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.NET Essentials - NDepend

Henrick Tissink on October 07, 2019

Two Types of Software As developers we deal with two kinds of software. The first kind is when we start a project fresh. It's the most...
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Davide Bellone

This tool looks really impressive! Wow!
But the problem is that it costs 500$ for each user! I don't think that too many companies would buy it.
Probably most of us will use only the 14-days free trial.

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Henrick Tissink • Edited

Hi Davide - thanks for the comment :)

I agree that not everyone is willing to spend 500 euro for a dev license, but when compared with competitors like SonarQube's pricing NDepend's pricing seems quite fair, and it offers so much more.

From a company's perspective I think the cost needs to be weighed against the benefit - what is the price of technical debt generated without the tool, and will this offset the price of the tool?