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Discord pricing
Discord publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $4.99/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Discord 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Nitro Basic | $4.99/month | 4 | +$4.99/month, 4 more features |
| Nitro | $9.99/month | 5 | +$5/month, 5 more features |
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.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers unlimited text chat, voice & video calls, screen sharing, 10mb file uploads, create servers.
Nitro Basic
$4.99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- 50MB file uploads
- Custom emojis anywhere
- Special Nitro badge
- Video backgrounds
Nitro
$9.99/monthOver Nitro Basic, this tier adds:
- 500MB file uploads
- HD video streaming
- 2 Server Boosts
- Custom profiles
- Longer messages
Where Discord stops being free
Free, Free
- Unlimited text chat
- Voice & video calls
- Screen sharing
- 10MB file uploads
- Create servers
Nitro Basic, $4.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 50MB file uploads
- Custom emojis anywhere
- Special Nitro badge
- Video backgrounds
What the product covers
The full Discord 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.
Core
- Voice channels
- Video calls
- Text channels
- Screen sharing
- Go Live streaming
- Server organization
- Role management
- Moderation tools
Integrations
- Spotify
- YouTube
- Twitch
- GitHub
- Steam
- Xbox
Security
- 2FA
- IP location lock
- Encryption
- Privacy settings
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
- Ios support
- Android support
Localization
- 28+ languages language support
People bring Discord in for text, voice and video chat for communities and gaming groups, running a moderated community server with roles and channels, screen sharing and streaming gameplay to a small group. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Discord are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Gaming
Too few gaming 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discord (this page) | Free, then $4.99/month | freemium | - | |
| Xbox Game Pass | On request | subscription | - | vs Discord |
| Steam | On request | subscription | - | vs Discord |
| Discord Nitro | Free, then $2.99/month | - | - | vs Discord |
| PlayStation Plus | On request | subscription | - | vs Discord |
| Twitch | Free, then $4.99/month | freemium | - | vs Discord |
| Nintendo Switch Online | On request | subscription | - | vs Discord |
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 Discord badges page.
Before you pay for Discord
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: 3 tiers between Free and $9.99/month, 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.
Discord runs on web, windows, macos, linux, ios, android, and is published by Discord Inc of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Discord review, and the rest of the category is under best gaming tools.
Discord pricing questions
- How much does Discord cost?
- Discord publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $9.99/month for Nitro. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Discord have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers unlimited text chat, voice & video calls, screen sharing. Paying starts at $4.99/month for Nitro Basic.
- What is the difference between Free and Nitro Basic on Discord?
- Nitro Basic costs $4.99/month against Free, and adds 50mb file uploads, custom emojis anywhere, special nitro badge, video backgrounds.
- Is the Nitro plan on Discord worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 500mb file uploads, hd video streaming, 2 server boosts, custom profiles. It costs $9.99/month against $4.99/month for Nitro Basic. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which gaming tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 7 gaming tools listed alongside Discord have a free tier: Discord Nitro, Twitch, Unreal Engine.
- What am I actually paying for with Discord?
- The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for text, voice and video chat for communities and gaming groups, running a moderated community server with roles and channels, screen sharing and streaming gameplay to a small group.
- Does Discord charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Discord 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 Discord against before paying?
- The closest gaming tools in this directory are Xbox Game Pass, Steam, Discord Nitro, PlayStation Plus. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Discord covering price, platforms and features.