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.NET MAUI pricing
.NET MAUI publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the mobile development tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, .NET MAUI 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
.NET MAUI 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| .NET MAUI | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where .NET MAUI stops being free
.NET MAUI, Free
- MIT licensed, unlimited apps
- Bundled with the free .NET SDK
- Visual Studio Community edition available at no cost for individuals and small teams
No paid tier on record
.NET MAUI lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full .NET MAUI 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
- Single C# and XAML codebase
- Native UI rendering
- Xamarin migration path
- Hot Reload
- Blazor Hybrid support
- MVU and data binding
People bring .NET MAUI in for a .net shop extending an existing c# codebase or business logic layer into ios and android, a team migrating a retired xamarin.forms app, since microsoft provides an official upgrade path, an organisation that wants one codebase spanning mobile and windows desktop without a second language, a company standardised on visual studio and azure devops wanting mobile builds in the same pipeline. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to .NET MAUI are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Mobile Development
Too few mobile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .NET MAUI (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Ionic | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs .NET MAUI |
| Capacitor | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs .NET MAUI |
| NativeScript | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs .NET MAUI |
| Kotlin Multiplatform | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs .NET MAUI |
| Sencha | On request | One-time purchase, per developer | - | vs .NET MAUI |
| Adjust | On request | Per attributed install | - | vs .NET MAUI |
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 .NET MAUI badges page.
Before you pay for .NET MAUI
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.
.NET MAUI runs on windows, macos, ios, android, and is published by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington, United States. The full record is on the .NET MAUI review, and the rest of the category is under best mobile development tools.
.NET MAUI pricing questions
- How much does .NET MAUI cost?
- .NET MAUI publishes a single tier, .NET MAUI, at Free.
- Does .NET MAUI have a free plan?
- Yes. The .NET MAUI tier costs nothing and covers mit licensed, unlimited apps, bundled with the free .net sdk, visual studio community edition available at no cost for individuals and small teams.
- Which mobile development tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 mobile development tools listed alongside .NET MAUI have a free tier: Ionic, Capacitor, NativeScript, Kotlin Multiplatform, Superwall.
- What am I actually paying for with .NET MAUI?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a .net shop extending an existing c# codebase or business logic layer into ios and android, a team migrating a retired xamarin.forms app, since microsoft provides an official upgrade path, an organisation that wants one codebase spanning mobile and windows desktop without a second language.
- Does .NET MAUI 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 .NET MAUI 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 .NET MAUI against before paying?
- The closest mobile development tools in this directory are Ionic, Capacitor, NativeScript, Kotlin Multiplatform. Each has a side-by-side comparison with .NET MAUI covering price, platforms and features.