Stellar Data Recovery
Stellar's current Windows lineup runs from a Free edition through Professional and Premium to Technician licensing for professional/corporate/service-provider use, with capability — not just price — genuinely increasing at each step. Pricing and subscription/lifetime choices are promotion-sensitive, so the edition names and capabilities are more durable reference points than a single advertised price.
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Professional
Per Stellar's current product documentation, Professional covers deleted files, formatted or corrupt drives, RAW drives, lost partitions, and recovery from a Windows system that won't boot. It also includes BitLocker recovery with a valid recovery key (native unlock, not password cracking), recovery from optical media, disk imaging/cloning, and support for 4K-sector drives on documented file systems. That's a genuinely wide net for a single-tier consumer product.
Premium
Premium adds corrupt photo repair and corrupt video repair on top of everything Professional does — repairing files that were recovered but are internally damaged, distinct from recovering data that's actually missing. That's the same repair-vs-recovery distinction covered in Recovered Files Won't Open.
Technician
Technician adds RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 6 and lost RAID logical volume recovery on top of Premium's feature set, alongside the commercial/service-provider licensing that's the tier's actual reason to exist. Technician RAID support is not equivalent to a general manual RAID reconstruction environment supporting every nested, vendor-specific or storage-pool layout — it's meaningful array recovery for the price, but an array with unusual geometry, a failed rebuild, or a vendor-specific NAS layout may need one of the dedicated RAID tools elsewhere in this catalog instead.
Free tier
Stellar's free Windows edition currently advertises 1 GB of real recovery, extendable to 2 GB through a social-share unlock. Treat that as a current promotional allowance rather than a fixed product constant — it's exactly the kind of detail that changes without much notice, similar to price.
Prices verified August 2026 directly from the vendor's own site, in USD. Stellar shows frequent discount pricing against a higher "regular" price — the figures below are what's currently charged, not necessarily stable. Confirm on the official site before buying.
Free
FreeA real free tier, not just a scan preview — 1 GB of actual recovery included, extendable to 2 GB by sharing the product on social media.
- Recovery limit1 GB (2 GB via social-share unlock)
- PlatformWindows 64-bit (separate free edition for Mac)
Professional
ConsumerThe main paid individual recovery edition, covering deleted files, lost partitions and recovery from crashed systems without the Free edition's saving cap.
- Recovery limitNone
- LicenseAnnual subscription (a lifetime option also exists)
Premium
ProfessionalPremium builds on the individual recovery edition and is positioned for broader recovery plus damaged photo/video repair. Exact bundled capabilities should be checked against the current platform-specific comparison before purchase.
- AddsPremium recovery feature set plus photo/video repair capabilities
- LicenseAnnual subscription (a lifetime option also exists)
Technician
ProfessionalMarketed explicitly "for Technician / Corporate / Service Provider companies" — the tier actually licensed for recovering data on behalf of clients, installable across multiple devices.
- LicenseCommercial/service-provider use explicitly permitted; multi-device
- Volume pricingAvailable for 5–200+ devices
Stellar also sells Premium and Toolkit editions between Professional and Technician, adding corrupt video/photo repair and additional recovery modules — see the official site for the full lineup.