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Capacitor pricing
Capacitor publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the mobile development tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Capacitor 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
Capacitor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capacitor | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Capacitor stops being free
Capacitor, Free
- MIT licensed, unlimited apps
- Core plugin set included
- Community support via GitHub and Discord
No paid tier on record
Capacitor lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Capacitor 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
- Native project generation
- Plugin bridge
- Custom native plugins
- Live Reload
- Framework agnostic
- Capacitor Assets and Configure CLIs
People bring Capacitor in for a team wrapping an existing responsive web app to publish it to the app store and play store, a product using react or vue that wants native device apis without adopting a full mobile framework, a developer who wants to drop into native swift or kotlin code for the parts a plugin does not cover, a company migrating off apache cordova, since capacitor was designed as a modern, actively maintained successor. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Capacitor are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Mobile Development
Too few mobile development 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacitor (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Ionic | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Capacitor |
| NativeScript | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Capacitor |
| Kotlin Multiplatform | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Capacitor |
| Sencha | On request | One-time purchase, per developer | - | vs Capacitor |
| .NET MAUI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Capacitor |
| Adjust | On request | Per attributed install | - | vs Capacitor |
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 Capacitor badges page.
Before you pay for Capacitor
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.
Capacitor runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Ionic (an OutSystems company) of Madison, Wisconsin, United States. The full record is on the Capacitor review, and the rest of the category is under best mobile development tools.
Capacitor pricing questions
- How much does Capacitor cost?
- Capacitor publishes a single tier, Capacitor, at Free.
- Does Capacitor have a free plan?
- Yes. The Capacitor tier costs nothing and covers mit licensed, unlimited apps, core plugin set included, community support via github and discord.
- Which mobile development tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 mobile development tools listed alongside Capacitor have a free tier: Ionic, NativeScript, Kotlin Multiplatform, .NET MAUI, Superwall.
- What am I actually paying for with Capacitor?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a team wrapping an existing responsive web app to publish it to the app store and play store, a product using react or vue that wants native device apis without adopting a full mobile framework, a developer who wants to drop into native swift or kotlin code for the parts a plugin does not cover.
- Does Capacitor 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 Capacitor 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 Capacitor against before paying?
- The closest mobile development tools in this directory are Ionic, NativeScript, Kotlin Multiplatform, Sencha. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Capacitor covering price, platforms and features.