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Rclone pricing
Rclone publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the utilities tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Rclone pricing is free. 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
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Rclone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rclone | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Rclone stops being free
Rclone, Free
- MIT licence with no paid edition
- All backends and features included
- Single static binary, no runtime dependencies
- Costs come from provider API and egress charges, not from rclone
No paid tier on record
Rclone lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Rclone 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
- Unified backend model
- Crypt overlay
- FUSE mount
- Bisync
- Server-side transfers
- rclone serve
People bring Rclone in for migrating tens of terabytes between two object storage providers without staging on local disk, encrypted offsite backup to a cheap provider that you do not want reading your filenames, mounting an object bucket for a media server that expects a filesystem path, nightly one-way sync from an on-premises nas to cloud storage as a second copy. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Rclone are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Utilities
Too few utilities 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rclone (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Calsense | On request | quote | - | vs Rclone |
| Find My | Free | Free, built into Apple hardware and iCloud | - | vs Rclone |
| Google Lens | Free | Free, bundled into other Google apps | - | vs Rclone |
| Hazel | $42/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs Rclone |
| Karabiner-Elements | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Rclone |
| Kap | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Rclone |
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 Rclone badges page.
Before you pay for Rclone
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.
Rclone runs on windows, macos, linux, freebsd, docker, and is published by Rclone project of Distributed, project led from the United Kingdom. The full record is on the Rclone review, and the rest of the category is under best utilities tools.
Rclone pricing questions
- How much does Rclone cost?
- Rclone publishes a single tier, Rclone, at Free.
- Does Rclone have a free plan?
- Yes. The Rclone tier costs nothing and covers mit licence with no paid edition, all backends and features included, single static binary, no runtime dependencies.
- Which utilities tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 utilities tools listed alongside Rclone have a free tier: Find My, Google Lens, Karabiner-Elements, Kap, Deluge.
- What am I actually paying for with Rclone?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for migrating tens of terabytes between two object storage providers without staging on local disk, encrypted offsite backup to a cheap provider that you do not want reading your filenames, mounting an object bucket for a media server that expects a filesystem path.
- Does Rclone 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 Rclone 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 Rclone against before paying?
- The closest utilities tools in this directory are Calsense, Find My, Google Lens, Hazel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Rclone covering price, platforms and features.