# Roam Research pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $15/mo (Pro). Among the 12 note taking apps we track it is the most expensive; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** roamresearch.com
**Free tier:** No · 31-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Not published · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** Roam API (the Pro feature list reads 'API access and Apps')
**Best for:** Networked-thought power users who work in daily notes; Researchers who want block references and public graphs; Buyers willing to prepay five years for the lowest effective rate

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pro | $15 | — | flat | Per account. Month-to-month is $15/month, which the page annotates as $180/year at that rate; the yearly option is a separate $165/year, shown as $13.75/month. The saving is not printed as a percentage, so annualDiscountPct is null. Includes unlimited private or public Roam graphs, unlimited collaborators, and 'API access and Apps'. 31-day free trial ("You'll be charged after 31 days"), and the bundle states the trial is 'only valid if you've never had a plan' — returning users pay from day one. | roamresearch.com |
| Believer | not priced monthly | — | flat | A five-year prepay, not a monthly subscription: '$500' '/ 5 years', with checkout copy confirming a single $500 charge today. The page labels the equivalent as '$8.33 / month, $100 / year', but no month-to-month Believer rate is sold, so monthlyUsd is null rather than $8.33. Everything in Pro plus First Access to New Features, Community Calls with the Team and Priority Support. A promotional-code field is offered on this tier. | roamresearch.com |

## Price changes

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

**Key features:** Daily notes with bidirectional links and block-level references; Unlimited private or public graphs on the paid tier; Unlimited collaborators at no per-seat charge; Believer tier buys first access to features plus community calls with the team.

**Plan limits:** No forever-free plan — the only free access is the 31-day trial; Trial is valid only if the account has never had a plan; Believer cannot be bought monthly; it is a single $500 charge covering five years; Pro's yearly option ($165/year) is a distinct SKU from the $15/month rate.

## Cheaper note taking apps alternatives

- [Notion](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/notion/) — from $0/mo
- [Obsidian](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/obsidian/) — from $0/mo
- [Craft](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/craft/) — from $0/mo
- [Bear](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/bear/) — from $0/mo
- [Evernote](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/evernote/) — from $0/mo

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-09-10
Provenance: VERIFIED, no changes. roamresearch.com renders pricing entirely client-side — a direct fetch of the homepage returns only the tagline 'A note taking tool for networked thought' with no prices — so plan strings were re-read from the application bundle the site itself serves at https://roamresearch.com/js/compiled/main.js (2.99 MB, fetched today). The draft's quoted strings were confirmed byte-for-byte in the bundle's pricing UI: '$15' + '/ month' + '$180 / year' for the monthly Pro option, '$165' + '/ year' + '$13.75 / month' for the yearly option, and '$500' + '/ 5 years' + '$8.33 / month, $100 / year' for Believer. Trial copy also confirmed verbatim: "You'll be charged after 31 days" and '* Trial only valid if you've never had a plan'. Prices are printed with a bare '$' (Roam bills in USD).
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/roam-research/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Roam Research's entry plan was $15/mo as of 2026-09-10 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/roam-research/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl