acQuire GIM Suite
Geoscientific information management platform
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Category
The best Mining software
Mining & Resources software and applications
- Tools listed
- 49
All 49 mining tools
Every listing shows its published starting price on the same footing, so a shortlist does not take ten tabs.
What mining software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 49 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $164.25Leapfrog Geo
- Median entry price
- $14,000across 45 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $50,000Trimble Mining
- Publish a $0 plan
- 3of 49
Paid mining plans in this set start anywhere from $164.25 a month for Leapfrog Geo to $50,000 for Trimble Mining. The median entry price across the 45 tools that publish one is $14,000, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is OptiMine's at $75,000 a month, 1.5× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
3 of 49 publish a $0 plan, and every one of those also sells a paid tier above it. 42 tools have no free tier of any kind.
3 of 49 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 49 mining listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 46
- quote
- 1
Separately, 3 of 49 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 47 mining tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Advanced optimization , 7 of 47
- Geological modeling , 7 of 47
- Mine design , 7 of 47
- Priority support , 7 of 47
- Block modeling , 6 of 47
Named by fewer
- Production scheduling , 6 of 47
- Reporting , 6 of 47
- Resource estimation , 6 of 47
- Advanced analytics , 4 of 47
- Compliance tracking , 4 of 47
Named by exactly one vendor: Activity-based scheduling, Block-to-block interaction, Drone mapping, Joint modeling, Pit wall analysis, Slope stability analysis. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Mining” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 49 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- mining software15
- mine planning13
- resource estimation9
- geological modeling8
- 3d-modeling5
- data-management4
- geovia4
- mine design4
- mining engineering4
- scheduling4
- strategic planning4
- underground mining4
Carried by a single tool: 3d laser scanning, data-analysis, exploration management, gnss positioning, jorc, mine optimization, operations, resource optimization. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
3 of 49 mining tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with advanced optimization, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$164.25 to $50,000 is a $49,835.75 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $50,000 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
9 of 49 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, advanced optimization, geological modeling, mine design, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 2 billing models: subscription on 46 listings, quote on 1, and nothing else. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Compare mining tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- acQuire GIM Suite vs Carlson Mining
- Carlson Mining vs Caterpillar MineStar
- Caterpillar MineStar vs Cority EHS
- Cority EHS vs Dassault Systemes GEOVIA
- Dassault Systemes GEOVIA vs Datamine
- Datamine vs Deswik Suite
- Deswik Suite vs Enablon EHS
- Enablon EHS vs Envirosuite
Go straight to the numbers
- acQuire GIM Suitepricingalternatives
- Carlson Miningpricingalternatives
- Caterpillar MineStarpricingalternatives
- Cority EHSpricingalternatives
- Dassault Systemes GEOVIApricingalternatives
- Dataminepricingalternatives
Questions people ask about mining software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How much does mining software cost?
- Across the 49 mining tools listed here, paid plans start between $164.25 and $50,000 a month, with a median entry price of $14,000. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $75,000 a month (OptiMine). 3 of 49 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest mining software?
- Among the ones that charge, Leapfrog Geo has the lowest published entry price at $164.25 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free mining software?
- Yes, 3 of 49 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. Each of those also sells paid tiers above the free plan. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should mining software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced optimization (7 of 47 tools that publish plan detail), geological modeling (7) and mine design (7). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as activity-based scheduling or block-to-block interaction, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is mining software usually billed?
- subscription (46), quote (1), counted across the 49 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 3 of 49 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does mining software actually cover?
- The 49 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are mining software (15), mine planning (13), resource estimation (9), geological modeling (8), 3d-modeling (5). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under mining may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do mining tools offer?
- 47 of 49 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 9 of 49 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many mining tools are listed on Softwr?
- 49 approved mining listings appear on this page, including acQuire GIM Suite, Carlson Mining, Caterpillar MineStar, Cority EHS. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/mining, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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The shortlist for “Mining”, plus a note if any of their prices change.
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