How much does ERPNext cost?

ERPNext publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to $108/month for Frappe Cloud Premium. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does ERPNext have a free plan?

Yes. The Community Edition tier costs nothing. Paying starts at $14/month for Frappe Cloud Starter.

Is the Frappe Cloud Premium plan on ERPNext worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs $108/month against $14/month for Frappe Cloud Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which inventory tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 inventory tools listed alongside ERPNext have a free tier: Megaventory, Fiix.

What am I actually paying for with ERPNext?

The record lists 16 features across 4 areas: other, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for enterprise resource planning for small to medium businesses, accounting and financial management, inventory and stock management.

Does ERPNext charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 ERPNext 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 ERPNext against before paying?

The closest inventory tools in this directory are Fishbowl Inventory, Quartzy, Megaventory, Fiix. Each has a side-by-side comparison with ERPNext covering price, platforms and features.

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ERPNext pricing

ERPNext publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, ERPNext pricing is free across 5 published tiers. 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: Freemium
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Yes

ERPNext 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.

ERPNext pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Community Edition	Free	-	Entry tier
Frappe Cloud Starter	$14/month	-	+$14/month
Frappe Cloud Standard	$50/month	-	+$36/month
Frappe Cloud Professional	$100/month	-	+$50/month
Frappe Cloud Premium	$108/month	-	+$8/month

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.

Community Edition

Free

The entry tier. The record does not itemise what it includes.

Frappe Cloud Starter

$14/month

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Community Edition on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Frappe Cloud Standard

$50/month

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Frappe Cloud Starter on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Frappe Cloud Professional

$100/month

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Frappe Cloud Standard on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Frappe Cloud Premium

$108/month

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Frappe Cloud Professional on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Where ERPNext stops being free

Community Edition, Free

The record does not itemise what the free tier includes.

Frappe Cloud Starter, $14/month

The record lists no feature the paid tier has and the free one does not, which usually means the paid tier lifts limits rather than unlocking capability. The vendor's page is the place to confirm which limits.

What the product covers

The full ERPNext 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

Accounting
Inventory
Manufacturing
CRM
Human Resources

Integrations

Payment gateways
Email systems
Custom extensions
Third-party APIs

Security

User role management
Data encryption
Permission control
Audit logging

Platform

Self-hosted support
Cloud support
Web support

People bring ERPNext in for enterprise resource planning for small to medium businesses, accounting and financial management, inventory and stock management, supply chain management. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to ERPNext are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Inventory

Too few inventory 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.

ERPNext entry price against other Inventory tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
ERPNext (this page)	Free	freemium	-
Fishbowl Inventory	On request	quote	-	vs ERPNext
Quartzy	$50/month	Per month by user tier	-	vs ERPNext
Megaventory	Free, then $135/month	subscription	-	vs ERPNext
Fiix	Free	subscription	-	vs ERPNext
QuickBooks Enterprise	On request	subscription	-	vs ERPNext
Linnworks	On request	subscription	-	vs ERPNext

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 ERPNext badges page.

Before you pay for ERPNext

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: 5 tiers between Free and $108/month, with the jump not itemised on the record. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

ERPNext runs on self-hosted, cloud, web, and is published by Frappe Technologies Private Limited of Bangalore, India. The full record is on the ERPNext review, and the rest of the category is under best inventory tools.

ERPNext pricing on the vendor's own site

ERPNext pricing questions

How much does ERPNext cost?: ERPNext publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to $108/month for Frappe Cloud Premium. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does ERPNext have a free plan?: Yes. The Community Edition tier costs nothing. Paying starts at $14/month for Frappe Cloud Starter.
Is the Frappe Cloud Premium plan on ERPNext worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs $108/month against $14/month for Frappe Cloud Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which inventory tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 inventory tools listed alongside ERPNext have a free tier: Megaventory, Fiix.
What am I actually paying for with ERPNext?: The record lists 16 features across 4 areas: other, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for enterprise resource planning for small to medium businesses, accounting and financial management, inventory and stock management.
Does ERPNext charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 ERPNext 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 ERPNext against before paying?: The closest inventory tools in this directory are Fishbowl Inventory, Quartzy, Megaventory, Fiix. Each has a side-by-side comparison with ERPNext covering price, platforms and features.