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AutoHotkey pricing
AutoHotkey publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the utilities tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, AutoHotkey 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
AutoHotkey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoHotkey | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where AutoHotkey stops being free
AutoHotkey, Free
- GPLv2 licence with no paid edition
- v2 and legacy v1.1 branches both downloadable
- Script compiler included
- No commercial licence required for internal or distributed scripts
No paid tier on record
AutoHotkey lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full AutoHotkey 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
- Hotkeys and hotstrings
- Synthetic input
- Window and control access
- COM and DLL calls
- Built-in GUI toolkit
- Script compilation
People bring AutoHotkey in for remapping keyboard layouts or adding shortcuts to software that offers none, automating repetitive data entry in a legacy application with no api or command line, standardising clinical, legal or insurance text snippets across a team through hotstrings, driving a vendor application through its interface as part of a nightly unattended process. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to AutoHotkey are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Utilities
Too few utilities 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoHotkey (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Calsense | On request | quote | - | vs AutoHotkey |
| Find My | Free | Free, built into Apple hardware and iCloud | - | vs AutoHotkey |
| Google Lens | Free | Free, bundled into other Google apps | - | vs AutoHotkey |
| Hazel | $42/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs AutoHotkey |
| Karabiner-Elements | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AutoHotkey |
| Kap | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs AutoHotkey |
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 AutoHotkey badges page.
Before you pay for AutoHotkey
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.
AutoHotkey runs on windows, and is published by AutoHotkey Foundation of Distributed community project. The full record is on the AutoHotkey review, and the rest of the category is under best utilities tools.
AutoHotkey pricing questions
- How much does AutoHotkey cost?
- AutoHotkey publishes a single tier, AutoHotkey, at Free.
- Does AutoHotkey have a free plan?
- Yes. The AutoHotkey tier costs nothing and covers gplv2 licence with no paid edition, v2 and legacy v1.1 branches both downloadable, script compiler included.
- Which utilities tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 utilities tools listed alongside AutoHotkey have a free tier: Find My, Google Lens, Karabiner-Elements, Kap, Deluge.
- What am I actually paying for with AutoHotkey?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for remapping keyboard layouts or adding shortcuts to software that offers none, automating repetitive data entry in a legacy application with no api or command line, standardising clinical, legal or insurance text snippets across a team through hotstrings.
- Does AutoHotkey 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 AutoHotkey 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 AutoHotkey against before paying?
- The closest utilities tools in this directory are Calsense, Find My, Google Lens, Hazel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with AutoHotkey covering price, platforms and features.