Why we’re changing rotki’s pricing after more than 7 years
13 Oct 2025rotki has had the same subscription price since our founding at the end of 2017. That’s more than seven years without a single price change, through rising costs, rampant inflation, new integrations, countless DeFi upgrades, and the growth of our small team maintaining an ever-expanding codebase.
During that time, the app evolved massively.
We’ve added support for dozens of new protocols and chains, onchain data decoding, new accounting features, reporting exports, analytics, active management of funds and many improvements to the local app itself: all while staying fully privacy-preserving, open source, and independent. But our pricing never moved. That’s not sustainable anymore.
We don’t sell user data. We don’t take a cut from transactions. We don’t inject analytics or tracking. Our entire income comes from people who choose to support us directly. That’s what keeps rotki independent and what makes it very different from most modern “cloud apps.”
To keep developing at the quality and pace users expect, we’re introducing a new tiered subscription system.
The new structure
- Free - stays exactly as it is today. All core local functionality remains free forever.
- Basic - is now priced at €25/month (VAT included) and replaces today’s “Premium” tier.
- Advanced - for power users with more heavy needs. This tier raises all limits(devices, DB size etc.) and is tailored for people managing more diverse portfolios.
- Custom - For businesses, family offices, high net worth individuals whose needs go beyond the advanced tier. Includes tailored limits, dedicated support, and more.
All current Premium subscribers will automatically move to the Basic tier starting from November 10th, 2025 and onwards. As part of this update, we’re also simplifying subscription periods. All existing plans that renew every 3 or 6 months will automatically switch to monthly billing at the Basic tier price (€25/month, VAT included) starting November 10th, 2025.
If you prefer not to continue, you can cancel your subscription before that date. Otherwise, no action is needed, your next billing cycle will switch to the new plan and price.
Why we made this change
rotki was built with one goal: to give users full control of their financial data without having to share it with third parties or store it in other people’s servers. That goal doesn’t change but building and maintaining such software isn’t cheap. Far from it.
Over the years:
- Admin expenses, inflation, devops has all become much more expensive.
- Our workload grew as DeFi exploded: hundreds of new chains, thousands of protocols, token standards, and quirks to handle. We are downstream of all these and have to adjust things continuously and respond to dev changes made many times by amateur teams.
- We’ve been running on a shoestring budget for years, kept alive largely by passion and community goodwill.
Until now, rotki’s revenue has mostly come from grants for integrations, followed by donations through campaigns like Gitcoin and Giveth, and lastly from premium subscriptions. The problem is that both grants and donations are unpredictable. They depend on third parties and changing funding cycles. To build rotki sustainably and plan long-term, we need a more stable foundation, and that means making user-supported revenue the main driver of our growth. rotki is not a mass-market app, it’s a precision tool for people who care about control and privacy.
We price accordingly, to build something that lasts.
This update simply aligns pricing with the reality of what it takes to keep rotki alive, reliable, and improving.
We know price increases are never pleasant, but this is what allows us to:
- Continue offering an OSS, self-hosted privacy-preserving app.
- Keep all data processing on your machine: not ours.
- Fund ongoing maintenance and new feature development without having to resort to shady business practices and exploit the data of our users.
- Add extra tools, such as indexers for our premium users which will speed things up and make data retrieval for prices and events faster. A commonly mentioned pain point for rotki as it currently stands
Our commitment to openness, privacy, and user alignment stays absolute.
If you’ve been supporting us, thank you. You are literally the reason rotki exists. If you haven’t yet, or you paused your sub, now is a good moment to rejoin and help us keep building independent, self-hosted software in a world moving toward the cloud.
- Try out rotki’s latest release
- Buy premium, unlock all features and support our development.
- Check out our Github repo and follow us in X.
- Chat with us and other users of Rotki in Discord