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LlamaIndex pricing
LlamaIndex publishes 4 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 30 August 2026, LlamaIndex pricing is free across 4 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
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
LlamaIndex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Starter | $50/month | 4 | +$50/month, 3 more features |
| Pro | $500/month | 3 | +$450/month, 3 more features |
| Enterprise | 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.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 10k monthly credits, basic parsing, 5 concurrent jobs, 100 users.
Starter
$50/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- 40K credits + pay-as-you-go
- Up to 400K credits
- Basic email support
Pro
$500/monthOver Starter, this tier adds:
- 400K credits + limited-time bonus
- 20 concurrent jobs
- Priority Slack support
Enterprise
On requestOver Pro, this tier adds:
- Custom volume discounts
- 5x higher rate limits
- SSO
- Dedicated account manager
Where LlamaIndex stops being free
Free, Free
- 10K monthly credits
- Basic parsing
- 5 concurrent jobs
- 100 users
Starter, $50/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 40K credits + pay-as-you-go
- Up to 400K credits
- Basic email support
What the product covers
The full LlamaIndex 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
- Data connectors
- Indexing
- Query engine
- RAG pipelines
- Agents
Integrations
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Pinecone
- Weaviate
- Chroma
Platform
- Linux support
- Mac support
- Windows support
People bring LlamaIndex in for parsing pdfs and complex documents into structured text for rag, building retrieval augmented generation pipelines over private data, indexing and querying enterprise documents from an llm application. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to LlamaIndex are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Machine Learning
Too few machine learning 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LlamaIndex (this page) | Free | usage-based | - | |
| ClearML | Free | Open-source self-hosted, with paid hosted and enterprise tiers | - | vs LlamaIndex |
| Langwatch | Free, then €29/month | Tiered subscription with usage-based overage charges | - | vs LlamaIndex |
| Haystack | Free | Open-source with optional paid enterprise support | - | vs LlamaIndex |
| Semantic Kernel | Free | Open source, no pricing | - | vs LlamaIndex |
| Fal AI | $1.89/hour | usage-based | - | vs LlamaIndex |
| H2O.ai | Free | freemium | - | vs LlamaIndex |
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 LlamaIndex badges page.
Before you pay for LlamaIndex
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: 4 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.
LlamaIndex runs on linux, mac, windows, and is published by LlamaIndex of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the LlamaIndex review, and the rest of the category is under best machine learning tools.
LlamaIndex pricing questions
- How much does LlamaIndex cost?
- LlamaIndex publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does LlamaIndex have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 10k monthly credits, basic parsing, 5 concurrent jobs. Paying starts at $50/month for Starter.
- What is the difference between Free and Starter on LlamaIndex?
- Starter costs $50/month against Free, and adds 40k credits + pay-as-you-go, up to 400k credits, basic email support.
- Is the Enterprise plan on LlamaIndex worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom volume discounts, 5x higher rate limits, sso, dedicated account manager. It costs On request against $50/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which machine learning tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 machine learning tools listed alongside LlamaIndex have a free tier: ClearML, Langwatch, Haystack, Semantic Kernel, H2O.ai.
- What am I actually paying for with LlamaIndex?
- The record lists 13 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for parsing pdfs and complex documents into structured text for rag, building retrieval augmented generation pipelines over private data, indexing and querying enterprise documents from an llm application.
- Does LlamaIndex charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 LlamaIndex 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 LlamaIndex against before paying?
- The closest machine learning tools in this directory are ClearML, Langwatch, Haystack, Semantic Kernel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with LlamaIndex covering price, platforms and features.