IoT & Smart Home · pricing
Tasmota pricing
Tasmota 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
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Tasmota 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Tasmota stops being free
Community, Free
- Full firmware
- MQTT
- Web UI
- Local control
No paid tier on record
Tasmota lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Tasmota 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
- Local Control
- MQTT Support
- Web Interface
- OTA Updates
Integrations
- Home Assistant
- Domoticz
- OpenHAB
- Node-RED
Platform
- ESP8266 support
- ESP32 support
- Compatible devices support
People bring Tasmota in for replacing vendor cloud firmware on esp based smart plugs and switches, controlling smart home devices locally over mqtt or http, integrating off the shelf wi-fi devices with home assistant without a cloud account. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Tasmota 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tasmota (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Control4 | $1000/project | - | - | vs Tasmota |
| Arlo | On request | subscription | - | vs Tasmota |
| Apple HomeKit | Free | - | - | vs Tasmota |
| Arduino Cloud | Free | subscription | - | vs Tasmota |
| August Smart Lock | On request | one-time | - | vs Tasmota |
| Amazon Alexa | Free | free | - | vs Tasmota |
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 Tasmota badges page.
Before you pay for Tasmota
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.
Tasmota runs on esp8266, esp32, compatible devices, and is published by Tasmota Community of International Community. The full record is on the Tasmota review, and the rest of the category is under best iot & smart home tools.
Tasmota pricing questions
- How much does Tasmota cost?
- Tasmota publishes a single tier, Community, at Free.
- Does Tasmota have a free plan?
- Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers full firmware, mqtt, web ui.
- Which iot & smart home tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 iot & smart home tools listed alongside Tasmota have a free tier: Apple HomeKit, Arduino Cloud, Amazon Alexa, Blynk.
- What am I actually paying for with Tasmota?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for replacing vendor cloud firmware on esp based smart plugs and switches, controlling smart home devices locally over mqtt or http, integrating off the shelf wi-fi devices with home assistant without a cloud account.
- Does Tasmota 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 Tasmota 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 Tasmota 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 Tasmota covering price, platforms and features.
