Adobe Photoshop pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Adobe Photoshop (adobe.com) is a photo editor. Subscription per user; the single-app plan is sold month-to-month, annual billed monthly, or annual prepaid, with teams licences billed per seat.. No free plan.
What Adobe Photoshop costs
- 100 photos: $34.49/mo (Photoshop single-app plan, month-to-month $34.49/mo ($22.99/mo on annual billed monthly). The cheaper Photography plan ($19.99/mo annual) is a bundle, so it is not used.)
- 1,000 photos: $34.49/mo (Unlimited editing and export, so same as solo)
- 5-person team: $189.95/mo (Photoshop for teams $37.99/licence/mo (annual, billed monthly) x 5; no month-to-month teams price found)
Plan compared: Photoshop single-app plan (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 Photoshop price hikes
- Adobe raised Photoshop's monthly plan from $31.49 to $34.49 · Nov 2023
Adobe raised Creative Cloud single-app plans in the US: month-to-month went from $31.49 to $34.49 (+$3) and annual billed monthly from $20.99 to $22.99. Generative credits and Adobe Express were added at the same time.
Cheaper alternatives to Adobe Photoshop
At 100 photos a month, Adobe Photoshop costs $34.49/mo. 2 photo editors cost less:
- Adobe Lightroom: $22.49/mo (Lightroom plan (1TB), month-to-month)
- Capture One: $26.25/mo (Pro (monthly billing))
Adobe Photoshop alternatives: 2 photo editors compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Nov 2023 · Price increase: Adobe raised Creative Cloud single-app plans in the US: month-to-month went from $31.49 to $34.49 (+$3) and annual billed monthly from $20.99 to $22.99. Generative credits and Adobe Express were added at the same time.
Sources
Pricing page: adobe.com/products/photoshop/plans.html. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Adobe's pricing page geolocated to Turkish lira prices, so the US prices come from third-party price guides checked in Sept-Oct 2026 and agree with the known US list prices. The teams price and the November 2023 effective month are less certain.