FAQ
Frequently asked questions about pricing
Do I have to pay for commercial use?
No. You are not required to pay for a commercial license, however if you are using Obsidian for work in an organization we encourage you to purchase a commercial license to keep Obsidian independent and 100% user-supported. Learn more.
Can I buy Obsidian add-ons or licenses for someone else?
Yes! You can purchase Obsidian Credit for friends, family, and coworkers. This credit can be used to pay for any Obsidian license or service. To get started, create an account and buy credit. You can then send it to the recipient via email or a shareable link. Learn more.
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16 Comments
s1291
Updated link: https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/
hu3
Can you use something like iCloud, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to get sync for free? Does it work well?
Many do that with Joplin.
nbutyllithium
Excellent development! I saw first Obsidian years ago but my main use case would have been for myself at work and I wasn't willing to battle the bureaucratic hoops at my job to try a product I wasn't sure I'd actually stick with long term (like my attempts with logseq). Ended up not even trying it on a personal level. Looking forward to seeing how it goes and who knows maybe I'll end up stick with it and battle to contribute some funds.
tionis
I wonder if this is a prelude to make obsidian open-source.
Would be pretty great.
tionis
I hope this doesn't destroy their financing.
I would hate to see them go down, it's a wonderful piece of software.
1123581321
This is a good change. Most people using it at work do it individually and don’t pay. But they do potentially pay for sync services.
taude
anyone have any good tips or plugins so that I can have browser plugins on all my devices and save web pages from multiple devices to it? It's basically the only reason I still use Notion. (As a former emacs guy, I like a lot about Obsidian, most of the plug-in ecosystem, including it saving my data as just text.)
_Algernon_
As someone paying personally for a commercial license that I use for work, I am not a fan. I like a clear business model otherwise I assume that I am the product being sold.
Edit: They should make it open source if this is the path they take. Then users can personally verify that they (or their data) isn't being sold to the highest bidder.
whatever1
Why guys? Let my employer pay for your work.
dSebastien
This is awesome news for the community. With a built-in multiplayer mode, it would be epic.
corysama
If you like the product, but are not interested in paying for sync or publish, consider buying the one-time $25 "Catalyst" license just to support development.
silvanocerza
Shameless plug, I'm working on a plugin to sync your vault with a GitHub repo.
It's still under active development but it does the job.
https://github.com/silvanocerza/obsidian-github-sync
Feedback is more than welcome.
throw0101c
How do the use-cases for Obsidian differ from Zotero?
* https://www.zotero.org
bjoli
I am not really comfortable relying on a tool that has a free tier and a subscription. I really like the app, but I will never again have the rugged pulled out under me with a quadrupling of license costs.
Do the make any kind of promises wrt the free tier?
jjice
They have "Multiplayer" on their current roadmap [0]. I assume this is to help reduce friction in getting their Sync offering for teams.
I personally like the move a lot and I hope this works well for them. The model of selling their add-on services seems to have worked for them well so far, and I hope it continues. It's a very functional free core with their paid add-ons being very additive and well made.
[0] https://obsidian.md/roadmap/
Derbasti
The commercial license used to be de-facto optional, now it is explicitly so. Good for them to officially acknowledge that reality. I bet they realized that payment was never enforceable, so it just didn't make sense to keep up the fiction.