Narrative Select Pricing and Discount Options

Plans and prices

Narrative's pricing page lists four tiers with no per-photo or per-project cap; the limits are users and personal-preset counts. Prices as of 8 November 2026, US dollars:

What each tier adds

The real price of Narrative is the tier that contains the features you need, and for most wedding work that is Standard or above. Narrative's help article on the plans and its pricing page agree on the ladder:

The help article clarifies a point the pricing page leaves loose: Lite's eye and focus checks are the hover-only kind, and the full assessments start at Standard. Lite's $10 is therefore not the price of the full culling set. Colour and black-and-white personal presets are counted separately, and the article says presets retrain after 1,000 corrections on Premium and 250 on Ultra, which matters if your style changes often.

Two limits apply at every tier. Narrative offers no retouching in the pages read, so skin work needs a separate tool. And per its personal presets page, Photoshop and Capture One receive photos without AI Preset edits, so a Capture One studio pays for preset tiers it cannot fully use. If you finish in Capture One, Lite or Standard is the honest ceiling.

Yearly or monthly billing

Yearly billing pays for itself after about eight or nine months of use, and a wedding photographer's calendar decides whether you reach that. The yearly saving Narrative states is $60 on Lite, $108 on Standard and $228 on both Premium and Ultra. Arithmetic on the prices above, not a measurement:

Example: a photographer who culls only in a six-month season pays $174 for six months of Standard billed monthly, against $240 billed yearly and $168 under the November offer below. Monthly wins over regular yearly pricing, but the November price beats both if the offer applies to you. Narrative says you can change or cancel anytime. What happens to your projects and personal presets after cancelling is not found in sources reviewed, so check before you plan to stop and restart. The help article says only that photos are not deleted at the end of a trial and stay on your computer or drive.

If two or more people need it

For a two-person studio, Premium may cost the same as two Standard accounts and include more, depending on how Narrative counts people. Its help article lists 1, 1, 2 and 4 devices signed in at once on the four tiers, while its pricing page says Premium covers two users and Ultra four, so ask whether two people can work under one plan before relying on this. As arithmetic only: two Standard accounts billed yearly cost $480, the same as one Premium at $480, which also adds personal presets and straightening, and Ultra works out at $15 per person per month billed yearly if four people share it. No page read says extra seats can be bought, so a five-person team should ask Narrative directly.

Is there a Narrative Select discount code?

Neither offer on Narrative's own pages shows a code as of 8 November 2026. Two offers appear there, and they do not agree. The Black Friday 2026 page says "30% off. All November." for a 12-month lock-in, with yearly-billed prices of Standard $14, Premium $28 and Ultra $42 a month (that is $168, $336 and $504 a year). It lists Lite at $10, the same as the regular yearly price, so Lite gains nothing. It gives no exact start or end date beyond "all November", no discount code (checkout links carry a bf26 parameter that appears to be for tracking, though the page does not say), and says every plan has a 14-day money-back guarantee. Whether the offer applies to monthly billing is not stated.

The Select discount code page says "Start with 15% off your first yearly subscription", valid once per customer account, with first-year prices of Lite $8.50, Standard $17, Premium $34 and Ultra $51 a month. It shows no code and no end date, and its banner repeats the 30% line. Which one applies, and whether they combine, is conflicting sources: if both are live, the 30% November price is lower for Standard, Premium and Ultra, so check the checkout total before assuming either. No other Narrative code was found on Narrative's own pages in sources reviewed. The wider list of offers is on photo software Black Friday deals.

Example: cost at 10, 25 and 45 weddings

Narrative has no frame cap, so annual cost is fixed and cost per 1,000 frames falls with volume. Arithmetic on the cited prices, not a measurement, at a hypothetical 3,000 RAW frames per wedding (30,000, 75,000 and 135,000 frames):

For culling alone, the comparable Aftershoot plan is cheaper: Aftershoot's pricing post, updated 5 November 2026 and saying it checked the pricing page in October, lists Select at $10 a month billed annually, against Narrative Standard at $20 for the full culling set. Features differ, so see Aftershoot vs Narrative Select.

For culling and editing together, Aftershoot Complete is $540 a year and Imagen Limitless is $1,980 a year billed monthly (its $1,548 annual listing is caveated there: annual plans are not available to new self-serve subscribers per Imagen's pricing page, yet its Black Friday page advertises an annual discount), both flat at these volumes.

Trial, exit terms and training

Narrative says every new account starts with a full free trial of Ultra with no credit card. The trial's length is conflicting sources: the help article says 30 days, the pricing page gives no length, and a plan-history tracker records the 30-day wording being dropped in April 2026. When the trial ends you choose a paid plan to keep using the app, and Narrative's free plan has been retired, so there is no free tier to fall back to. Use the trial on Ultra's full feature set, but judge it against the tier you would actually buy. The help article also warns that long-standing customers or those with a discount may pay something different from the listed prices. The pricing page says "Change or cancel anytime"; other refund and downgrade terms: not found in sources reviewed, apart from the 14-day guarantee on the November offer. If you want a personal preset, Narrative's personal presets page says it needs at least 1,500 consistently edited images, which Narrative finds by scanning your Lightroom catalogs; see training a profile from a catalog. Its Select page says culling runs on your computer, that training a personal preset uploads the edited images and edit data, and that sharing image previews to improve Narrative is optional and off by default; the presets page says only that training needs a connection.

Which tier to pick

Pick by the job, starting from the lowest tier that does it:

You want a faster manual cull and will judge every frame yourself

Lite.

You want AI to do the first pass and show close-ups of faces

Standard, the lowest tier listing First Pass, Close-ups Panel and Scenes View. This also includes Narrative's own presets.

You want an AI style trained on your edits, and you have the 1,500 edited images it needs

Premium.

You run several styles or a small team

Ultra, once you have confirmed you would use the extra presets or seats.

You finish in Capture One

do not pay for personal presets on the strength of editing features that do not reach it. See the Narrative Select review, Aftershoot vs Narrative Select and Narrative vs FilterPixel for the feature side, and the cost per 1,000 images calculator for your own volume.