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CollectiveAccess pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for CollectiveAccess. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the libraries tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, CollectiveAccess 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
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The CollectiveAccess catalogue entry carries no price, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the CollectiveAccess review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full CollectiveAccess 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
- Configurable cataloging
- Digital asset management
- Relationship mapping
- Provenance tracking
- Loan management
- Exhibition management
- Web publishing (Pawtucket)
- Import/export tools
- Multi-language support
Integrations
- Getty vocabularies
- LCSH
- ULAN
- TMS
- ArchivesSpace
Security
- Role-based access
- LDAP
- OAuth
Deployment
- Self-hosted deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
Localization
- English language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Spanish language support
- Dutch language support
- Italian language support
People bring CollectiveAccess in for museum collection management, archival description, digital asset management, exhibition development. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CollectiveAccess are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Libraries
Too few libraries 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CollectiveAccess (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| Libby | Free | Free with a participating library card, no subscription | - | vs CollectiveAccess |
| Hoopla | Free | Free with a participating library card, capped by monthly borrow limit | - | vs CollectiveAccess |
| Leafmap | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CollectiveAccess |
| PDAL | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CollectiveAccess |
| daisyUI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CollectiveAccess |
| Mantine | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CollectiveAccess |
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 CollectiveAccess badges page.
Before you pay for CollectiveAccess
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.
CollectiveAccess runs on web, and is published by Whirl-i-Gig of New York, NY. The full record is on the CollectiveAccess review, and the rest of the category is under best libraries tools.
CollectiveAccess pricing questions
- How much does CollectiveAccess cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for CollectiveAccess. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does CollectiveAccess have a free plan?
- Yes, CollectiveAccess is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- Which libraries tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 libraries tools listed alongside CollectiveAccess have a free tier: Libby, Hoopla, Leafmap, PDAL, daisyUI.
- What am I actually paying for with CollectiveAccess?
- The record lists 27 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for museum collection management, archival description, digital asset management.
- Does CollectiveAccess 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 CollectiveAccess 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 CollectiveAccess against before paying?
- The closest libraries tools in this directory are Libby, Hoopla, Leafmap, PDAL. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CollectiveAccess covering price, platforms and features.