Yes, Expo has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds, 60 CI/CD minutes, and Send updates to up to 1,000 monthly active users. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $12/mo.
About
Expo is a full-stack React Native framework and app platform that helps teams build, ship, and iterate on mobile and web applications from a single codebase.
It combines developer tooling, cloud services, and deployment workflows to support the full app lifecycle, from local development and device testing to builds, updates, hosting, and release automation.
- React Native framework with production-ready libraries and native modules
- Cloud services for builds, over-the-air updates, hosting, and CI/CD workflows
- Tools for device-based development, bundle inspection, and release management
- Support for Android, iOS, and web distribution
Free Tier Value
This free tier has real monthly value because it includes build minutes, app-store submission, OTA updates, hosting, and Observe access, but it is still tightly capped. Compared with the $19 Starter plan, the free allotments are roughly two-thirds of the entry plan’s practical value, so about $12/month is a fair estimate; the page does not say a credit card is required, and the offer is perpetual but capped.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds.
- Low-priority build queue.
- 60 CI/CD minutes.
- Ability to submit apps to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
- Send updates to up to 1,000 monthly active users.
- Access to Launch.
- 25 projects.
- Unlimited members.
- 1 concurrency for builds and CI/CD workflows.
- 45-minute build timeout.
- Up to 100,000 hosting requests per month.
- 1,000,000 CPU-ms for hosting.
- 1 GB hosting storage.
- 10 CPU-ms per request for hosting.
- 10 subrequests for hosting.
- 5 hosting aliases.
- 7 days of hosting logs retention.
- Community chat support.
See Expo pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- build credit
- $45
- MAUs for updates
- 3,000
- queue priority
- high
- large workers
- included
- Observe
- included
- $45 of build credit
- High-priority queue
- Access to large workers
- Send updates to 3K MAUs
- Access to Observe
Production
- build credit
- $225
- concurrencies
- 2
- MAUs for updates
- 50,000
- env var environments
- 10
- support
- priority
- $225 of build credit
- 2 included concurrencies
- Send updates to 50K MAUs
- 10 env var environments
- Priority support
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Access to Observe
Enterprise
- build credit
- $1,000
- concurrencies
- 5
- MAUs for updates
- 1,000,000+
- SLA
- included
- $1,000 of build credit
- 5 included concurrencies
- Send updates to 1M+ MAUs
- CI/CD Workflows insights
- Slack and strategic support add-on available
- Service Level Agreements
Pricing extracted from Expo's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Expo free forever?
Yes. Expo has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Expo's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Expo's cheapest paid plan is Starter at $19 / month.
What is Expo's free tier worth?
Expo's free tier is worth about $12 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 50/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
