Mobile Development · pricing
React Native pricing
React Native publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the mobile development tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
React Native 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| React Native | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where React Native stops being free
React Native, Free
- Full framework
- iOS and Android targets
- Native module system
- Community packages
No paid tier on record
React Native lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full React Native 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
- Renders to native components
- React programming model
- Native modules
- Fast Refresh
- Wide platform reach
- Large package ecosystem
People bring React Native in for teams with react experience on the web extending into mobile, apps that should feel like the platform rather than look identical across both, adding a mobile client to a product whose engineers already write javascript, reusing business logic between web and mobile codebases. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to React Native are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Mobile Development
Too few mobile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| React Native (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Flutter | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs React Native |
| Fastlane | Free | open-source | - | vs React Native |
| Expo | Free, then $19/month | freemium | - | vs React Native |
| Appcircle | Free | freemium | - | vs React Native |
| Android Studio | Free | - | - | vs React Native |
| Bitrise | Free, then $89/month | subscription | - | vs React Native |
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 React Native badges page.
Before you pay for React Native
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.
React Native runs on ios, android, windows, macos, web, and is published by Meta of Menlo Park, California, United States. The full record is on the React Native review, and the rest of the category is under best mobile development tools.
React Native pricing questions
- How much does React Native cost?
- React Native publishes a single tier, React Native, at Free.
- Does React Native have a free plan?
- Yes. The React Native tier costs nothing and covers full framework, ios and android targets, native module system.
- Which mobile development tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 mobile development tools listed alongside React Native have a free tier: Flutter, Fastlane, Expo, Appcircle, Android Studio.
- What am I actually paying for with React Native?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for teams with react experience on the web extending into mobile, apps that should feel like the platform rather than look identical across both, adding a mobile client to a product whose engineers already write javascript.
- Does React Native 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 React Native 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 React Native against before paying?
- The closest mobile development tools in this directory are Flutter, Fastlane, Expo, Appcircle. Each has a side-by-side comparison with React Native covering price, platforms and features.