How much does curl cost?

curl publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.

Does curl have a free plan?

Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers full curl functionality, community support.

What am I actually paying for with curl?

The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for api development, api gateway, api testing.

Does curl 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 curl 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 curl against before paying?

The closest apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with curl covering price, platforms and features.

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curl pricing

curl publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the apis tools listed alongside it.

As of 30 August 2026, curl 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
Tiers: 1
Free tier: Yes

curl 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.

curl pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Open Source	Free	2	Entry tier

Where curl stops being free

Open Source, Free

Full curl functionality
Community support

No paid tier on record

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

What the product covers

The full curl 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

HTTP/HTTPS
FTP
Multiple protocols

Integrations

Universal compatibility
Scripting tools

Platform

Linux support
MacOS support
Windows support
Unix support
Mobile support

People bring curl in for api development, api gateway, api testing, api documentation, microservices. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to curl are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in APIs

Too few apis 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.

curl entry price against other APIs tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
curl (this page)	Free	open-source	-
Mambu	On request	quote	-	vs curl
Fintech Farm	On request	quote	-	vs curl
Flybits	On request	quote	-	vs curl
Neonomics	On request	quote	-	vs curl
Brite Payments	On request	quote	-	vs curl
Meniga	On request	quote	-	vs curl

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 curl badges page.

Before you pay for curl

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.

curl runs on linux, macos, windows, unix, mobile, and is published by curl project of Global. The full record is on the curl review, and the rest of the category is under best apis tools.

curl pricing on the vendor's own site

curl pricing questions

How much does curl cost?: curl publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
Does curl have a free plan?: Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers full curl functionality, community support.
What am I actually paying for with curl?: The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for api development, api gateway, api testing.
Does curl 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 curl 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 curl against before paying?: The closest apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with curl covering price, platforms and features.