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CiviCRM pricing
CiviCRM publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the nonprofits tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, CiviCRM 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
CiviCRM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CiviCRM | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where CiviCRM stops being free
CiviCRM, Free
- No licence fee, no per contact charge and no percentage of donations
- Costs are hosting, implementation partner time and upgrade work
- Paid hosting and support available from partners at their own rates
- Full source under the AGPL, so the data and the deployment are yours
No paid tier on record
CiviCRM lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full CiviCRM 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
- Contribution and pledge tracking
- Membership management
- Events and registration
- Case management
- CMS integration
- Extension framework
People bring CiviCRM in for a membership organisation with a large contact file that refuses to pay a per contact meter, an advocacy group needing to hold constituent data on infrastructure it controls, a charity already running drupal or wordpress that wants crm inside the same stack, an organisation with unusual data requirements that no hosted product will build for it. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CiviCRM are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Nonprofits
Too few nonprofits 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CiviCRM (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| CommCare | $100/month | Per month by mobile user count | - | vs CiviCRM |
| Foundant Technologies | On request | quote | - | vs CiviCRM |
| SmartSimple Cloud | On request | quote | - | vs CiviCRM |
| CharityEngine | On request | quote | - | vs CiviCRM |
| Sumac | On request | quote | - | vs CiviCRM |
| Keela | On request | Per month by contact count | - | vs CiviCRM |
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 CiviCRM badges page.
Before you pay for CiviCRM
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.
CiviCRM runs on web, linux, self-hosted, and is published by CiviCRM of Distributed, United States and United Kingdom. The full record is on the CiviCRM review, and the rest of the category is under best nonprofits tools.
CiviCRM pricing questions
- How much does CiviCRM cost?
- CiviCRM publishes a single tier, CiviCRM, at Free.
- Does CiviCRM have a free plan?
- Yes. The CiviCRM tier costs nothing and covers no licence fee, no per contact charge and no percentage of donations, costs are hosting, implementation partner time and upgrade work, paid hosting and support available from partners at their own rates.
- Which nonprofits tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 nonprofits tools listed alongside CiviCRM have a free tier: Give Lively, OpenGrants.
- What am I actually paying for with CiviCRM?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a membership organisation with a large contact file that refuses to pay a per contact meter, an advocacy group needing to hold constituent data on infrastructure it controls, a charity already running drupal or wordpress that wants crm inside the same stack.
- Does CiviCRM 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 CiviCRM 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 CiviCRM against before paying?
- The closest nonprofits tools in this directory are CommCare, Foundant Technologies, SmartSimple Cloud, CharityEngine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CiviCRM covering price, platforms and features.