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Leafmap pricing
Leafmap publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the libraries tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Leafmap 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
Leafmap 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leafmap | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Leafmap stops being free
Leafmap, Free
- MIT licence
- Installed from PyPI or conda-forge
- No usage limits
- Community support through GitHub issues and discussions
- No commercial support available
No paid tier on record
Leafmap lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Leafmap 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
- Multiple mapping backends
- Notebook interactivity
- Raster and COG support
- STAC catalogue access
- Earth Engine integration
- Basemap library
- Vector data handling
- Split map comparison
People bring Leafmap in for a remote sensing course where students need interactive maps without learning javascript or a desktop gis, a researcher exploring stac-hosted satellite imagery inside a notebook before committing to a processing pipeline, an analyst producing a shareable interactive map from a geodataframe in a handful of lines, a team prototyping a geospatial visualisation before deciding whether to build it properly in a web framework. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Leafmap are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Libraries
Too few libraries 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leafmap (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Libby | Free | Free with a participating library card, no subscription | - | vs Leafmap |
| Hoopla | Free | Free with a participating library card, capped by monthly borrow limit | - | vs Leafmap |
| PDAL | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Leafmap |
| daisyUI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Leafmap |
| Mantine | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Leafmap |
| Ant Design | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Leafmap |
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 Leafmap badges page.
Before you pay for Leafmap
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.
Leafmap runs on linux, windows, macos, and is published by Leafmap contributors, led by Qiusheng Wu of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. The full record is on the Leafmap review, and the rest of the category is under best libraries tools.
Leafmap pricing questions
- How much does Leafmap cost?
- Leafmap publishes a single tier, Leafmap, at Free.
- Does Leafmap have a free plan?
- Yes. The Leafmap tier costs nothing and covers mit licence, installed from pypi or conda-forge, no usage limits.
- Which libraries tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 libraries tools listed alongside Leafmap have a free tier: Libby, Hoopla, PDAL, daisyUI, Mantine.
- What am I actually paying for with Leafmap?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a remote sensing course where students need interactive maps without learning javascript or a desktop gis, a researcher exploring stac-hosted satellite imagery inside a notebook before committing to a processing pipeline, an analyst producing a shareable interactive map from a geodataframe in a handful of lines.
- Does Leafmap 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 Leafmap 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 Leafmap against before paying?
- The closest libraries tools in this directory are Libby, Hoopla, PDAL, daisyUI. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Leafmap covering price, platforms and features.