How much does Particle cost?

Particle publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Maker up to $100/month for Production. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Maker and Production on Particle?

Production costs $100/month against Free, and adds unlimited devices, advanced analytics, enterprise support.

Does Particle charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Particle 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 Particle against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Particle to make a useful price comparison.

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Particle pricing

Particle publishes 2 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
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Particle 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.

Particle pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Maker	Free	3	Entry tier
Production	$100/month	3	+$100/month, 3 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.

Maker

Free

The entry tier. It covers 5 free devices, cloud access, basic features.

Production

$100/month

Over Maker, this tier adds:

Unlimited devices
Advanced analytics
Enterprise support

Where Particle stops being free

Maker, Free

5 free devices
Cloud access
Basic features

Production, $100/month

The first thing you pay for:

Unlimited devices
Advanced analytics
Enterprise support

What the product covers

The full Particle 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

Device OS
Cloud Platform
Device Management
OTA Updates

Integrations

REST API
WebHooks
Integration marketplace
3rd party services

Platform

Particle devices support
Custom hardware support
Cloud support
Mobile apps support

People bring Particle in for connecting cellular and wifi iot devices to a managed cloud platform, deploying firmware updates and collecting device telemetry at fleet scale. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Particle are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Particle

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: 2 tiers between Free and $100/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.

Particle runs on particle devices, custom hardware, cloud, mobile apps, and is published by Particle Industries of San Francisco, California, USA. The full record is on the Particle review.

Particle pricing on the vendor's own site