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PHP pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for PHP. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the web development tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The PHP catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the PHP review carries the full feature record.
How that compares in Web Development
Too few web 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.
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 PHP badges page.
Before you pay for PHP
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
PHP runs on not recorded. The full record is on the PHP review, and the rest of the category is under best web development tools.
PHP pricing questions
- How much does PHP cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for PHP, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does PHP have a free plan?
- Yes, PHP is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- Which web development tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside PHP have a free tier: FastAPI, Django, Astro, Carrd, .NET.
- What am I actually paying for with PHP?
- The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The PHP review carries whatever feature detail is available.
- Does PHP charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 PHP 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 PHP against before paying?
- The closest web development tools in this directory are FastAPI, Django, Astro, Carrd. Each has a side-by-side comparison with PHP covering price, platforms and features.