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GRASS GIS pricing
GRASS GIS 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, GRASS GIS 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
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
GRASS GIS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRASS GIS | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where GRASS GIS stops being free
GRASS GIS, Free
- GNU GPL licence
- All modules included
- No user or seat limits
- Community support through mailing lists and forums
- Commercial support only via independent OSGeo consultancies
No paid tier on record
GRASS GIS lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full GRASS GIS 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
- Raster analysis
- Hydrological modelling
- Terrain analysis
- Vector topology
- Temporal framework
- Image processing
- Python API
- QGIS integration
People bring GRASS GIS in for a hydrologist delineating watersheds and modelling flow accumulation over a large digital elevation model, a research group building a reproducible time series analysis of satellite imagery that must be rerunnable years later, an environmental agency running viewshed and solar radiation analysis for planning assessments without buying commercial gis seats, a qgis user who needs a specific processing algorithm that only exists in the grass toolbox. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to GRASS GIS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRASS GIS (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs GRASS GIS |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs GRASS GIS |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs GRASS GIS |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs GRASS GIS |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs GRASS GIS |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs GRASS GIS |
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 GRASS GIS badges page.
Before you pay for GRASS GIS
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.
GRASS GIS runs on linux, windows, macos, and is published by OSGeo GRASS GIS Development Team of Distributed, coordinated through the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The full record is on the GRASS GIS review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
GRASS GIS pricing questions
- How much does GRASS GIS cost?
- GRASS GIS publishes a single tier, GRASS GIS, at Free.
- Does GRASS GIS have a free plan?
- Yes. The GRASS GIS tier costs nothing and covers gnu gpl licence, all modules included, no user or seat limits.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside GRASS GIS have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused.
- What am I actually paying for with GRASS GIS?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a hydrologist delineating watersheds and modelling flow accumulation over a large digital elevation model, a research group building a reproducible time series analysis of satellite imagery that must be rerunnable years later, an environmental agency running viewshed and solar radiation analysis for planning assessments without buying commercial gis seats.
- Does GRASS GIS 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 GRASS GIS 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 GRASS GIS 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 GRASS GIS covering price, platforms and features.