Anytype gives you every feature and 100 MB to move it between devices

70 puts Anytype at the bottom edge of our Strong band, and it holds rank 6 on our note-taking list, so the score and the rank agree for once.

Feature depth at 82 is high and it is honestly earned, because nothing is paywalled: encryption, objects and relations, backlinks, graph view and shared spaces are all free. What is missing here is absent rather than gated. There is no web app, and integrations and automation barely exist next to Obsidian's plugin library.

Generosity at 70 is the 100 MB remote storage cap doing its work, softened by unlimited local storage on every tier and by the option to self-host an any-sync node instead of paying.

Freedom at 76 is where we differ from a lot of coverage, and it is deliberate. Anytype's licence is the Any Source Available License 1.0, which permits non-commercial use and commercial use only within allowed networks. That is source-available, not OSI-approved open source, and we do not label it open source anywhere on this site. It is a real distinction, not a technicality, and it is the reason this pillar sits below Logseq's 95 rather than beside it.

Sentiment sits at 50 because we hold no third-party rating for Anytype at all.

Nothing is feature-limited, so the free plan has exactly two numbers on it (as of July 2026):

• 100 MB of remote storage, used for syncing between devices and for sharing. Local storage on your devices is unlimited.
• 10 shared spaces. Plenty for most people, and the paid tiers make it unlimited.

The 100 MB figure is the one to think about honestly. If your notes are text, that is a very large number of notes and you may never approach it. If you paste screenshots into meeting notes, or keep PDFs alongside your reading notes, a few dozen files will fill it, and what fills is your ability to sync rather than your ability to write.

Beyond the plan, four things are limitations of the product rather than of the tier, and they matter more than the storage number to most people who bounce off Anytype:

• The licence is source-available, not open source. Commercial use is restricted to allowed networks.
• There is no web app. A borrowed computer means installing the desktop client, which is sometimes not possible.
• The object and relation model takes real time to learn. The first week is slower than the app you left. Budget a couple of weeks before judging it.
• Export works and is lossy. Spaces and objects export to Markdown or Protobuf, and relations between objects flatten into plain links on the way out, so a heavily structured space does not survive the trip fully intact.

That last point is worth weighing against Obsidian's plain-Markdown promise, because in this category the exit route is part of the free plan.

Plus is $4 a month for 1 GB of remote storage and unlimited shared spaces plus a unique network name. Pro is $8 for 10 GB. Ultra is $16 for 100 GB. That is the ladder, and every rung of it is the same product with a bigger sync allowance.

We think that is the right way to charge, and it is rare enough to name. Nothing gets taken away from you if you stop paying except headroom, and no feature you learned to depend on disappears at renewal. Compare that with the tools in this category where the free tier withholds formatting, attachments or team members.

The step that matters is free to Plus, because 100 MB to 1 GB is a factor of ten for $48 a year. Beyond that you are buying space for media, and if you are storing that much media in a note app it is worth asking whether it belongs there.

There is also a fourth option that costs nothing. You can self-host an any-sync node rather than paying for remote storage, which removes the cap the same way self-hosting removes caps elsewhere in this category, with the same condition attached: somebody has to run it.

Yes, within limits, and the limit is unusually easy to predict. Every feature is free forever including full end-to-end encryption, and 100 MB of sync storage is either irrelevant to you or the thing you hit in a month, depending entirely on whether you paste images into notes.

Who can live here permanently: a privacy-first user who wants a workspace the vendor genuinely cannot read, someone who wants structure across their notes rather than folders and tags, anyone working offline by default, and any text-heavy note-taker, because 100 MB of plain text is an enormous amount of writing. Who cannot: anyone whose notes are half screenshots and PDFs, anyone who needs a browser tab on a machine they do not control, and anyone expecting Zapier-style automation, which barely exists here.

One thing to be clear about before you commit: Anytype is source-available, not open source. If an OSI licence is a requirement, Logseq's free plan is AGPL-3.0 and SiYuan's free plan is too. Free Notion alternatives ranks the swaps, and best free note-taking and docs tools covers the category.