NVivo price and license
Qualitative data analysis software for coding interviews, documents and other text, sold as a desktop app and a separate AI cloud product.
at a glance
- Vendor
- Lumivero
- License
- Proprietary: Annual subscription or perpetual license
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS — Lumivero: “NVivo Desktop is available for researchers using Windows or Mac.” NVivo AI Cloud runs in a browser and is sold separately.
- Interface
- menus (our classification)
- Free route
- No free edition. The cheapest published route is the student desktop subscription at $130 per year. Many universities license NVivo for their members, so check before buying.
What does NVivo cost?
| Buyer | Edition | Price | Term | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student | NVivo Desktop (student)a | $130 | per year | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Student | NVivo AI Cloud (student)a | $199 | per year | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Faculty, staff & academic researchers | NVivo Desktop (academic)a | $520 | per year | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Faculty, staff & academic researchers | NVivo Desktop perpetual (academic)a | $1,100 | one-time (perpetual) | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Faculty, staff & academic researchers | NVivo AI Clouda | $770 | per year | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Business | NVivo Desktop (commercial)a | $1,005 | per year | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Business | NVivo Desktop perpetual (commercial)a | $2,125 | one-time (perpetual) | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Business | NVivo AI Clouda | $770 | per year | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
| Anyone | Collaboration Cloud add-ona | $99 | per year | Lumivero Oct 30, 2026 |
a USD list price from the price catalog in Lumivero’s shop page. The shop displayed local currency at our test location, so we read the USD entries.
Cheapest first-year option by buyer
| If you are a… | Year 1 |
|---|---|
| Student | $130 |
| Faculty, staff or academic researcher | $520 |
| Business under 200 people | $770 |
| Business with 200+ people | $770 |
Computed from the rows above for one user. Add-on modules are excluded. Compare across tools in the cost finder.
What else to know
- Government and non-profit buyers pay $710 per year for the desktop subscription, or $1,630 for a perpetual license. [source]
- A perpetual license lets you use the version you bought indefinitely. Future major version upgrades aren’t included. [source]
- Lumivero says NVivo Desktop doesn’t include its AI Assistant. AI features are in NVivo AI Cloud, a separate web-based product. [source]
- Lumivero lists transcription and the Collaboration Cloud as paid add-ons. [source]
- Our observation The shop page showed prices in Thai baht at our test location. Its embedded price list and product markup give the USD prices above. [source]
Record history
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Sources
- Lumivero, “Buy NVivo software: individual licenses and pricing.” Official page; checked Oct 30, 2026.