Cloud WMS cost
Cloud WMS subscription is the dominant new-deal model in 2026. SMB cloud starts at $229/mo on Fishbowl Inventory (the one published anchor). Mid-market and tier-1 SaaS are quote-only; our TCO model sizes mid-market at roughly $59-$160/mo per named user plus a platform fee.
By tier
- SMB cloud: from $229/mo (Fishbowl Inventory)[s-15].
- SMB per-order: ShipHero and Logiwa are quote-only. ShipHero has removed its public pricing page (shiphero.com/pricing now 404s) and routes buyers to a demo, so it publishes no current rate[s-14].
- Mid-market: quote-only. Our TCO model sizes it at about $59-$160/mo per named user plus a platform fee; no mid-market vendor publishes a per-user rate.
- Tier-1: quote-only. Third-party reference deals suggest roughly $20K-$60K/mo platform plus modules; nothing is published, and we do not invent a midpoint (see /vendors/manhattan-associates).
What drives the bill up
Order volume tiering, named-user count, module pile-on (Labor, Yard, Slotting), and integration count. As a planning estimate we budget a 5-7% annual renewal uplift; net-new tiering can be steeper.
2025-26 vendor moves
Per-order pricing has tightened across Logiwa and ShipHero. Korber has consolidated Voiteq voice-pick into the platform price. Made4net is now Ingka-owned with a retail-aligned commercial posture. Manhattan bundled Active Maven AI orchestration with no published list-price change.
Buyer questions
When is cloud cheaper than on-prem over 5 years?
At <50 users almost always. At 50-200 users it depends on perpetual list and maintenance percentage; see /break-even. Above 200 users with stable counts, on-prem can win.
Hosted private cloud premium?
Hosted-private single-tenant usually costs more than multi-tenant SaaS; as a planning estimate we model a 15-30% premium. See /deploy/private-cloud-wms.