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GNU Health pricing
GNU Health 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.
As of 1 September 2026, GNU Health pricing is free across 2 published tiers. 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, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
GNU Health 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GNU Health | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Support and training | 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.
GNU Health
FreeThe entry tier. It covers gnu gpl licence, all modules included, no patient, bed or user limits, community support through mailing lists and the wiki.
Support and training
On requestOver GNU Health, this tier adds:
- Paid support and implementation from GNU Solidario
- Training courses and certification
- Quoted per institution
- Delivered by a small team
Where GNU Health stops being free
GNU Health, Free
- GNU GPL licence
- All modules included
- No patient, bed or user limits
- Community support through mailing lists and the wiki
No paid tier on record
GNU Health lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full GNU Health 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
- Electronic medical record
- Hospital management
- Laboratory information system
- Social medicine modules
- Tryton business modules
- Health federation
- ICD and standards support
- Modular installation
People bring GNU Health in for a public hospital in a low-resource setting that cannot fund commercial emr licensing and has in-house linux capability, a ministry building a national health network where source code inspection and data sovereignty are policy requirements, a university teaching health informatics that needs a complete, inspectable system rather than a vendor demonstration, a community health programme that needs socioeconomic determinants recorded alongside clinical data. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to GNU Health are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Healthcare
Too few healthcare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNU Health (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Aidoc | On request | quote | - | vs GNU Health |
| Flo | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | - | vs GNU Health |
| Meru Health | On request | quote | - | vs GNU Health |
| Bahmni | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs GNU Health |
| Ibex Medical Analytics | On request | quote | - | vs GNU Health |
| Annalise.ai | On request | quote | - | vs GNU Health |
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 GNU Health badges page.
Before you pay for GNU Health
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 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.
GNU Health runs on linux, web, self-hosted, and is published by GNU Solidario of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. The full record is on the GNU Health review, and the rest of the category is under best healthcare tools.
GNU Health pricing questions
- How much does GNU Health cost?
- GNU Health publishes 2 tiers, from Free for GNU Health up to On request for Support and training. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does GNU Health have a free plan?
- Yes. The GNU Health tier costs nothing and covers gnu gpl licence, all modules included, no patient, bed or user limits.
- What is the difference between GNU Health and Support and training on GNU Health?
- Support and training costs On request against Free, and adds paid support and implementation from gnu solidario, training courses and certification, quoted per institution, delivered by a small team.
- Which healthcare tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 healthcare tools listed alongside GNU Health have a free tier: Flo, Bahmni, OpenMRS.
- What am I actually paying for with GNU Health?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a public hospital in a low-resource setting that cannot fund commercial emr licensing and has in-house linux capability, a ministry building a national health network where source code inspection and data sovereignty are policy requirements, a university teaching health informatics that needs a complete, inspectable system rather than a vendor demonstration.
- Does GNU Health 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 GNU Health 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 GNU Health against before paying?
- The closest healthcare tools in this directory are Aidoc, Flo, Meru Health, Bahmni. Each has a side-by-side comparison with GNU Health covering price, platforms and features.