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freemium

/ˈfɹiː.miː.əm/

freemium adjective: offering basic services for free while charging a premium for advanced or special features.

Adjective

freemium (not comparable)

  1. Offering basic services for free while charging a premium for advanced or special features.
    • When framing a business model within the consumer Internet space, we may hear about advertising-supported, freemium, subscription, or a hybrid model.2008, Darren Herman, Coloring Outside the Lines
    • Regarding premium services, both the "freemium" model (free basic service with a premium service offered on a subscription basis) and the free trial model...2008, Scott Allen, The Emergence of the Relationship Economy

Noun

freemium (countable and uncountable, plural freemiums)

  1. (countable) A product that is offered free of charge and supported by sales of a premium version.
    • Most consumer-level cloud offerings would be labeled a freemium, which is a free version that is supported by a paid, premium version.2010, Khaled Elleithy, Tarek Sobh, Magued Iskander, Technological Developments in Networking, Education, and Automation, →ISBN, page 3
  2. (uncountable) A business model that relies on offering a free version and charging for a premium version.
    • So the only thing left would be using freemium as a means of gaining trial, with the potential to up-sell to a paid subscription.2015, Robbie Kellman Baxter, The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue, →ISBN, page 86
    Synonyms:
    freeconomics

freemium meaning in Tamil and Arabic

freemium in Tamil

அடிப்படை இலவயப் பயன்பாடு

freemium in Arabic

Translations
فريميوم

Synonyms of freemium

Forms of freemium

pluralfreemiums

Origin of freemium

Blend of free + premium.

Questions about freemium

What does freemium mean?
Freemium means offering basic services for free while charging a premium for advanced or special features.
What is freemium in Tamil?
Freemium in Tamil is அடிப்படை இலவயப் பயன்பாடு. See Freemium meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is freemium?
Freemium can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce freemium?
Freemium is pronounced /ˈfɹiː.miː.əm/.

Words near freemium in the dictionary

  1. freemen
  2. freemen on the land
  3. freeminer
  4. freeminers
  5. freemining
  6. freemium
  7. freemiums
  8. freemix
  9. Freemon
  10. Freemons
  11. Freemount

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Adapted from Wiktionary: freemium (page history and authors); freemium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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