How much does Unity cost?

Unity publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Personal up to $399/month for Professional. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Personal and Professional on Unity?

Professional costs $399/month against Free, and adds all personal features, priority support, advanced analytics, collaboration tools.

Which game development tools can I use without paying?

6 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Unity have a free tier: Bevy, AppGameKit, Buildbox, Adventure Game Studio, Armory3D.

Does Unity charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Unity 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 Unity against before paying?

The closest game development tools in this directory are Clickteam Fusion, Bevy, AppGameKit, Aseprite. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Unity covering price, platforms and features.

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Unity pricing

Unity publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Unity 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.

Unity pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Personal	Free	4	Entry tier
Professional	$399/month	4	+$399/month, 4 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.

Personal

Free

The entry tier. It covers full engine access, asset store access, community support, personal revenue limit.

Professional

$399/month

Over Personal, this tier adds:

All Personal features
Priority support
Advanced analytics
Collaboration tools

Where Unity stops being free

Personal, Free

Full engine access
Asset Store access
Community support
Personal revenue limit

Professional, $399/month

The first thing you pay for:

All Personal features
Priority support
Advanced analytics
Collaboration tools

What the product covers

The full Unity 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

Visual editor
Physics engine (PhysX)
Animation system
Particle system
Built-in audio engine
Scripting with C#
Asset Store
Version control integration

Integrations

Visual Studio Code
GitHub
Perforce
Blender
Maya
SpeedTree
Wwise
PlayFab

Security

Code obfuscation
Platform-specific security

Deployment

Cloud deployment
Local deployment

Platform

Windows support
Macos support
Linux support
Ios support
Android support
Webgl support

Localization

C# language support

People bring Unity in for building 2d and 3d games for desktop, mobile, web, ar and vr, shipping console titles under a pro or enterprise licence, real time 3d for manufacturing, automotive and retail visualisation, live operations and in-app purchase management for mobile games. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Unity 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.

Unity entry price against other Game Development tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Unity (this page)	Free	freemium	-
Clickteam Fusion	$99/one-time	subscription	-	vs Unity
Bevy	Free	free	-	vs Unity
AppGameKit	Free	free	-	vs Unity
Aseprite	$19.99/once	one-time	-	vs Unity
Buildbox	Free	freemium	-	vs Unity
Adventure Game Studio	Free	free	-	vs Unity

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 Unity badges page.

Before you pay for Unity

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: 2 tiers between Free and $399/month, 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.

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

Unity pricing on the vendor's own site

Unity pricing questions

How much does Unity cost?: Unity publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Personal up to $399/month for Professional. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Unity have a free plan?: Yes. The Personal tier costs nothing and covers full engine access, asset store access, community support. Paying starts at $399/month for Professional.
What is the difference between Personal and Professional on Unity?: Professional costs $399/month against Free, and adds all personal features, priority support, advanced analytics, collaboration tools.
Which game development tools can I use without paying?: 6 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Unity have a free tier: Bevy, AppGameKit, Buildbox, Adventure Game Studio, Armory3D.
What am I actually paying for with Unity?: The record lists 27 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for building 2d and 3d games for desktop, mobile, web, ar and vr, shipping console titles under a pro or enterprise licence, real time 3d for manufacturing, automotive and retail visualisation.
Does Unity charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Unity 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 Unity against before paying?: The closest game development tools in this directory are Clickteam Fusion, Bevy, AppGameKit, Aseprite. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Unity covering price, platforms and features.