Mobile Development · pricing
Expo pricing
Expo publishes 4 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 $19/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Expo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Starter | $19/month | 4 | +$19/month, 4 more features |
| Production | $199/month | 5 | +$180/month, 5 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
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
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 15 android and 15 ios builds, low-priority build queue, 60 minutes of ci/cd workflows, 1,000 monthly active users for updates, 25 projects maximum.
Starter
$19/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- $45 build credit included
- High-priority queue and large workers
- 3,000 MAUs for updates
- Usage-based charges beyond included amounts
Production
$199/monthOver Starter, this tier adds:
- $225 build credit included
- 2 concurrent builds
- 50,000 MAU support
- 10 environment variables
- Priority support and SSO
Enterprise
On requestOver Production, this tier adds:
- $1,000 build credit included
- 5 concurrent builds
- 1M+ MAU support
- Dedicated support and SLAs
Where Expo stops being free
Free, Free
- 15 Android and 15 iOS builds
- Low-priority build queue
- 60 minutes of CI/CD workflows
- 1,000 monthly active users for updates
- 25 projects maximum
Starter, $19/month
The first thing you pay for:
- $45 build credit included
- High-priority queue and large workers
- 3,000 MAUs for updates
- Usage-based charges beyond included amounts
What the product covers
The full Expo 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
- Expo SDK
- EAS Build
- EAS Submit
- EAS Update
- Expo Router
integration
- EAS Hosting
analytics
- EAS Insights
People bring Expo in for building cross-platform apps with react native without native tooling, running cloud builds and store submissions via eas, shipping over-the-air updates to bypass app store review, adding file-based navigation with expo router, hosting companion web apps and apis. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Expo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expo (this page) | Free, then $19/month | freemium | - | |
| Fastlane | Free | open-source | - | vs Expo |
| Appcircle | Free | freemium | - | vs Expo |
| Codemagic | Free | freemium | - | vs Expo |
| Bitrise | Free | freemium | - | vs Expo |
| Firebase | Free | freemium | - | vs Expo |
| Luciq | On request | quote | - | vs Expo |
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 Expo badges page.
Before you pay for Expo
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: 4 tiers between Free and On request, 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.
Expo runs on web, ios, android, api, and is published by Expo. The full record is on the Expo review, and the rest of the category is under best mobile development tools.
Expo pricing questions
- How much does Expo cost?
- Expo publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Expo have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 15 android and 15 ios builds, low-priority build queue, 60 minutes of ci/cd workflows. Paying starts at $19/month for Starter.
- What is the difference between Free and Starter on Expo?
- Starter costs $19/month against Free, and adds $45 build credit included, high-priority queue and large workers, 3,000 maus for updates, usage-based charges beyond included amounts.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Expo worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is $1,000 build credit included, 5 concurrent builds, 1m+ mau support, dedicated support and slas. It costs On request against $19/month for 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 mobile development tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 7 mobile development tools listed alongside Expo have a free tier: Fastlane, Appcircle, Codemagic, Bitrise, Firebase.
- What am I actually paying for with Expo?
- The record lists 7 features across 3 areas: core, integration, analytics. In practice it is brought in for building cross-platform apps with react native without native tooling, running cloud builds and store submissions via eas, shipping over-the-air updates to bypass app store review.
- Does Expo charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Expo 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 Expo against before paying?
- The closest mobile development tools in this directory are Fastlane, Appcircle, Codemagic, Bitrise. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Expo covering price, platforms and features.