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ESPHome pricing
ESPHome publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
ESPHome 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where ESPHome stops being free
Community, Free
- Full firmware
- Home Assistant integration
- Custom sensors
No paid tier on record
ESPHome lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full ESPHome 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
- YAML Configuration
- OTA Updates
- Home Assistant Native
- Custom Components
Integrations
- Home Assistant
- MQTT
- API
- Native integration
Platform
- ESP8266 support
- ESP32 support
- Docker support
- Raspberry Pi support
People bring ESPHome in for building custom smart home sensors and switches on esp32 hardware, replacing vendor cloud firmware on esp based devices with locally controlled firmware, integrating diy devices into home assistant over a native api or mqtt. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to ESPHome are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for ESPHome
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.
ESPHome runs on esp8266, esp32, docker, raspberry pi, and is published by ESPHome Community of International Community. The full record is on the ESPHome review.
ESPHome pricing questions
- How much does ESPHome cost?
- ESPHome publishes a single tier, Community, at Free.
- Does ESPHome have a free plan?
- Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers full firmware, home assistant integration, custom sensors.
- What am I actually paying for with ESPHome?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for building custom smart home sensors and switches on esp32 hardware, replacing vendor cloud firmware on esp based devices with locally controlled firmware, integrating diy devices into home assistant over a native api or mqtt.
- Does ESPHome 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 ESPHome 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 ESPHome against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to ESPHome to make a useful price comparison.