How much does Pop!_OS cost?

Pop!_OS publishes a single tier, Pop!_OS, at Free.

Does Pop!_OS have a free plan?

Yes. The Pop!_OS tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, commercial use permitted, community support.

Which operating systems tools can I use without paying?

7 of the 8 operating systems tools listed alongside Pop!_OS have a free tier: Manjaro, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, Debian.

Does Pop!_OS 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 Pop!_OS 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 Pop!_OS against before paying?

The closest operating systems tools in this directory are Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Manjaro, Linux Mint, Arch Linux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Pop!_OS covering price, platforms and features.

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Pop!_OS pricing

Pop!_OS publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the operating systems tools listed alongside it.

Entry price: Free
Model: Open source, no licence fee
Tiers: 1
Free tier: Yes

Pop!_OS 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.

Pop!_OS pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Pop!_OS	Free	3	Entry tier

Where Pop!_OS stops being free

Pop!_OS, Free

Full functionality
Commercial use permitted
Community support

No paid tier on record

Pop!_OS lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Pop!_OS 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

NVIDIA ISO
Auto-tiling
Pop!_Shop
Ubuntu base

People bring Pop!_OS in for machine learning and graphics work needing nvidia drivers that work on first boot, developers who want tiling without configuring a window manager, system76 hardware, which it is built around. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Pop!_OS are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Operating Systems

Too few operating systems 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.

Pop!_OS entry price against other Operating Systems tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Pop!_OS (this page)	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	On request	Per-system annual subscription; developer subscriptions available at no cost	-	vs Pop!_OS
Manjaro	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Pop!_OS
Linux Mint	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Pop!_OS
Arch Linux	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Pop!_OS
FreeBSD	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Pop!_OS
Debian	Free	open-source	-	vs Pop!_OS

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 Pop!_OS badges page.

Before you pay for Pop!_OS

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 Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Pop!_OS runs on linux, desktop, and is published by System76 of Denver, Colorado, United States. The full record is on the Pop!_OS review, and the rest of the category is under best operating systems tools.

Pop!_OS pricing on the vendor's own site

Pop!_OS pricing questions

How much does Pop!_OS cost?: Pop!_OS publishes a single tier, Pop!_OS, at Free.
Does Pop!_OS have a free plan?: Yes. The Pop!_OS tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, commercial use permitted, community support.
Which operating systems tools can I use without paying?: 7 of the 8 operating systems tools listed alongside Pop!_OS have a free tier: Manjaro, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, Debian.
What am I actually paying for with Pop!_OS?: The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for machine learning and graphics work needing nvidia drivers that work on first boot, developers who want tiling without configuring a window manager, system76 hardware, which it is built around.
Does Pop!_OS 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 Pop!_OS 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 Pop!_OS against before paying?: The closest operating systems tools in this directory are Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Manjaro, Linux Mint, Arch Linux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Pop!_OS covering price, platforms and features.