Craft vs Roam Research

Side-by-side comparison of Craft and Roam Research: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Craft Your space for notes, tasks, and big ideas — beautifully organized Visit	Roam Research A note taking tool for networked thought — connect ideas like your brain does Visit
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing	Freemium	Paid
Starting price	USD 4.8/mo	USD 15/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider
Founded	2020	2020
Headquarters		San Francisco, USA
Key strengths	·Beautifully designed, award-winning UI across all Apple and major platforms ·All-in-one workspace combining notes, tasks, calendar, and whiteboards ·MCP connections enabling integration with AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Windsurf ·Flexible organization via spaces, folders, tags, and rich collections/databases	·Bi-directional linking between notes and ideas ·Graph-based knowledge visualization ·Daily notes workflow for building a personal knowledge base ·Block-level references and transclusion