# QuarkXPress Pricing 2026 | Capterra > Learn more about QuarkXPress pricing plans including starting price, free versions and trials. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/pricing --- # Pricing for QuarkXPress [4.4 (201)](https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/reviews/) Write a Review! ## [QuarkXPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/) has **6** pricing plans - Yes, has free trial - No free version **Credit Card Required:** No ### Prepaid Annual Subscription $279 **Pricing Model:** Flat Rate **Payment Frequency:** Per Year Prepaid Annual Subscription plan includes: - Bookmarks - Digital Publishing - Graphics & Illustrations - Indesign Shortcuts - License Management Console ### Perpetual License $699 Perpetual License plan includes: Not available ### Student & Faculty Annual Subscription $109 **Pricing Model:** Per User **Payment Frequency:** Per Year Student & Faculty Annual Subscription plan includes: Not available ### Charity & Nonprofit License $199 **Pricing Model:** Flat Rate Charity & Nonprofit License plan includes: Not available ### Government Perpetual License with 1 year Maintenance $559 Government Perpetual License with 1 year Maintenance plan includes: Not available ### Government Subscription License $207 Government Subscription License plan includes: Not available ## Popular alternatives to [QuarkXPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/) Looking to learn more about Graphic Design software similar to QuarkXPress? 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Value For Money[3.9(201)](https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/reviews/) Pros Cons [Read All 201 Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/reviews/) Read Full Reviews Below Jim G. President Newspapers, 1-10 employees Used the software for: 2+ years ** Overall Rating 5.0 ** Ease of Use 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 Features 5.0 Value for Money 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 100% 10/10 Reviewer Source Source: Capterra December 17, 2025 "QuarkXPress does the work I need it to do." **Overall:** I have used QuarkXPress since the early 90's and have seen it's services grow and change. I am a print and online publisher and appreciate the versatility it has for doing what I need to and for verifying image formats such as CMYK, font status and more. **Pros:** Quark lets me do the work I need to do in fewer steps with less difficulties than Indesign. It lets me work with legacy fonts more easily than some other programs and ability to quickly and easily format text and move images to fit spaces is easy to do. The working palate selection lets me do these things more easily and with fewer clicks between palates compared to some other programs. **Cons:** I liked having the option to buy it in the old days as compared to the subscription method. I have the need to interface with some legacy systems that my customers are still using and having the old ones you bought meant you weren't looking at the updates. We really could use a properly functioning document converter that would allow us to work with versions as far back as Quark 6 and or older versions of indesign. Then you'd know you could get things open. The current document converter just doesn't work. **Alternatives Considered:** [Adobe InDesign](https://www.capterra.com/p/233314/Adobe-InDesign/) **Reasons for Choosing QuarkXPress:** I can work better and faster because the toolbar layout options are grouped better. I also appreciate that QuarkXPress doesn't make me re-purchase fonts that give warnings. Adobe does. There are legacy fonts that I bought that are now owned by Adobe. I can't output the document I make there without having to re-purchase the fonts that I already previously paid for. AND Adobe's new version of the font sometimes will make the document's text reflow. QuarkXPress will give me a warning but I can still output or save my document without having to rebuy the font or have any text reflow issues. Vendor Response By Quark Software on January 5, 2026 Thanks for your detailed review Jim! Martin D. Chairman Arts and Crafts, Self-employed Used the software for: 2+ years ** Overall Rating 4.0 ** Ease of Use 3.0 Customer Service 4.0 Features 4.0 Value for Money 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 70% 7/10 Reviewer Source Source: Capterra December 15, 2025 "Indispensable helper for typesetting my music score books" **Overall:** I have stuck to QX ever since I had started using it in 2018. It was not always an easy decision due to the price and me using only fractions of its functionality. But I feel quite attached to it and would hat having to abandon it. **Pros:** I use QX for typesetting books of music scores which I embed as PDF. The software helps me in getting out a consistent layout, automating things (like conditional formats triggered by my own conditions). I really like the way i can organise external resources (like the PDFs) in the fire system and keep them separate from the actual document which is practical for automating management of my projects (avoiding redundancy etc.). **Cons:** For a nonprofessional user the product is rather expensive. Also I really dislike being pressed into a subscription model. Owning a perpetual license currently practically requires a maintenance plan which is substantionally more costly than the subscription model. I think a good remedy would be "editions" (see e.g. Cubase with "Elements", "Artist" and "Pro"), so that for nonprofessional users not yet using QX it could become a realistic options. Vendor Response By Quark Software on January 5, 2026 Thanks for your review Martin! [Read All 201 Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/178598/QuarkXPress/reviews/) ## How should I be thinking about software pricing? 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