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RealityScan pricing
RealityScan publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, RealityScan pricing is free, then $1250/year across 3 published tiers. 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, then $1250/year
- Model
- Free below a revenue threshold, then per seat per year
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
RealityScan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| RealityScan seat | $1250/year | 4 | +$1250/year, 4 more features |
| Unreal Engine subscription | $1850/year | 3 | +$600/year, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free tier
FreeThe entry tier. It covers for individuals and companies with annual revenue under 1,000,000 usd, full application, no metered input charges, epic account required, you must move to a paid seat once you cross the revenue threshold.
RealityScan seat
$1250/yearOver Free tier, this tier adds:
- Required once annual revenue exceeds 1,000,000 USD
- Per seat, per year
- Commercial use without output restrictions
- Subscription only, no new perpetual licences
Unreal Engine subscription
$1850/yearOver RealityScan seat, this tier adds:
- Per seat per year
- Includes RealityScan and Twinmotion
- For teams that also need Unreal Engine for non-game commercial use
Where RealityScan stops being free
Free tier, Free
- For individuals and companies with annual revenue under 1,000,000 USD
- Full application, no metered input charges
- Epic account required
- You must move to a paid seat once you cross the revenue threshold
RealityScan seat, $1250/year
The first thing you pay for:
- Required once annual revenue exceeds 1,000,000 USD
- Per seat, per year
- Commercial use without output restrictions
- Subscription only, no new perpetual licences
What the product covers
The full RealityScan 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
- Photogrammetric reconstruction
- Laser scan fusion
- Ground control points
- Texturing and unwrapping
- Command line interface
- Unreal Engine path
- Component alignment control
People bring RealityScan in for a two-person heritage survey practice under the revenue threshold that can now run professional photogrammetry at no licence cost, a film or games asset team scanning props and environments at very high image counts where processing speed decides the schedule, a survey firm combining terrestrial laser scans with drone photography and needing both aligned in a single reconstruction, a construction reality-capture operator producing meshes for unreal-based client visualisation from the same source imagery. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to RealityScan are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in CAD
Too few cad 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RealityScan (this page) | Free, then $1250/year | Free below a revenue threshold, then per seat per year | - | |
| Carlson Software | $4450/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs RealityScan |
| CloudCompare | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs RealityScan |
| Bentley iTwin Capture Modeler | On request | quote | - | vs RealityScan |
| MicroSurvey CAD | $2945/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs RealityScan |
| Nomad Sculpt | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs RealityScan |
| nTop | On request | quote | - | vs RealityScan |
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 RealityScan badges page.
Before you pay for RealityScan
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: 3 tiers between Free and $1850/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
RealityScan runs on windows, and is published by Epic Games, Inc. of Cary, North Carolina, United States. The full record is on the RealityScan review, and the rest of the category is under best cad tools.
RealityScan pricing questions
- How much does RealityScan cost?
- RealityScan publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free tier up to $1850/year for Unreal Engine subscription. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does RealityScan have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier tier costs nothing and covers for individuals and companies with annual revenue under 1,000,000 usd, full application, no metered input charges, epic account required. Paying starts at $1250/year for RealityScan seat.
- What is the difference between Free tier and RealityScan seat on RealityScan?
- RealityScan seat costs $1250/year against Free, and adds required once annual revenue exceeds 1,000,000 usd, per seat, per year, commercial use without output restrictions, subscription only, no new perpetual licences.
- Is the Unreal Engine subscription plan on RealityScan worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is per seat per year, includes realityscan and twinmotion, for teams that also need unreal engine for non-game commercial use. It costs $1850/year against $1250/year for RealityScan seat. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which cad tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 cad tools listed alongside RealityScan have a free tier: CloudCompare, SolveSpace.
- What am I actually paying for with RealityScan?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a two-person heritage survey practice under the revenue threshold that can now run professional photogrammetry at no licence cost, a film or games asset team scanning props and environments at very high image counts where processing speed decides the schedule, a survey firm combining terrestrial laser scans with drone photography and needing both aligned in a single reconstruction.
- Does RealityScan charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 RealityScan 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 RealityScan against before paying?
- The closest cad tools in this directory are Carlson Software, CloudCompare, Bentley iTwin Capture Modeler, MicroSurvey CAD. Each has a side-by-side comparison with RealityScan covering price, platforms and features.