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FreeCAD pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for FreeCAD. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The FreeCAD catalogue entry carries a starting price of Free and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the FreeCAD review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full FreeCAD 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
- Parametric modeling
- Part design
- Assembly
- Drafting
- FEM simulation
- Path/CAM
- Architecture
- BIM
Integrations
- OpenCASCADE
- Python scripting
- STEP import/export
Security
- Open source
- Self-hosted
Platform
- Windows support
- MacOS support
- Linux support
People bring FreeCAD in for mechanical engineering design, architectural modelling, product design and prototyping, cam/cnc path generation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to FreeCAD are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for FreeCAD
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
FreeCAD runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by FreeCAD Community of Open Source. The full record is on the FreeCAD review.
FreeCAD pricing questions
- How much does FreeCAD cost?
- FreeCAD starts at Free. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does FreeCAD have a free plan?
- Yes, FreeCAD is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with FreeCAD?
- The record lists 16 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for mechanical engineering design, architectural modelling, product design and prototyping.
- Does FreeCAD charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 FreeCAD 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 FreeCAD against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to FreeCAD to make a useful price comparison.