Sharing Canva Pro: €3.00 on GamsGo against €110 a year – and why it is an education account

In short: Shared Canva access on GamsGo costs €3.00 a month on the annual plan; Canva Pro officially costs €110 a year (€9.17 a month). Sounds like an open-and-shut case – it is not: GamsGo sells not a Pro plan but a seat in an education account. That is a different product with different rules and a much higher risk of suspension. Anyone who uses Canva seriously is better off with Pro or the free version.

Prices below are for Germany, where GamsGo bills in euros. Canva pricing differs by country – check your own market before comparing.

What Canva costs in 2026

Canva sells Pro expressly for a single person; for several users there is Business. The prices:

Plan per year per month People Includes
Canva Free €0 €0 1 1 million+ templates, 5 GB storage, core tools
Canva Pro €110 €9.17 1 100 GB storage, 5 brand kits, background remover, Magic Resize, AI tools, 141 million premium assets
Canva Business €170 per person €14.17 from 1 as Pro, plus team management, shared folders, approvals
Canva for Education €0 €0 classes Pro features for verified teachers and schools

On the monthly plan Pro is dearer than on the annual plan; Canva shows the exact figure per account.

What GamsGo charges for Canva – and what you get

GamsGo lists the offer as “Education (shared)”. You receive the credentials of an account that is a member of a Canva for Education team. Pro features are included there; Canva provides them to schools free of charge. The terms:

Term Total per month
1 month €3.99 €3.99
12 months €35.99 €3.00

According to GamsGo the access runs on PC and Mac; the mobile apps are not mentioned.

Why the education account is the catch

Canva grants education accounts free of charge to verified teachers and schools. A seat in such a team is not meant for resale, and Canva re-verifies education accounts regularly. If the team is caught, every member loses access at the same time – along with every design stored there. With Adobe or Microsoft, GamsGo sells seats in regularly paid plans; here it is an account that really belongs to a school. GamsGo does replace failed access for the remaining term, but that does not bring your designs back.

The arithmetic side by side

Route per month per year risk
Canva Business, 1 person €14.17 €170 none
Canva Pro, annual €9.17 €110 none
Shared education account on GamsGo €3.00 €35.99 high, see above
Canva Free €0 €0 none, but without Pro tools

€74 a year saved against Pro – that is a lot. But unlike music or series, with Canva your work lives inside the account. A suspended account costs you not just access but your files.

Which route fits

  • You occasionally design posts, invitations, presentations? Canva Free is enough. The background remover and Magic Resize are missing; everything else is there.
  • You work for clients or your own business? Pro at €110 a year. Your designs are yours, brand kits included, no suspension risk.
  • You need Pro tools for a single project? One month of GamsGo at €3.99 – export the designs as PDF and PNG at the end, and the potential loss is manageable.
  • You are a teacher or student? Apply for Canva for Education officially, free and legitimate.

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What you accept with a shared account

  • Someone else’s account, someone else’s designs. Every team member sees designs stored in team folders. Confidential client drafts have no place there.
  • Education labelling. The account is run as a school account; some functions such as selling through Canva Print or brand approvals are restricted.
  • No entitlement to tools. Canva can change the feature set of education accounts at any time, independently of GamsGo.
  • Terms of use. Education accounts are reserved for teaching. A breach leads to suspension; it is not a criminal matter.

Frequently asked questions

Do I get all Pro features with the education account?
Largely: background remover, Magic Resize, premium templates and the AI tools are included. Quotas for AI features may differ.

Can I take my designs with me when access ends?
Only as exports. Editable Canva files cannot be moved to another account, except via a share link while the account is alive.

Isn’t Canva Pro available at a discount?
Canva gives Pro free to non-profits and to students through their universities. Everyone else pays list price; promotions usually appear towards the end of the year.

What about Canva Teams?
The old plan is now called Business and costs €170 per person per year. Sharing is built in there, but every person pays.

Other software and platforms

With Adobe Creative Cloud the price gap is larger and the seat is part of a paid plan; with Microsoft 365 the official Family plan beats the platform. Spliiit, Sharesub, GoSplit and CooSub work in a similar way to GamsGo. All services with prices are in our GamsGo overview.

Our verdict: Canva is the service where we advise against the shared seat as soon as real work depends on it. The education account is cheap but not meant for resale, and the designs disappear with the account. Fine for a single month followed by an export – for everything else, Canva Free or Pro.

Erstellt am: 15. September 2026