How much does Preact cost?

Preact publishes a single tier, Preact, at Free.

Does Preact have a free plan?

Yes. The Preact tier costs nothing and covers full library, commercial use permitted, no usage limits.

Which web development tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside Preact have a free tier: Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack, shadcn/ui.

Does Preact 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 Preact 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 Preact against before paying?

The closest web development tools in this directory are Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Preact covering price, platforms and features.

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Preact pricing

Preact publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the web development tools listed alongside it.

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

Preact 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.

Preact pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Preact	Free	3	Entry tier

Where Preact stops being free

Preact, Free

Full library
Commercial use permitted
No usage limits

No paid tier on record

Preact lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Preact 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

3kB runtime
preact/compat
Same modern API
Fast rendering

People bring Preact in for embedded widgets that load inside someone else’s page and must stay small, marketing and content sites where javascript payload affects core web vitals, applications targeting low-bandwidth or low-powered devices. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Preact are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

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.

Preact entry price against other Web Development tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Preact (this page)	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-
Chakra UI	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Preact
Rollup	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Preact
Radix UI	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Preact
Turbopack	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Preact
shadcn/ui	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Preact
Drupal	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Preact

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 Preact badges page.

Before you pay for Preact

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.

Preact runs on web, and is published by Preact of Open source project. The full record is on the Preact review, and the rest of the category is under best web development tools.

Preact pricing on the vendor's own site

Preact pricing questions

How much does Preact cost?: Preact publishes a single tier, Preact, at Free.
Does Preact have a free plan?: Yes. The Preact tier costs nothing and covers full library, commercial use permitted, no usage limits.
Which web development tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside Preact have a free tier: Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack, shadcn/ui.
What am I actually paying for with Preact?: The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for embedded widgets that load inside someone else’s page and must stay small, marketing and content sites where javascript payload affects core web vitals, applications targeting low-bandwidth or low-powered devices.
Does Preact 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 Preact 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 Preact against before paying?: The closest web development tools in this directory are Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Preact covering price, platforms and features.