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OBS Studio pricing
OBS Studio publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the content creation tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, OBS Studio pricing is free. 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
- Free
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
OBS Studio 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 | 5 | Entry tier |
Where OBS Studio stops being free
Free, Free
- Unlimited recording time
- Live streaming to platforms
- Scene composition
- Audio mixer
- Plugin support
No paid tier on record
OBS Studio lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full OBS Studio 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
- Real-time video/audio capturing
- Scene composition
- Audio mixer with filters
- Configuration options
- Modular 'Dock' UI
- Studio mode
- Plugin support
- Streaming to multiple platforms
Integrations
- Twitch
- YouTube
- Facebook Live
- Custom RTMP
- NDI
- Virtual Camera
- StreamLabs
Security
- Local processing
- Open source
Deployment
- Local deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Italian language support
- Portuguese language support
- Russian language support
- Chinese language support
- Japanese language support
- Korean language support
People bring OBS Studio in for live streaming gameplay or a desktop to twitch or youtube, recording screen and webcam locally, compositing multiple video and audio sources into scenes. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OBS Studio are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Content Creation
Too few content creation 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OBS Studio (this page) | Free | free | - | |
| Trint | $52/month | Per user per month | - | vs OBS Studio |
| Kittl | Free | Per user per month | - | vs OBS Studio |
| Podcastle | Free | Per user per month | - | vs OBS Studio |
| BuzzSumo | $199/month | subscription | - | vs OBS Studio |
| Mintlify | Free, then $450/month | freemium | - | vs OBS Studio |
| GemPages | Free, then $23/month | freemium | - | vs OBS Studio |
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 OBS Studio badges page.
Before you pay for OBS Studio
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 Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
OBS Studio runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by OBS Project of Open Source Community. The full record is on the OBS Studio review, and the rest of the category is under best content creation tools.
OBS Studio pricing questions
- How much does OBS Studio cost?
- OBS Studio publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does OBS Studio have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers unlimited recording time, live streaming to platforms, scene composition.
- Which content creation tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 content creation tools listed alongside OBS Studio have a free tier: Kittl, Podcastle, Mintlify, GemPages, Confluence.
- What am I actually paying for with OBS Studio?
- The record lists 32 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for live streaming gameplay or a desktop to twitch or youtube, recording screen and webcam locally, compositing multiple video and audio sources into scenes.
- Does OBS Studio 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 OBS Studio 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 OBS Studio against before paying?
- The closest content creation tools in this directory are Trint, Kittl, Podcastle, BuzzSumo. Each has a side-by-side comparison with OBS Studio covering price, platforms and features.