How much does Rhino 3D cost?

Rhino 3D publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Evaluation up to €995/month for Commercial License. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Evaluation and Student Upgrade on Rhino 3D?

Student Upgrade costs €95/month against Free, and adds perpetual license, requires prior license key, support included.

Is the Commercial License plan on Rhino 3D worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is support included, service releases. It costs €995/month against €95/month for Student Upgrade. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cad tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 cad tools listed alongside Rhino 3D have a free tier: RealityScan, CloudCompare.

Does Rhino 3D charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 Rhino 3D 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 Rhino 3D against before paying?

The closest cad tools in this directory are Carlson Software, RealityScan, CloudCompare, Bentley iTwin Capture Modeler. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Rhino 3D covering price, platforms and features.

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Rhino 3D pricing

Rhino 3D publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Rhino 3D pricing is free across 5 published tiers. 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: One-time
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Yes

Rhino 3D 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.

Rhino 3D pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Evaluation	Free	4	Entry tier
Student Upgrade	€95/month	3	+$95/month, 3 more features
Student License	€195/month	4	+$100/month, 2 more features
Commercial Upgrade	€595/month	3	+$400/month, 2 more features
Commercial License	€995/month	4	+$400/month, 2 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.

Evaluation

Free

The entry tier. It covers 90-day trial, all features included, no credit card required, commercial use allowed.

Student Upgrade

€95/month

Over Evaluation, this tier adds:

Perpetual license
Requires prior license key
Support included

Student License

€195/month

Over Student Upgrade, this tier adds:

Service releases
Commercial use allowed

Commercial Upgrade

€595/month

Over Student License, this tier adds:

Floating license support
Requires prior license key

Commercial License

€995/month

Over Commercial Upgrade, this tier adds:

Support included
Service releases

Where Rhino 3D stops being free

Evaluation, Free

90-day trial
All features included
No credit card required
Commercial use allowed

Student Upgrade, €95/month

The first thing you pay for:

Perpetual license
Requires prior license key
Support included

What the product covers

The full Rhino 3D 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

NURBS modeling
Surface modeling
3D visualization
Grasshopper
Rendering

Integrations

Grasshopper
KeyShot
V-Ray
CAM software
3D printing

Security

License management
File encryption
Network licensing

Collaboration

File sharing
Team workflows
Version control
Cloud storage

Platform

Windows support
Macos support

People bring Rhino 3D in for nurbs-based 3d modelling for product design and engineering, precision engineering and prototyping (aerospace, automotive, jewellery), generative design with grasshopper visual programming, mesh editing and point cloud processing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Rhino 3D are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in CAD

Too few cad 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.

Rhino 3D entry price against other CAD tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Rhino 3D (this page)	Free	one-time	-
Carlson Software	$4450/one-time	One-time purchase	-	vs Rhino 3D
RealityScan	Free, then $1250/year	Free below a revenue threshold, then per seat per year	-	vs Rhino 3D
CloudCompare	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Rhino 3D
Bentley iTwin Capture Modeler	On request	quote	-	vs Rhino 3D
MicroSurvey CAD	$2945/one-time	One-time purchase	-	vs Rhino 3D
Nomad Sculpt	On request	One-time purchase	-	vs Rhino 3D

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 Rhino 3D badges page.

Before you pay for Rhino 3D

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: 5 tiers between Free and €995/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Rhino 3D runs on windows, mac, ios, and is published by Robert McNeel & Associates of Seattle, WA. The full record is on the Rhino 3D review, and the rest of the category is under best cad tools.

Rhino 3D pricing on the vendor's own site

Rhino 3D pricing questions

How much does Rhino 3D cost?: Rhino 3D publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Evaluation up to €995/month for Commercial License. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Rhino 3D have a free plan?: Yes. The Evaluation tier costs nothing and covers 90-day trial, all features included, no credit card required. Paying starts at €95/month for Student Upgrade.
What is the difference between Evaluation and Student Upgrade on Rhino 3D?: Student Upgrade costs €95/month against Free, and adds perpetual license, requires prior license key, support included.
Is the Commercial License plan on Rhino 3D worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is support included, service releases. It costs €995/month against €95/month for Student Upgrade. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which cad tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 cad tools listed alongside Rhino 3D have a free tier: RealityScan, CloudCompare.
What am I actually paying for with Rhino 3D?: The record lists 19 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, collaboration, platform. In practice it is brought in for nurbs-based 3d modelling for product design and engineering, precision engineering and prototyping (aerospace, automotive, jewellery), generative design with grasshopper visual programming.
Does Rhino 3D charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 Rhino 3D 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 Rhino 3D against before paying?: The closest cad tools in this directory are Carlson Software, RealityScan, CloudCompare, Bentley iTwin Capture Modeler. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Rhino 3D covering price, platforms and features.