PhpStorm Pricing
Complete pricing breakdown for PhpStorm including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 40/100
Plans & Pricing
Individual Monthly
$10.90/monthly
User limit: 1 user
Individual Annual (Year 2)
$87.00/yearly
User limit: 1 user
Individual Annual (Year 1)
Popular$109.00/yearly
User limit: 1 user
Organization Annual
$289.00/yearly
User limit: Per user
All Products Pack Individual
$289.00/yearly
User limit: 1 user
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
No free community edition
Unlike PyCharm, PhpStorm has no free community edition. It's a subscription-based paid IDE which may be expensive compared to free editors like VS Code. Freelancers and small teams find the pricing prohibitive.
Frequency: 8%Impact: 7/100
Hardware requirements add hidden costs
PhpStorm runs on heavy hardware requirements to avoid sluggish performance. If you have below-average hardware, you'll have a hard time running it alongside other tools like MySQL Workbench. This adds indirect costs.
Frequency: 4%Impact: 5/100