LeanIX vs Sparx Pro Cloud Server comparison

SAP LeanIX and Sparx Systems are both solutions in the Enterprise Architecture Management category. SAP LeanIX is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.9, while Sparx Systems is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.0. SAP LeanIX holds a 15.3% mindshare in AM, compared to Sparx Systems’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of SAP LeanIX users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sparx Systems users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

LeanIX and Sparx Pro Cloud Server are competing in enterprise architecture management. LeanIX seems to have the upper hand in flexibility and integration, whereas Sparx Pro Cloud Server stands out with a robust feature set.

Features: LeanIX provides a highly adaptable platform allowing real-time data visualization, seamless integration with various ecosystem partners, and is focused on versatility. Sparx Pro Cloud Server is centered on extensive modeling capabilities, detailed graphical representations, and offers a comprehensive architecture solution, highlighting its focus on depth and modeling detail.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LeanIX offers straightforward cloud-based deployment which simplifies onboarding with strong customer support. Sparx Pro Cloud Server, despite offering powerful capabilities, may require more effort for the initial setup and places less emphasis on direct support, focusing on robust performance.

Pricing and ROI: LeanIX provides competitive pricing with a pay-as-you-grow model, enabling a quick ROI through efficient resource use and scalability. Sparx Pro Cloud Server entails a higher initial setup cost but offers substantial long-term functionality, justifying the investment depending on organizational needs, highlighting LeanIX's cost-effectiveness versus Sparx's expansive capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

LeanIX

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Sparx Pro Cloud Server

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of LeanIX is 15.3%, up from 15.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sparx Pro Cloud Server is 0.5%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Architecture Management

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Umit Sengul

Enterprise Architect at E.ON

A platform that facilitates efficient IT architecture management and integration, improving organizational coordination and decision-making

LeanIX is primarily used to create and manage architectural models, link capabilities, activities, and products and generate comprehensive reports. It serves as a central platform for overseeing the IT landscape within EON, a large organization, streamlining operations and enhancing governance…

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Pawel-Gawronski

Enterprise Architect at BEC

A cloud SaaS solution for collaboration with customer support

There could be improvement in connecting to and securing this connection. Spark is not up to date on its Insight dashboard compared to competitors, but this impacts the digital experience. It is important for the team to continue working on this tool without disruption. So maybe this is an area for improvement to have a better Insight.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features are the clean user interface and the fact sheet feature in Application Portfolio Management. The tool integrates well with ServiceNow, which is the usual CMDB platform."

"The solution has a very useful assessment tool that automatically populates from input data to produce a detailed analysis of customer's environments."

"The usability is very high. It almost looks like a Facebook for Enterprise architecture, it's pretty nice. It's HTML5 based. The repository is very easy. It has 10 different ways of sorting the objects you have in your architecture repository. Maintaining new data or to add data to your repository is very easy."

"For the reporting capabilities, LeanIX provides dashboards for different levels, including CXO dashboards. There are plenty of dashboards for reporting."

"LeanIX has a great application information architecture."

"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and the user experience. It's easy to map the fact sheets."

"The most valuable features include the reporting capabilities and the LeanIX Academy's educational resources."

"It offers neat visualization and referencing functionality while enabling the creation of landscape maps and showing the relationship between different applications."

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"We have found the technical support to be helpful."

"The solution's most valuable feature is ArchiMate which I use daily."

Cons

"The solution needs to incorporate a data patch tool that moves within and irons data."

"I find LeanIX's pricing expensive for the functionality it offers. However, with the acquisition by SAP, the pricing might become more affordable due to scale and tiered application pricing. Currently, it offers different tiers for the first 400 applications: 400 to 600 and 600 to 1,000, making it expensive from a pricing standpoint."

"Improvements in user interface simplicity could be made, particularly with the reporting and filtering capabilities."

"The modeling could be improved."

"They should improve the out of the box connectors that they provide. They should see if clients are really ready to adapt them."

"One of the challenges that I've found, even with working with Subway, was that being able to build that out into a detailed solution for a developer or for new process design was one of the challenges, just making that leap."

"Does a poor job of being able to allocate detailed costings to components within the network."

"Report generation could be more detailed. There are some shortcomings when creating reports. We can't create tag-based reports or go beyond basic technical reports."

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"The solution should allow easier access with enhanced customization options for web page DHTML."

"The user-friendliness could be even better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the pricing a one out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"As the tool is cloud-based, its cost is more affordable."

"The tool needs to include more flexible licensing options. We do not use the tool all the time. So pricing should be considered only when we use the tool."

"There is a sweet spot of where they need to be on pricing right now. They could go up a little bit in pricing, but it has to do with the cost savings, and it has to do with the practitioners using it. I use it where I get cost savings and I can justify it, but they probably have the ability to flex a 10% up channel on their sales on that. So, they could increase their settle price, not their offering price, when they sell. They can probably hold that up a little bit higher than it is because there are cost savings that we can drive from it."

"The solution's pricing is based on a licensing model that is competitive and in line with other products."

"The pricing is very good. We definitely get good value for the money."

"It cost me $91,000 a year for 300 applications. For any enterprise, 300 applications are minimal, as many have well over 1,000 applications."

"LeanIX uses application-based account licensing, where the cost is multiplied by the number of applications in the software implementation."

"The solution's Ultimate Plan costs $399 per year."

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Questions from the Community

Any experience with Strategic Project Portfolio Management Solutions?

Hi @Cheryl Joseph Looking at the crossover between Project and Portfolio management with EA, then Planview could be a good choice. If looking at Portfolio Management from an EA perspective then Le...

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What do you like most about LeanIX?

The ability to import data and generate reports from it. That's where its power lies.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LeanIX?

LeanIX pricing ranges from moderate to high. Our usage and costs depend on the number of applications, and as the number of applications grows, so does the cost. We have aligned our usage with appl...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sparx Pro Cloud Server?

We're paying 15 dollars per user per month for large teams, which is more expensive than the competition, but it has more features, such as cloud VPN and testing. There is no other cost apart from ...

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What needs improvement with Sparx Pro Cloud Server?

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What is your primary use case for Sparx Pro Cloud Server?

Firstly, we use this solution to enable collaboration among our international teams. Our applications are in the cloud, and most issues are on AWS. We have a central place to store and work on our ...

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Overview

LeanIX delivers collaborative Enterprise Architecture designed for modern IT. Our open, data-driven architecture management model helps organizations adapt to the evolving demands of digital. From agile to multi-cloud and beyond, architecture teams using LeanIX have the power to strategically support the business and report 45% reduction in time to value delivery. More than 90,000 users across enterprises worldwide rely on LeanIX to manage their IT landscape, including adidas, Bosch, 7Eleven, and Zalando.

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Pro Cloud Server opens your entire enterprise to your modeling efforts, enabling stakeholders to have secure access for discussion and review. WebEA, hosted on Pro Cloud Server, complements Enterprise Architect by providing a real-time view of project content, anywhere, anytime....

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adidas, Bosch, Chico's, Haworth, Helvetia, KuKa, Osram, Telekom, TUI, Santander, Swarovski, Vaillant, 7Eleven, and Zalando.

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