Omeka S
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Plans and prices
From Omeka S's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Omeka S software | Free | open-source software · self-hosted installation |
| Small support plan | $1,250 a year | 5 support hours per month · ticketing · email and phone support · $1,250 annual cost |
| Medium support plan | $2,500 a year | 10 support hours per month · ticketing · email and phone support · $2,500 annual cost |
| Omeka S managed hosting — 100GB | $3,000 a year | 100GB · isolated server · daily backups and snapshot · $3,000 annually |
| Omeka S managed hosting — 500GB | $4,500 a year | 500GB · isolated server · daily backups and snapshot · $4,500 annually |
| Large support plan | $5,000 a year | 20 support hours per month · ticketing · email and phone support · $5,000 annual cost |
| Omeka S managed hosting — 1TB | $6,000 a year | 1TB · isolated server · daily backups and snapshot · $6,000 annually |
| Omeka S managed hosting — 5TB | $10,500 a year | 5TB · isolated server · daily backups and snapshot · $10,500 annually |
The facts
Each one read from Omeka S's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The software is intended for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Community and sandbox
- The Omeka S sandbox includes sample items, item sets, resource templates, sites, modules, and themes, and its content is reset four times a week.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Extensions
- Modules can extend sites to map, collect, import, and connect resources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hosting safeguards
- Managed hosting instances are backed up daily and receive a daily snapshot retained in case of drive failure.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Omeka S provides importers and connectors for integration with scholarly communications and preservation repositories.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Interoperability
- Core software includes RDF vocabularies, and users can import other linked open data vocabularies.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The Corporation for Digital Scholarship distributes Omeka source code under the GNU General Public License version 3.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Linked data
- Omeka S uses JSON-LD as its native data format and gives each item, item set, and media resource a URI.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Managed hosting
- Omeka hosting clients have direct server access and can install third-party addons and custom themes; hosted installations receive core software upgrades from the Omeka Team.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Multi-site management
- A single installation can create and manage many sites.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Omeka S is a web publishing platform for institutions connecting digital cultural heritage collections with online resources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Support
- Paid support plans include a ticketing service, an initial response within 24 hours to begin scheduling follow-up, and email and phone support for configuration, setup, and troubleshooting.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support exclusions
- Support plans do not include custom programming, design, or data migration services.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Themes
- Each Omeka S site can use a different fully responsive theme.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Vienna, Virginia, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 21 Sep 2026
- Technical platform
- Omeka S is a LAMP application requiring Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.checked 11 Oct 2026
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