IoT & Smart Home · pricing
SmartThings pricing
SmartThings publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the iot & smart home tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
SmartThings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (SmartThings app) | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
Where SmartThings stops being free
Basic (SmartThings app), Free
- Device control and automation
- Support for Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Matter
No paid tier on record
SmartThings lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full SmartThings 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
- Multi-Brand Support
- Device Control
- Automations
- Cloud Backup
Integrations
- 500+ device types
- Voice Control
- Routines
- IFTTT integration
Platform
- IOS support
- Android support
- Web support
- Wearables support
People bring SmartThings in for smart home control, automation routines, device integration, remote monitoring. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to SmartThings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmartThings (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| Control4 | $1000/project | - | - | vs SmartThings |
| Arlo | On request | subscription | - | vs SmartThings |
| Apple HomeKit | Free | - | - | vs SmartThings |
| Arduino Cloud | Free | subscription | - | vs SmartThings |
| August Smart Lock | On request | one-time | - | vs SmartThings |
| Amazon Alexa | Free | free | - | vs SmartThings |
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 SmartThings badges page.
Before you pay for SmartThings
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.
SmartThings runs on ios, android, web, smartthings hub, and is published by Samsung Electronics of Seoul, South Korea. The full record is on the SmartThings review, and the rest of the category is under best iot & smart home tools.
SmartThings pricing questions
- How much does SmartThings cost?
- SmartThings publishes a single tier, Basic (SmartThings app), at Free.
- Does SmartThings have a free plan?
- Yes. The Basic (SmartThings app) tier costs nothing and covers device control and automation, support for zigbee, z-wave, wi-fi, matter.
- Which iot & smart home tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 iot & smart home tools listed alongside SmartThings have a free tier: Apple HomeKit, Arduino Cloud, Amazon Alexa, Blynk.
- What am I actually paying for with SmartThings?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for smart home control, automation routines, device integration.
- Does SmartThings 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 SmartThings 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 SmartThings 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 SmartThings covering price, platforms and features.