IoT & Smart Home · pricing
Shelly pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Shelly. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the iot & smart home tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Shelly catalogue entry carries no price, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Shelly review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Shelly 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
- Local Control
- Open API
- MQTT Support
- Energy Monitoring
Integrations
- Home Assistant
- Alexa
- Google Home
- SmartThings
Platform
- IOS support
- Android support
- Web support
- Local API support
People bring Shelly in for smart home automation and control, energy monitoring and management, wifi/bluetooth/matter device integration. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Shelly are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in IoT & Smart Home
Too few iot & smart home 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelly (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| Control4 | $1000/project | - | - | vs Shelly |
| Arlo | On request | subscription | - | vs Shelly |
| Apple HomeKit | Free | - | - | vs Shelly |
| Arduino Cloud | Free | subscription | - | vs Shelly |
| August Smart Lock | On request | one-time | - | vs Shelly |
| Amazon Alexa | Free | free | - | vs Shelly |
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 Shelly badges page.
Before you pay for Shelly
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Shelly runs on web, mobile app, cloud, local network, and is published by Allterco Robotics of Sofia, Bulgaria. The full record is on the Shelly review, and the rest of the category is under best iot & smart home tools.
Shelly pricing questions
- How much does Shelly cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for Shelly. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does Shelly have a free plan?
- Yes, Shelly is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- Which iot & smart home tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 iot & smart home tools listed alongside Shelly have a free tier: Apple HomeKit, Arduino Cloud, Amazon Alexa, Blynk.
- What am I actually paying for with Shelly?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for smart home automation and control, energy monitoring and management, wifi/bluetooth/matter device integration.
- Does Shelly charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 Shelly 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 Shelly against before paying?
- The closest iot & smart home tools in this directory are Control4, Arlo, Apple HomeKit, Arduino Cloud. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Shelly covering price, platforms and features.