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Emlid Studio pricing
Emlid Studio publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the maps tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Emlid Studio pricing is free. 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
- Free
- Model
- Free of charge, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Emlid Studio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emlid Studio | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Emlid Studio stops being free
Emlid Studio, Free
- No licence fee and no seat limit
- Windows and macOS
- Works with RINEX from non-Emlid receivers
- Community forum support only
- Closed source, not open source
No paid tier on record
Emlid Studio lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Emlid Studio 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
- RINEX conversion
- Static post-processing
- Kinematic post-processing
- Drone PPK geotagging
- Third party receiver support
- Emlid Flow point extraction
- Solution quality reporting
People bring Emlid Studio in for a drone operator whose rtk link dropped to float during a flight and needs to recover centimetre accuracy from the logs afterwards, a surveyor establishing a base station coordinate from a two hour static occupation against a national cors station, a research team with mixed brand receivers that cannot justify a manufacturer office suite licence, an archaeologist geotagging survey photography to a local grid without buying a commercial photogrammetry pipeline. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Emlid Studio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emlid Studio (this page) | Free | Free of charge, no licence fee | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs Emlid Studio |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs Emlid Studio |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs Emlid Studio |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Emlid Studio |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs Emlid Studio |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs Emlid Studio |
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 Emlid Studio badges page.
Before you pay for Emlid Studio
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 Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Emlid Studio runs on windows, macos, and is published by Emlid of Budapest, Hungary. The full record is on the Emlid Studio review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
Emlid Studio pricing questions
- How much does Emlid Studio cost?
- Emlid Studio publishes a single tier, Emlid Studio, at Free.
- Does Emlid Studio have a free plan?
- Yes. The Emlid Studio tier costs nothing and covers no licence fee and no seat limit, windows and macos, works with rinex from non-emlid receivers.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside Emlid Studio have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with Emlid Studio?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a drone operator whose rtk link dropped to float during a flight and needs to recover centimetre accuracy from the logs afterwards, a surveyor establishing a base station coordinate from a two hour static occupation against a national cors station, a research team with mixed brand receivers that cannot justify a manufacturer office suite licence.
- Does Emlid Studio 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 Emlid Studio 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 Emlid Studio 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 Emlid Studio covering price, platforms and features.