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DaVinci Resolve pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

DaVinci Resolve (blackmagicdesign.com) is a video editor. Free version plus DaVinci Resolve Studio at $295 paid once (perpetual licence, no subscription).. Free plan: DaVinci Resolve 21 free: editing, color and audio tools; works up to UHD 3840x2160 and 60fps; no watermark on exports; no time limit..

What DaVinci Resolve costs

  • 1 creator: free (Free version exports at 1080p or higher with no watermark, has no time limit and no metered allowance, so it meets all four conditions on the sources found. $0.)
  • 4K export: free (Free version exports up to UHD 3840x2160 with no watermark, so pro4k equals solo. $0.)
  • 5-person team: free (Free version includes multi-user collaboration (official page) and no user cap is published, so 5 x $0 = $0. Blackmagic Cloud storage prices are not on the official page; any charge for shared storage would add to this.)

Plan compared: DaVinci Resolve 21 free version (no paid plan needed). Monthly price on monthly billing of the cheapest plan (free plans count) that exports watermark-free 1080p with enough allowance for four 10-minute videos from 2 hours of footage a month; annual-only plans are divided by 12 and perpetual-only licences spread over 36 months.

What DaVinci Resolve does

Core: Multi-track timeline editing, Pro color, VFX & audio, Native desktop app.

Important: AI audio & video cleanup, Plugins & app ecosystem.

Also has: Transcript-based editing (partly), Auto captions & transcripts (partly), Templates & stock assets (partly), Animated explainer creation (partly), Screen & camera recording (partly), Team collaboration & review (partly), Social publishing & scheduling (partly).

DaVinci Resolve price hikes

No price hikes on record for DaVinci Resolve.

Alternatives to DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is the cheapest video editor we track at 1 creator. The others:

DaVinci Resolve alternatives: 4 video editors compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of DaVinci Resolve

  • Adobe Creative Cloud (Design tools): covers 90% of DaVinci Resolve; missing or partial: AI audio & video cleanup (partly), Screen & camera recording
  • Canva (Design tools): covers 63% of DaVinci Resolve; missing or partial: Multi-track timeline editing (partly), Pro color, VFX & audio (partly), Native desktop app (partly), AI audio & video cleanup (partly), Plugins & app ecosystem (partly)

Sources

Pricing page: blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Blackmagic's official page lists the free version and Studio at $295 one-time, with no subscription, cloud or team prices. Free-version fit rests on MiraCamp (UHD export, no watermark, no time limit, basic collaboration), Blackmagic forum staff replies on commercial use (EULA text not retrieved) and an unpublished collaboration user cap, so confidence is medium.