Scruff Pricing 2026

Scruff Pricing Analysis

Scruff is free to download and use as of March 2026, with a paid Pro tier at $12.99/month or $69.99/year. The free version is genuinely functional - not artificially crippled - but Pro removes the limits that matter most for serious users. If you're actively dating or cruising rather than passively browsing, Pro is worth it.

Here's the breakdown: Scruff Free gives you profile creation, grid browsing, basic messaging, and access to Scruff Venture (the travel feature). You can send and receive messages without paying, which already puts it ahead of apps that hard-gate messaging behind a paywall. Scruff Pro at $12.99/month adds unlimited profile views, advanced filters (fetish tags, tribes, relationship goals), read receipts, who-viewed-you history, and ad removal. The annual plan at $69.99 works out to $5.83/month - a 55% discount versus monthly. That's one of the steeper annual savings ratios in the gay dating app market. There's no token system, no per-message credits, and no hidden upsells beyond the single Pro tier.

At $12.99/month, Scruff Pro is priced below Grindr Unlimited ($24.99/month) and roughly in line with Hornet's premium tier ($11.99/month). The honest caveat: the advanced filters in Pro are genuinely useful for fetish-specific searching, but if you're in a smaller city, the user pool may not be large enough to justify the filter investment. Real talk - we found that the read receipts feature alone changed how we used the app, eliminating the uncertainty about whether messages were seen. The who-viewed-you history also surfaces profiles you'd never organically encounter through grid browsing.

As our reviewer put it, 'Scruff's annual plan is the most underpriced subscription in gay dating apps - most users pay monthly for years before doing the math.' The $69.99 annual works out to less than $6/month, making it cheaper than a single bar drink per session. Sign up during Pride Month (June) or late January when Scruff has historically run 20-30% promotional discounts. The real value here isn't the ad removal - it's the tribal and fetish filter stack, which is more specific than anything Grindr offers even at twice the price.