Abrites Price List 2026: AVDI, Licences and Hardware

Abrites Price List 2026: AVDI, Licences and Hardware

What is in this article

• How Abrites is priced: five layers
• AVDI Plus and the main hardware
• The annual subscription (AMS) and the cost of renewing late
• Full brand software packages
• Frequently requested individual licences
• Cable and adapter kits by make
• If you already own an older licence: update prices
• Three example set-ups and what they cost
• Four things people miss when comparing prices
• Frequently asked questions

How Abrites is priced: five layers

Anyone looking at the list for the first time gets lost, because there is no single "tool price". The system has five layers and each one is bought separately:

• 1 · Hardware — the AVDI Plus interface. Bought once, shared by every licence.
• 2 · Essential software — a broad set of functions, free while the subscription is active.
• 3 · Brand licences — VAG, Mercedes, BMW, Renault and so on. You buy the make you work on.
• 4 · Special functions — key learning, cluster calibration, ESL repair and similar, sold individually.
• 5 · Additional hardware — PROTAG, ABPROG, the RH850/V850 programmer, cable kits.

The good side of this structure is that you only pay for the makes you actually work on. The harder side is that building the right budget takes some arithmetic. That is exactly what the tables below are for.

AVDI Plus and the main hardware

AVDI Plus is the current Abrites interface. What separates it from the previous generation is CAN-FD and Ethernet (ENET) support — without those two buses most post-2018 vehicles cannot be reached at all.

For key work the PROTAG V2 is all but mandatory: transponder reading, key preparation and all-keys-lost procedures all run through it. ABPROG comes in when the memory on the module board has to be reached directly.

The annual subscription (AMS) and the cost of renewing late

The first year of subscription comes with the tool. After that the annual subscription — listed as AMS — applies, and there is a detail worth knowing: the price depends on when you renew.

The same subscription costs €300 on time and €600 if it is forgotten for a year. Putting a reminder in the calendar the day the tool arrives is a habit worth €300 on its own.

Support Plan+ is a separate service: prioritised technical support plus an interface replacement right — a faulty tool is exchanged for a new one up to twice within the year. Its price is not in the manufacturer's public list and it is sold only alongside an active subscription.

Full brand software packages

If you work on one make regularly, the full package usually costs less than buying its licences one at a time. It covers every licence Abrites has developed for that make, and licences added later are included too.

Two makes also offer a key-only package: VAG key programming (VN00K, €2,400) and Renault/Dacia key programming (RR00K, €4,500). Both cover that make's key programming licences but not the ECU and cluster side.

Frequently requested individual licences

A single job does not require the full package. These are the licences we are asked about most:

Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Škoda

Mercedes-Benz

BMW and MINI

Renault, PSA, Toyota, FCA and others

Cable and adapter kits by make

This is the line item most often left out of a budget. The licence is bought and the tool is on the bench — but without the cable that reaches the module the job stops. Abrites therefore sells ready-made kits per make:

• Essential — the cables and adapters needed for everyday work.
• Extended — the extra parts and emulators needed for bench work and harder procedures.

Individual cables and adapters are sold separately too, from €10 to €250 — the BMW ENET cable at €25, the FCA secure gateway cable at €40, the Mercedes EZS bench cable at €40, the Mercedes MD1/MG1 ECU cable at €190 and the BCM2 solder-free set at €250. Emulators (ESL, odometer, transponder) mostly sit between €40 and €150.

If you already own an older licence: update prices

Abrites renews its licences over time and prices the move from an older one to its successor as a separate update item, usually well below the licence itself:

A licence bought years ago does not cost full price to bring up to date. If you know which licences you hold, ask for the update price before committing to anything new.

Three example set-ups and what they cost

Tables on their own stay abstract. The three examples below are simply the list prices above added together — excluding VAT, exchange differences and shipping:

Taking the Mercedes full package (MN00F, €6,600) instead brings that set-up to €8,828. Whether the €4,350 difference is wasted or pays for itself within the first few jobs depends entirely on how deep you go on that make — and that is where the decision is made.

Four things people miss when comparing prices

1. List prices exclude VAT. Ask whether a quotation includes it before comparing anything.
2. The cable kit is left out of the budget. The licence gets bought and the cable forgotten — a line item between €135 and €1,015.
3. The second year's subscription. The first year is free, so most people do not count it; year two costs €300, or €600 if it is left to lapse.
4. Some procedures need extra hardware. Licences that learn keys from an RH850 dump do not work without the ZN085 programmer. If a licence description says "by dump", ask about the hardware as well.

Frequently asked questions

Tell us which makes you work on and what the bulk of your work is — key programming, ECU work or cluster calibration — through our contact form, and we will itemise the licences, cables and total budget in writing. The tool's own page: Abrites AVDI Plus diagnostic and ECU programming interface.