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PlayCanvas pricing
PlayCanvas publishes 3 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, PlayCanvas pricing is free across 3 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
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
PlayCanvas 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 | 3 | Entry tier |
| Personal | $15/month | 3 | +$15/month, 3 more features |
| Organization | $50/per seat/month | 3 | +$35/per seat/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.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 1gb storage, unlimited public projects, free app hosting.
Personal
$15/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- 10GB storage
- Unlimited private projects
- REST API access
Organization
$50/per seat/monthOver Personal, this tier adds:
- 50GB storage
- Team management
- Full feature access
Where PlayCanvas stops being free
Free, Free
- 1GB storage
- Unlimited public projects
- Free app hosting
Personal, $15/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 10GB storage
- Unlimited private projects
- REST API access
What the product covers
The full PlayCanvas 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
- Cloud-based editor
- Real-time collaboration
- WebGL rendering
- Physics engine
- Visual scripting
- Asset library
- Version control
- Instant deployment
Integrations
- GitHub
- Slack
- GitHub Copilot
Security
- Cloud security
- Project encryption
Deployment
- Web deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Mobile support
Localization
- JavaScript language support
- TypeScript language support
People bring PlayCanvas in for building webgl games and interactive 3d that run in a browser, browser based collaborative 3d editing across a team, web ar and vr experiences, product configurators and playable ads. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to PlayCanvas 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlayCanvas (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Perforce Helix Core | Free | quote | - | vs PlayCanvas |
| Photon Engine | Free, then $9/month | Per month by peak concurrent users | - | vs PlayCanvas |
| Cocos Creator | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs PlayCanvas |
| GDevelop | Free | free | - | vs PlayCanvas |
| GameMaker Studio 2 | Free | freemium | - | vs PlayCanvas |
| Cocos2d-x | Free | free | - | vs PlayCanvas |
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 PlayCanvas badges page.
Before you pay for PlayCanvas
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: 3 tiers between Free and $50/per seat/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.
PlayCanvas runs on web, mobile, and is published by PlayCanvas Inc of Cambridge, UK. The full record is on the PlayCanvas review, and the rest of the category is under best game development tools.
PlayCanvas pricing questions
- How much does PlayCanvas cost?
- PlayCanvas publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $50/per seat/month for Organization. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does PlayCanvas have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 1gb storage, unlimited public projects, free app hosting. Paying starts at $15/month for Personal.
- What is the difference between Free and Personal on PlayCanvas?
- Personal costs $15/month against Free, and adds 10gb storage, unlimited private projects, rest api access.
- Is the Organization plan on PlayCanvas worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 50gb storage, team management, full feature access. It costs $50/per seat/month against $15/month for Personal. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which game development tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside PlayCanvas have a free tier: Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2.
- What am I actually paying for with PlayCanvas?
- The record lists 19 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for building webgl games and interactive 3d that run in a browser, browser based collaborative 3d editing across a team, web ar and vr experiences, product configurators and playable ads.
- Does PlayCanvas charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 PlayCanvas 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 PlayCanvas 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 PlayCanvas covering price, platforms and features.