How much does Emby cost?

Emby publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $4.99/month for Premiere. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Emby have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers media server, local streaming. Paying starts at $4.99/month for Premiere.

What is the difference between Free and Premiere on Emby?

Premiere costs $4.99/month against Free, and adds cloud sync, remote access, sync to devices.

What am I actually paying for with Emby?

The record lists 16 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for running a personal media server for films, television and music, streaming a home library to phones, tablets and televisions.

Does Emby 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 Emby 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 Emby against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Emby to make a useful price comparison.

Software · pricing

Emby pricing

Emby 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.

Entry price: Free, then $4.99/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Emby 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.

Emby pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	2	Entry tier
Premiere	$4.99/month	3	+$4.99/month, 3 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

The entry tier. It covers media server, local streaming.

Premiere

$4.99/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Cloud sync
Remote access
Sync to devices

Where Emby stops being free

Free, Free

Media server
Local streaming

Premiere, $4.99/month

The first thing you pay for:

Cloud sync
Remote access
Sync to devices

What the product covers

The full Emby 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

Personal media server
Streaming
Library management
Sync
Remote access

Integrations

Smart TVs
Streaming devices
Mobile devices

Security

User management
Parental controls
Remote access controls

Platform

Web support
Ios support
Android support
Smart-tv support
Desktop support

People bring Emby in for running a personal media server for films, television and music, streaming a home library to phones, tablets and televisions. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Emby are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Emby

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 $4.99/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.

Emby runs on web, ios, android, smart-tv, desktop, and is published by Emby Inc of Salt Lake City, UT. The full record is on the Emby review.

Emby pricing on the vendor's own site

Emby pricing questions

How much does Emby cost?: Emby publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $4.99/month for Premiere. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Emby have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers media server, local streaming. Paying starts at $4.99/month for Premiere.
What is the difference between Free and Premiere on Emby?: Premiere costs $4.99/month against Free, and adds cloud sync, remote access, sync to devices.
What am I actually paying for with Emby?: The record lists 16 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for running a personal media server for films, television and music, streaming a home library to phones, tablets and televisions.
Does Emby 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 Emby 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 Emby against before paying?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Emby to make a useful price comparison.

Emby head to head

Compare Emby with anything