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Renoise pricing
Renoise publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the music tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Renoise pricing is €75/one-time. 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
- €75/one-time
- Model
- One-time purchase
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Renoise 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renoise licence | €75/one-time | 4 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Renoise 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
- Tracker pattern editor
- Built-in sampler
- Pattern matrix
- Per-row effect commands
- Phrase editor
- Lua scripting
- Plugin and hardware routing
- Fully functional demo
People bring Renoise in for sample-heavy electronic genres where micro-timing, retriggers and sample offsets are the composition rather than an ornament, producers who came from fasttracker or impulse tracker and want that entry speed on current hardware, building custom editing tools in lua rather than waiting for the vendor to add a feature, evaluating a workstation properly before paying, since the demo is complete except for rendering. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Renoise are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Music
Too few music 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renoise (this page) | €75/one-time | One-time purchase | - | |
| rekordbox | Free | Per user per year | - | vs Renoise |
| DistroKid | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs Renoise |
| Pro Tools | Free | Per user per year | - | vs Renoise |
| Serato DJ | Free | Per user per month | - | vs Renoise |
| GarageBand | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Renoise |
| Traktor Pro | Free | One-time purchase | - | vs Renoise |
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 Renoise badges page.
Before you pay for Renoise
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 €75/one-time. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Renoise against the tools that do have one before committing.
Renoise runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by Renoise of Berlin, Germany. The full record is on the Renoise review, and the rest of the category is under best music tools.
Renoise pricing questions
- How much does Renoise cost?
- Renoise publishes a single tier, Renoise licence, at €75/one-time.
- Does Renoise have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Renoise is listed as One-time purchase. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which music tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 music tools listed alongside Renoise have a free tier: rekordbox, Pro Tools, Serato DJ, GarageBand, Traktor Pro.
- What am I actually paying for with Renoise?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for sample-heavy electronic genres where micro-timing, retriggers and sample offsets are the composition rather than an ornament, producers who came from fasttracker or impulse tracker and want that entry speed on current hardware, building custom editing tools in lua rather than waiting for the vendor to add a feature.
- Does Renoise 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 Renoise 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 Renoise against before paying?
- The closest music tools in this directory are rekordbox, DistroKid, Pro Tools, Serato DJ. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Renoise covering price, platforms and features.