# Affinity pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Affinity). Among the 14 design tools we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** affinity.studio
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Not published · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** Canva
**Best for:** Designers wanting a free desktop alternative to subscription vector tools; Solo founders and small studios on zero software budget; Teams producing print and layout work alongside UI assets

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Affinity | $0 | — | flat | $0 — the official site states Affinity is free, with every tool in the Pixel, Vector and Layout studios plus all customization and export features, 'with no restrictions or payment needed'. There is no paid Affinity tier and no published one-time or perpetual licence price on the site any more, so the historic perpetual fee is deliberately not recorded as a current figure. The one caveat a buyer should know: Canva's AI tools inside Affinity (generative fill, background removal, image and vector generation) require a separate Canva premium plan, whose price is not published on the Affinity site. | affinity.studio |

## Price changes

No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.

**Key features:** Pixel, Vector and Layout studios unified in one application; Full export and customization with no paywall or watermark; Desktop-class vector and layout work at no cost.

**Plan limits:** Canva AI features inside Affinity need a separate paid Canva plan; No paid support tier or SSO is published; No pricing page exists on the site to document plan terms.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-09-10
Provenance: Re-verified 2026-09-10. affinity.studio states verbatim: 'Yes, Affinity really is free. You can use every tool in the Pixel, Vector, and Layout studios, plus all of the customization and export features, as much as you want, with no restrictions or payment needed.' No one-time, perpetual or subscription price appears anywhere on the site, so no licence figure is asserted and the single plan is recorded at $0. The Canva dependency was re-confirmed: Canva's AI tools inside Affinity require a separate Canva premium plan, whose price the Affinity site does not publish. There is no pricing page to cite — affinity.serif.com/pricing and affinity.studio/pricing do not resolve — so the homepage is the source of record.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/design-tools/affinity/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Affinity's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-09-10 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/design-tools/affinity/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl