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Blender pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Blender. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Blender catalogue entry carries no price, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Blender review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Blender 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.
Core
- 3D modeling
- Sculpting
- Animation
- Rigging
- Rendering
- Compositing
- Video editing
- 2D animation
Integrations
- Python scripting
- Alembic
- USD
- OpenVDB
- OpenEXR
- COLLADA
- FBX
- OBJ
Security
- Open source
- Local processing
Deployment
- Local deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Italian language support
- Portuguese language support
- Russian language support
- Chinese language support
- Japanese language support
- Korean language support
People bring Blender in for 3d modeling and animation, visual effects, game development, architectural visualization, video editing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Blender are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Blender
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Blender runs on web, windows, macos, linux, and is published by Blender Foundation of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The full record is on the Blender review.
Blender pricing questions
- How much does Blender cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for Blender. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does Blender have a free plan?
- Yes, Blender is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with Blender?
- The record lists 32 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for 3d modeling and animation, visual effects, game development.
- Does Blender charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 Blender 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 Blender against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Blender to make a useful price comparison.