# Rive vs Spine

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Rive

| Attribute | Rive | Spine |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 67.6 (42% (low)) | 43.2 (26% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"on_prem":true}` |
| description.long | An end-to-end tool where designers, animators, and developers collaborate to create animated interactive graphics in one editor, then ship the same files directly to web, mobile apps, games, and embedded systems without modification. | A dedicated animation software for game developers to create, rig, and animate 2D characters using skeletal animation techniques. Provides tools for mesh deformation, timing control, inverse kinematics, and character rigging, with runtime libraries available for integration into game engines. |
| integrations.count | 15 | 14 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Framer"},{"name":"Webflow"},{"name":"Wix Studio"},{"name":"Play"},{"name":"Mendix"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"Defold"},{"name":"Unity"},{"name":"Unreal"},{"name":"Google Fonts"},{"name":"Lottie"},{"name":"Flare"}]` | `[{"name":"libgdx"},{"name":"Kryo"},{"name":"KryoNet"},{"name":"Unity"},{"name":"Unreal Engine"},{"name":"Godot"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"Phaser"},{"name":"Pixi"},{"name":"Construct 3"},{"name":"WeChat"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"WebGL"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"android":true,"windows":true}` | `{"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free","features":["3 collaborative files","Unlimited personal files","Agent with limits","Community support","Revision history","Backup file format"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"1","personal_files":"unlimited","collaborative_files":"3","imported_asset_size":"10 MB per asset"}},{"free":false,"name":"Cadet","summary":"$9/seat/month (3 seats max)","features":["Unlimited collaborative files","Unlimited projects","Export .riv files","Agent with limits","Realtime collaboration","Deleted file recovery","Folders and Tags","Rive CDN hosting","Hosted embed links"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"seats_max":"3","collaborative_files":"unlimited","imported_asset_size":"100 MB per asset"}},{"free":false,"name":"Voyager","summary":"$32/seat/month (25 seats max)","features":["Libraries","Embed URL hosting","Agent with advanced models","$20/seat monthly Agent credits","Purchase top-up credits","Bring your own Agent API key","Dedicated Slack support"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":32,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"seats_max":"25"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$120/seat/month ($10M+ annual revenue required)","features":["Subteam workspaces","Custom S3 bucket","$40/seat monthly Agent credits","Org-wide permissions","Rive dedicated support","Dedicated Slack channel with product and support teams","Custom training and onboarding","Custom runtime for proprietary platforms","Centralized billing","SSO","SOC2 Type II compliance"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":120,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $9/seat/month. Free tier available. Flexible per-seat monthly or annual billing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rive.app/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:23:35.130Z","startingPrice":{"amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Spine Essential","summary":"One-time purchase. Includes all future updates.","minSeats":1,"description":"Perpetual license; includes all future updates. Can be upgraded to Professional for the price difference.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Spine Professional","summary":"One-time purchase. Includes all future updates.","minSeats":1,"description":"Perpetual license; includes all future updates. Required if company earnings exceed $500k USD annually.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Spine Enterprise","summary":"Annual subscription. Required for companies earning over $500k USD annually.","commitment":"annual","description":"Annual subscription for teams/companies. Allows use of the editor and integration of Spine Runtimes into any number of products.","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Spine Education","summary":"Educational licensing for institutions.","description":"Provisioned for specific number of computers. Any number of users can use for non-commercial purposes.","contactSales":false},{"free":true,"name":"Spine Trial","summary":"Free trial; read-only.","description":"Free evaluation version for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Cannot save projects; for evaluation only.","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Perpetual licenses for Essential and Professional. Enterprise requires annual renewal. Free trial available. Exact pricing not disclosed on provided pages.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"http://esotericsoftware.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:17:29.017Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Animation Tools)

| Capability | Rive | Spine |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | - | - |
| Skeletal puppet rigging inverse kinematics | - | - |
| Frame by frame cel drawing engine | - | - |
| Json state machine web export lottie rive | - | - |
| Automated audio lip sync matching | - | - |
| Vector brush and bezier manipulation | - | - |
| Bitmap raster layer import and tracing | - | - |
| Javascript actionscript timeline scripting | - | - |
| 3d camera depth and parallax layering | - | - |
| React vue ios android native playback sdks | - | - |
| SOC2 type ii | - | - |
| ISO 27001 | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:43:57.637Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*