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Obsidian costs Free to $10 per month as of August 2026, with 5 plans available including a free tier. Plans: Personal (Free) (free), Sync at $5/month, and Publish at $10/month. Custom pricing is available on request. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

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  • Free tier: Yes

Obsidian offers 5 pricing tiers: Personal (Free), Sync, Publish, Catalyst, Commercial. A free plan is available. Paid plans include Sync at $5/per user/month, Publish at $10/per site/month. The Sync plan is users needing cross-device syncing.

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+300%–+375% above list price
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Obsidian's sourced hidden costs add +300%–+375% on top of a $48/yr base license (about $192–$228/yr) as of August 2026. Key hidden costs: sync subscription for multi-device use, publish add-on premium pricing. Verified from 2 sources by CostBench.

Hidden Costs Breakdown

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Sync Subscription for Multi-Device Use

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The free Personal plan supports local use on a single device only. Users who want notes synced across multiple devices must pay for the Sync add-on ($5/month or $4/month on annual billing). Free workarounds via iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, or git exist but require technical setup. Community members have described the recurring cost as steep relative to the service provided.

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The sync pricing is frustrating. You can choose between free (single device only), and surprisingly expensive for a low-volume file sync mechanism.

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Just syncing is only $4, and there are many free ways to do it.

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Publish Add-On Premium Pricing

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Obsidian Publish ($10/month or $8/month annually) is priced significantly above comparable web-publishing platforms. Community comparisons cite Notion (free), Wix (~$4/month), and TypePad (~$9/month) as cheaper alternatives. Users running both Sync and Publish pay $144/year on annual billing. A 2022 Reddit post also documented usability gaps in Publish including missing SEO metadata, double scroll bars, flashing favicons, and clunky slugs.

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if you were to use Obsidian for syncing (having notes you take on your phone and computer sync up) and publish (let people see your notes online) it would cost you $30/mo or $288 a year

reddit

Obsidian, I love you. But, here are just a few of the issues that have come up this week in the Obsidian-sphere re Obsidian Publish: Double scroll bars appearing, Headers showing up twice, Flashing favicons, Lack of native scroll bars, Devs having to rebuild their themes from scratch to make them accessible on Publish, Lacking metadata for SEO, Clunky slugs

Year-1 Cost

Annual license ($4/mo × 12) $48/yr
Sync Subscription for Multi-Device Use ($48-$60) +$48–$60
Publish Add-On Premium Pricing ($96-$120) +$96–$120
Estimated Year-1 Total $192–$228
That's +300%–+375% on top of the base license, summed from the sourced hidden costs above. The median Obsidian contract is $330/yr across 213 Vendr purchases.

Frequently Asked Questions

01 What hidden costs should I budget for with Obsidian?

Beyond the license fee, budget for: Sync Subscription for Multi-Device Use ($48-$60); Publish Add-On Premium Pricing ($96-$120). For a typical deployment that works out to roughly +300%–+375% on top of the base license ($48/yr → $192–$228/yr).

02 Does Obsidian charge for implementation?

Implementation costs for Obsidian vary by deployment size and customization. Contact the vendor or check our sourced hidden-cost breakdown above for verified figures.

03 How much does Obsidian support cost?

Premium support pricing for Obsidian depends on your tier and contract terms. See the sourced cost breakdown above for any verified figures we have.

04 Are there overage or storage costs with Obsidian?

Overage and storage policies for Obsidian depend on tier limits. Check the sourced cost breakdown above for verified data.

05 What add-ons cost extra with Obsidian?

Add-on pricing for Obsidian varies by feature. The sourced cost breakdown above lists any verified add-on costs we have.

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