LlamaIndex pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Free: $0 month
- Starter: $50 month
- Pro: $500 month
- Enterprise: Custom (custom)
- Worth noting: Credit-based system: 1,000 credits = $1.25. Each action such as parsing, indexing, or extracting costs a number of credits. Unused bonus credits expire immediately on downgrade.
Plans
Free
$0 month
- Includes 10K credits
- 100 users
- Basic support
- Upgrade to Starter for pay-as-you-go credits
Starter
$50 month
- Includes 40K credits
- Pay-as-you-go up to 400K credits
- 100 users
- Basic support
Pro
$500 month
- Includes 400K credits
- Limited-time bonus of 800K credits ($1,000), one-time, business email domains only
- Pay-as-you-go up to $5,000/mo
- 100 users
- Priority Slack support
Enterprise
Custom custom
- Volume discount on credits
- 5x higher rate limits
- Enterprise SSO
- SaaS or Hybrid cloud deployment
- Dedicated account manager
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Included credits | 10K | 40K | 400K | Custom |
| Concurrent parse jobs | 5 | 5 | 20 | 100 |
| Concurrent extract jobs | 5 | 5 | 20 | 100 |
| Concurrent classify jobs | 5 | 5 | 20 | 100 |
| Concurrent split jobs | 5 | 5 | 20 | 100 |
| Support level | Community | Basic (email support) | Priority (Slack Connect) | Dedicated |
LlamaIndex pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LlamaIndex | Free; paid from $50 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| OpenAI Agents SDK | — | — | — | Teams already building on OpenAI models that want a lightweight framework to write their own agent logic. | Compare → |
| LangGraph | — | — | — | Teams building long-running, stateful AI agents. | Compare → |
| Claude | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Microsoft Copilot Studio | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.llamaindex.ai/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.