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SolveSpace pricing
SolveSpace publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cad tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, SolveSpace 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
SolveSpace 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SolveSpace | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where SolveSpace stops being free
SolveSpace, Free
- Full application under the GPL
- No seat limit
- Windows, macOS and Linux builds
- Community support only
No paid tier on record
SolveSpace lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full SolveSpace 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
- Constraint solver
- Solid modelling
- Assemblies
- Export formats
- Cross-platform
- Small footprint
People bring SolveSpace in for designing 3d printed parts on a machine that cannot run mainstream cad, teaching constraint-based parametric modelling without buying licences for a classroom, checking that a mechanical linkage moves as intended before cutting metal, producing dimensionally accurate step or stl output from a small open source toolchain. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to SolveSpace are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in CAD
Too few cad 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SolveSpace (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Carlson Software | $4450/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs SolveSpace |
| RealityScan | Free, then $1250/year | Free below a revenue threshold, then per seat per year | - | vs SolveSpace |
| CloudCompare | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs SolveSpace |
| Bentley iTwin Capture Modeler | On request | quote | - | vs SolveSpace |
| MicroSurvey CAD | $2945/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs SolveSpace |
| Nomad Sculpt | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs SolveSpace |
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 SolveSpace badges page.
Before you pay for SolveSpace
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.
SolveSpace runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by SolveSpace project. The full record is on the SolveSpace review, and the rest of the category is under best cad tools.
SolveSpace pricing questions
- How much does SolveSpace cost?
- SolveSpace publishes a single tier, SolveSpace, at Free.
- Does SolveSpace have a free plan?
- Yes. The SolveSpace tier costs nothing and covers full application under the gpl, no seat limit, windows, macos and linux builds.
- Which cad tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 cad tools listed alongside SolveSpace have a free tier: RealityScan, CloudCompare.
- What am I actually paying for with SolveSpace?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for designing 3d printed parts on a machine that cannot run mainstream cad, teaching constraint-based parametric modelling without buying licences for a classroom, checking that a mechanical linkage moves as intended before cutting metal.
- Does SolveSpace 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 SolveSpace 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 SolveSpace against before paying?
- The closest cad tools in this directory are Carlson Software, RealityScan, CloudCompare, Bentley iTwin Capture Modeler. Each has a side-by-side comparison with SolveSpace covering price, platforms and features.