Pick AFFiNE if
people who will stay on Free local + 10 GB Cloud, then buy Pro at $6.75/month when they need 100 GB and 10 members — or Believer $499.99 once for lifetime Pro + 1 TB.
Read the AFFiNE pageAFFiNE vs Windmill
Our take
Pick AFFiNE if people who will stay on Free local + 10 GB Cloud, then buy Pro at $6.75/month when they need 100 GB and 10 members — or Believer $499.99 once for lifetime Pro + 1 TB. Pick Windmill if platform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
Best for
AFFiNE Notes and an infinite canvas you can self-host
Windmill Scripts → endpoints / workflows / UIs you can self-host
Free plan
AFFiNE $0 · unlimited local workspaces and Edgeless. Cloud: 10 GB, 10 MB max file, 3 members, 7-day Time Machine, 3 login devices. No time limit
Windmill $0 · /month. Unlimited executions. 3 workspaces. Max 50 users. 10 SSO users. 4 groups. 10 GiB object storage. 100 email triggers/day. 100 app guests / 30 days. Discord support
Lowest paid
AFFiNE Pro $6.75/mo
Windmill Enterprise Edition $20/mo
Next step up
AFFiNE AFFiNE AI $8.9/mo
Windmill Compute units $100/mo
Runs where
AFFiNE Local; you host it
Windmill Local; you host it
Watch out
AFFiNE Free Cloud is 10 GB and 3 members
Windmill Community caps SSO at 10 and workspaces at 3
Last checked
AFFiNE 2026-10-22 · affine.pro/pricing
Windmill 2026-10-22 · windmill.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Windmill if
platform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
Read the Windmill page