What Your PixyCAD Subscription Gets You — Every Single Month

When you subscribe to PixyCAD, you’re not buying a snapshot of the app as it exists today. You’re buying it as it keeps getting better — every update, every bug fix, every new tool the community asked for, automatically yours on the day it ships.

Here’s what that actually means in practice.

Always on the latest version, automatically

The moment we ship an update, it’s yours. No upgrade decision, no compatibility headache, no hunting for the version of a tutorial that matches your build.

This is only possible because everyone is on the same version. There’s no legacy tier we have to maintain in parallel, no fragmentation across releases. That means we spend our time building forward instead of supporting five different codebases at once — and you spend your time designing instead of managing software.

A roadmap built by makers, funded by makers

Subscription revenue lets us work on PixyCAD full-time. And the work we prioritize is shaped directly by what users are requesting at feedback.pixycad.com.

When you subscribe, you’re not funding a feature backlog that was invented in a boardroom. You’re funding the list that the community built. If something’s missing from PixyCAD and you want it, that’s the place to say so — and it actually gets read.

Start free. No clock ticking.

Starter is free. Not “free for 14 days.” Free, with no expiration.

Here’s what Starter includes:

• Every modeling tool in PixyCAD — sketching, extrusions, fillets, booleans, all of it. Nothing held back.
• Up to 2 projects — enough to learn the app, prototype ideas, or keep your personal designs going.
• STL export — get your models out and into a slicer or another tool.

What Starter doesn’t include: STEP and Parasolid import/export. Those formats are part of the Maker plan, aimed at users who need to move files between professional CAD tools.

Starter is a real working environment. If two projects is all you ever need, it’s a genuine option with no pressure and no deadline.

More affordable than it looks

Most professional perpetual-license CAD tools start at $500 upfront — and still charge for major version upgrades down the line. PixyCAD Maker is $17.99/month, or $179.99/year if you go annual (saving you $35.89).

A subscription spreads cost across time. The math works out better for most people, and there are never any surprise upgrade fees or “do I buy v4 now or wait for v5” decisions.

Your files are always yours

If your Maker subscription lapses, your projects are not deleted. Every project you’ve ever made remains visible in your library — always.

Editing and exporting requires an active subscription, and we’re not pretending that’s nothing. But your work is never hidden, never erased. It’s sitting there waiting for whenever you’re ready to come back. Return six months later and you’ll find everything exactly where you left it.

The short version

A PixyCAD subscription means you’re always on the latest version, building on a roadmap the community shapes, at a fraction of what perpetual-license CAD costs — with a genuinely useful free tier if you want to start there.

We’d rather earn your subscription every month than lock you in and coast. That’s the only version of this we’re interested in running.

Got thoughts on pricing, features, or anything else? feedback.pixycad.com is where they land and where they actually get read.

Ready to get started? Try the free Starter tier — every modeling tool, two projects, no time limit. Upgrade to Maker when you’re ready.