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AlmaLinux pricing
AlmaLinux publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the operating systems tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, AlmaLinux pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
AlmaLinux plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where AlmaLinux stops being free
AlmaLinux, Free
- No subscription or registration
- Unlimited installations
- All architectures including x86-64-v2
- Community support
- Commercial support available from third parties such as CloudLinux and TuxCare
No paid tier on record
AlmaLinux lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full AlmaLinux feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- ABI compatibility
- x86-64-v2 build
- ELevate
- Restored hardware support
- Elected governance
- Frame pointers enabled
People bring AlmaLinux in for keeping pre-2015 x86 servers in production past the point rhel 10 will install on them, hosting providers and control panel users, where cloudlinux lineage means cpanel and similar stacks are tested, teams that want faster security patching than a strict downstream rebuild can offer, migrating centos 7 estates in place using elevate rather than rebuilding every machine. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to AlmaLinux are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Operating Systems
Too few operating systems tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Alpine Linux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AlmaLinux |
| Rocky Linux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AlmaLinux |
| NixOS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AlmaLinux |
| openSUSE | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AlmaLinux |
| Qubes OS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AlmaLinux |
| OpenWrt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AlmaLinux |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the AlmaLinux badges page.
Before you pay for AlmaLinux
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
AlmaLinux runs on x86-64, x86-64-v2, arm64, ppc64le, s390x, cloud images, containers, and is published by AlmaLinux OS Foundation of United States. The full record is on the AlmaLinux review, and the rest of the category is under best operating systems tools.
AlmaLinux pricing questions
- How much does AlmaLinux cost?
- AlmaLinux publishes a single tier, AlmaLinux, at Free.
- Does AlmaLinux have a free plan?
- Yes. The AlmaLinux tier costs nothing and covers no subscription or registration, unlimited installations, all architectures including x86-64-v2.
- Which operating systems tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 operating systems tools listed alongside AlmaLinux have a free tier: Alpine Linux, Rocky Linux, NixOS, openSUSE, Qubes OS.
- What am I actually paying for with AlmaLinux?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for keeping pre-2015 x86 servers in production past the point rhel 10 will install on them, hosting providers and control panel users, where cloudlinux lineage means cpanel and similar stacks are tested, teams that want faster security patching than a strict downstream rebuild can offer.
- Does AlmaLinux charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these AlmaLinux prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare AlmaLinux against before paying?
- The closest operating systems tools in this directory are Alpine Linux, Rocky Linux, NixOS, openSUSE. Each has a side-by-side comparison with AlmaLinux covering price, platforms and features.