Xibo pricing per display, Xibo Cloud plans and what self-hosting really costs

Every figure below was read from Xibo's own pricing page in October 2026, where prices are published in US dollars per display per month.

Xibo also lists storage and bandwidth per plan: 1 GB storage and 4 GB bandwidth on Professional, rising to 1.5 and 6 GB on Business and 2 and 8 GB on Enterprise. A network that plays long video loops should check those limits before picking the cheapest tier.

On Xibo Cloud the players are included, so the table below only matters if you host the CMS yourself. Each license is perpetual, bought once per display.

The Tizen and webOS price is the one that surprises people. Running Xibo directly on a Samsung or LG commercial display saves buying a media player, but the license is three times the Android one.

One year of software on each Cloud plan, before tax and hardware. Players are included in these figures.

Self-hosted, the same 25 displays on Samsung Tizen are 2,125 USD in player licenses once, or 700 USD on Android devices, and then nothing per month for the software. That is cheaper from year two onward, provided the server costs you nothing, which it does not.

The free CMS is the reason Xibo shows up on so many shortlists, and it is a real option for a team that already runs Linux servers. The CMS ships as Docker containers, so somebody sizes a server, installs it, keeps the database backed up and applies every release. A team without that skill in house usually ends up paying a contractor or using a server provisioning and deployment tool to keep the box patched and the upgrades repeatable.

Then there is reachability. Every display, in every location, has to reach that server, which usually means a public address, a certificate and a firewall rule somebody owns. Support is community forums unless you buy help desk through purchased licenses. None of that appears on the pricing page, and for a 25 display network it can easily outweigh the 1,470 USD a year Xibo Cloud would have cost. Xibo lists a migrate to Cloud path on every plan for teams that change their mind.

Twenty five displays for one year, software only, on each vendor's yearly or published monthly rate.

Read honestly, Xibo is the price leader here, and Xibo Business is the cheapest published route to SAML single sign-on we have found, at 7.70 USD. If your priority is the lowest cost per display and your team is comfortable building layouts in a fairly technical editor, Xibo is a good buy.

Reviews on the big software directories describe Xibo as powerful and cheap, and several mention a learning curve. Layouts, regions, widgets and display profiles give a lot of control, and they also mean the person updating the café menu needs some training. Proof of play is a report of what the player logged, held for 62 or 124 days depending on the plan.

That is where Displayer is a different product rather than a cheaper one. It costs more than Xibo, from 9 USD a screen a month on the yearly rate with three screens minimum. In return the editor is built for people who are not signage specialists, team members are free on every plan, the player opens in the display's own browser with no app to install on any brand, and proof of play on Professional stores timestamped screenshots of what each screen actually showed. When a franchisor or an advertiser asks what was on the Denver screen last Thursday, the answer is a picture. If you are moving off Samsung's own platform rather than choosing between cloud vendors, our Samsung MagicINFO alternative page compares Xibo, VXT, Yodeck and Displayer on Samsung displays.

Xibo Cloud costs 4.90 USD per display a month on Professional, 7.70 USD on Business and 12.60 USD on Enterprise, with every player included. Self-hosted, the CMS is free and commercial players are perpetual licenses at 28 USD for Android, 49 USD for ChromeOS and 85 USD for webOS or Tizen.

The Xibo CMS is open source under AGPLv3 and free to self-host, and the Windows player is free too. Android, ChromeOS, webOS and Tizen players need a paid perpetual license, and you pay for the server, its upkeep and your own time. Xibo Cloud is a paid subscription per display.

No. Xibo's Cloud plans include the Android, Windows, webOS, Tizen and ChromeOS players in the per display price. Separate perpetual player licenses only apply when you host the CMS on your own server.

Yes. Xibo records proof of play statistics on every Cloud plan, kept for 62 days on Professional and Business and 124 days on Enterprise. It is a log of what the player reported playing. Platforms that store screenshots of the rendered screen give visual evidence instead.

Yes, on Xibo Cloud Business at 7.70 USD per display a month and on Enterprise. Professional does not include SAML. Self-hosted, SSO depends on how you configure your own CMS installation.

Yes, at list price. Xibo Cloud Professional is 4.90 USD per display a month against Yodeck Basic at 8 USD, and Xibo Business with SAML at 7.70 USD is below Yodeck Premium at 12 USD. Yodeck includes a player in the box on its annual plan, which Xibo Cloud covers through its included player apps instead.

It depends on what pushes you away. For an easier editor and visual proof, Displayer Professional at 14 USD a screen a month yearly stores screenshots. For the lowest price with a player shipped, Yodeck. For a large app and template library, OptiSigns. Each costs more per display than Xibo Cloud Professional.

Pair three screens you already own, run your real schedule for a week, and compare the editor and the screenshot record with what Xibo gives you.