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Seek by iNaturalist pricing
Seek by iNaturalist publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the education tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Seek by iNaturalist 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
- Free, no ads and no in-app purchases
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Seek by iNaturalist 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seek | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Seek by iNaturalist stops being free
Seek, Free
- Full identification for plants, insects and animals
- Offline identification once models are downloaded
- No account required
No paid tier on record
Seek by iNaturalist lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Seek by iNaturalist 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
- Offline identification
- No account required
- Child-safe design
- Species badges
- Broad coverage
- Community-trained model
People bring Seek by iNaturalist in for a parent wanting a nature app for a child without accounts, chat or data collection concerns, a hiker in an area with no signal who needs offline plant or insect identification, a teacher running an outdoor nature scavenger hunt with a class, anyone who wants broad wildlife identification without paying a subscription. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Seek by iNaturalist are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Education
Too few education 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seek by iNaturalist (this page) | Free | Free, no ads and no in-app purchases | - | |
| Anki | Free | Open source, no licence fee except a paid iOS app | - | vs Seek by iNaturalist |
| Busuu | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | - | vs Seek by iNaturalist |
| PictureThis | On request | Per year, sold via a short free trial that auto-renews | - | vs Seek by iNaturalist |
| Stellarium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Seek by iNaturalist |
| Lumosity | Free | Free with a subscription | - | vs Seek by iNaturalist |
| Star Walk 2 | Free | Freemium, low-cost ad-free subscription upgrade | - | vs Seek by iNaturalist |
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 Seek by iNaturalist badges page.
Before you pay for Seek by iNaturalist
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.
Seek by iNaturalist runs on ios, android, and is published by iNaturalist of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Seek by iNaturalist review, and the rest of the category is under best education tools.
Seek by iNaturalist pricing questions
- How much does Seek by iNaturalist cost?
- Seek by iNaturalist publishes a single tier, Seek, at Free.
- Does Seek by iNaturalist have a free plan?
- Yes. The Seek tier costs nothing and covers full identification for plants, insects and animals, offline identification once models are downloaded, no account required.
- Which education tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 education tools listed alongside Seek by iNaturalist have a free tier: Anki, Busuu, Stellarium, Lumosity, Star Walk 2.
- What am I actually paying for with Seek by iNaturalist?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a parent wanting a nature app for a child without accounts, chat or data collection concerns, a hiker in an area with no signal who needs offline plant or insect identification, a teacher running an outdoor nature scavenger hunt with a class.
- Does Seek by iNaturalist 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 Seek by iNaturalist 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 Seek by iNaturalist against before paying?
- The closest education tools in this directory are Anki, Busuu, PictureThis, Stellarium. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Seek by iNaturalist covering price, platforms and features.