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Potree pricing
Potree 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, Potree 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
Potree 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potree | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Potree stops being free
Potree, Free
- BSD-style open source licence
- Unlimited datasets and viewers
- Self-hosted on any static web server
- Community support via GitHub only
- No commercial support contract and no hosted service
No paid tier on record
Potree lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Potree 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
- Octree streaming
- Large dataset rendering
- Measurement tools
- Clipping and profiles
- Annotations
- Attribute colouring
- PotreeDesktop
- Self-hosting
- Embeddable
People bring Potree in for a drone survey firm delivering a point cloud to a client who has no desktop software, by publishing a browser viewer link instead of a 40 gb laz file, a heritage or archaeology project publishing a scanned site for public access without paying per-gigabyte hosting to a commercial platform, an engineering consultancy embedding a point cloud viewer inside its own client portal without licensing a commercial web viewer, a university or research group that needs measurement and profiling in a shareable viewer for a dataset too large to email. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Potree 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potree (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs Potree |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs Potree |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs Potree |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs Potree |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs Potree |
| Fused | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute tier | - | vs Potree |
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 Potree badges page.
Before you pay for Potree
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.
Potree runs on web, windows, macos, linux, and is published by Potree (TU Wien, Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms) of Vienna, Austria. The full record is on the Potree review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
Potree pricing questions
- How much does Potree cost?
- Potree publishes a single tier, Potree, at Free.
- Does Potree have a free plan?
- Yes. The Potree tier costs nothing and covers bsd-style open source licence, unlimited datasets and viewers, self-hosted on any static web server.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside Potree have a free tier: Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with Potree?
- The record lists 9 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a drone survey firm delivering a point cloud to a client who has no desktop software, by publishing a browser viewer link instead of a 40 gb laz file, a heritage or archaeology project publishing a scanned site for public access without paying per-gigabyte hosting to a commercial platform, an engineering consultancy embedding a point cloud viewer inside its own client portal without licensing a commercial web viewer.
- Does Potree 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 Potree 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 Potree against before paying?
- The closest maps tools in this directory are Leica Infinity, ArcGIS Survey123, Foursquare Spatial Studio, Cesium ion. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Potree covering price, platforms and features.