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Signal pricing
Signal publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Signal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 6 | Entry tier |
Where Signal stops being free
Free, Free
- End-to-end encrypted messaging
- Voice and video calls
- Group chats
- Disappearing messages
- Screen lock
- No ads or tracking
No paid tier on record
Signal lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Signal 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
- End-to-end encryption
- Disappearing messages
- Screen security
- Group chats
- Voice calls
- Video calls
- File sharing
- No data collection
Integrations
- Open source protocol
- Signal Protocol
- Desktop sync
Security
- Signal Protocol
- Perfect forward secrecy
- No metadata collection
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
- Ios support
- Android support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Italian language support
- Portuguese language support
- Russian language support
- Chinese language support
- Japanese language support
- Arabic language support
People bring Signal in for private messaging, secure group communication, confidential conversations, journalism communication, family messaging. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Signal are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Signal
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.
Signal runs on windows, macos, linux, ios, android, and is published by Signal Foundation of Mountain View, California, USA. The full record is on the Signal review.
Signal pricing questions
- How much does Signal cost?
- Signal publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does Signal have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers end-to-end encrypted messaging, voice and video calls, group chats.
- What am I actually paying for with Signal?
- The record lists 30 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for private messaging, secure group communication, confidential conversations.
- Does Signal 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 Signal 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 Signal against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Signal to make a useful price comparison.