Akeneo Review: Pricing, Pros, Cons & Alternatives

Overview

Akeneo was founded in 2013 and lists offices in Nantes, Paris and Lille in France, Düsseldorf, London, Amsterdam, Boston and Sydney. It reports more than 900 enterprise customers and more than 400 employees.^[3] Its commercial offering, the Akeneo Product Cloud, is sold in Growth, Advanced and Premium packages, and it continues to offer a free open-source Community Edition.^[2]

Customer results it cites include Tiffany & Co. launching seven ecommerce markets in six months, ASSA ABLOY cutting price-list relaunches from two months to two hours, and Rexel classifying 12,000 products in three months with 98% accuracy; other customers shown include American Eagle, Clarks, Steelcase, LVMH, Staples and Fanatics.^[1] The Growth package starts at $0 a year and includes a Data Architect Agent, composable products and AI description generation; Advanced adds collaboration workflows and rights management; Premium adds PX Insights and a success package with 24/7 support. Each paid package includes one activation channel.^[2] Akeneo also runs an app store for connectors.^[1]