# Standard Notes pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Standard). Among the 12 note taking apps we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** standardnotes.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Not published · GDPR Not published
**Best for:** Privacy-first note takers who want encryption as the default, not an add-on; Journalists, legal professionals and writers handling sensitive material; Families willing to share one Professional subscription across 5 accounts

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Standard | $0 | — | flat | A genuine forever-free account, not a trial. Verified this pass: the page's own data publishes $0 for BOTH a 'month' and a 'year' period, so monthlyUsd 0 is a literally published figure rather than a derived one. End-to-end encryption, unlimited device sync on web, desktop and mobile, plain-text notes, offline access, tags, per-note password protection, full encrypted or plaintext export, two-factor authentication, daily encrypted email backups, community support. The catch: plain text only (no Super notes, markdown editor or spreadsheets) and note revision history covers the current session only. | standardnotes.com |
| Productivity | not priced monthly | — | flat | Per account, sold on two terms only: $90 / year, or a five-year prepay of $299 / 5 years (the 5-year option was missing from the draft and was added this pass). No month-to-month price is offered anywhere on the page, so monthlyUsd is null; the $299 is a multi-year prepay and likewise never a monthly figure. Adds the Super note type (markdown, rich text, checklists, code), spreadsheets with formulas, Daily Notebooks journaling, a built-in 2FA authenticator, folders, the Web Clipper, 1-year note revision history, sign-in email notifications and dedicated support. There is no free trial — the page states 'We don't have a trial system at present' and substitutes a 14-day 100% refund period. Students get 30% off. | standardnotes.com |
| Professional | not priced monthly | — | flat | Per account, sold as $120 / year or a five-year prepay of $349 / 5 years (the 5-year option was missing from the draft and was added this pass). No monthly rate exists, so monthlyUsd is null. Everything in Productivity plus 100 GB encrypted cloud storage, subscription sharing with up to 5 accounts, no file-size limit (the page says tested up to 2 GB), offline file access, local file backups, Moments daily self-photos, maximum note revision history and hardware security key support. The refund window extends to 90 days on this tier. Shared across 5 accounts it is the cheapest family option here, but it is still annual-or-longer only. | standardnotes.com |

## Price changes

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

**Key features:** End-to-end encryption across all notes, tags and data; Super note type plus spreadsheets and Daily Notebooks on paid tiers; Doubles as a 2FA authenticator, with hardware security key support on Professional; Open-source clients and server.

**Plan limits:** Paid plans are sold on yearly or five-year terms only — no monthly option is published; A five-year prepay is offered on both paid tiers ($299 Productivity, $349 Professional); No free trial at all; the page substitutes 14-day (Productivity) and 90-day (Professional) full-refund windows; Free tier is plain-text notes with revision history limited to the current session; Encrypted file storage exists only on Professional (100 GB); lower tiers have none; Subscription sharing caps at 5 accounts.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-09-10
Provenance: VERIFIED with a correction ADDED. a direct read is blocked with HTTP 403, so https://standardnotes.com/plans was retrieved directly and cross-checked against the page's own Gatsby data at https://standardnotes.com/page-data/plans/page-data.json, which holds the authoritative pricing arrays: CORE_PLAN 'Standard' pricing [{period:'month',price:0},{period:'year',price:0}]; PLUS_PLAN 'Productivity' pricing [{price:90,period:'year'},{price:299,period:'5 years'}]; PRO_PLAN 'Professional' pricing [{price:120,period:'year'},{price:349,period:'5 years'}]. CORRECTION the draft missed: both paid tiers also sell a FIVE-YEAR PREPAY — $299 Productivity and $349 Professional — omitted entirely from the draft. These are multi-year prepays, not monthly prices, so monthlyUsd correctly stays null on both tiers and the figures are recorded in notes. The draft's central claim survives: there is still no month-to-month price for either paid tier. Also re-confirmed verbatim: 'We don't have a trial system at present for our paid features', '100% refunds on any plan within 14 days (Productivity Plan) or 90 days (Professional Plan)', 'We offer students a 30% discount', 'Subscription sharing with up to 5 accounts' and 'No limit on file size (tested up to 2GB)'.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/standard-notes/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Standard Notes's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-09-10 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/note-taking-apps/standard-notes/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl