Raycast Statistics 2026: Growth, Funding and Market Share

Raycast statistics on company growth and funding start with one number: the company has raised $47.7 million across three announced rounds since 2020. The London-based firm built a keyboard launcher that, by its own account, hundreds of thousands of people on Mac have used daily for more than five years.

The shape of the company changed in late 2025. According to Raycast’s own announcement, Raycast for Windows entered public beta on November 20, 2025, moving the product onto the platform that holds most of the desktop market. Statcounter, Accel, Coatue, Y Combinator, Chapter One and OpenAI all appear in the figures below, which cover every round, every published plan price, the AI credit ladder, extension growth and market share on both sides of that move.

Key Takeaways

• Raycast’s three announced rounds total $47.7 million, running from a $2.7 million seed in October 2020 to a $30 million Series B in September 2024.
• Accel led the seed round and, per the Series A announcement, co-led the $15 million Series A alongside Coatue.
• Statcounter put Windows at 62.67% of worldwide desktop share in August 2026 against macOS at 15.31%, so the Windows beta opened a far larger market than the one Raycast grew up in.
• The AI credit allowance runs from 500 credits a month on Pro to 7,500 on the Max plan, a 15x range across a 5x price range.
• The extension catalog grew from more than 100 community-built extensions at the Series A to thousands in the ecosystem by the Windows beta.
• Raycast shipped that Windows beta on November 20, 2025, with hundreds of its extensions already working out of the thousands in the catalog.

Editor’s Choice

• Total capital raised: $47.7 million across three announced rounds.
• Series B: $30 million, announced September 25, 2024.
• Series A: $15 million, led by Accel and Coatue in November 2021.
• Seed round: $2.7 million, led by Accel in October 2020.
• Windows desktop share: 62.67% worldwide in August 2026.
• Top individual plan: $50 a month for 7,500 AI credits.

Raycast Funding Rounds and Total Capital Raised

• The seed round closed at $2.7 million after nine months of building, announced the same day the public beta opened.
• The Series A reached $15 million, with Accel doubling down on its seed investment and leading alongside Coatue.
• The Series B raised $30 million specifically to bring Raycast to Windows and iOS rather than to extend the macOS product.
• Across all three rounds the disclosed total reaches $47.7 million, and the Series B announcement names no lead investor.

Source: Raycast company blog, 2020 to 2024

By the numbers: Raycast’s three announced rounds total $47.7 million over four years. Nearly three years separated the Series A from the Series B, during which the company shipped on a two-week cadence. A round that size, arriving that late, reads as platform expansion rather than survival.

Raycast Subscription Pricing by Plan

• The entry tier costs $0 a month and carries the core productivity features without AI, including clipboard history, quicklinks, snippets and window management.
• Raycast confirmed that all subscription prices stayed the same through the September 2026 change, which altered metering rather than seat cost.
• Max entered the lineup at $50 per month for heavier usage, sitting above the two tiers that existed before it.

Recent Developments

• September 10, 2026: Raycast moved its AI plans from rate-limited to usage-based pricing and introduced Max at $50 per month.
• September 10, 2026: Pro subscribers can now connect their Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions to use those models inside Raycast.
• July 1, 2026: Glaze opened to everyone after early users built thousands of apps during its private beta.
• May 14, 2026: Raycast shipped a public beta of an app rebuilt from the ground up, with its own file indexer written from scratch in place of Spotlight. How Raycast and Spotlight handle file search now differs at the index level rather than at the interface.
• March 4, 2026: Glaze was introduced in private beta as a second product line alongside the launcher.

Raycast AI Credit Allowances by Plan

• Pro carries 500 credits a month, unchanged at $10, and now includes models that previously required the Advanced AI tier.
• Pro+ carries 3,000 credits at $20 a month, and is the new name for the plan sold as Advanced AI.
• Max carries 7,500 credits at $50 a month, the top allowance Raycast sells.
• Every existing subscriber received a bonus month of AI credits to ease the transition. Anyone running Raycast AI commands on the old rate-limited plans is the group most affected.

Raycast Teams Pricing Per User

• Teams Free costs $0 per user per month and carries the shared-resource caps listed further down.
• Teams Pro includes 500 AI credits per user every month, matching the individual Pro allowance per seat.
• The top team tier reaches $65 per user per month.

Raycast Annual Plan Costs

• Annual Pro is advertised at $8 a month, billed as $96 annually against a $120 list price.
• The pricing page shows a 20% saving for yearly billing across the paid individual tiers.
• Max costs $480 a year, and Enterprise is sold at custom pricing billed annually only.

Raycast Teams Annual Cost Per User

• Teams Pro is listed at $12 per user per month, billed as $144 annually.
• Teams pricing is charged per user per month, with Teams Free listed at $0 per user, so the per-seat price is the only variable in a team’s bill.
• A ten-seat Teams Pro deployment therefore costs $1,440 a year at the listed annual rate.

Teams Free Shared-Resource Limits

• Shared commands are capped at up to 5 on Teams Free, and become unlimited on Teams Pro.
• Shared quicklinks and shared snippets are each capped at up to 30 on the same tier.
• Raycast AI is not included on the Free plan, so the free tier is a sharing layer rather than a trial of the paid product.

