How much does Stencyl cost?

Stencyl publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Starter (Free) up to $199/year for Studio (Most Popular). The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Starter (Free) and Indie on Stencyl?

Indie costs $99/year against Free, and adds publish to web and desktop (windows, mac, linux), early access to latest releases, no watermarks or forced stencyl branding, access to customer-only forums.

Is the Studio (Most Popular) plan on Stencyl worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is publish to ios, android, web and desktop, ad support (iad, admob), leaderboards for mobile platforms, in-app purchases for ios and android. It costs $199/year against $99/year for Indie. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which game development tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Stencyl have a free tier: Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2.

What am I actually paying for with Stencyl?

The record lists 23 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for game development for independent creators, cross-platform game publishing (ios, android, web, desktop), indie game studio platform.

Does Stencyl charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Stencyl 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 Stencyl against before paying?

The closest game development tools in this directory are Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Stencyl covering price, platforms and features.

Game Development · pricing

Stencyl pricing

Stencyl publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Stencyl pricing is free, then $99/year across 3 published tiers. 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, then $99/year
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Stencyl 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.

Stencyl pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Starter (Free)	Free	2	Entry tier
Indie	$99/year	6	+$99/year, 6 more features
Studio (Most Popular)	$199/year	10	+$100/year, 5 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Starter (Free)

Free

The entry tier. It covers publish to web only, includes stencyl branding splash screen.

Indie

$99/year

Over Starter (Free), this tier adds:

Publish to Web and Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Early access to latest releases
No watermarks or forced Stencyl branding
Access to customer-only forums
Steam and publisher distribution support
30-day money-back guarantee

Studio (Most Popular)

$199/year

Over Indie, this tier adds:

Publish to iOS, Android, Web and Desktop
Ad support (iAd, AdMob)
Leaderboards for mobile platforms
In-app purchases for iOS and Android
Third-party plugins support

Where Stencyl stops being free

Starter (Free), Free

Publish to Web only
Includes Stencyl branding splash screen

Indie, $99/year

The first thing you pay for:

Publish to Web and Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Early access to latest releases
No watermarks or forced Stencyl branding
Access to customer-only forums
Steam and publisher distribution support
30-day money-back guarantee

What the product covers

The full Stencyl 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

Visual block programming
Drag-and-drop interface
Physics engine
Sprite animation
Sound and music
Tilemap editor
Actor system
Haxe support

Integrations

GitHub
Dropbox
Visual Studio Code

Security

Open-source blocks

Deployment

Local deployment
Mobile deployment
Web deployment

Platform

Windows support
Macos support
Linux support
Ios support
Android support
Flash support

Localization

Visual Blocks language support
Haxe language support

People bring Stencyl in for game development for independent creators, cross-platform game publishing (ios, android, web, desktop), indie game studio platform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Stencyl are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Game Development

Too few game development 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.

Stencyl entry price against other Game Development tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Stencyl (this page)	Free, then $99/year	subscription	-
Perforce Helix Core	Free	quote	-	vs Stencyl
Photon Engine	Free, then $9/month	Per month by peak concurrent users	-	vs Stencyl
Cocos Creator	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Stencyl
GDevelop	Free	free	-	vs Stencyl
GameMaker Studio 2	Free	freemium	-	vs Stencyl
Cocos2d-x	Free	free	-	vs Stencyl

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 Stencyl badges page.

Before you pay for Stencyl

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: 3 tiers between Free and $199/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Stencyl runs on windows, macos, linux, ios, android, flash, and is published by Stencyl Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Stencyl review, and the rest of the category is under best game development tools.

Stencyl pricing on the vendor's own site

Stencyl pricing questions

How much does Stencyl cost?: Stencyl publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Starter (Free) up to $199/year for Studio (Most Popular). The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Stencyl have a free plan?: Yes. The Starter (Free) tier costs nothing and covers publish to web only, includes stencyl branding splash screen. Paying starts at $99/year for Indie.
What is the difference between Starter (Free) and Indie on Stencyl?: Indie costs $99/year against Free, and adds publish to web and desktop (windows, mac, linux), early access to latest releases, no watermarks or forced stencyl branding, access to customer-only forums.
Is the Studio (Most Popular) plan on Stencyl worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is publish to ios, android, web and desktop, ad support (iad, admob), leaderboards for mobile platforms, in-app purchases for ios and android. It costs $199/year against $99/year for Indie. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which game development tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Stencyl have a free tier: Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2.
What am I actually paying for with Stencyl?: The record lists 23 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for game development for independent creators, cross-platform game publishing (ios, android, web, desktop), indie game studio platform.
Does Stencyl charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Stencyl 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 Stencyl against before paying?: The closest game development tools in this directory are Perforce Helix Core, Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Stencyl covering price, platforms and features.