Adobe price increases: Could Ado BE any more expensive?

Whatever Microsoft can do, Adobe can do too, right? April 27^th, 2022 sees the introduction of Adobe price increases of 4-7% for Adobe Creative Cloud products in 36 countries. Just as with Microsoft, the justification for the increase is new apps and features including:

• 1TB per license storage
• Extended version history
• Asset reclamation

The new pricing will apply to products bought directly from Adobe from April 27^th while customers with current contracts will see the new pricing at their next renewal post May 3^rd, 2022. It is believed this increase impacts commercial and government customers, but not those in education.

Impacted products

Adobe price increases apply to the following products:

• Creative Cloud for teams single app plans
• Creative Cloud for teams All Apps plan
• Creative Cloud for enterprise single app plans
• Creative Cloud for enterprise All Apps plan

Impacted countries

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czechia
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Spain
• United Kingdom
• United States

Our analysis on the Adobe price rises

For some organisations, a 4% – 7% increase on their Adobe spend could be significant. This represents a good opportunity to analyse your organisation’s Adobe usage – does everyone with a license still need it, are all licenses assigned, could an “All Apps” plan be swapped for a “Single App” etc.?  Also look at where you might be able to negotiate with your reseller partner and/or Adobe to offset some of this increase.

Resources

Adobe info page