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Lonboard pricing
Lonboard 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, Lonboard 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
Lonboard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lonboard | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Lonboard stops being free
Lonboard, Free
- Open source, no licence fee
- No usage limits
- Installed from PyPI or conda
- Support is GitHub issues only
- No commercial support contract offered
No paid tier on record
Lonboard lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Lonboard 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
- GeoArrow binary transfer
- GeoPandas input
- deck.gl layers
- Jupyter widget
- Large dataset handling
- Styling by attribute
- Open source licence
People bring Lonboard in for an analyst exploring a national road or parcel dataset in a notebook where pydeck or ipyleaflet becomes unusable at that size, a researcher publishing a reproducible analysis where the visualisation must run from the same script as the processing, a data scientist joining spatial data to model outputs in pandas and needing to see the result immediately without exporting to a gis, a team building an internal analysis pipeline on geoparquet that wants rendering without a serialisation step in the middle. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Lonboard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lonboard (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs Lonboard |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs Lonboard |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs Lonboard |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Lonboard |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs Lonboard |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs Lonboard |
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 Lonboard badges page.
Before you pay for Lonboard
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.
Lonboard runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by Development Seed of Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The full record is on the Lonboard review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
Lonboard pricing questions
- How much does Lonboard cost?
- Lonboard publishes a single tier, Lonboard, at Free.
- Does Lonboard have a free plan?
- Yes. The Lonboard tier costs nothing and covers open source, no licence fee, no usage limits, installed from pypi or conda.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside Lonboard have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with Lonboard?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an analyst exploring a national road or parcel dataset in a notebook where pydeck or ipyleaflet becomes unusable at that size, a researcher publishing a reproducible analysis where the visualisation must run from the same script as the processing, a data scientist joining spatial data to model outputs in pandas and needing to see the result immediately without exporting to a gis.
- Does Lonboard 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 Lonboard 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 Lonboard 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 Lonboard covering price, platforms and features.