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Why is there no free plan?

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With our subscription plans, you can invite unlimited Viewers to your Workspace for free. Viewers can browse and comment on designs in their web browser, and even inspect files and download assets for developer handoff.

We also offer students and teachers a free Workspace with 1 Editor seat, and institutions a free Workspace with multiple seats – depending on requirements. You can find out more and request your free workspace on our Sketch for Education page.

Beyond free Viewers, and besides our Education offer, we have no plans to offer an entirely free plan.

Our business model is simple — we sell our product at a fair price — and we’ve been profitable since day one. We believe this commitment to long-term sustainability is a responsibility to our customers, who can trust that we’ll continue to be here and support their work, as we have for more than 10 years.

Offering a free plan inevitably leads to unpaid costs (these plans still require storage, bandwidth, support and more). Most products with a free plan will gradually remove features or apply limitations in an effort to force customers to move to a paid tier. Or they’ll seek investment to support that plan and make decisions that don’t align with the needs of their customers. That doesn’t feel right to us.

Our focus is on adding value to our product with consistent improvements and new features, not finding ways to remove it for customers who we’ve enticed with a free plan.

Read more about our history and values