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Ruff Pricing

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At a glance

Free and 100% open source under dual MIT and Apache-2.0 licenses. Ruff has $0 software licensing fees and no subscription tiers; built in Rust by Astral, it replaces Flake8, Black, isort, and pyupgrade at 10–100x speed, drastically cutting CI compute minutes.

Self-hosting cost

Ruff is open source under the MIT license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage.

Free & cheaper Testing & QA

same category, free plan or open-source license

Grok BotBeta access bundled with eligible SuperGrok Plus ($100/mo), Cursor Pro+ ($60/mo), or Cursor Teams ($40/seat/mo); custom pricing for enterprise deployments.MCP Inspectoropen sourceFree and 100% open source under the MIT license ($0 software cost). mcp-inspector is the official Model Context Protocol developer testing suite, running entirely locally via npx/Node.js with no subscription tiers, cloud fees, or telemetry.Playwrightopen sourcePlaywright is a free and open-source end-to-end testing framework created by Microsoft under the Apache 2.0 license. It provides cross-browser automation across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit without any licensing fees.RaycastFree core desktop launcher (macOS/Windows, extensions, window management, snippets, 50-query AI trial) / Pro ($8/mo billed annually or $10/mo monthly - unlimited standard AI, encrypted cloud sync, custom themes, clipboard history) / Pro + Advanced AI ($16/mo billed annually or $20/mo monthly - Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, Gemini Pro, o1/o3 reasoning models, higher limits) / Teams ($12/user/mo) & Teams + Advanced AI ($20/user/mo) / Enterprise custom (SAML/SCIM SSO, AI control center) / BYOK & local Ollama supported
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FAQ

How much does Ruff cost?

Free and 100% open source under dual MIT and Apache-2.0 licenses. Ruff has $0 software licensing fees and no subscription tiers; built in Rust by Astral, it replaces Flake8, Black, isort, and pyupgrade at 10–100x speed, drastically cutting CI compute minutes.

Does Ruff have a free plan?

Yes — Ruff is open source and free to use.

Can you self-host Ruff for free?

Ruff is open source under the MIT license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage.

What are free or cheaper Ruff alternatives?

Grok Bot, MCP Inspector, Playwright are in the same category with a free plan or open-source license.

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