How much does Capture One cost?

Capture One publishes 4 tiers, from On request for Pro up to On request for Pro Perpetual. The cheapest paid tier is On request.

Does Capture One have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Capture One is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Pro and All in One on Capture One?

All in One costs On request against On request, and adds everything in pro, mobile ios app, online collaboration, cloud settings.

Which photography tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 photography tools listed alongside Capture One have a free tier: Google Photos, Facetune, Lensa.

Does Capture One charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Capture One 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 Capture One against before paying?

The closest photography tools in this directory are Aftershoot, Google Photos, Facetune, Lensa. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Capture One covering price, platforms and features.

Photography · pricing

Capture One pricing

Capture One publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 25 August 2026, Capture One pricing is on request across 4 published tiers. 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: On request
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 4
Free tier: Not on record

Capture One 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.

Capture One pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Pro	On request	4	Entry tier
All in One	On request	5	Priced on request
Studio	On request	4	Priced on request
Pro Perpetual	On request	2	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Pro

On request

The entry tier. It covers desktop raw editing, color profiles, tethering, 550+ camera support.

All in One

On request

Over Pro, this tier adds:

Everything in Pro
Mobile iOS app
Online collaboration
Cloud settings
Priority support

Studio

On request

Over All in One, this tier adds:

Offline collaboration
Multiple viewer screens
Automated cropping
Automatic backup

Pro Perpetual

On request

Over Studio, this tier adds:

One-time desktop purchase
No ongoing updates required

What the product covers

The full Capture One 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

RAW Conversion
Tethered Capture
Advanced Color Grading
Mobile App
Multi-Screen Viewing

integration

Cloud Collaboration

People bring Capture One in for professional studio photography editing, tethered shooting during commercial photoshoots, advanced color grading for editorial photography, raw file management for high-volume photographers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Capture One are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Photography

Too few photography 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.

Capture One entry price against other Photography tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Capture One (this page)	On request	subscription	-
Aftershoot	On request	Per module per month, unlimited images	-	vs Capture One
Google Photos	Free	Free tier plus paid storage add-on	-	vs Capture One
Facetune	Free	Free download with a short free trial, most tools require a Facetune Pro subscription that auto-renews annually	-	vs Capture One
Lensa	Free	Free download with a short free trial, Magic Avatars and most tools require payment	-	vs Capture One
Imagen AI	On request	Per image, with annual volume tiers	-	vs Capture One
Narrative Select	On request	Per user per month, tiered by editing depth	-	vs Capture One

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 Capture One badges page.

Before you pay for Capture One

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: 4 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Capture One against the tools that do have one before committing.

Capture One runs on windows, mac, ios, and is published by Capture One. The full record is on the Capture One review, and the rest of the category is under best photography tools.

Capture One pricing on the vendor's own site