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PaintTool SAI pricing
PaintTool SAI publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the design tools tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- 5500/month
- Model
- One-time
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
PaintTool SAI 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard License | $5500/month | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full PaintTool SAI 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
- Pressure-Sensitive Tablet Support
- Anti-Aliased Brushes
- 16-bit ARGB Color Channels
- Lightweight Performance
security
- Crash Data Protection
People bring PaintTool SAI in for digital illustration and manga art, line art and inking with pressure-sensitive pens, lightweight painting on lower-spec computers, character and concept art sketching. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to PaintTool SAI are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Design Tools
Too few design tools 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PaintTool SAI (this page) | 5500/month | one-time | - | |
| Corel Painter | On request | one-time | - | vs PaintTool SAI |
| Playground AI | Free, then $12/month | freemium | - | vs PaintTool SAI |
| Magnific | On request | usage-based | - | vs PaintTool SAI |
| Adobe Illustrator | $22.99/month | subscription | - | vs PaintTool SAI |
| Gravit Designer | Free | freemium | - | vs PaintTool SAI |
| Krea | On request | usage-based | - | vs PaintTool SAI |
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 PaintTool SAI badges page.
Before you pay for PaintTool SAI
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 $5500/month. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare PaintTool SAI against the tools that do have one before committing.
PaintTool SAI runs on windows, and is published by Systemax of Japan. The full record is on the PaintTool SAI review, and the rest of the category is under best design tools tools.
PaintTool SAI pricing questions
- How much does PaintTool SAI cost?
- PaintTool SAI publishes a single tier, Standard License, at $5500/month.
- Does PaintTool SAI have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: PaintTool SAI is listed as one-time. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which design tools tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 7 design tools tools listed alongside PaintTool SAI have a free tier: Playground AI, Gravit Designer.
- What am I actually paying for with PaintTool SAI?
- The record lists 5 features across 2 areas: core, security. In practice it is brought in for digital illustration and manga art, line art and inking with pressure-sensitive pens, lightweight painting on lower-spec computers.
- Does PaintTool SAI 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 PaintTool SAI 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 PaintTool SAI against before paying?
- The closest design tools tools in this directory are Corel Painter, Playground AI, Magnific, Adobe Illustrator. Each has a side-by-side comparison with PaintTool SAI covering price, platforms and features.