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CARTO pricing
CARTO publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free, then $199/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
CARTO plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | $199/month | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full CARTO feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Spatial Analysis
- Interactive Maps
- Data Observatory
- Workflows
- APIs
Integrations
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- PostgreSQL
Platform
- Web support
People bring CARTO in for spatial analysis over data already in a cloud warehouse, building interactive maps and location dashboards, geocoding and routing through location data services, site selection and territory planning, self-hosted geospatial analytics for regulated environments. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CARTO are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for CARTO
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at $199/month. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
CARTO runs on web, and is published by CARTO of New York, New York. The full record is on the CARTO review.
CARTO pricing questions
- How much does CARTO cost?
- CARTO publishes a single tier, Professional, at $199/month.
- Does CARTO have a free plan?
- Yes, CARTO is recorded as subscription, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with CARTO?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for spatial analysis over data already in a cloud warehouse, building interactive maps and location dashboards, geocoding and routing through location data services.
- Does CARTO charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these CARTO prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare CARTO against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to CARTO to make a useful price comparison.