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Discover our subscription plans and select the one that best aligns with your organisation’s needs.
As demand for our services grows, subscription fees play a crucial role in ensuring long-term sustainability. They enable us to invest in cutting-edge resources, advanced technology, and skilled talent, enhancing our ability to deliver impactful programmes. Your subscription supports both day-to-day operations and future growth, driving meaningful and lasting positive change.

The OpenAIRE ARGOS service is freely available to researchers, providing a robust platform for creating, managing, and sharing data management plans. For organisations, research groups or data professionals seeking customised solutions, we offer various subscription options for both cloud-based and local installations, ensuring that ARGOS meets your specific needs.

Subscription Plans

*OpenAIRE members get a 30% discount

Free

ARGOS on the Cloud

For individual researchers, Principle Investigators and small research teams to manage data throughout a project lifecycle.

 

0 €

Free includes:

  • Use default Blueprints

  • Use default OMPs (data, software, other)

  • Collaborate with your team
  • Leave comments on plans
  • Version your OMPs
  • Prefill via OpenAIRE APIs
  • Publish plans in Zenodo and assign PIDs
  • Receive training via OpenAIRE public resources
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Plus

ARGOS on the Cloud

For mid-to-large research teams. For data stewards to enhance efficiency, quality, and compliance of data management across teams.

 

1200 € / year

Includes Free, plus:

  • Create own, custom blueprints (up to 3)*

  • Create re-usable templates for datasets, software, etc.
  • Create up to 1000 OMPs
  • Deposit OMPs (integration)
  • Configure APIs to link blueprints to own infrastructure
  • Use standard OpenAIRE reporting and monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Matomo)
  • 2 hour training, with demos

(*) 600 € per extra 3-bundle of blueprints

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Premium

ARGOS on the Cloud

For institutions who want to streamline, enhance and make visible their Data Management with customised solutions.

Starting from

4200 € / year

Includes Plus, plus:

  • Get your own tenant on the cloud
  • Apply own website branding (logo, colors)
  • Create own, custom blueprints (up to 30) *

  • Up to 1000 users with ~100GB storage**

  • Assign different rights to users
  • Design customised export template
  • Collaborate live of templates design
  • Connect to own reporting systems for statistics
  • Premium technical support
  • Availability of 1-1 training packages***

(*) 1000 € per extra 30-bundle of blueprints

(**)Additional capacity: 5,000 users (approx. 100GB storage) for 7,200 €; 10,000 users (approx. 300GB storage) for 9,200 €; more than 10,000 users (300GB storage) for 14,400 €.

(***) Plan includes 4 hours of training; additional training is 80 €/hour.

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On-Premise

Local Installation*
For institutions that demand the highest level of control, security, and customization in their data management.

Starting from 

5000 € / year

Enjoy all the powerful features of Argos with the added benefits of local deployment, ensuring your data stays within your infrastructure. This solution provides unmatched flexibility and compliance with institutional policies, making it the perfect choice for organizations with specific security requirements or unique data management needs.
  • Use own storage for system activities
  • Deposit DMPs via integration to local repository (InvenioRDM/Zenodo, DSpace, Dataverse, CKAN)
  • Connect to own reporting systems for statistics
  • Premium technical support for installation, basic configuration and software maintenance
  • Availability of 1-1 training packages**

(*) OpenDMP is an open source and you have the option of deploying and self manageging your installation.

(**) Plan includes 4 hours of training; additional training is 80 €/hour.

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Complete feature list

Create
   FreePlusPremium
Use default blueprints  Y  Y  Y
 Create own blueprints    3  30
 Create simple templates    Y  Y
 Create machine actionable templates    Y  Y
 Create data/software/output management plans  Y  1,000  10,000
 Versioning enabled  Y  Y  Y
History (logs)      Y

Publish
   FreePlusPremium
Publish to InvenioRDM/Zenodo, DSpace, Dataverse, or CKANand and assign PIDs   Zenodo only  Zenodo (contact for more integrations)  Y
 Publish to more than one from the list      Y

Customise
   FreePlusPremium
Use default export template  Y  Y  Y
Design export template (own logo, font style, etc)      Y
OpenAIRE.eu domain  Y  Y  Y
New domain      
Argos name, logo, fonts, colours  Y Y  
Own branding      Y
Translation of tool & guides into native language  Y Y   Y

Configure
   FreePlusPremium
Use our standard API collection  Y  Y  Y
Configure own API's   Contact for more integrations   Y

Collaborate
   FreePlusPremium
Live collaboration when creating plans (researcher-level)  Y  Y  Y
Live collaboration when designing templates (template editor-level)      Y
Leave comments on plans Y  Y  Y

Access & Manage
   FreePlusPremium
Standard storage offered by OpenAIRE Y Y Y
Get storage from OpenAIRE (tenant)      0-999 researchers (~ 100 GB storage)
1000 - 4999 (~ 200 GB storage)
5000 - 9999 (~ 300 GB storage)
10000 (~ 400 GB storage)
Get own storage (deployment)      
Use standard OpenAIRE reporting & monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Matomo, MONITOR) Y   Y  Y
Connect to OpenAIRE's reporting & monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Matomo, MONITOR)   Y Y
Connect to own reporting & systems      Y
Use standard OpenAIRE Keycloak configured providers for login  Y Y   Y
Customise Keycloak providers for login      Y
Export users      Y
Assign different rights to users - standard  Y (co-owner & viewer) Y   Y
Assign different rights to users - custom      Y

Technical Support
   FreePlusPremium
Limited package   Y  
Unlimited package     Y

Training
   FreePlusPremium
Limited - Available in Community Calls Y  Y  Y
Packages to choose from     Y
Standard demo & consultation    Y Y