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PurpleAir pricing
PurpleAir 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.
- Entry price
- $229/one-time
- Model
- One-time
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
PurpleAir 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indoor Sensor | $199/one-time | 3 | Entry tier |
| Outdoor Sensor | $229/one-time | 3 | +$30/one-time, 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.
Indoor Sensor
$199/one-timeThe entry tier. It covers indoor monitoring, wifi enabled, real-time data.
Outdoor Sensor
$229/one-timeOver Indoor Sensor, this tier adds:
- PM2.5 monitoring
- Cloud connectivity
- Map access
What the product covers
The full PurpleAir 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.
Core
- PM2.5 monitoring
- Real-time map
- Historical data
- Community network
- API access
Integrations
- API access
- Home Assistant
- Data downloads
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
- Hardware support
People bring PurpleAir in for professional work, content creation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to PurpleAir are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for PurpleAir
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 $199/one-time and $229/one-time, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare PurpleAir against the tools that do have one before committing.
PurpleAir runs on web, api, hardware, and is published by PurpleAir Inc. of Draper, Utah. The full record is on the PurpleAir review.
PurpleAir pricing questions
- How much does PurpleAir cost?
- PurpleAir publishes 2 tiers, from $199/one-time for Indoor Sensor up to $229/one-time for Outdoor Sensor. The cheapest paid tier is $199/one-time.
- Does PurpleAir have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: PurpleAir is listed as one-time. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Indoor Sensor and Outdoor Sensor on PurpleAir?
- Outdoor Sensor costs $229/one-time against $199/one-time, and adds pm2.5 monitoring, cloud connectivity, map access.
- Is the Outdoor Sensor plan on PurpleAir worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is pm2.5 monitoring, cloud connectivity, map access. It costs $229/one-time against $199/one-time for Indoor Sensor. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with PurpleAir?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for professional work, content creation.
- Does PurpleAir 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 PurpleAir 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 PurpleAir against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to PurpleAir to make a useful price comparison.