What the paid alternative costs, and what the free one gives up

How to read this table

• Every price is datedEach figure carries the day it was read and links to the vendor's own page. If a vendor has since changed their plans, their page is right and this one is stale.
• Currencies are never convertedSeveral vendors geo-localise pricing. Where a non-USD storefront was served, the figure is published as read and labelled “Not a USD price” rather than converted into one we were never quoted.
• No savings total is claimedAdding up subscriptions you were never going to buy is not a saving. There are no ratings or review counts on these pages either — nobody has rated these tools, so there is nothing to report.

Every verified product, its entry price, and the free page that covers the job

The 16 jobs, by category

Each page answers one question: what would this cost elsewhere, and what exactly do you give up by using the free one.

Questions about this page

Are these prices in USD?

Where the vendor served a USD figure, yes, and the table says so. Several vendors — Canva, Coolors, TechSmith, Smallpdf, remove.bg, 123apps — geo-localise their pricing pages and served a non-USD storefront when we checked. Those rows publish the figure in the currency it was actually read in and carry a 'Not a USD price' label. We do not convert currencies, because a converted figure is not a price the vendor quoted.

Do the AltFTool tools have a paid tier?

No. There is no paid plan, no trial window and no per-file metering on any tool listed here. Ads are what keep them free. That also means there is no support contract, no account and no data-processing agreement — see the limits on each page.

Why does the table list products that are already free?

Because leaving them out would make the page dishonest. Adobe Color, Zoho Invoice, JSONFormatter and Code Beautify have no paid tier at all, so for those jobs there is nothing to save by switching to us — and you should know that before you switch.

How current are these figures?

Every row carries the date it was checked, and the vendor's own pricing page is linked. Software pricing drifts, so if a figure here disagrees with the vendor's page, the vendor's page is right and ours is stale.

Looking for a deeper head-to-head with a specific hosted service? The alternatives guides cover free-tier limits, upload behaviour and migration paths in full.