Source: Raycast pricing page, September 2026

Desktop Operating System Market Share

• Statcounter recorded Linux at 8.88% and Chrome OS at 1.53% of worldwide desktop share in August 2026, with FreeBSD registering 0%.
• Apple’s two desktop entries together reached 26.91% of worldwide desktop share in the same month.
• Windows share ran at roughly 4.1 times the macOS share. The longer trend behind that ratio sits in the macOS desktop share data.
• These are shares of desktop activity in a reporting period, not counts of installed machines or active users.

Why it matters: Raycast built for five and a half years on macOS, the smaller half of the desktop market. Windows share in August 2026 was roughly 4.1 times the macOS share. The Windows beta therefore changes the company’s addressable market far more than any feature it has ever shipped.

Raycast Extension Ecosystem Growth

• The Store opened with more than 100 community-built extensions in November 2021, alongside early access to team features.
• Early extensions included Figma file search, home automation and GitLab integration, all built by the community rather than by Raycast.
• By November 2025 the catalog held thousands of extensions, of which hundreds already worked on Windows.
• Extensions are built with React and TypeScript against a cross-platform API, so most work on both Mac and Windows out of the box. The comparative Raycast and Alfred feature data runs into the same counting limit.

Source: Raycast company blog, 2021 and 2025

Worth noting: Raycast has never published an extension count as a number. Its own wording moved from a three-digit floor at the Series A to a four-digit description at the Windows beta, which is as precise as the public record gets. Any exact catalog figure quoted elsewhere is an estimate rather than a company disclosure.

Raycast Product and Platform Milestones

• Raycast has shipped on a bi-weekly release cadence since launch, which is how a small team accumulated the feature list below.
• Raycast Pro launched in May 2023 and remains the entry paid tier.
• Raycast for iOS was announced in April 2025, seven months before the Windows beta.
• The ground-up rewrite reached public beta in May 2026, more than five years after the first public release.

Raycast User Base Milestones

• Before the October 2020 public beta, thousands of developers had signed up to the waiting list.
• By the September 2024 Series B, Raycast described itself as powering the work of hundreds of thousands of Mac users worldwide.
• In the months before the November 2025 Windows beta, thousands of testers used the Windows build.
• Every user figure Raycast publishes is a bounded phrase rather than a count, and the wording has not sharpened since 2024.

Source: Raycast company blog, 2020 to 2025

Raycast Investors by Funding Round

• The 2020 seed round drew Y Combinator and Chapter One alongside Accel as lead.
• The 2021 Series A welcomed Koen Bok (CEO, Framer), Karri Saarinen (CEO, Linear) and David Cramer (CEO, Sentry), all leaders of developer or design tools.
• Seed angels also included Charlie Cheever, Calvin French-Owen, Manik Gupta and Zach Holman, a roster weighted toward developer infrastructure.

Source: Raycast company blog, 2020 to 2024

Raycast Free Plan Limits Versus Paid Plans

• The free tier costs $0 and includes thousands of extensions, so the extension platform is not gated behind a subscription.
• Free users get 5 Raycast Notes and 3 months of clipboard history, both unlimited on Pro.
• Quick AI ran free of charge during the Windows public beta, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5 mini, a platform-specific exception rather than a plan feature.
• Anyone weighing the free tier against a paid one usually ends up comparing it with other macOS launchers rather than with Raycast Pro.

Source: Raycast pricing page, September 2026

Is Raycast free to use?

Yes. The free plan costs $0 a month and carries the core features, thousands of extensions and Raycast for iOS, with 5 notes and 3 months of clipboard history. Raycast AI is the feature reserved for paid plans.

Is Raycast Available on Windows?

Raycast for Windows has been in public beta since November 20, 2025. The company had promised the platform at its Series B, when it said Raycast would be available for Windows in 2025 after years of macOS exclusivity.

The port is not a wrapper. Windows has no system-wide index that met Raycast’s standards, so the company built one from scratch. Quick AI ran free of charge during the public beta, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5 mini, though not every Pro feature had reached Windows at launch.

How Many Extensions Does Raycast Have?

Raycast publishes bounded descriptions rather than a count. At the Windows beta the company said it had thousands of extensions in the ecosystem, with hundreds already working on Windows. That is the most precise figure available from the company itself.

The growth rate is easier to state than the total. The Store opened in November 2021 with more than 100 community-built extensions, so the catalog moved from hundreds to four digits over roughly four years. The platform, rather than the launcher, is what the funding bought.

Conclusion

The $47.7 million Raycast has raised bought a keyboard launcher that hundreds of thousands of Mac users rely on, an extension catalog that grew past more than 100 items into the thousands, and a paid tier that now meters AI by credit rather than by rate limit. The company kept its costs in proportion to its ambitions for six years, which is why a comparatively modest Series B was enough to fund two new platforms and a second product.

The open question is whether the catalog travels. Statcounter put Windows at 62.67% of worldwide desktop share in August 2026 against macOS at 15.31%, so the larger market is the one where only hundreds of the thousands of extensions worked at launch. Closing that gap, rather than raising again, is the thing worth watching over the next few releases.