Adobe Lightroom pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Adobe Lightroom (adobe.com) is a photo editor. Subscription per user: the Lightroom plan with 1TB storage, sold month-to-month, annual billed monthly or annual prepaid; teams pay per licence.. Free plan: Free Lightroom mobile app with basic editing; premium tools, desktop apps and cloud storage need a paid plan.
What Adobe Lightroom costs
- 100 photos: $22.49/mo (Lightroom plan (1TB) month-to-month $22.49 since 2026-03-20 (annual billed monthly is $14.99). The free mobile app was not counted: it is mobile-only with premium tools locked.)
- 1,000 photos: $22.49/mo (No photo cap, so same as solo.)
- 5-person team: $189.95/mo (Lightroom for teams $37.99/licence/mo x 5. Annual commitment billed monthly (no month-to-month option). Price comes from secondary sources and was not confirmed on Adobe's US page.)
Plan compared: Lightroom plan (1TB), month-to-month. Monthly price on month-to-month billing of the cheapest plan (free plans count) that does the product's core photo job on 100 photos a month at full resolution, with no watermark and commercial use allowed; annual-only plans are divided by 12, perpetual-only licences spread over 36 months and one-time headshot packs counted as one month.
Adobe Lightroom price hikes
- Adobe raised the Lightroom 1TB plan to $22.49/mo month-to-month · Mar 20, 2026
Adobe raised the Lightroom 1TB plan worldwide. Month-to-month went from $17.99 to $22.49, annual billed monthly from $11.99 to $14.99, and annual prepaid from $119.88 to $149.99/yr. - Adobe raised the Lightroom 1TB plan from $9.99 to $11.99/mo · Jan 15, 2025
The annual billed monthly price of the Lightroom 1TB plan rose from $9.99 to $11.99 a month in the US. The annual prepaid price stayed at $119.88/yr.
Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is the cheapest photo editor we track at 100 photos a month. The others:
- Capture One: $26.25/mo
- Adobe Photoshop: $34.49/mo
Adobe Lightroom alternatives: 2 photo editors compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Mar 20, 2026 · Price increase: Adobe raised the Lightroom 1TB plan worldwide. Month-to-month went from $17.99 to $22.49, annual billed monthly from $11.99 to $14.99, and annual prepaid from $119.88 to $149.99/yr.
- Jan 15, 2025 · Price increase: The annual billed monthly price of the Lightroom 1TB plan rose from $9.99 to $11.99 a month in the US. The annual prepaid price stayed at $119.88/yr.
Sources
Pricing page: adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/plans.html. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Adobe's US pricing page and help FAQ returned 403 or EUR-only prices, so the US figures come from search snippets of Adobe's Lightroom 1TB pricing-change FAQ and news coverage. The EU page (14,49 EUR annual billed monthly) is consistent with the 2026 increase. The Lightroom for teams price comes from secondary sources only.