Pricing
Collaboration you pay for. Privacy you don't.
Priced per organisation, in US dollars. An organisation is the billable unit: a person can belong to several and takes one seat in each. Text sync never stops, on any plan.
Billing
Paying for the year saves 17–20%. Same plan, same terms.
Switch to annual to pay less for the same plan.
Free
$0 per month
free forever, no bills
- 3 seats
- 2 devices per seat
- Text sync only — no attachments
Not a reduced version of a paid plan, and it does not expire. Every live-collaboration feature is included; only seats, devices and storage differ. A collaboration tool whose free tier only fits one person cannot demonstrate the only thing it does.
Open in ObsidianPersonal
$4 per month $5 per month
billed $48 a year billed monthly
- 6 seats
- 3 devices per seat
- 10 GB of attachments
For one person and the people they write with.
Upgrade in ObsidianTeam
Most chosen$5 per seat / month $6 per seat / month
billed $60 a seat a year billed monthly
- Up to 10 seats
- 4 devices per seat
- 20 GB, plus 5 GB per seat
Buy the seats you need; the storage follows them.
Upgrade in ObsidianSmall Business
$15 per seat / month $18 per seat / month
billed $180 a seat a year billed monthly
- Up to 25 seats
- 6 devices per seat
- 100 GB, plus 20 GB per seat
Past 25 seats, talk to us.
Upgrade in ObsidianIncluded on every plan, Free too
- Live carets and named pointers in notes
- Shared editing in notes, merged as you type
- Live canvases: cards moved, resized, linked and typed in together
- Bases that merge, with the kanban view
- Live boards in the community Kanban plugin
- Live drawings in the community Excalidraw plugin (images in them need attachment storage)
- Offline editing that merges when you reconnect
No Obsidian on this device? See Nectenda in the community directory.
The price here is the price you pay. Creem is the merchant of record and handles any VAT, sales tax or GST due where you are.
Everything, compared
| Feature | Free | Personal | Team | Small Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live collaboration | ||||
| Live carets and named pointers in notes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shared editing in notes, merged as you type | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live canvases | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bases that merge, with the kanban view | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live boards in the community Kanban plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live drawings in the community Excalidraw plugin; images in them need attachment storage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Offline editing, files stay on your disk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Privacy | ||||
| End-to-end encrypted, keys derived on your device | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Document ids are HMACs of the path, never the path | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Every release carries the SHA-256 of its bundle | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text sync continues if you stop paying | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Seats and devices | ||||
| Seats per organisation | 3 | 6 | Up to 10 | Up to 25 |
| Devices per seat | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Organisations a person can join | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Attachments | ||||
| Attachment sync | Text only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Storage included | None | 10 GB | 20 GB + 5 GB / seat | 100 GB + 20 GB / seat |
| Downloads keep working after downgrade | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support | ||||
| Email support | Three business days | Three business days | Three business days | Three business days |
How do I buy one?
Inside Obsidian. Install the plugin, sign in, and choose a plan in settings. There is no web signup, and that is deliberate: the keys that encrypt your vault are derived on your own device from a passphrase that never reaches us, so an account cannot be created for you from a web page. The last step is always yours.
What happens if I stop paying?
The organisation moves to the Free plan. Nothing is deleted, nobody is removed, every attachment you uploaded can still be downloaded, and text keeps syncing — it always does, on every plan. What stops is new attachment uploads and the larger seat allowance.
What can you see?
Ciphertext, and who has an account. Not a note, not a title, not a folder name, not an attachment. The security model states exactly what we hold, and the plugin ships as readable JavaScript so the claim can be checked rather than believed.