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CARTO pricing
CARTO publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, CARTO pricing is on request across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Not on record
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | On request | 7 | Entry tier |
| Enterprise | On request | 6 | Priced on request |
| Strategic | On request | 5 | Priced on request |
| Custom | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Pay As You Go
On requestThe entry tier. It covers metered, capped location data services, limited api access and tokens, standard support, agentic gis, sso, activity data.
Enterprise
On requestOver Pay As You Go, this tier adds:
- Limited location data services with quota
- Standard or Premium support
- Custom branding
- Audit logs
- Usage metrics
Strategic
On requestOver Enterprise, this tier adds:
- Unlimited API access and tokens
- Premium or Elite support
Custom
On requestOver Strategic, this tier adds:
- Up to unlimited location data services
- Elite support
- Full admin and security features
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.
Other
- 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.
How that compares in Maps
Too few maps tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARTO (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs CARTO |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs CARTO |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs CARTO |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CARTO |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs CARTO |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs CARTO |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the CARTO badges page.
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: 4 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare CARTO against the tools that do have one before committing.
CARTO runs on web, and is published by CARTO of New York, New York. The full record is on the CARTO review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
CARTO pricing questions
- How much does CARTO cost?
- CARTO publishes 4 tiers, from On request for Pay As You Go up to On request for Custom. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does CARTO have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: CARTO is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Pay As You Go and Enterprise on CARTO?
- Enterprise costs On request against On request, and adds limited location data services with quota, standard or premium support, custom branding, audit logs.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside CARTO have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with CARTO?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, 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 4 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?
- The closest maps tools in this directory are Leica Infinity, ArcGIS Survey123, Foursquare Spatial Studio, Potree. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CARTO covering price, platforms and features.