Mobile Development · pricing
Flutter pricing
Flutter publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the mobile development tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Flutter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flutter | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Flutter stops being free
Flutter, Free
- Full framework
- All platform targets
- Dart toolchain
- DevTools suite
No paid tier on record
Flutter lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Flutter 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
- Single codebase, many targets
- Own rendering engine
- Hot reload
- Widget library
- Ahead-of-time compilation
- DevTools
People bring Flutter in for shipping one app to ios and android with a small team, interfaces with heavy custom design that need to look identical on both platforms, adding web or desktop builds to an existing mobile codebase, prototyping quickly where hot reload shortens the design loop. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Flutter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flutter (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| React Native | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Flutter |
| Fastlane | Free | open-source | - | vs Flutter |
| Expo | Free, then $19/month | freemium | - | vs Flutter |
| Appcircle | Free | freemium | - | vs Flutter |
| Android Studio | Free | - | - | vs Flutter |
| Bitrise | Free, then $89/month | subscription | - | vs Flutter |
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 Flutter badges page.
Before you pay for Flutter
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.
Flutter runs on ios, android, web, windows, macos, linux, and is published by Google of Mountain View, California, United States. The full record is on the Flutter review, and the rest of the category is under best mobile development tools.
Flutter pricing questions
- How much does Flutter cost?
- Flutter publishes a single tier, Flutter, at Free.
- Does Flutter have a free plan?
- Yes. The Flutter tier costs nothing and covers full framework, all platform targets, dart toolchain.
- Which mobile development tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 mobile development tools listed alongside Flutter have a free tier: React Native, Fastlane, Expo, Appcircle, Android Studio.
- What am I actually paying for with Flutter?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for shipping one app to ios and android with a small team, interfaces with heavy custom design that need to look identical on both platforms, adding web or desktop builds to an existing mobile codebase.
- Does Flutter 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 Flutter 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 Flutter against before paying?
- The closest mobile development tools in this directory are React Native, Fastlane, Expo, Appcircle. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Flutter covering price, platforms and features.
