IoT & Smart Home · pricing
LIFX pricing
LIFX publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the iot & smart home tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- One-time
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
LIFX 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIFX Bulb | $40/month | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full LIFX 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
- No Hub Required
- 16 Million Colors
- WiFi Direct
- High Brightness
Integrations
- HomeKit
- Alexa
- Google Home
- SmartThings
Platform
- IOS support
- Android support
- Windows support
- MacOS support
People bring LIFX in for ambient lighting, gaming setup, photography lighting, smart home. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to LIFX are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in IoT & Smart Home
Too few iot & smart home 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIFX (this page) | On request | one-time | - | |
| Control4 | $1000/project | - | - | vs LIFX |
| Arlo | On request | subscription | - | vs LIFX |
| Apple HomeKit | Free | - | - | vs LIFX |
| Arduino Cloud | Free | subscription | - | vs LIFX |
| August Smart Lock | On request | one-time | - | vs LIFX |
| Amazon Alexa | Free | free | - | vs LIFX |
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 LIFX badges page.
Before you pay for LIFX
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 $40/month. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare LIFX against the tools that do have one before committing.
LIFX runs on ios, android, windows, macos, and is published by LIFX (Feit Electric) of California, USA. The full record is on the LIFX review, and the rest of the category is under best iot & smart home tools.
LIFX pricing questions
- How much does LIFX cost?
- LIFX publishes a single tier, LIFX Bulb, at $40/month.
- Does LIFX have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: LIFX is listed as one-time. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which iot & smart home tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 iot & smart home tools listed alongside LIFX have a free tier: Apple HomeKit, Arduino Cloud, Amazon Alexa, Blynk.
- What am I actually paying for with LIFX?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for ambient lighting, gaming setup, photography lighting.
- Does LIFX 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 LIFX 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 LIFX against before paying?
- The closest iot & smart home tools in this directory are Control4, Arlo, Apple HomeKit, Arduino Cloud. Each has a side-by-side comparison with LIFX covering price, platforms and features.