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IBM Engineering Rhapsody vs Sparx Enterprise Architect

IBM Engineering Rhapsody

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Sparx Enterprise Architect

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FigureIBM Engineering RhapsodySparx Enterprise Architect
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published018
Spec score · UML Modeling Software5.9 (#24)8.9 (#2)

Plans

IBM Engineering Rhapsody

No plans published.

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Sparx Enterprise Architect

  • Enterprise Architect LiteFree
  • Lite EditionFree
  • Professional Standard$245, paid once
  • Professional — Standard License$245, paid once
  • Corporate Standard$320, paid once
  • Corporate — Standard License$320, paid once
  • Professional Floating$320, paid once
  • Professional — Floating License$320, paid once
  • Corporate Floating$425, paid once
  • Corporate — Floating License$425, paid once

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IBM Engineering Rhapsody

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Sparx Enterprise Architect

Sparx Enterprise Architect is a visual modeling tool for business and IT systems, software and systems engineering, and real-time and embedded development. It supports UML, SysML, BPMN, and other open standards, linking specifications with analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance models. Diagram coverage includes UML use case, activity, state, sequence, communication, package, class, object, component, and deployment types, plus BPMN and SysML. Requirements management supports hierarchical requirements, links to model elements, reporting, and impact analysis. Teams can simulate behavioral models using triggers, guards, and effects, including JavaScript, and generate or reverse engineer code for languages including C++, C#, Java, PHP, and Python. Built-in version control and deployable cloud-based servers support shared projects. The trial lasts 30 days and permits use of any edition, though printed documents carry a watermark. The product supports Windows, Linux, macOS, self-hosting, and API access.

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