Strapi pricing 2026: Community edition, Cloud tiers and real infra costs
Strapi pricing in 2026 splits into two fundamentally different models: a free, self-hosted Community edition and a managed Strapi Cloud with three paid tiers. Understanding which path you're actually on — and what your real monthly spend looks like — requires looking past the marketing page and into the infra bill, the feature gates, and the support thresholds.
The Community edition: free but not zero cost
Strapi's Community edition is MIT-licensed and genuinely free. You get the full content-type builder, REST and GraphQL APIs, role-based access control, plugin ecosystem, and unlimited API calls. There is no usage metering, no seat tax, no document limit.
What you pay is the infrastructure layer:
