Figma
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Collaborative interface design in the browser
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Rive
Interactive animation that ships as a runtime
Free plan availableDesign & Creative
from $9/moVisit rive.app
What Rive is
Design and animate with a state machine, then run the same file in an app or site through a runtime — the approach behind Spotify Wrapped and Duolingo.
What Rive has cost
We have read this pricing page 3 times since Aug 2026. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
† The page showed this figure beside a monthly/annual switch and did not say which one it belonged to, so we publish the number without claiming a billing period. Readings like this are shown but never compared, which is why they never produce a price change.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.
Rive alternatives
Other tools in design & creative that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
Where Rive sits on price
Entry prices across Design & Creative, cheapest first.
- Penpot$7
- Rive$9
- Adobe Express$9.99*
- Framer$10
- Whimsical$10
- Raphael AI$10
- Sketch$12
- Relume$12
- Visme$12.25
- Canva$15*
10 of these 12 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page; the rest are marked * and are indicative. The median is taken across the 10 verified prices in Design & Creative. Showing the 10 cheapest.
Rive pricing questions
- How much does Rive cost?
- Rive starts at $9 a month on its Cadet plan. That figure was read from rive.app's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Rive have a free plan?
- Yes. Rive publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- What is Rive used for?
- Design and animate with a state machine, then run the same file in an app or site through a runtime — the approach behind Spotify Wrapped and Duolingo. People mainly use it to animate a site, create 3d graphics, collaborate on design, design a user interface.
- What are the best alternatives to Rive?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Figma, Canva, Framer, Whimsical. Figma, Canva, Framer and Whimsical publish a free plan.