How much does Nuclino cost?

Nuclino publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $12/month for Business. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Starter on Nuclino?

Starter costs $6/month against Free, and adds per user per month, unlimited items and version history, larger file uploads.

Is the Business plan on Nuclino worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is single sign-on and admin controls, private workspaces and audit features. It costs $12/month against $6/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 documentation tools can I use without paying?

4 of the 8 documentation tools listed alongside Nuclino have a free tier: Guidde, Doxygen, Fumadocs, BookStack.

Does Nuclino 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 Nuclino 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 Nuclino against before paying?

The closest documentation tools in this directory are Paligo, Guidde, Adobe RoboHelp, HelpDocs. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Nuclino covering price, platforms and features.

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Nuclino pricing

Nuclino 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.

As of 30 August 2026, Nuclino pricing is free, then $6/month across 3 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, then $6/month
Model: Per user per month
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Nuclino 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.

Nuclino pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier
Starter	$6/month	3	+$6/month, 3 more features
Business	$12/month	3	+$6/month, 2 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

The entry tier. It covers around 50 items in total, limited storage, core editing and search.

Starter

$6/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Per user per month
Unlimited items and version history
Larger file uploads

Business

$12/month

Over Starter, this tier adds:

Single sign-on and admin controls
Private workspaces and audit features

Where Nuclino stops being free

Free, Free

Around 50 items in total
Limited storage
Core editing and search

Starter, $6/month

The first thing you pay for:

Per user per month
Unlimited items and version history
Larger file uploads

What the product covers

The full Nuclino 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

Item graph
Multiple collection views
Real time editing
Instant search
Version history
EU hosting

People bring Nuclino in for a small company that wants internal process notes searchable without running a wiki platform, teams that need to see how internal documents relate to each other rather than filing them in folders, organisations that must keep internal knowledge hosted inside the european union, replacing scattered shared documents where search, not layout, is the actual problem. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Nuclino are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Documentation

Too few documentation 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.

Nuclino entry price against other Documentation tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Nuclino (this page)	Free, then $6/month	Per user per month	-
Paligo	On request	Per author seat per year	-	vs Nuclino
Guidde	Free, then $19/month	Per creator per month	-	vs Nuclino
Adobe RoboHelp	On request	Per user per month, annual commitment	-	vs Nuclino
HelpDocs	On request	Per editor seat per month	-	vs Nuclino
MadCap Flare	On request	Per author per year, annual subscription only	-	vs Nuclino
Doxygen	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Nuclino

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 Nuclino badges page.

Before you pay for Nuclino

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 $12/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.

Nuclino runs on web, macos, windows, ios, android, and is published by Nuclino GmbH of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The full record is on the Nuclino review, and the rest of the category is under best documentation tools.

Nuclino pricing on the vendor's own site

Nuclino pricing questions

How much does Nuclino cost?: Nuclino publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $12/month for Business. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Nuclino have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers around 50 items in total, limited storage, core editing and search. Paying starts at $6/month for Starter.
What is the difference between Free and Starter on Nuclino?: Starter costs $6/month against Free, and adds per user per month, unlimited items and version history, larger file uploads.
Is the Business plan on Nuclino worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is single sign-on and admin controls, private workspaces and audit features. It costs $12/month against $6/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 documentation tools can I use without paying?: 4 of the 8 documentation tools listed alongside Nuclino have a free tier: Guidde, Doxygen, Fumadocs, BookStack.
What am I actually paying for with Nuclino?: The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a small company that wants internal process notes searchable without running a wiki platform, teams that need to see how internal documents relate to each other rather than filing them in folders, organisations that must keep internal knowledge hosted inside the european union.
Does Nuclino 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 Nuclino 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 Nuclino against before paying?: The closest documentation tools in this directory are Paligo, Guidde, Adobe RoboHelp, HelpDocs. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Nuclino covering price, platforms and features.