Adobe Illustrator Price: Single App vs All Apps (2026)

Adobe Illustrator is sold two ways: as a single-app Creative Cloud plan on its own, or bundled inside the full Creative Cloud All Apps suite. Here’s what it costs each way and which makes sense for you.

Illustrator on its own

A single-app Illustrator subscription gets you just Illustrator — vector graphics, logos and scalable illustrations — without paying for Photoshop, Premiere Pro or the rest of the suite you won’t use. We sell a 12-month Illustrator single-app licence, redeemed on your own Adobe account the same way Adobe’s own subscriptions work.

Illustrator through Creative Cloud All Apps

If you also need Photoshop for photo editing or InDesign for page layout, the full Creative Cloud All Apps 12-month plan is worth comparing — it includes Illustrator plus over 20 other apps, and the price gap versus two single-app plans is often small.

Illustrator vs Photoshop: Illustrator works in vectors (scalable shapes and paths) — the right tool for logos, icons and artwork that needs to resize cleanly. Photoshop works in pixels — the right tool for photos and raster images. If you’re designing a logo, Illustrator is the one you need.

Is there a one-time / lifetime licence for Illustrator?

Not a genuine one. Adobe moved Illustrator to subscription-only pricing when Creative Cloud launched, so any listing offering a permanent, one-off “lifetime” key for current Illustrator is not a real Adobe licence — treat those as a red flag.

System requirements

Windows 10 (64-bit) or macOS Big Sur and later
8GB of RAM (16GB recommended)
2GB of available hard disk space

Who actually needs Illustrator?

If you are designing logos, icons, packaging or anything that needs to scale from a business card to a billboard without going blurry, Illustrator is the right tool. If you mostly work with photos rather than vector shapes, you want Photoshop instead.