Autodesk Forma Pricing 2026: What ACC, Autodesk Docs and BIM 360 Are Called Now, and What They Cost

Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) has been called Autodesk Forma since 24 March 2026, and there is no single price for it. You buy its parts. On Autodesk's US store on 12 November 2026, one user for a year cost $540 for Forma Data Management (the old Autodesk Docs), $925 for Forma Design Collaboration (the old BIM Collaborate Pro), $800 or $1,400 for Forma Build, and $1,290 for Forma Takeoff. BIM 360 is a separate, older platform that got no new name.

We read every price below from Autodesk's own buy pages in the US, Germany and the UK on that day and kept the screenshots. Where Autodesk shows no price, we say so instead of guessing.

Old name, new name

Autodesk published the rename as a table. Here it is, with the one earlier rename that causes most of the confusion added at the bottom.

The ten renames Autodesk listed on its Digital Builder blog (updated 30 March 2026), plus the site planning tool renamed in September 2025.

The last row is the trap. From 2023 until September 2025, "Autodesk Forma" meant one product: the browser tool for site studies that grew out of Spacemaker. Autodesk then moved that name up a level to cover the whole platform and renamed the tool Forma Site Design. An article about "Forma" written before autumn 2025 is almost always about site planning. One written after March 2026 may be about document control on a construction site.

Autodesk's own three-minute video walks through the same names:

Autodesk Construction Cloud is Now Autodesk Forma, Brief Overview (Autodesk Construction, 3:17)

Autodesk Construction Cloud is Now Autodesk Forma, by Autodesk Construction on YouTube, 3 minutes 17 seconds, published 25 March 2026. The player only loads when you press play.

What changed on 24 March 2026, and what did not

According to Autodesk's announcement, signed by Amy Bunszel, the names changed and the software did not. Its wording: "There is no data migration, no disruption to existing workflows, and no changes to licensing, integrations, or project data."

Two things did start the next day, 25 March 2026, and both affect what you pay:

• Forma Data Management Essentials became part of standalone AutoCAD, Revit and Civil 3D subscriptions and of the Product Design and Manufacturing Collection. It cannot be bought separately.
• Forma Build Essentials went on sale as a cheaper field-only tier of Forma Build.

The dates, in order:

Some leftovers remain. The pricing page still lives at construction.autodesk.com, Autodesk's BIM 360 page carries a banner saying that "some resources may still reflect previous branding", and the mobile app is listed as "Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud)".

Autodesk Forma prices in the US

US store, before tax, 12 November 2026. Autodesk advertises the annual plans as a monthly figure "paid annually" ($45 for Data Management, $78 for Design Collaboration, $67 and $117 for Build, $108 for Takeoff, $59 for Site Design). Those are the annual prices divided by twelve and charged once, the same display habit we described for Revit's price.

One year, one user, drawn from the prices on Autodesk's US buy pages on 12 November 2026.

Forma Data Management on Autodesk's US store, 12 November 2026: $540 a year or $70 a month.

Three things fall out of the numbers.

The three-year term saves nothing. Three years of Data Management cost $1,620, exactly three times $540. Design Collaboration and Takeoff are the same, and Build per user is $5 more than three single years. Autodesk's page says what you get instead: the price cannot rise for three years.

Monthly beats annual only below about eight months. Eight monthly payments come to $560 for Data Management against $540 for the year, $920 against $925 for Design Collaboration, and exactly the annual price for both Build tiers. For a project team that needs seats for a six-month job, pay monthly. Autodesk's own figure for the gap is 33 percent, which matches: twelve months of Design Collaboration cost $1,380.

Takeoff and Build per user already contain Data Management. Both buy pages list "Includes subscription to Forma Data Management", so do not add $540 on top. The Build Essentials page lists "core field, data management, and collaboration capabilities" instead, which is not the same promise.

Forma Build: three tiers

The three Forma Build tiers on Autodesk's US store, 12 November 2026.

