How much does Strapi cost?

Strapi publishes 3 tiers, from $35/month for Starter up to $450/month for Business. The cheapest paid tier is $35/month.

Does Strapi have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Strapi is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Starter and Pro on Strapi?

Pro costs $90/month against $35/month, and adds 1m api requests, 250 gb asset storage, 500 gb asset bandwidth, multi-environment support.

Is the Business plan on Strapi worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 10m api requests, 1000 gb asset storage, 1000 gb asset bandwidth, 1 extra environment. It costs $450/month against $35/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

What am I actually paying for with Strapi?

The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running a self hosted headless cms with a rest or graphql api, giving editors a content admin panel over a custom content model.

Does Strapi 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 Strapi 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 Strapi against before paying?

The closest apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Strapi covering price, platforms and features.

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Strapi pricing

Strapi 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, Strapi pricing is $35/month 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: $35/month
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Not on record

Strapi 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.

Strapi pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Starter	$35/month	4	Entry tier
Pro	$90/month	5	+$55/month, 4 more features
Business	$450/month	7	+$360/month, 6 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

$35/month

The entry tier. It covers 100k api requests, 50 gb asset storage, 50 gb asset bandwidth, unlimited database entries.

Pro

$90/month

Over Starter, this tier adds:

1M API requests
250 GB asset storage
500 GB asset bandwidth
Multi-environment support

Business

$450/month

Over Pro, this tier adds:

10M API requests
1000 GB asset storage
1000 GB asset bandwidth
1 extra environment
Daily backups
99.9% uptime SLA

What the product covers

The full Strapi 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

REST API
GraphQL API
Content management

Integrations

PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
AWS
Webhooks

Platform

Node.js support
Cloud support
Self-hosted support
Docker support

People bring Strapi in for running a self hosted headless cms with a rest or graphql api, giving editors a content admin panel over a custom content model. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Strapi are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in APIs

Too few apis 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.

Strapi entry price against other APIs tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Strapi (this page)	$35/month	subscription	-
Mambu	On request	quote	-	vs Strapi
Fintech Farm	On request	quote	-	vs Strapi
Flybits	On request	quote	-	vs Strapi
Neonomics	On request	quote	-	vs Strapi
Brite Payments	On request	quote	-	vs Strapi
Meniga	On request	quote	-	vs Strapi

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 Strapi badges page.

Before you pay for Strapi

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 $35/month and $450/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Strapi against the tools that do have one before committing.

Strapi runs on node.js, cloud, self-hosted, docker, and is published by Strapi of Paris, France. The full record is on the Strapi review, and the rest of the category is under best apis tools.

Strapi pricing on the vendor's own site

Strapi pricing questions

How much does Strapi cost?: Strapi publishes 3 tiers, from $35/month for Starter up to $450/month for Business. The cheapest paid tier is $35/month.
Does Strapi have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Strapi is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between Starter and Pro on Strapi?: Pro costs $90/month against $35/month, and adds 1m api requests, 250 gb asset storage, 500 gb asset bandwidth, multi-environment support.
Is the Business plan on Strapi worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 10m api requests, 1000 gb asset storage, 1000 gb asset bandwidth, 1 extra environment. It costs $450/month against $35/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
What am I actually paying for with Strapi?: The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running a self hosted headless cms with a rest or graphql api, giving editors a content admin panel over a custom content model.
Does Strapi 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 Strapi 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 Strapi against before paying?: The closest apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Strapi covering price, platforms and features.