After Effects (prepaid year)
$21.99/ month
- Yearly
- $263.88 ($21.99/mo)
- Verified
Adobe After Effects has no free plan and its cheapest paid option works out to $21.99 a month (After Effects (prepaid year), per year); it ranks #5 of 7 for VFX compositing, as of 20 Sep 2026.
Adobe After Effects
- Cheapest paid
- $21.99/mo After Effects (prepaid year)
- Free plan
- No
- Best ranking
- #5 of 7 · VFX compositing
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
Plans
After Effects (annual, billed monthly)
$22.99/ month
- Yearly
- $275.88 ($22.99/mo)
- Verified
After Effects (month to month)
$34.99/ month
- Monthly
- $34.99
- Verified
Creative Cloud Pro
$64.99/ month
- Yearly
- $779.88 ($64.99/mo)
- Credits
- 4,000
- Verified
Price history
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Capabilities
Motion and VFX
Painting and editing
Video editing
Platform and workflow
Facts
- Free tier
- No — 7-day free trial
- Commercial use on free tier
- Not published
- Opt out of AI training
- Yes
- Output licence
- Not published
- Works offline
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Pricing source
- www.adobe.com · verified