Obsidian pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Obsidian (obsidian.md) is a note-taking app. The app is free; vendor-run sync (Sync Standard or Plus) and web publishing (Publish) are paid per-user/per-site subscriptions.. Free plan: Full app free on all platforms with no limits, but no vendor-run sync (third-party sync only).
What Obsidian costs
- 1 user: $10/mo (Sync Standard ($5/mo monthly) caps storage at 1 GB, which the ~1 GB vault growing 200 MB/month exceeds; Sync Plus $10/mo monthly (10 GB, 200 MB files) covers it)
- 1 user + AI: no public price (No built-in AI; AI only via community plugins or own API key)
Plan compared: Sync Plus. Prices are for one person on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12): the cheapest plan that keeps about 2,000 notes synced between a computer and a phone with no caps, and the cheapest plan that also includes the app's own AI. A free plan counts as $0 only when it covers the scenario without note, device, upload or storage caps.
Obsidian price hikes
No price hikes on record for Obsidian.
Cheaper alternatives to Obsidian
At 1 user with synced notes, Obsidian costs $10/mo. 1 note-taking app costs less:
- Microsoft OneNote: free (Free (Microsoft account, 5 GB OneDrive))
Obsidian alternatives: 2 note-taking apps compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Mar 20, 2024 · Repriced: Obsidian added a cheaper Sync Standard plan ($4/mo annual, $5 monthly; 1 vault, 1 GB, 5 MB files) below the existing Plus plan ($8/mo annual; 10 GB), which kept its price.
Sources
Pricing page: obsidian.md/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from obsidian.md/pricing and obsidian.md/sync. PricingSaaS tracks no changes; a third-party report of a June 2026 Sync hike cites an unverifiable forum link and contradicts the current official page, so it was not recorded.