Price Comparison

The following is a comparison of the licensing costs* between PicoZip and three of the most popular file compression utilities: WinZip, WinRar and WinAce. We would like to point out that PicoZip provides the lowest cost solution.

Legend:
 Lowest Cost
 Highest Cost

 

No. of License
PicoZip
WinZip 1
WinRar
WinAce 2
1
24.95
29.00
29.00
29.00
2
42.00
44.00
46.00
44.00
5
90.00
110.00
100.00
110.00
10
130.00
170.00
137.00
160.00
25
240.00
350.00
250.00
300.00
50
365.00
500.00
375.00
450.00
100
520.00
700.00
540.00
600.00
200
900.00
1200.00
920.00
1000.00
500
1500.00
2000.00
1550.00
1500.00
1000
2500.00
N/A
N/A
N/A

* Licensing costs shown are correct as at May 24, 2002.

1 The WinZip licensing cost was calculated from the following table obtained from WinZip’s website:

 

License
Price
1
29.00
2 – 9
22.00
10 – 24
17.00
25 – 49
14.00
50 – 99
10.00
100 – 199
7.00
200 – 499
6.00
500 – 749
4.00


2
The WinAce licensing cost was calculated from the following table obtained from WinAce’s website:

 

License
Price
1
29.00
2 – 9
22.00
10 – 24
16.00
25 – 49
12.00
50 – 99
9.00
100 – 199
6.00
200 – 499
5.00
500 – 999
3.00

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Alex Pico Zapata
I’ve been working as a programmer for over 2 decades now… And at some point, while writing code for work, I started signing it with PICOZIP (stands for Pico Zapata Intellectual Property, I thought it was funny).