How much does Drupal cost?

Drupal publishes a single tier, Drupal, at Free.

Does Drupal have a free plan?

Yes. The Drupal tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, commercial use permitted, community support.

Which web development tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside Drupal have a free tier: Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack, shadcn/ui.

Does Drupal 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 Drupal 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 Drupal against before paying?

The closest web development tools in this directory are Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Drupal covering price, platforms and features.

Web Development · pricing

Drupal pricing

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

Entry price: Free
Model: Open source, no licence fee
Tiers: 1
Free tier: Yes

Drupal 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.

Drupal pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Drupal	Free	3	Entry tier

Where Drupal stops being free

Drupal, Free

Full functionality
Commercial use permitted
Community support

No paid tier on record

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

What the product covers

The full Drupal 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

Structured content modelling
Granular permissions
Multilingual
Views

People bring Drupal in for government and university sites with complex content models and strict permissions, multilingual sites where translation is structural rather than a plugin, publishers needing custom content types and editorial workflow. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Drupal are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Web Development

Too few web 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.

Drupal entry price against other Web Development tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Drupal (this page)	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-
Chakra UI	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Drupal
Rollup	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Drupal
Radix UI	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Drupal
Turbopack	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Drupal
shadcn/ui	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Drupal
esbuild	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Drupal

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 Drupal badges page.

Before you pay for Drupal

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.

Drupal runs on web, linux, self-hosted, and is published by Drupal Association of Portland, Oregon, United States. The full record is on the Drupal review, and the rest of the category is under best web development tools.

Drupal pricing on the vendor's own site

Drupal pricing questions

How much does Drupal cost?: Drupal publishes a single tier, Drupal, at Free.
Does Drupal have a free plan?: Yes. The Drupal tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, commercial use permitted, community support.
Which web development tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside Drupal have a free tier: Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack, shadcn/ui.
What am I actually paying for with Drupal?: The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for government and university sites with complex content models and strict permissions, multilingual sites where translation is structural rather than a plugin, publishers needing custom content types and editorial workflow.
Does Drupal 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 Drupal 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 Drupal against before paying?: The closest web development tools in this directory are Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Drupal covering price, platforms and features.