PriceBeam vs Zilliant CPQ

PriceBeam’s RGM360 is a SaaS revenue growth management platform for combining market research, internal data, AI, and pricing simulations. Its market insights address willingness to pay, competitor price positioning, packaging and assortment, promotional benchmarks, and new-product pricing. Research options include Choice-Based Conjoint, MaxDiff, Gabor-Granger, and Newton-Smith methods, alongside AI. Predictive Research covers willingness-to-pay, comparative willingness-to-pay, assortment, value attributes, menu-based conjoint, and promotion studies. The RGM Optimizer & Simulator models market scenarios and can optimize pricing, assortment, and promotional strategies using Predictive Research or RGM Data Lake data. Data Lake imports vary by plan and can use Excel, an API, or an OData Endpoint; reports can be exported to Excel or PowerPoint, with OData export on higher tiers. PriceBeam says research is available in 127 countries and every project includes human quality control. The service has web and API access, a free trial for draft projects and demo scenarios, and no free plan. RGM Data Lake Individual costs $995 a month; other listed plan prices require contacting sales.

Zilliant CPQ is cloud-based quoting software for manufacturers and distributors managing complex products and pricing. It applies pricing strategy, margin targets and business rules during each quote, while configuration rules guide complex product choices to reduce errors and guesswork. Pricing logic, discounts and agreements are enforced in real time, and generated quotes reflect policy, margin targets and customer context. Workflow guardrails send only true exceptions for escalation. The product is available through web and API platforms and includes configuration rules, discount approvals, constraint modeling and scenario simulation. SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA integrations provide live pricing at header and line-item levels and can create SAP inquiries, quotes, sales orders, products, bills of material and production routings. Native connectors cover Salesforce CPQ, Oracle CPQ, SAP CPQ, Salesforce Commerce and SAP Commerce. SSO integrations use OAuth 2.0, SAML or OpenID Connect with several CRM platforms. SAP connections use secure encrypted links. Zilliant provides pricing on request.