Canva Pricing (2026) — The Essential Guide

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In this in-depth look at Canva pricing, I take you through all the Canva plans available and help you work out which is the best one for your needs.

I’ll start this pricing comparison off with a look at Canva’s free plan.

Canva Free — $0 per month

As the name suggests, this plan is entirely free — but it’s surprisingly good! It’s perfectly possible to use a free Canva account to create designs that are professional in appearance and look great both online and printed.

Key features of the free Canva plan

The free plan gives you access to the following key features:

Using these features, you can do some pretty decent design work – if you’re starting a new business and have no budget to invest in design, the Canva free plan can empower you to create some very professional-looking visual assets without any monthly fees to worry about.

You can learn more about all the features included in the free plan here.

However, as your business operations expand, you may find yourself outgrowing the capabilities of ‘Canva Free’, and exploring one of its premium plans.

Let’s take a look at those, starting with ‘Canva Pro.’

Canva Pro — $15 per month or $120 per year

‘Canva Pro’ can be paid for in two ways: either on a monthly basis or an annual one.

Paying monthly involves a $15 per month fee; doing so annually costs $120 per year (saving you around $60 in total over a 12-month period).

(You can learn more about the Canva free trial features here).

But what do you get for this extra fee that’s not available from the Canva free plan?

Below you’ll find a list of the key features that I think it’s worth upgrading to the ‘Canva Pro’ plan for (in order of significance).

Premium stock photos, videos and graphics

While you can get by on the free version of Canva, and create some very professional visuals with it, the plan limits you to a more basic library of stock images and graphics.

With ‘Canva Pro,’ you get an enormous range of additional royalty-free multimedia assets — 141+ million in total. These include graphics, icons, photos, videos and audio (music and sound effects).

This library opens up the creative possibilities significantly — and when you consider how much some stock photo sites charge for just one image, it represents really good value for money.

Even if you only ever used Canva to source stock photos and videos, and didn’t bother with any of its design tools, you’d be getting an awful lot of bang for your buck.

More templates

Although the ‘Canva Free’ plan is pretty generous when it comes to templates, giving you access to 1.6+ million, you get a lot more of them on the ‘Canva Pro’ one: 3.6+ million.

Brand kits

Canva’s ‘brand kit’ feature lets you upload a logo and your own fonts, and define a palette containing your brand colors.

This helps you ensure that anything you produce in Canva remains aligned with your brand’s visual identity.

While you can only create one brand kit on the free plan, on the ‘Canva Pro’ plan you can work with up to 5 of them. Furthermore, ‘Canva Pro’ gives you extra tools for maintaining control over your brand, including element locking and sign-off features.

Full access to Canva’s ‘Magic Studio’ features

Canva Pro users get full access to Canva’s ‘Magic Studio’ — a growing arsenal of 20+ different AI-powered design tools.

Magic Studio includes image generation tools, a translation tool, and a range of useful editing features that let you use Canva’s built-in AI to expand, animate and transform your designs.

The Magic resize tool

A particularly useful feature only available to ‘Canva Pro’ users is the ‘Magic Resize’ tool — this lets you repurpose existing designs for different platforms really easily.

It lets you open an existing design, and then automatically reformat it to suit different social media channels.

For example, you could use this to turn a blog post banner into a Facebook post image and a YouTube video thumbnail just by clicking a button (helpfully, the feature lets you output all your repurposed assets in one go).

Take a look at the video below to get a sense of how this works in practice.

Background remover

On the ‘Canva Pro’ plan, you get access to a background removal tool. This makes it very easy to take a headshot with a background and put whatever you like behind it.

If you’re a YouTube creator, you’ll find this particularly handy for creating brash video thumbnails of yourself looking shocked at the content of your own videos…

Transparent background downloads

A related feature that’s available on ‘Canva Pro’ but not on the free version is the option to download your designs with a transparent background.

This is particularly useful if you’re designing logos that you want to superimpose onto different assets — the transparent background means that your design can be applied neatly and easily over something else.

(The Pro version also lets you compress your work to a specified file size.)

Custom template design

While the free version of Canva only lets you work with pre-designed Canva templates, ‘Canva Pro’ lets you create your own ones.

This means that you can create on-brand, standardized templates for your team to use.

Storage and folders

With the free version of Canva, you get 5GB of storage; this will be eaten up quickly by any large multimedia files that you add to the platform.

‘Canva Pro’ gives you 20 times that amount — a 100GB storage limit applies. This limit should be fine for most — the only users who might not be entirely satisfied with it are those who edit a very large amount of video content.

Customer support

On ‘Canva Pro,’ you get access to full support services (via a contact form / email).

This is not the case with the free version of Canva — if you’re on this plan, you’ll largely have to make do with Canva’s help portal and AI chatbots.

(Help with ‘select issues’ is provided to free plan users, however — presumably serious ones, like issues with account access.)

Canva Business — $20 per user per month or $200 per user per year

The ‘Canva Pro’ plan will usually satisfy the needs of ‘solopreneurs’ perfectly well. However, it’s not great for organizations that need multi-user access.

This is where ‘Canva Business’ — formerly ‘Canva Teams’ — comes in.

This plan costs $20 per user per month, or $200 per user per year (if paying annually).

So, what do you actually get on a ‘Canva Business’ plan that isn’t available on the free or ‘Pro’ versions?

Let’s find out.

Workflow management

If you want to run a managed approvals process on designs, you can use the ‘Canva Business’ plan’s workflow management features to do this.

These tools give you a huge amount of control over collaboration — they let you invite team members to work on projects, assign specific roles, and transfer ownership of designs or brand assets when responsibilities change. They also let you generate activity reports to keep track of how Canva is being used across your organization.

