Capture One pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Capture One (captureone.com) is a photo editor. Subscription tiers (Pro, All in One, Studio) billed monthly or annually, plus a one-time Pro perpetual licence; enterprise via sales.. No free plan.
What Capture One costs
- 100 photos: $26.25/mo (Pro subscription on month-to-month billing, $26.25/mo per PricingSaaS capture of Aug 2026 (vendor page loads prices by JavaScript). Annual billing is ~$18/mo. Unlimited edits/exports.)
- 1,000 photos: $26.25/mo (No photo cap, same as solo.)
- 5-person team: $131.25/mo (No self-serve team plan (company/enterprise licences are contact-sales), so 5 x Pro $26.25 = $131.25; no shared workspace.)
Plan compared: Pro (monthly billing). 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.
Capture One price hikes
- Capture One raised all prices by 6% · Jun 2, 2026
Capture One raised prices on all products by 6% from June 2, 2026; Pro on annual billing went from about $17/mo to about $18/mo and the perpetual licence from $329 to about $349. - Capture One raised prices by 6% · Mar 2025
Capture One applied a 6% price increase across its products in March 2025 (dollar figures not given in the source).
Cheaper alternatives to Capture One
At 100 photos a month, Capture One costs $26.25/mo. 1 photo editor costs less:
- Adobe Lightroom: $22.49/mo (Lightroom plan (1TB), month-to-month)
Capture One alternatives: 2 photo editors compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jun 2, 2026 · Price increase: Capture One raised prices on all products by 6% from June 2, 2026; Pro on annual billing went from about $17/mo to about $18/mo and the perpetual licence from $329 to about $349.
- Mar 2025 · Price increase: Capture One applied a 6% price increase across its products in March 2025 (dollar figures not given in the source).
Sources
Pricing page: captureone.com/en/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Vendor pricing page renders prices client-side; figures come from PricingSaaS (Aug 2026 capture) and press coverage of the June 2026 6% increase. PetaPixel put the Pro monthly plan at ~$26 before the increase (implying ~$27.5 now), which conflicts with PricingSaaS's $26.25; verify the monthly figure in a browser.