Bentley OpenFlows HAMMER

tiered subscription Engineer & Analyze

Hydraulic transient and surge-analysis software for water distribution and wastewater piping systems. Bentley now licenses HAMMER through the OpenFlows Water family, where the current Standard, Advanced, and Ultimate tiers include the named HAMMER transient-analysis capability.

Made by Bentley Systems, public (BSY, $10.1B)

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2.8 /5 composite score

C1 3/5 reflects the $3,354 Standard tier that first includes HAMMER, C2 2/5 reflects desktop model authoring with no public standalone API, and C5 4/5 reflects OpenFlows WaterCAD, OpenFlows WaterGEMS, ArcGIS, MicroStation, AutoCAD, and ProjectWise integrations. C4 3/5 reflects INP, DGN, DXF, GIS, and CSV interoperability.

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Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	3/5	tiered subscription, from $3354 Source →
Agent Friendliness	2/5	API: no public standalone API surfaced in current product docs; workflow is centered on desktop model authoring and file-based interoperability
Ease of adoption	2/5	desktop-install, steep learning curve
Portability & lock-in	3/5	5 file formats
Interoperability	4/5	6 integrations

Pricing

Modeltiered subscription

Entry price$3354

Free tierno

Free viewerno

Billing unitper-seat

TiersEssentials ($1021), Standard ($3354), Advanced ($10069), Ultimate ($16782)

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Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
INP	both	partial -- Third-party HAMMER technical page describes EPANET interoperability.
DGN	import	partial
DXF	import	partial
GIS	import	full
CSV	both	unknown

Integrations

OpenFlows WaterCAD OpenFlows WaterGEMS ArcGIS MicroStation AutoCAD ProjectWise

Adoption

Deploymentdesktop-install

Self-serve signupyes

Implementation requiredoptional

Learning curvesteep

Sources

Pricing Changelog

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