A Minitab Statistical Software license costs $2,594 per year. JMP starts at $1,320 and goes up to $8,400 for the Pro version. A quality engineer in Nairobi earns roughly $12,000 per year. In Lagos, $8,000. In Hanoi, $6,000. In Bogotá, $10,000. The math doesn't work. A single Minitab seat would consume 20-30% of an engineer's annual salary in these markets. So what happens? Organizations in developing economies either pirate the software, use Excel for everything, or simply don't do statistical process control at all. This is a market failure, not a feature gap. ## Purchasing Power Pricing Svend uses Cloudflare geolocation to detect your country and displays prices adjusted for local purchasing power. Not a coupon code. Not a special application. Just the right price, automatically. A quality engineer in Kenya sees KSh 1,990/month for Professional — roughly $15 USD. In Nigeria, ₦4,990 — about $3. In India, ₹1,499 — about $18. In Brazil, R$99 — about $19. The same 200+ analyses. The same Bayesian SPC. The same DOE, Gage R&R, and capability studies. The same AI-assisted interpretation. No feature restrictions by geography. We currently support localized pricing in 15 currencies across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe. ## Why This Matters for Quality The Lean Six Sigma community talks constantly about "respect for people" as a pillar of the Toyota Production System. Here's what respect looks like in software pricing: acknowledging that a Black Belt in Johannesburg and a Black Belt in Chicago both need Gage R&R, and neither should be priced out of it. Quality tools are infrastructure. When a pharmaceutical company in Lagos can't afford SPC software, the patients taking those medications bear the cost. When a food manufacturer in Vietnam uses Excel instead of proper capability analysis, the consumers eating that food bear the risk. Making these tools accessible isn't charity. It's the logical conclusion of taking quality seriously as a global discipline. ## Education Pricing For training organizations, we go further: - **Students** get free Professional access for the duration of their program - **Instructors** get free Enterprise access - **Graduates** keep a 50% lifetime discount at their local rate If you're an ILSSI training partner, a university running a Six Sigma program, or an NGO doing industrial capacity building — your students get the same tools as a Fortune 500 quality team, at a price that makes sense for their economy. ## The Alternative The alternative is what we have now: a two-tier quality world where organizations with budget get real statistical tools, and everyone else improvises. That's not a quality system — it's a quality lottery based on geography and employer size. We'd rather compete on features than on ability to pay. If you're working in quality outside the US and Europe, [check your local pricing](/register/). It might surprise you.