How much does Phaser cost?

Phaser publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $12/month for Phaser Editor. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Phaser Editor on Phaser?

Phaser Editor costs $12/month against Free, and adds professional development tools, requires active subscription.

Which game development tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Phaser have a free tier: Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2.

What am I actually paying for with Phaser?

The record lists 20 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for game development with javascript, interactive creative tools for developers, professional game engine for studios.

Does Phaser 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 Phaser 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 Phaser against before paying?

The closest game development tools in this directory are Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Phaser covering price, platforms and features.

Game Development · pricing

Phaser pricing

Phaser 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.

As of 30 August 2026, Phaser pricing is free, then $12/month across 2 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 $12/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Phaser 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.

Phaser pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	2	Entry tier
Phaser Editor	$12/month	2	+$12/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 25+ creative & coding tools, ai tools require credit purchases.

Phaser Editor

$12/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

professional development tools
requires active subscription

Where Phaser stops being free

Free, Free

25+ creative & coding tools
AI tools require credit purchases

Phaser Editor, $12/month

The first thing you pay for:

professional development tools
requires active subscription

What the product covers

The full Phaser 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

Canvas and WebGL rendering
Physics engine (Arcade)
Input handling
Animation system
Audio support
Particle effects
Tilemaps
Event system

Integrations

JavaScript frameworks
npm
Git
Webpack

Security

Open-source

Deployment

Web deployment
Mobile deployment

Platform

Web support
Ios support
Android support

Localization

JavaScript language support
TypeScript language support

People bring Phaser in for game development with javascript, interactive creative tools for developers, professional game engine for studios. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Phaser are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Game Development

Too few game development 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.

Phaser entry price against other Game Development tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Phaser (this page)	Free, then $12/month	freemium	-
Perforce Helix Core	Free	quote	-	vs Phaser
Photon Engine	Free, then $9/month	Per month by peak concurrent users	-	vs Phaser
Cocos Creator	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Phaser
GDevelop	Free	free	-	vs Phaser
GameMaker Studio 2	Free	freemium	-	vs Phaser
Cocos2d-x	Free	free	-	vs Phaser

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 Phaser badges page.

Before you pay for Phaser

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 $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.

Phaser runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Photon Storm of UK. The full record is on the Phaser review, and the rest of the category is under best game development tools.

Phaser pricing on the vendor's own site

Phaser pricing questions

How much does Phaser cost?: Phaser publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $12/month for Phaser Editor. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Phaser have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 25+ creative & coding tools, ai tools require credit purchases. Paying starts at $12/month for Phaser Editor.
What is the difference between Free and Phaser Editor on Phaser?: Phaser Editor costs $12/month against Free, and adds professional development tools, requires active subscription.
Which game development tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Phaser have a free tier: Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2.
What am I actually paying for with Phaser?: The record lists 20 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for game development with javascript, interactive creative tools for developers, professional game engine for studios.
Does Phaser 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 Phaser 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 Phaser against before paying?: The closest game development tools in this directory are Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Phaser covering price, platforms and features.