Forma Build Essentials ($800 a year) is for the people on site: current sheets and files, issues and punch lists, forms, photos, daily reports, on the web and in the mobile app, with offline work. Forma Build per user ($1,400) adds what a project manager needs, in Autodesk's words "project management, cost, reporting and insights, advanced permissions, or Autodesk AI capabilities". The third tier has no limit on users or projects and no public price.

The two paid tiers can sit on the same project, with each person's tools set by their licence. That makes a mixed team the obvious way to buy it. If you run RFIs through Build, our RFI guide with a free log template covers the process side.

Forma Site Design and Flex

Forma Site Design is the only product in this family that Autodesk also sells by the day. Its buy page lists Flex at $99 for 33 tokens and 6 tokens a day, so one day costs $18. Against the $700 annual plan, Flex is cheaper below about 39 days a year ($700 ÷ $18). Site studies tend to come in bursts at the start of a project, which is the pattern Flex suits.

Forma Site Design on Autodesk's US store, 12 November 2026, with the Flex option on the right.

Prices in Germany and the UK

Read on Autodesk's stores on 12 November 2026. US prices are before tax. The German and UK pages for Data Management, Design Collaboration and Site Design state that estimated VAT is included; the Build and Takeoff pages show a price without saying either way. For the German Build per-user tier we could read only the monthly-equivalent figure, so we have not multiplied it out.

Design Collaboration is the outlier. In Germany it costs €1,167 against $925 in the US, a far wider gap than for Data Management (€566 against $540). If your office buys seats in more than one country, check each store.

The German store on 12 November 2026: Forma Data Management at €566 a year including estimated VAT.

The UK store on the same day: Forma Design Collaboration at £1,008 a year including estimated VAT.

What a team actually pays

These are our own sums from the US list prices above. They leave out tax, reseller discounts and the design software itself.

One architect with a standalone Revit subscription: $0 extra. Forma Data Management Essentials comes with Revit, and it covers storage, browser viewing, markups, issues and sharing. Pay the $540 only when you need approvals, metadata-driven workflows, Insights or the API. Autodesk says the upgrade needs no migration: the extra tools appear in the hub you already have.

Six people working in one Revit model in the cloud: $5,550 a year. Cloud co-authoring is the job of Forma Design Collaboration, and every person who edits the shared model needs a seat: 6 × $925. The same six seats paid monthly for a full year cost $8,280, so the annual plan saves $2,730.

Forma Design Collaboration, formerly BIM Collaborate Pro, on Autodesk's US store on 12 November 2026.

A small contractor with three project managers and five people on site: $8,200 a year. Three Build per-user seats (3 × $1,400 = $4,200) and five Build Essentials seats (5 × $800 = $4,000). Putting all eight on the per-user tier would cost $11,200. An estimator on Forma Takeoff adds $1,290.

Past roughly this size, the unlimited-user plans and the bundles start to matter, and those have no public price.

The three bundles

Autodesk's Forma pricing page offers three bundles, each behind a "Get a quote" button.

The bundle comparison on Autodesk's Forma pricing page, 12 November 2026. No bundle shows a price.

Model Management is the one a BIM team will be offered, because it carries Navisworks Manage for clash detection (our NWD file guide explains its formats) and ReCap Pro for point clouds. Forma Estimate cannot be bought any other way: its product page says it "is only sold in the Forma for Preconstruction bundle".

Since Autodesk publishes no bundle prices, the only honest comparison is the one you make yourself: add up the list prices of the seats you would otherwise buy and put that number next to the quote.

Where BIM 360 fits

BIM 360 is the part of this story that the rename did not touch, and the name people still type most. Autodesk's support article "What is the difference between Autodesk Forma and BIM 360", dated 7 April 2026, puts it in one sentence: "BIM 360 is an earlier cloud-based construction Management Platform, while Forma is a more recent platform." The note under it matters more: "Once a project is created on one platform it cannot be automatically migrated to the other platform."

