Category
Design software pricing
Design software on this site starts at a median of $11.50 a month across the 8 products that publish a price, from $3 on Figma to $19.99 on Adobe Creative Cloud.
12 products are filed under design, and 9 more cover it as a secondary capability. Every price was read from the vendor's own page, most recently on 3 September 2026.
What the data shows
Computed from the 12 design profiles on this site, whose figures were read from each vendor's own pricing page between 18 August 2026 and 3 September 2026. Prices are the smallest invoice each product will accept, with any seat minimum applied, in US dollars.
| Measure | What the records show |
|---|---|
| Median entry price | $11.50 a month across 8 products with a published price, from $3 on Figma (Professional - Collab seat) to $19.99 on Adobe Creative Cloud (Photography plan). Not in the figure: DaVinci Resolve (sold as a one-time purchase), Procreate (sold as a one-time purchase), Affinity (no paid tier with a published figure), Blender (no paid tier with a published figure). |
| Free plan | 8 of 12 - the ones without: Adobe Creative Cloud, Fashion Diffusion, Procreate, Sketch. |
| Seat minimum recorded | Adobe Express Acrobat Express for Teams, 2 seats. |
| Entry tier priced per year | Canva, divided by twelve for the median. |
| Refunds | Read for 6 of 12. None offered: Canva, Fashion Diffusion, Figma, Procreate. A refund window: DaVinci Resolve (14 days), Recraft (30 days). |
| Price changes, 12 months to 3 September 2026 | Sketch Standard, $10 to $12 (+20%), last archived at the old price 17 January 2025 and at the new one 25 August 2026. |
| Share of products sold only on an annual contract | Not computed: it needs a recorded monthly option per plan, which the records carry on 37 of 540 tiers. |
| Cheapest real invoice for a five-seat team | Not computed: it needs a recorded billing unit per plan (per seat, flat, per host), which the records carry on 0 of 540 tiers. |
Design software splits into seat subscriptions and tools with nothing to renew
Several of the design products here have no subscription at all. Blender and Affinity are free with no paid tier recorded, Procreate is a single $12.99 App Store purchase for iPad, and DaVinci Resolve Studio is a $295 one-time licence. None of them is in the median above, which compares monthly invoices.
Among the subscriptions, the seat type decides the bill more than the plan does. Figma’s Professional plan is $16 a month for a Full seat, $12 for a Dev seat and $3 for a Collab seat, all billed annually, so one plan costs more than five times as much for an editor as for a collaborator. Penpot’s Unlimited is $7 per user a month but capped at $175 a month however large the team, and its Enterprise tier is $25 per user capped at $950.
Canva publishes yearly prices: Pro is $180 a year for one person and Business $250 a year per person. Adobe structures its offer by app, with the Photography plan at $19.99 a month, a single app at $22.99 a month on an annual plan paid monthly, and Creative Cloud Pro at $69.99. Sketch sells both ways: Standard at $12 per editor a month billed yearly, or a $120 Mac-only licence paid once with one year of updates.
The image generators price on credits. Fashion Diffusion’s Starter is $12 a month for 100 credits, and Recraft’s Basic is $10 a month billed annually for 1,000 credits.
Every design product, by smallest invoice
| Product | Smallest invoice | As the vendor states it | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Figma | $3 a month on Professional - Collab seat | Free; paid seats from $3/month (Collab), $16/month for a Full seat | Yes | 30 days on Professional |
| Penpot | $7 a month on Unlimited | Free and fully featured; Unlimited $7 per user/month, capped at $175/month | Yes | 14 days |
| Recraft | $10 a month on Basic | Free with no commercial rights; Basic $10/month billed annually | Yes | None |
| Adobe Express | $10.99 a month on Acrobat Express | Free; Acrobat Express $10.99/month, which includes Adobe Express Premium | Yes | 7 days on Acrobat Express, 14 days on Teams |
| Fashion Diffusion | $12 a month on Starter | No free tier; Starter $12/month, or $120 a year | No | Free to start, no card required, allowance not published |
| Sketch | $12 a month on Standard | Standard $12 per editor/month billed yearly; Mac-only licence $120 one-time | No | 30 days |
| Canva | $15 a month on Pro | Free; Pro $180/year for one person | Yes | 30 days on Pro |
| Adobe Creative Cloud | $19.99 a month on Photography plan | Single apps from $22.99/month; all apps from $69.99/month | No | 7 days |
| Affinity | No paid tier priced | Free for individuals | Yes | None |
| Blender | No paid tier priced | Free | Yes | None |
| DaVinci Resolve | One-time purchase | Free; DaVinci Resolve Studio $295 one-time | Yes | None |
| Procreate | One-time purchase | $12.99 one-time for iPad; Pocket $5.99 one-time | No | None |
Most compared in design
Ordered by how many other profiles on this site name the product as a competitor.
- Adobe Creative Cloud, named on 6 profiles
- Canva, named on 6 profiles
- Figma, named on 5 profiles
- Adobe Express, named on 1 profile
- Affinity, named on 1 profile
Related categories
Categories sharing the most products with this one, in either direction.
- Development software pricing, 11 shared products
- Marketing software pricing, 8 shared products
- Productivity software pricing, 5 shared products
- AI software pricing, 4 shared products
Filed elsewhere, also listed as design
Their records name design as a secondary category. They are not counted in the figures above.
- Astro (Development): Free and open source (MIT licence)
- Dropbox (Productivity): from $9.99 a month on Plus
- Framer (Development): from $10 a month on Basic
- Miro (Productivity): from $8 a month on Starter
- Netlify (Development): from $9 a month on Personal
- Next.js (Development): Free and open source (MIT licence)
- Squarespace (Development): from $19 a month on Basic
- Webflow (Development): from $15 a month on Basic
- WordPress (Development): from $4 a month on Personal