How much does GIMP cost?

No price is published on the record we hold for GIMP, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.

Does GIMP have a free plan?

Yes, GIMP is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.

Which publishing tools can I use without paying?

4 of the 8 publishing tools listed alongside GIMP have a free tier: Goodreads, Kobo Writing Life, Kindle Direct Publishing, PublishDrive.

Does GIMP 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 GIMP 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 GIMP against before paying?

The closest publishing tools in this directory are Goodreads, Kobo Writing Life, Scrivener, BookBaby. Each has a side-by-side comparison with GIMP covering price, platforms and features.

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GIMP pricing

No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for GIMP. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the publishing tools listed alongside it.

As of 30 August 2026, GIMP pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Open-source
Tiers: -
Free tier: Yes

What is on record

The GIMP catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the GIMP review carries the full feature record.

What the product covers

The full GIMP 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

Photo editing
Digital painting
Image processing
Batch editing
Filters
Color correction
Layer support
Script-fu automation

Integrations

ImageMagick
Ghostscript
GIMP plugins
Open source software

Deployment

Desktop deployment

Platform

Windows support
Macos support
Linux support

Localization

Multiple languages available language support

People bring GIMP in for photo editing and retouching with professional colour management, digital art creation with power and flexibility for image transformation, icon and ui element design for application development, batch image processing through python, c, c++, and scheme scripting. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to GIMP are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Publishing

Too few publishing 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.

GIMP entry price against other Publishing tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
GIMP (this page)	Free	open-source	-
Goodreads	Free	Free, no subscription or in-app purchases; funded by Amazon as a commerce and data feeder	-	vs GIMP
Kobo Writing Life	Free	Free to publish; Kobo earns a royalty share rather than a fee	-	vs GIMP
Scrivener	On request	One-time purchase	-	vs GIMP
BookBaby	On request	One-time purchase per project	-	vs GIMP
Storytel	$14.99/month	Per user per month, unlimited	-	vs GIMP
Everand	$11.99/month	Per user per month, unlimited	-	vs GIMP

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 GIMP badges page.

Before you pay for GIMP

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.

GIMP runs on gnu/linux, macos, windows, and is published by GIMP Project of Open source community. The full record is on the GIMP review, and the rest of the category is under best publishing tools.

GIMP pricing on the vendor's own site

GIMP pricing questions

How much does GIMP cost?: No price is published on the record we hold for GIMP, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
Does GIMP have a free plan?: Yes, GIMP is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
Which publishing tools can I use without paying?: 4 of the 8 publishing tools listed alongside GIMP have a free tier: Goodreads, Kobo Writing Life, Kindle Direct Publishing, PublishDrive.
What am I actually paying for with GIMP?: The record lists 17 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for photo editing and retouching with professional colour management, digital art creation with power and flexibility for image transformation, icon and ui element design for application development.
Does GIMP 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 GIMP 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 GIMP against before paying?: The closest publishing tools in this directory are Goodreads, Kobo Writing Life, Scrivener, BookBaby. Each has a side-by-side comparison with GIMP covering price, platforms and features.