What does the Hyprland subscription include?

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Hyprland's subscription, branded Hyprperks, is optional. According to the Hyprland site, it includes first-party configurations and priority support, and it exists to support development. The site describes it as "fully optional, but crafted with love." You do not need a subscription to install or use Hyprland itself — the install commands for Arch, NixOS, FreeBSD, and openSUSE are listed publicly on the site with no subscription requirement mentioned.

What the subscription covers

The site lists three benefits under Hyprperks:

  • First-party configurations — configurations made by the Hyprland team.
  • Priority support — a faster support channel than the community options.
  • Supporting development — the subscription funds ongoing work on the project.

The page also frames the offering with three qualities:

Quality What the site says
First-class support "Always working, actively developed, one-click-update"
Easy "Designed to stay out of your way, and let you do your thing."
Beautiful "Customizable, with automatic theming for everything."

Is it required?

No. The site explicitly calls the subscription "fully optional." Everything described on the main page — dynamic tiling, animations, live-reloading config, plugins, socket-based IPC, window groups, special workspaces, touchpad gestures, and global shortcuts — is presented as part of Hyprland itself, not as a subscription feature. The install section shows free package-manager installs across several distributions.

The subscription is best understood as a way to get team-made configurations and priority help while funding the project, not as a license or access gate.

How to see the actual plans

The site links to a pricing page at account.hypr.land/pricing with the text "Subscribe for first-party configurations, priority support." That page is where plan details, pricing, and terms would live. The homepage does not list prices, tiers, or billing periods, so check the account page directly for current figures.

Where to get help without subscribing

If you don't want to subscribe, the site points to community channels instead:

  • Wiki — documentation for setup and configuration.
  • Discord — the community server, described as a place to get help from "Distro Hoppers, Haiku writers, Hydrohomies, and human_(probably)."
  • Awesome Hyprland — a community list of plugins, bindings, and apps.
  • Plugins — official and community extensions, with C++ bindings and IPC for writing your own.

Bottom line

Subscribe if you want team-authored configurations, priority support, and to fund development. Skip it if you're comfortable configuring Hyprland yourself and using the wiki, Discord, and community plugins — the compositor and its features are available without it.