get	Built for
Free	$0, no credit card	Up to 30 SKUs (unlimited for a 15-day trial), unlimited users	All Katana features, unlimited integrations and locations, API access, AI assistant and knowledge base support	Testing Katana on real data, or a very small catalog
Advantage	Custom, one annual contract	Unlimited SKUs, users and integrations	Custom build and implementation, a dedicated customer success manager, an implementation manager, priority support with an SLA, regular inventory consultations, custom integrations, reports and automations	Manufacturers and brands that want Katana set up around their workflows by Katana's team

The Free plan is generous for evaluation because nothing is locked: manufacturing, traceability, warehouse tools and forecasting are all switched on. The 30-SKU cap is what ends it. Once variants and raw materials are counted, almost every real catalog passes 30 SKUs in the first import.

What happened to Katana Core and the add-on prices?

Earlier in 2026 Katana published a three-plan lineup. Core started at $299 a month with unlimited users, SKUs and integrations and one inventory location, then rose with the number of sales orders delivered and each extra location. Traceability was a $249 a month add-on, Manufacturing Management $199, Warehouse Management $149, and an optional onboarding package cost $2,000. Advantage sat above Core at a custom price.

The current page drops Core and every published add-on price. The features themselves are still there: traceability, manufacturing management, warehouse management, planning and forecasting, and AI Replenishment purchase order suggestions all appear in the plan comparison. What changed is how you buy them. Instead of picking add-ons in a calculator, you describe your setup to Katana's team and receive one price for software, implementation and support.

Item	Last published price	Today
Core plan	From $299/mo plus sales order and location usage	Not offered on the pricing page
Traceability	$249/mo	Feature listed, priced inside an Advantage quote
Manufacturing Management	$199/mo	Feature listed, priced inside an Advantage quote
Warehouse Management	$149/mo	Feature listed, priced inside an Advantage quote
Onboarding	$2,000, optional on Core	Guided implementation included in Advantage

How much does Katana cost?

Katana costs $0 on the Free plan up to 30 SKUs, and above that it costs whatever your Advantage quote says, because Katana no longer publishes a paid price. For budgeting, the last public paid entry point was $299 a month before usage, or $3,588 a year, and Advantage was always the tier above it. A maker who needed Manufacturing Management and Traceability on the old lineup paid $747 a month in subscription before order usage. Treat those numbers as a reference point for the conversation, not as a price Katana will give you.

Scenario	Old Core lineup, per month	Year one on the old lineup with onboarding	Today
Reseller, one location, no add-ons	$299 plus order usage	$5,588 plus order usage	Advantage quote
Small maker with Manufacturing Management	$498 plus order usage	$7,976 plus order usage	Advantage quote
Regulated maker with Manufacturing, Traceability and Warehouse Management	$896 plus order usage	$12,752 plus order usage	Advantage quote

Katana also syncs with QuickBooks Online and Xero, so inventory value and cost of goods flow into your books. If a lender or investor wants a clean set of financials built from that accounting export, a financial statement generator turns it into a P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow statement without a spreadsheet rebuild. Keep that cost separate from the Katana budget above.

Is Katana Advantage worth it?

Katana Advantage is worth it for small and mid-size manufacturers who build from bills of materials, plan production daily and want someone else to do the setup. Unlimited users is a real advantage over per-seat tools such as Fishbowl, and having implementation, a success manager and support with an SLA in one contract removes the surprise onboarding invoice many ERP projects bring.

It is poor value for businesses that do not make anything. A reseller that buys finished goods would sign an annual, sales-led contract for a production-first system, when the job it needs done is knowing what to reorder, when, and how much. That gap is covered on our Katana MRP alternative page, and it is the job Storekeeper does: per-SKU demand forecasting software from $49 a month, auto-drafted purchase orders on the $149 Growth plan, no sales call and no annual lock-in. If you do manufacture, read our manufacturing inventory software guide before you decide.

Is planning and forecasting included in Katana?

Yes. Katana's pricing page lists planning and forecasting (demand planning, replenishment planning and inventory control) and AI Replenishment (purchase order recommendations from demand history) as part of the product, and the Free plan includes all Katana features. Older review sites still describe forecasting as a $249 add-on; that price belonged to Traceability. Katana's forecasting is built around production and materials, which suits makers better than pure resellers.

Does Katana have a free plan?

Yes. Katana's Free plan costs $0, needs no credit card and includes all Katana features, unlimited users, integrations and inventory locations, and API access. The limit is 30 SKUs, lifted to unlimited SKUs for a 15-day trial so you can import a real catalog. Support on Free is the AI assistant and knowledge base rather than live help.

Katana pricing compared with its competitors

Tool	Entry price	Users	Forecasting	Onboarding
Katana Advantage	Custom annual quote (Free up to 30 SKUs)	Unlimited	Included	Included in the contract
Fishbowl Inventory Essentials	$229/mo, billed annually	2	Only on Scale at $729/mo	Required, not priced publicly
Cin7 Core Standard	$349/mo	5	ForesightAI add-on, priced on sales volume	Not priced publicly
Unleashed Core	$399/mo	3	$149/mo add-on on Core	From $449
Storekeeper Starter	$49/mo ($24 billed yearly)	Unlimited	Included on every plan	None required

The plan-by-plan detail for two of these is in our Fishbowl pricing and Cin7 pricing breakdowns. Of the four heavyweights, Katana is now the only one with no published paid price at all, so it is the one where a written quote matters most.

Questions to ask Katana before you sign

• What exactly does the quote include? Ask for the software, implementation and support lines separately, and which of traceability, manufacturing management and warehouse management are in scope.
• How is volume counted? The old Core plan metered delivered sales orders. Ask whether your Advantage price assumes an order count and what happens at your peak month.
• How are locations counted? A 3PL, a second warehouse and a retail store may each be a location.
• What happens at renewal? Advantage is one annual contract. Ask how the renewal price is set and what happens if usage falls.
• I am on Core today. What changes? Katana says it contacts existing Core, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus customers directly. Get the new terms in writing before your renewal date.

Run your own numbers before any sales call. The stock scan at the top of this page shows cover, reorder quantities and dead-stock value on sample data or rows you paste in, which is the fastest way to see whether a forecasting tool from $49 a month covers what you were about to sign an annual contract for. Plans are on our pricing page.