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Metacaliper and Copado
Copado sells two lines: Copado Essentials, a web app priced per user, and its enterprise platform, now marketed as Agentia by Copado, which installs in your Salesforce org as a managed package and is sold through sales. Metacaliper is a web service priced per workspace, with a free plan.
Facts about Copado are from its own public pages, read on 18 Oct 2026. Sources are listed below.
Side by side
| Topic | Metacaliper | Copado |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Per workspace a month, tax included: Free, Solo $99, Team $499, Business $999; extra members on Solo $49 each; Enterprise by contract | Essentials per user a month: Basic $119 ($99 billed annually), Plus $289 ($249 billed annually); enterprise platform price not published |
| Free option | 14-day Team trial with no card, then a Free plan with no time limit: two environments, comparisons, one member | Essentials Free: one user, up to 15 deployments a month; 21-day Essentials Plus trial |
| Delivery | Web service; you sign in to Salesforce to connect an environment, with no managed package | Essentials is a web app; the enterprise platform installs in your org as a managed package |
| Git providers | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, cloud and self-hosted, and other git hosts | Essentials: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure, cloud and on-premise, and Copado Version Control |
| Compare and deploy metadata | Environment to environment, branch to environment, and snapshots, with line-by-line review and merge | Org comparison and deployment in Essentials |
| Pipelines | Pipelines of 2 to 20 stages with approvals, freezes, release windows, hotfixes and pull request validation | Release pipelines, CI jobs and work items ("user stories") in Essentials Plus |
| Approvals | 1 to 3 approvals per stage (Team and above) | Built-in approvals in Essentials |
| Backup and monitoring | Scheduled metadata snapshots, rollback to a snapshot; no data (record) backup. Scheduled checks of setup and security changes, with flags (Business and above) | Not described on the Essentials or platform pages |
| Rollback | Deployment rollback from a stored snapshot (Team and above) | Rollback to previous versions in Essentials |
| Testing and data | Apex test levels on validation (Solo and above); no data deployment | Static code analysis; Robotic Testing and Data Deploy add-ons |
Copado is the better fit when
- You want each change tracked as a work item (a user story), or a tool installed in your org as a managed package.
- You need data deployment templates (for example CPQ) or robotic UI testing.
- One person deploys fewer than 15 times a month: Essentials Free covers that.
Metacaliper is the better fit when
- Your team has several people: 10 people cost $499 a month on Metacaliper Team, and 10 Essentials Plus users cost $2,890 a month billed monthly at its published price.
- You prefer nothing installed in your orgs.
- You want snapshots, rollback to a snapshot and change monitoring with the deployment tool.
Sources
- Copado Essentials, read on 18 Oct 2026
- Copado pricing, read on 18 Oct 2026
- Copado platform overview, read on 18 Oct 2026
- Copado Essentials git connections, read on 18 Oct 2026
- Agentia by Copado on AppExchange, read on 18 Oct 2026
- Copado introduces Agentia, read on 18 Oct 2026
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