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Sigil pricing
Sigil publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the publishing tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Sigil 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
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Sigil 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sigil | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Sigil stops being free
Sigil, Free
- GPL licensed with no cost or account required
- Full functionality with no feature gating
- Community support through forums and the issue tracker
- Source available for anyone to build or modify
No paid tier on record
Sigil lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Sigil 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
- Direct EPUB editing
- Code and preview views
- EPUB 2 and EPUB 3
- Regex across files
- Validation
- Python plugins
People bring Sigil in for fixing an epub that a retailer validator has rejected, without re-exporting from the tool that generated it, correcting the table of contents, reading order or metadata in a file supplied by a conversion service, preparing a back-catalogue title where the only surviving source is the epub itself, applying a consistent stylesheet or a bulk text correction across every chapter of a book at once. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Sigil are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Publishing
Too few publishing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sigil (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Everand | $11.99/month | Per user per month, unlimited | - | vs Sigil |
| Kobo | Free | Free store and app; hardware sold separately; optional subscription | - | vs Sigil |
| Scrivener | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs Sigil |
| PublishDrive | Free | Flat-fee subscription, no commission on paid plans | - | vs Sigil |
| BookBaby | On request | One-time purchase per project | - | vs Sigil |
| Kindle | Free | Free app, revenue from book purchases and optional subscription | - | vs Sigil |
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 Sigil badges page.
Before you pay for Sigil
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.
Sigil runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by Sigil (community maintained) of Distributed, community project. The full record is on the Sigil review, and the rest of the category is under best publishing tools.
Sigil pricing questions
- How much does Sigil cost?
- Sigil publishes a single tier, Sigil, at Free.
- Does Sigil have a free plan?
- Yes. The Sigil tier costs nothing and covers gpl licensed with no cost or account required, full functionality with no feature gating, community support through forums and the issue tracker.
- Which publishing tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 publishing tools listed alongside Sigil have a free tier: Kobo, PublishDrive, Kindle, Wattpad, Webtoon.
- What am I actually paying for with Sigil?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for fixing an epub that a retailer validator has rejected, without re-exporting from the tool that generated it, correcting the table of contents, reading order or metadata in a file supplied by a conversion service, preparing a back-catalogue title where the only surviving source is the epub itself.
- Does Sigil 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 Sigil 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 Sigil against before paying?
- The closest publishing tools in this directory are Everand, Kobo, Scrivener, PublishDrive. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Sigil covering price, platforms and features.