How much does Corteza cost?

Corteza publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Corteza community up to On request for Planet Crust support and services. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Corteza community and Planet Crust support and services on Corteza?

Planet Crust support and services costs On request against Free, and adds commercial support, hosting and implementation from planet crust, custom application development, training, pricing quoted per engagement, not published.

Which no-code tools can I use without paying?

4 of the 8 no-code tools listed alongside Corteza have a free tier: Mendix, Zoho Creator, Thunkable, Directual.

Does Corteza charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Corteza 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 Corteza against before paying?

The closest no-code tools in this directory are OutSystems, Mendix, Caspio, Appian. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Corteza covering price, platforms and features.

No-Code · pricing

Corteza pricing

Corteza publishes 2 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 31 August 2026, Corteza pricing is free across 2 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: Free
Model: Open source, no licence fee
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Corteza 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.

Corteza pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Corteza community	Free	5	Entry tier
Planet Crust support and services	On request	4	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.

Corteza community

Free

The entry tier. It covers apache 2.0 licensed with no feature gating, low-code builder, workflow engine, crm and case management included, self-hosted on your own infrastructure, community support via forum and github, no enterprise edition to upgrade to.

Planet Crust support and services

On request

Over Corteza community, this tier adds:

Commercial support, hosting and implementation from Planet Crust
Custom application development
Training
Pricing quoted per engagement, not published

Where Corteza stops being free

Corteza community, Free

Apache 2.0 licensed with no feature gating
Low-code builder, workflow engine, CRM and case management included
Self-hosted on your own infrastructure
Community support via forum and GitHub
No enterprise edition to upgrade to

No paid tier on record

Corteza lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Corteza 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

Corteza Low Code
Automation and workflow
Bundled CRM
Case management
Federation
Role-based access control
Corteza Messaging and integrations
Self-hosted deployment
Apache 2.0 licence
Foundation ownership

People bring Corteza in for a european public body that needs a case management system on servers inside its own jurisdiction with an auditable licence and no per-seat vendor fee, an ngo replacing a salesforce donation that has run out, needing to keep the data model but remove the recurring cost, an integrator building a regulated vertical application it intends to resell, requiring a permissive licence it can ship commercially, a mid-size european company that wants one platform for internal applications and a sales pipeline without paying per seat as headcount grows. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Corteza are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in No-Code

Too few no-code 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.

Corteza entry price against other No-Code tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Corteza (this page)	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-
OutSystems	On request	Application Object consumption plus internal and external user packs	-	vs Corteza
Mendix	Free	Per application tier (One App vs Unlimited Apps), cloud infrastructure billed separately	-	vs Corteza
Caspio	On request	Flat monthly fee by data record volume and DataPage count, unlimited users included	-	vs Corteza
Appian	On request	Per user, per app, per month, escalating across Standard, Advanced and Premium tiers	-	vs Corteza
Quickbase	On request	Per user per month, billed annually, with an enforced minimum seat count per tier	-	vs Corteza
Zoho Creator	Free	Per user per month, billed annually	-	vs Corteza

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 Corteza badges page.

Before you pay for Corteza

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: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Corteza runs on web, linux, self-hosted, docker, and is published by Planet Crust (code owned by The Commons Conservancy) of Blackpool, Cork, Ireland. The full record is on the Corteza review, and the rest of the category is under best no-code tools.

Corteza pricing on the vendor's own site

Corteza pricing questions

How much does Corteza cost?: Corteza publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Corteza community up to On request for Planet Crust support and services. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Corteza have a free plan?: Yes. The Corteza community tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licensed with no feature gating, low-code builder, workflow engine, crm and case management included, self-hosted on your own infrastructure.
What is the difference between Corteza community and Planet Crust support and services on Corteza?: Planet Crust support and services costs On request against Free, and adds commercial support, hosting and implementation from planet crust, custom application development, training, pricing quoted per engagement, not published.
Which no-code tools can I use without paying?: 4 of the 8 no-code tools listed alongside Corteza have a free tier: Mendix, Zoho Creator, Thunkable, Directual.
What am I actually paying for with Corteza?: The record lists 10 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a european public body that needs a case management system on servers inside its own jurisdiction with an auditable licence and no per-seat vendor fee, an ngo replacing a salesforce donation that has run out, needing to keep the data model but remove the recurring cost, an integrator building a regulated vertical application it intends to resell, requiring a permissive licence it can ship commercially.
Does Corteza charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Corteza 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 Corteza against before paying?: The closest no-code tools in this directory are OutSystems, Mendix, Caspio, Appian. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Corteza covering price, platforms and features.