DaVinci Resolve Pricing
- Design pricing
- No published price
- Free plan
DaVinci Resolve pricing is recorded here from the vendor's own published plans. There is a free plan.
DaVinci Resolve publishes no standalone pricing page, so this opens the product site. Figures here were read on 19 August 2026.
DaVinci Resolve pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free; DaVinci Resolve Studio $295 one-time |
|---|---|
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | one time |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 19 August 2026 |
Every DaVinci Resolve plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. Charged as one time. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| DaVinci Resolve | $0 | per one-time | The free version works with virtually all 8-bit video formats to 60fps at up to Ultra HD 3840 x 2160, and includes multi-user collaboration and HDR grading |
| DaVinci Resolve Studio | $295 | per one-time | Everything in the free version plus the DaVinci AI Neural Engine, dozens of additional Resolve FX, and temporal and spatial noise reduction |
Cancelling DaVinci Resolve, and getting money back
Read from the published DaVinci Resolve terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| Refund window | 14 days |
|---|---|
| When you cancel | This is a one-off licence rather than a subscription, so there is nothing to cancel: the refund window is the whole of it. |
| Changing mid-term | Blackmagic's refund page states two different figures for software, 14 days in its general clause and 15 days in the software clause. 14 is recorded here because it is the deadline that is safe under either reading. Refunds are requested through the local support team with proof of purchase. |
Blackmagic Design refund policy ↗ · read 18 September 2026
DaVinci Resolve pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against DaVinci Resolve |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Creative Cloud | $19.99 a month | No | – |
| DaVinci Resolve | Not published | Yes | This product |
Which DaVinci Resolve plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You edit video, at any level, and are not a professional colourist | DaVinci Resolve, free | The free version covers editing, grading, effects and audio, including collaboration and HDR. Most people never need more. |
| You grade professionally, or need noise reduction and the AI tools | DaVinci Resolve Studio | $295 once for the AI Neural Engine, the extra Resolve FX and temporal and spatial noise reduction. |
| You work in 10-bit or higher-end codecs | DaVinci Resolve Studio | The free version's format support tops out at virtually all 8-bit formats to Ultra HD 60fps. |
| You need Adobe interoperability with a wider suite | Consider Premiere Pro instead | $22.99 a month as a single app, and native exchange with After Effects and Photoshop. |
| You need to design a page, not a sequence | Do not buy this for that | Resolve does no layout, typography for print or interface work. |
What the free version actually includes
Blackmagic’s framing is that the best creative tools should not be limited to Hollywood, and the free version is unusually generous by the standards of this category:
- Editing, colour, visual effects, motion graphics and audio in one application
- Multi-user collaboration on the same timeline
- HDR grading
- Virtually all 8-bit video formats, up to 60fps at Ultra HD 3840 x 2160
Compare that with the seat-and-tier logic across the design tools we price: here collaboration is not the upsell, and neither is the professional-grade feature set.
What $295 buys, and when to pay it
DaVinci Resolve Studio is a single $295 purchase - no subscription, no renewal - and adds the DaVinci AI Neural Engine, dozens of additional Resolve FX, and temporal and spatial noise reduction.
Two situations make it the obvious buy: you grade professionally and want the noise reduction, or you work beyond 8-bit formats. Otherwise start free and pay later, because the licence does not expire and nothing is lost by waiting.
Set against Adobe Premiere Pro at $22.99 a month, Studio pays for itself in about thirteen months and then keeps working.
It is not a design tool for pages
Worth saying plainly, because it appears on “best design tools” lists that have not thought about it: Resolve sets no type for print, holds no design system, and does no layout. It is post-production. On a design shortlist it answers the motion and video job and nothing else, which is exactly how we rank it.
The real cost is learning it
Five pages - Cut, Edit, Colour, Fusion, Fairlight - each with its own model of the world. That is why the learning curve scores low above. It also expects a capable GPU, and the experience on light hardware is poor. Budget the time before the money; the money is the easy part here.
DaVinci Resolve questions, answered
- Does DaVinci Resolve have a free plan or free trial?
- DaVinci Resolve has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- Can I self-host DaVinci Resolve?
- No. DaVinci Resolve is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
DaVinci Resolve publishes no standalone pricing page, so this opens the product site. Figures here were read on 19 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used DaVinci Resolve. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from 2 primary sources , with a capture taken by us . How we research a profile.
Desk research from Blackmagic Design's own product and company pages, read on 19 August 2026. Nobody here has used DaVinci Resolve, and no rendering performance or grading quality was assessed.
Where DaVinci Resolve appears on this site
- Another profile Blender picks it for video editing and colour
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
Provenance and freshness
Individually sourced claims
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The free version includes multi-user collaboration and HDR grading
Blackmagic Design, DaVinci Resolve ↗ · checked
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DaVinci Resolve Studio is $295 as a one-time purchase
Blackmagic Design, DaVinci Resolve ↗ · checked
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The free version supports virtually all 8-bit formats to 60fps at up to Ultra HD 3840 x 2160
Blackmagic Design, DaVinci Resolve ↗ · checked
What has changed
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August 2026
- First published, with the free and Studio terms read from the vendor product page
- Recorded that collaboration and HDR grading sit in the free version
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Blackmagic Design, DaVinci Resolve - checked 19 August 2026
- Blackmagic Design, company - checked 19 August 2026
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