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npm pricing
npm publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $7/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
npm 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 |
| Pro | $7/month | 4 | +$7/month, 4 more features |
| Teams | $7/month | 4 | +$0/month, 4 more features |
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 unlimited public packages, package discovery, npm cli, community support.
Pro
$7/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Unlimited private packages
- Package analytics
- Support
- Advanced security
Teams
$7/monthOver Pro, this tier adds:
- Team management
- Organization packages
- Audit logs
- Security scanning
Where npm stops being free
Free, Free
- Unlimited public packages
- Package discovery
- npm CLI
- Community support
Pro, $7/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited private packages
- Package analytics
- Support
- Advanced security
What the product covers
The full npm 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
- Package installation
- Dependency management
- Version management
- Script running
- Package publishing
- Security auditing
- Package discovery
- CLI interface
Integrations
- Node.js
- GitHub
- Visual Studio Code
- WebStorm
- CI/CD systems
- Docker
- Webpack
- Babel
Security
- Package auditing
- Vulnerability scanning
- Two-factor auth
Deployment
- Local deployment
- Ci-cd deployment
- Containerized deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
Localization
- JavaScript language support
- TypeScript language support
People bring npm in for package management, dependency installation, project scaffolding, build automation, package publishing, version control. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to npm are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for npm
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: 3 tiers between Free and $7/month, 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.
npm runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by GitHub (Microsoft) of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the npm review.
npm pricing questions
- How much does npm cost?
- npm publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $7/month for Teams. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does npm have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers unlimited public packages, package discovery, npm cli. Paying starts at $7/month for Pro.
- What is the difference between Free and Pro on npm?
- Pro costs $7/month against Free, and adds unlimited private packages, package analytics, support, advanced security.
- Is the Teams plan on npm worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is team management, organization packages, audit logs, security scanning. It costs $7/month against $7/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with npm?
- The record lists 27 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for package management, dependency installation, project scaffolding.
- Does npm charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 npm 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 npm against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to npm to make a useful price comparison.