How much does Rive cost?

Rive publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to $120/month for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Cadet on Rive?

Cadet costs $9/month against Free, and adds export and ship animations, up to 1 team member seat.

Is the Enterprise plan on Rive worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom solutions, dedicated support. It costs $120/month against $9/month for Cadet. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which design tools tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 design tools tools listed alongside Rive have a free tier: Gravit Designer, Abstract, Linearity Curve.

What am I actually paying for with Rive?

The record lists 15 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for ui animations, interactive graphics, game animations.

Does Rive charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Rive 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 Rive against before paying?

The closest design tools tools in this directory are Magnific, Gravit Designer, Adobe Illustrator, Balsamiq Wireframes. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Rive covering price, platforms and features.

Design Tools · pricing

Rive pricing

Rive publishes 4 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: Free, then $9/month
Model: Not recorded
Tiers: 4
Free tier: Yes

Rive 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.

Rive pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier
Cadet	$9/month	2	+$9/month, 2 more features
Voyager	$32/month	3	+$23/month, 3 more features
Enterprise	$120/month	2	+$88/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.

Free

The entry tier. It covers design and animate, team collaboration, cannot export or ship.

Cadet

$9/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Export and ship animations
Up to 1 team member seat

Voyager

$32/month

Over Cadet, this tier adds:

Multiple team member seats
Advanced features
Priority support

Enterprise

$120/month

Over Voyager, this tier adds:

Custom solutions
Dedicated support

Where Rive stops being free

Free, Free

Design and animate
Team collaboration
Cannot export or ship

Cadet, $9/month

The first thing you pay for:

Export and ship animations
Up to 1 team member seat

What the product covers

The full Rive 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

Vector animation
State machines
Skeletal animation
Code export
Real-time preview

Integrations

Flutter
React
iOS SDK
Android SDK
Unity

Security

SSL encryption
Data backup

Platform

Web support
Mac support
Windows support

People bring Rive in for ui animations, interactive graphics, game animations, micro-interactions. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Rive are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Design Tools

Across the 4 design tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $17.49/month. Rive starts at $9/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.

Rive entry price against other Design Tools tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Rive (this page)	Free, then $9/month	-	-
Magnific	On request	usage-based	-	vs Rive
Gravit Designer	Free	freemium	-	vs Rive
Adobe Illustrator	$22.99/month	subscription	-	vs Rive
Balsamiq Wireframes	On request	subscription	-	vs Rive
Krea	On request	usage-based	-	vs Rive
Abstract	Free, then $12/month	subscription	-	vs Rive

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 Rive badges page.

Before you pay for Rive

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: 4 tiers between Free and $120/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.

Rive runs on web, ios, android, macos, windows, game engines, and is published by Rive Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Rive review, and the rest of the category is under best design tools tools.

Rive pricing on the vendor's own site

Rive pricing questions

How much does Rive cost?: Rive publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to $120/month for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Rive have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers design and animate, team collaboration, cannot export or ship. Paying starts at $9/month for Cadet.
What is the difference between Free and Cadet on Rive?: Cadet costs $9/month against Free, and adds export and ship animations, up to 1 team member seat.
Is the Enterprise plan on Rive worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom solutions, dedicated support. It costs $120/month against $9/month for Cadet. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Is Rive expensive for a design tools tool?: It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 4 design tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $17.49/month; Rive starts at $9/month.
Which design tools tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 design tools tools listed alongside Rive have a free tier: Gravit Designer, Abstract, Linearity Curve.
What am I actually paying for with Rive?: The record lists 15 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for ui animations, interactive graphics, game animations.
Does Rive charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Rive 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 Rive against before paying?: The closest design tools tools in this directory are Magnific, Gravit Designer, Adobe Illustrator, Balsamiq Wireframes. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Rive covering price, platforms and features.