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Alternatives to Atlas.co
22 maps tools sit alongside Atlas.co in this directory. Below is what separates each from Atlas.co on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 11
- Cheaper to start
- 1
- Atlas.co starts at
- Free, then $23/month
Why people look past Atlas.co
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Atlas.co entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
Cost climbs steeply across the tiers
Atlas.co publishes 4 tiers, from Free up to On request. Teams that outgrow the entry plan can find the next rung a large step, the Atlas.co pricing page breaks each one down.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
QGIS
Free, open-source desktop GIS application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of
- Sold on a freemium model rather than Per user per month.
Location Intelligence Platform
- No free tier, where Atlas.co has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Per user per month.
Geographic Information System Platform
- No free tier, where Atlas.co has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Per user per month.
Serverless Python for geospatial: write a UDF, get a map tile endpoint and an HTTP API
- Starts $3 a month cheaper, at $20/month.
- Sold on a Per month by compute tier model rather than Per user per month.
Long-running open source geospatial analysis engine for raster, vector and terrain processing
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per user per month.
- 1 tier to Atlas.co's 4.
Hosted 3D geospatial tiling and streaming, metered by storage, streaming and gigapixels
- Starts $126 a month dearer, at $149/month.
- Sold on a Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels model rather than Per user per month.
Every Atlas.co alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas.co (this page) | Free, then $23/month | Per user per month | 4 | |
| QGISFree, far deeper analytically, but desktop-bound and with no collaboration layer | Free | Freemium | - | vs Atlas.co |
| CARTOA more mature cloud spatial platform for teams that need warehouse-scale analysis | On request | Quote | 4 | vs Atlas.co |
| Esri ArcGISIf governance, depth and an enterprise vendor relationship matter more than price and speed | On request | Quote | - | vs Atlas.co |
| Fused | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute tier | 4 | vs Atlas.co |
| GRASS GIS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Atlas.co |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | 4 | vs Atlas.co |
| Google Maps | Free | Free consumer app, funded by Google's advertising business | 1 | vs Atlas.co |
| Felt | Free | Quote | 3 | vs Atlas.co |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Atlas.co |
| Emlid Studio | Free | Free of charge, no licence fee | 1 | vs Atlas.co |
| Lonboard | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Atlas.co |
| SAGA GIS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Atlas.co |
| Ride with GPS | Free | Freemium, per user per month | 3 | vs Atlas.co |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | 3 | vs Atlas.co |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Atlas.co |
| Correlator3D | $295/month | One-time purchase | 5 | vs Atlas.co |
| Leica Infinity | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Atlas.co |
| Global Mapper | $700/one-time | One-time purchase | 4 | vs Atlas.co |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | 4 | vs Atlas.co |
| Geographic Calculator | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Atlas.co |
| Agisoft Metashape | $179/one-time | One-time purchase | 3 | vs Atlas.co |
| ArcGIS Field Maps | On request | Included with an ArcGIS user type licence | 3 | vs Atlas.co |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Atlas.co badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (11)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- QGIS , Free
- Fused , Free, then $20/month
- GRASS GIS , Free
- Cesium ion , Free, then $149/month
- Google Maps , Free
- Felt , Free
- Potree , Free
- Emlid Studio , Free
Cheaper than Atlas.co (1)
Entry price under Atlas.co's $23/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Fused , Free, then $20/month
What you would be giving up
Atlas.co is most often brought in for a renewables developer screening sites against constraint layers who needs an answer this afternoon and has no gis analyst available, a planning or property team that mainly needs colleagues to view and comment on maps, where $7 viewer seats replace expensive read-only gis licences, a consultancy producing client-facing maps and embeds without maintaining desktop gis installs across a distributed team, an analyst with an address spreadsheet who needs geocoding, buffering and a shareable map without learning a desktop gis. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Atlas.co is broadly right and the question is cost, the Atlas.co pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Maps category lists everything the directory holds, and best maps tools ranks them.
Atlas.co runs on web. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Atlas.co alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Atlas.co?
- 22 other maps tools are listed in this directory, led by QGIS, CARTO, Esri ArcGIS, Fused. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Atlas.co?
- 11 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: QGIS, Fused, GRASS GIS, Cesium ion, Google Maps.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Atlas.co?
- Yes. 1 of the alternatives below start under Atlas.co's $23/month: Fused at Free, then $20/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Atlas.co?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: cost climbs steeply across the tiers. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Atlas.co?
- Atlas.co is most often brought in for a renewables developer screening sites against constraint layers who needs an answer this afternoon and has no gis analyst available, a planning or property team that mainly needs colleagues to view and comment on maps, where $7 viewer seats replace expensive read-only gis licences, a consultancy producing client-facing maps and embeds without maintaining desktop gis installs across a distributed team, an analyst with an address spreadsheet who needs geocoding, buffering and a shareable map without learning a desktop gis. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Atlas.co?
- None of the maps tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Atlas.co alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Maps, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Atlas.co against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Atlas.co covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every maps tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Maps category, 22 tools beside Atlas.co. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.