Autodesk Vault

Subscription Coordinate & Collaborate

Engineering Product Data Management (PDM) platform providing centralized version/revision control, BOM management, engineering change order workflows, and access control for design files from Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit, and Civil 3D. Primarily used by mechanical and manufacturing engineering teams; also adopted by AEC and infrastructure firms managing multi-discipline file libraries. Vault 2026 introduced a new APS REST API.

Made by Autodesk, public (ADSK, $43.8B)

Hidden Pricing

3.0 /5 composite score

Strong engineering PDM with a new APS REST API (Vault 2026) and a legacy SOAP API covering file check-in/out, BOM management, and lifecycle workflows -- but official pricing is opaque (RF1), server installation required, and the product skews manufacturing over AEC document workflows.

Solid

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	2/5	Subscription
Agent Friendliness	4/5	API: APS Vault Data REST API (new in Vault 2026) covering data search, file operations, job processing, lifecycle state management, and change order handling; legacy SOAP API via Autodesk.Connectivity.WebServices also available with full Vault functionality
Ease of adoption	2/5	--
Portability & lock-in	3/5	3 file formats
Interoperability	4/5	7 integrations

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How we verified this: we checked Autodesk Vault against its live site and an independent source — en.wikipedia.org. Nothing on this page is listed from memory. See how we grade. Verified 2026-07-14.

Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
DWG	both	full
DXF	both	full
IFC	both	partial

Integrations

Autodesk Inventor AutoCAD Revit Civil 3D SAP Microsoft Office Microsoft Entra ID

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