Autodesk's BIM 360 page on 12 November 2026. The logo still says BIM 360; the headline points to Forma.

What Autodesk's retired products list says about the BIM 360 family:

BIM 360 Docs and the other modules are not on that list, and we found no published end date for them. Anyone who gives you one is guessing or knows something Autodesk has not put in writing. The direction is clear all the same: Autodesk's own BIM 360 page sends you to Forma, and a project started on BIM 360 today would have to be set up again on the Forma platform later, since there is no automatic move.

So for a new project the choice is already made: start it on the Forma platform. For a live BIM 360 project, our view is that finishing where it is will usually cost less than moving mid-job. Your BIM execution plan is the place to record which platform holds the common data environment.

The old names are still what people search for

We checked how often each name is typed into Google in the US, using Ahrefs Keywords Explorer on 12 November 2026, almost eight months after the rename.

US monthly searches for each old name and its Forma name, Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, 12 November 2026.

"Autodesk Construction Cloud" gets 39,000 searches a month against 9,100 for "Autodesk Forma", and some of those 9,100 are people looking for the site planning tool. "Autodesk Build" outruns "Forma Build" by 18 to 1, "Autodesk Docs" beats "Forma Data Management" by about 7 to 1, and "BIM 360", a name Autodesk has been retiring piece by piece, still draws 11,000.

The practical point: write both names for a while. In a BIM execution plan, a tender or a job advert, "Forma Data Management (formerly Autodesk Docs)" costs four extra words and saves a phone call. Ahrefs figures are estimates, so read the ratios, not the last digit.

Which one do you need?

Work back from the job, not from the product list.

• Sharing drawings and models with a client or consultants, with version history: Forma Data Management. Try the Essentials version first if you already pay for Revit, AutoCAD or Civil 3D.
• Several people editing the same Revit model from different offices: Forma Design Collaboration, one seat per editor.
• Site work, punch lists, daily reports: Forma Build Essentials.
• RFIs, submittals, cost control: Forma Build per user.
• Quantities for a bid: Forma Takeoff, with Forma Estimate only through the Preconstruction bundle.
• Massing, sun, wind and noise studies before design starts: Forma Site Design, on Flex if you use it fewer than about 39 days a year.

None of these products makes the building model. They store it, share it, check it and count it. The model still comes from an authoring tool such as Revit, and for a first model of a new building from a written brief and a site, that is the gap our own product, AIBIMTool, works in: it generates an IFC4 model that opens in Revit. It has a free plan with one AI generation in the 3D viewer, and the IFC download comes with paid plans from €49 a month billed yearly. It is not a common data environment and replaces nothing in the tables above.

Sources

• Autodesk News, Autodesk Construction Cloud is now Autodesk Forma, 24 March 2026: the rename, the no-migration statement, Forma Build Essentials and Forma Data Management Essentials.
• Autodesk Digital Builder, Bringing Autodesk Construction Cloud into Autodesk Forma, updated 30 March 2026: the table of old and new names, the 2019 and 2023 dates.
• Autodesk News, 3 ways the Forma industry cloud is shaping the future of AECO, 16 September 2025: Forma Site Design and the first mention of Forma Data Management.
• Autodesk News, How Autodesk Forma and AI are advancing a more connected future for AEC, 15 September 2026: Civil 3D as a Forma Connected Client, Forma Street Design.
• Autodesk buy pages, read 12 November 2026 on the US, German and UK stores: Forma Data Management, Forma Design Collaboration, Forma Build, Forma Takeoff, Forma Site Design.
• Autodesk, Forma Estimate: sold only in the Forma for Preconstruction bundle.
• Autodesk Forma pricing: the three bundles and their contents.
• Autodesk Support, What is the difference between Autodesk Forma and BIM 360, 7 April 2026.
• Autodesk, Retired products and plans: BIM 360 Team, Glue and Plan dates.
• Autodesk BIM 360: the page as it stood on 12 November 2026.
• Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, US monthly search volume, read 12 November 2026.