Adobe's North American Creative Cloud subscription is getting more expensive... and cheaper

Logo: Adobe Adobe is shaking up its Creative Cloud subscription tiers in North America, doing away with the current All Apps plan and introducing two tiers in its place: a 'Standard' plan, which will cost less, and a 'Pro' plan, which will cost more. To set the stage, the current All Apps plan, which will be available until June 17th, costs $59.99 a month if you have an annual plan. As the name implies, it includes access to pretty much every Creative Cloud app, as well as 100GB of cloud storage and 1000 generative AI credits per month. The main differentiation between the new plans is – what else – AI. Until now, Adobe's been playing things a little loose with features like Generative Fill in Photoshop and the ability to extend videos and audio in Premiere; you could use them without thinking too much about it. Now, they're getting segmented. There are "Standard" features like Generative Fill and text to vector, and "Premium" ones like generating video or audio with Adobe Firefly, using third-party models, or extending video in Premiere. The new Creative Cloud Standard plan will give you 25 Standard credits a month; each use of a Standard feature costs one credit. With Creative Cloud Pro, you get unlimited use of standard AI features plus 4000 Premium credits. That may seem like a lot, but it's not one-credit-per-use like Standard features; for example, it costs 100 credits to generate a second of 1080p, 24fps video, 20 credits to generate an image using the company's Image Model 4 Ultra and five credits per second of audio translation. Price per month (Annual) Month-to-month price Annual Price Web apps Cloud Storage AI features Current Creative Cloud All Apps $59.99Education: $19.99 first year, $34.99 after $89.99 $659.88 Yes 100GB (Upgradeable) 1000 credits for standard features / month Creative Cloud Standard $54.99No education options $82.49 $599.88 Free features only 100GB 25 credits for standard features / month Creative Cloud Pro $69.99Education: $29.99 first year, $39.99 after $104.99 $779.99 Yes 100GB (Upgradeable) Unlimited use for standard features4000 Premium credits / month Beyond AI, the major difference between the plans is access to web apps. Both plans include full access to desktop apps and Acrobat on mobile and web, but with Standard you're limited to the free features for the mobile and web versions of Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, Express and Fresco. If you're currently using the All Apps plan and have an annual subscription to it, you'll automatically have the benefits of the Pro plan without the subsequent price increase until your next monthly or annual renewal date. So, for example, if you renew your annual plan on June 1st, 2025, you'll essentially have the Pro plan at the old price until June 1st, 2026. If you sign up on June 18th, 2025, however, you'll have to pick from the Standard and Pro plans. Currently, you can only choose to renew with the Standard plan by contacting Adobe support, but the company says a self-service option is coming within the next few days. For those on the Photography plans, there won't be any changes For those on the Photography plans, there won't be any changes, though after June, 17th, new subscribers will get fewer monthly generative AI credits. Adobe updated the pricing for those plans in December, so it would've been surprising to see another change so soon after. If you're outside North America, there will be a few changes to Creative Cloud plans. The company says that new subscribers to its Photography plans, single app plans, and Lightroom Mobile Premium, Photoshop Express and Illustrator on iPad subscriptions, will receive fewer monthly generative AI credits. Creative Cloud for teams Pro edition is also being rebranded as Creative Cloud Pro Plus for teams. Apart from that, "there will be no plan, naming, or pricing changes for all other existing subscribers outside of North America at this time," according to an Adobe support document.

May 20, 2025 - 20:32

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Adobe is shaking up its Creative Cloud subscription tiers in North America, doing away with the current All Apps plan and introducing two tiers in its place: a 'Standard' plan, which will cost less, and a 'Pro' plan, which will cost more.

To set the stage, the current All Apps plan, which will be available until June 17th, costs $59.99 a month if you have an annual plan. As the name implies, it includes access to pretty much every Creative Cloud app, as well as 100GB of cloud storage and 1000 generative AI credits per month.

The main differentiation between the new plans is – what else – AI. Until now, Adobe's been playing things a little loose with features like Generative Fill in Photoshop and the ability to extend videos and audio in Premiere; you could use them without thinking too much about it. Now, they're getting segmented. There are "Standard" features like Generative Fill and text to vector, and "Premium" ones like generating video or audio with Adobe Firefly, using third-party models, or extending video in Premiere.

The new Creative Cloud Standard plan will give you 25 Standard credits a month; each use of a Standard feature costs one credit. With Creative Cloud Pro, you get unlimited use of standard AI features plus 4000 Premium credits. That may seem like a lot, but it's not one-credit-per-use like Standard features; for example, it costs 100 credits to generate a second of 1080p, 24fps video, 20 credits to generate an image using the company's Image Model 4 Ultra and five credits per second of audio translation.

	Price per month (Annual)	Month-to-month price	Annual Price	Web apps	Cloud Storage	AI features
Current Creative Cloud All Apps	$59.99 Education: $19.99 first year, $34.99 after	$89.99	$659.88	Yes	100GB (Upgradeable)	1000 credits for standard features / month
Creative Cloud Standard	$54.99 No education options	$82.49	$599.88	Free features only	100GB	25 credits for standard features / month
Creative Cloud Pro	$69.99 Education: $29.99 first year, $39.99 after	$104.99	$779.99	Yes	100GB (Upgradeable)	Unlimited use for standard features 4000 Premium credits / month

Beyond AI, the major difference between the plans is access to web apps. Both plans include full access to desktop apps and Acrobat on mobile and web, but with Standard you're limited to the free features for the mobile and web versions of Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, Express and Fresco.

If you're currently using the All Apps plan and have an annual subscription to it, you'll automatically have the benefits of the Pro plan without the subsequent price increase until your next monthly or annual renewal date. So, for example, if you renew your annual plan on June 1st, 2025, you'll essentially have the Pro plan at the old price until June 1st, 2026. If you sign up on June 18th, 2025, however, you'll have to pick from the Standard and Pro plans.

Currently, you can only choose to renew with the Standard plan by contacting Adobe support, but the company says a self-service option is coming within the next few days.

For those on the Photography plans, there won't be any changes

For those on the Photography plans, there won't be any changes, though after June, 17th, new subscribers will get fewer monthly generative AI credits. Adobe updated the pricing for those plans in December, so it would've been surprising to see another change so soon after.

If you're outside North America, there will be a few changes to Creative Cloud plans. The company says that new subscribers to its Photography plans, single app plans, and Lightroom Mobile Premium, Photoshop Express and Illustrator on iPad subscriptions, will receive fewer monthly generative AI credits. Creative Cloud for teams Pro edition is also being rebranded as Creative Cloud Pro Plus for teams.

Apart from that, "there will be no plan, naming, or pricing changes for all other existing subscribers outside of North America at this time," according to an Adobe support document.