Together, these features make ‘Canva Business’ well suited to larger teams that need oversight of creative workflows and a structured approval process.

Template locking

The ‘Canva Business’ plan lets you lock down your templates more tightly — this gives you more control over the appearance of your assets and helps you avoid ‘drift’ away from standard brand guidelines.

Team-only links

Another useful feature you get on ‘Canva Business’ but not on ‘Canva Pro’ is the ability to share team-only links. These let you share designs securely within your organization, ensuring that only team members can view or edit your work.

AI admin controls

‘Canva Business’ lets you oversee and manage your team’s access to the many AI design tools available in Canva.

Storage

While the ‘Free’ and ‘Pro’ plans limit you to 5GB and 100TB of storage space respectively, the ‘Canva Business’ plan allocates 500GB of storage to every member of your team, making it a more suitable and scalable option for companies that work with a large number of big multimedia files (video, audio, etc.).

Domain report

The ‘Domain Report’ feature in ‘Canva Business’ provides business owners with comprehensive analytics on design activities.

It tracks the number and types of designs created, edited, and shared by team members, allowing owners to monitor user engagement and identify both power users and those who may need additional support. This feature ensures efficient and productive use of Canva across the team.

More brand kits

While the ‘Canva Pro’ plan lets you create up to 5 brand kits, the Canva Business plan expands this to 100. It also lets you link folders to brand kits, making it easier to organize and access the right assets for each project.

Print discounts

Canva lets you order printed versions of your designs directly through its built-in printing service — available products include business cards, flyers, posters, stickers, tote bags and more. With the ‘Canva Business plan,’ you get a 10% discount on all print orders.

Canva Enterprise — custom pricing

‘Canva Enterprise’ is a relatively new offering from Canva, aimed at larger organizations.

Pricing for ‘Canva Enterprise’ is customized to the specific needs and requirements of your organization — you’ll need to contact Canva to negotiate a price for it.

Unlike the other Canva plans, ‘Canva Enterprise’ lets you create multiple teams across one organization; it also lets admins control element editing and design permissions more tightly.

Some of the other key features only available to ‘Canva Enterprise’ users are as follows…

IP Indemnity content control

The IP Indemnity content control feature in Canva for Enterprise offers businesses protection against intellectual property (IP) infringement claims. It ensures that any content created or used within Canva complies with legal standards — reducing the risk of legal disputes over IP rights.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Single sign-on (SSO) lets a user use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications, making username and password management easier.

On a ‘Canva Enterprise’ plan, you can include Canva in the apps you use SSO for.

Dedicated support and training

‘Canva Enterprise’ users benefit from dedicated support and training resources. These include a dedicated account manager, priority support, and access to training sessions tailored to your team’s needs

More storage

The ‘Canva Enterprise’ plan gives each user 1TB of cloud storage — double the 500GB provided on ‘Canva Business’ and ten times the 100GB available on ‘Canva Pro.’

Even more brand kits

The ‘Canva Enterprise’ plan takes brand management significantly further than the other plans, letting you create and use up to 1,000 brand kits. This makes it ideal for large organizations or agencies handling multiple brand portfolios.

Canva for educational and not-for-profit organizations — what are the costs?

In addition to the plans that are aimed at businesses, Canva provides several plans that are designed for the education and charity sectors.

‘Canva for Education‘ is free for ‘K-12’ teachers and students (with ‘K-12’ referring to US education levels that stretch from Kindergarten to 12th grade).

(For the record, Canva contains around 80,000 templates that are specifically designed for educational purposes.)

As its name suggests, ‘Canva for Nonprofits‘ is a version of the platform that’s free for those working in the charity sector. It can be used for free by up to 50 people (depending on the type of organization), with extra seats available at a 50% discount.

An application process is involved before you can use Canva for Nonprofits, during which Canva’s team will verify your eligibility for the plan.

Recently, Canva also launched a plan aimed at universities and higher education institutions. This is called ‘Canva Campus.’

Unlike the ‘Canva for Education’ and ‘Canva for Nonprofits’ plans mentioned above however, ‘Canva Campus’ is not entirely free to use, however — institutions need to pay for seats (pricing for these is negotiable).

So which version of the Canva app is right for me?

Hopefully this Canva pricing guide has helped you identify the key differences between the various plans on offer and helped you understand whether or not a free or a paid-for plan is best for you.

But to sum up, here’s my take on which plan is best suited for different types of users:

Got any questions? Leave a comment!

Alternatives to Canva

When it comes to browser-based apps, key alternatives include Visme, Adobe Express (formerly Adobe Spark), Kittl and VistaCreate (formerly Crello).

These are similarly affordable graphic design tools that let non-professional designers create visual material (note: we have a Visme vs Canva comparison here, a VistaCreate vs Canva shootout here and an Adobe Express vs Canva comparison here).

Desktop applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere (and other graphic design software you get in an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription) can also serve as alternatives to Canva. But they’re a bit different in nature — while Canva offers you a built-in library of royalty-free photos, graphics and videos, you usually have to source assets ‘outside’ of the Adobe apps.

(You can learn more about the differences between Adobe Photoshop and Canva in our in-depth comparison of the two products.)

Understanding the pros and cons of Canva

Although we generally love Canva and view it as a really user-friendly solution for creating graphics, it’s not going to be right for everyone: there are quite a lot of pros and cons to consider when deciding whether or not to use it.

So, to get a really in-depth appraisal of all the features Canva provides, do check out our detailed Canva review. You might also find our What is Canva? article and our Canva Pro vs Free comparison guide helpful.