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Cocos Creator pricing
Cocos Creator publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the game development tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Cocos Creator 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
Cocos Creator 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cocos Creator | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Cocos Creator stops being free
Cocos Creator, Free
- Free for commercial use with no royalty
- Open source engine runtime
- All export targets included
- Community support through forums and documentation
- Paid commercial support arranged separately
No paid tier on record
Cocos Creator lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Cocos Creator 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
- TypeScript scripting
- Mini-game export
- Small build sizes
- 2D and 3D pipelines
- Open source runtime
- No royalties
People bring Cocos Creator in for shipping to wechat, douyin or other mini-game platforms where package size limits are enforced, advertising-funded mobile games where a small download raises install conversion, small teams that want a free 2d engine with no royalty or per install exposure, studios targeting asian mobile publishing where cocos experience is common in the hiring pool. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cocos Creator are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Game Development
Too few game 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cocos Creator (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Perforce Helix Core | Free | quote | - | vs Cocos Creator |
| Photon Engine | Free, then $9/month | Per month by peak concurrent users | - | vs Cocos Creator |
| GDevelop | Free | free | - | vs Cocos Creator |
| GameMaker Studio 2 | Free | freemium | - | vs Cocos Creator |
| Cocos2d-x | Free | free | - | vs Cocos Creator |
| Bevy | Free | free | - | vs Cocos Creator |
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 Cocos Creator badges page.
Before you pay for Cocos Creator
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.
Cocos Creator runs on windows, macos, web, ios, android, and is published by Cocos Technologies of Xiamen, Fujian, China. The full record is on the Cocos Creator review, and the rest of the category is under best game development tools.
Cocos Creator pricing questions
- How much does Cocos Creator cost?
- Cocos Creator publishes a single tier, Cocos Creator, at Free.
- Does Cocos Creator have a free plan?
- Yes. The Cocos Creator tier costs nothing and covers free for commercial use with no royalty, open source engine runtime, all export targets included.
- Which game development tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Cocos Creator have a free tier: Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2, Cocos2d-x.
- What am I actually paying for with Cocos Creator?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for shipping to wechat, douyin or other mini-game platforms where package size limits are enforced, advertising-funded mobile games where a small download raises install conversion, small teams that want a free 2d engine with no royalty or per install exposure.
- Does Cocos Creator 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 Cocos Creator 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 Cocos Creator against before paying?
- The closest game development tools in this directory are Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cocos Creator covering price, platforms and features.