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FMOD pricing
FMOD 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
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
FMOD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indie | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Commercial | $6000/project | 4 | +$6000/project, 2 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.
Indie
FreeThe entry tier. It covers full feature set, up to $200k budget, all platforms, community support.
Commercial
$6000/projectOver Indie, this tier adds:
- Unlimited budget
- Priority support
Where FMOD stops being free
Indie, Free
- Full feature set
- Up to $200K budget
- All platforms
- Community support
Commercial, $6000/project
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited budget
- Priority support
What the product covers
The full FMOD 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
- FMOD Studio
- Real-time mixing
- Adaptive music
- 3D audio
- Occlusion
- DSP effects
- Live update
- Profiling tools
Integrations
- Unity
- Unreal Engine
- Godot
- Custom engines
Deployment
- Local deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
- Ios support
- Android support
- Consoles support
Localization
- C language support
- C++ language support
- C# language support
People bring FMOD in for game audio, adaptive music, sound effects, vr audio. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to FMOD are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for FMOD
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 $6000/project, 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.
FMOD runs on windows, macos, linux, ios, android, consoles, and is published by Firelight Technologies of Melbourne, Australia. The full record is on the FMOD review.
FMOD pricing questions
- How much does FMOD cost?
- FMOD publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Indie up to $6000/project for Commercial. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does FMOD have a free plan?
- Yes. The Indie tier costs nothing and covers full feature set, up to $200k budget, all platforms. Paying starts at $6000/project for Commercial.
- What is the difference between Indie and Commercial on FMOD?
- Commercial costs $6000/project against Free, and adds unlimited budget, priority support.
- What am I actually paying for with FMOD?
- The record lists 22 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for game audio, adaptive music, sound effects.
- Does FMOD 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 FMOD 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 FMOD against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to FMOD to make a useful price comparison.