SnapOtter

Free

The AGPLv3 community edition, described by the project as fully functional without a license key. All 200-plus tools across images (107), video (57), audio (27), PDF (29), and files (23). Batch processing, reusable pipelines, API keys, the full REST API, the browser image editor with layers and filters, OIDC/SSO login, 21 languages with RTL, and local AI for background removal, upscaling, photo restoration, object eraser, face blur, OCR, transcription, and subtitle generation. No rate limits. Single-node operation.

Paid

Two commercial plans, Team and Enterprise, activated by a signed license key that carries an org, a seat count, and an expiry. No price is published anywhere on the site or the docs; the enterprise page routes you to "Book a Demo" and contact@snapotter.com.

Team unlocks: SAML SSO, S3 storage, multi-tenancy, audit export, SIEM forwarding, SSO enforcement, upgrade management, admin alerts.

Enterprise adds: SCIM provisioning, MFA, webhooks, per-tool permissions, tamper-resistant audit, legal hold, GDPR lifecycle, team retention overrides, IP allowlist, config export/import, distributed tracing.

Self-Hosted Costs

Minimum is 2 cores, 2 GB RAM, and about 5.5 GB of disk for the image plus a data volume. Recommended is 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, and roughly 20 GB more for the full AI model packs. That is a $9 to $24 per month VPS depending on host (Hetzner at the low end, DigitalOcean at the high end). GPU acceleration wants an NVIDIA card with 8 GB of VRAM, 12 GB to be comfortable; cloud GPU instances start around $150 a month and climb fast, so most self-hosters should stay on CPU fallback. AMD64 and ARM64 both work, including Apple Silicon and Raspberry Pi.

When to Pay

Compliance is what forces the license: SAML, SCIM, audit export, SIEM forwarding, or tamper-resistant logging. The other trigger is needing S3 as your file store, which is the one gate that should have stayed in the free build. Everything else a small team actually uses is already free.