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Ride with GPS pricing
Ride with GPS 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, Ride with GPS pricing is free 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
- Model
- Freemium, per user per month
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Ride with GPS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Basic | $7.99/month | 3 | +$7.99/month, 3 more features |
| Premium | $9.99/month | 2 | +$2/month, 2 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.
Starter
FreeThe entry tier. It covers route creation, ride recording, global heatmap access.
Basic
$7.99/monthOver Starter, this tier adds:
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Offline route maps
- ETA and advanced route planning
Premium
$9.99/monthOver Basic, this tier adds:
- Everything in Basic
- Extra map layers: wind, air quality, cell coverage
Where Ride with GPS stops being free
Starter, Free
- Route creation
- Ride recording
- Global heatmap access
Basic, $7.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Offline route maps
- ETA and advanced route planning
What the product covers
The full Ride with GPS 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
- Route builder
- Global heatmap
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Offline maps
- Garmin sync
- Extra map layers
People bring Ride with GPS in for a cyclist planning a multi-day touring route who needs offline maps for areas without signal, someone who wants turn-by-turn voice navigation on unfamiliar roads rather than checking a screen, a rider who wants to see popular local routes via the heatmap before committing to a paid tier, a cyclist syncing custom routes directly to a garmin computer for a big ride. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Ride with GPS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ride with GPS (this page) | Free | Freemium, per user per month | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs Ride with GPS |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs Ride with GPS |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs Ride with GPS |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Ride with GPS |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs Ride with GPS |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs Ride with GPS |
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 Ride with GPS badges page.
Before you pay for Ride with GPS
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 $9.99/month, 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.
Ride with GPS runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Ride with GPS, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, United States. The full record is on the Ride with GPS review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
Ride with GPS pricing questions
- How much does Ride with GPS cost?
- Ride with GPS publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Starter up to $9.99/month for Premium. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Ride with GPS have a free plan?
- Yes. The Starter tier costs nothing and covers route creation, ride recording, global heatmap access. Paying starts at $7.99/month for Basic.
- What is the difference between Starter and Basic on Ride with GPS?
- Basic costs $7.99/month against Free, and adds turn-by-turn navigation, offline route maps, eta and advanced route planning.
- Is the Premium plan on Ride with GPS worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is everything in basic, extra map layers: wind, air quality, cell coverage. It costs $9.99/month against $7.99/month for Basic. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside Ride with GPS have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with Ride with GPS?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a cyclist planning a multi-day touring route who needs offline maps for areas without signal, someone who wants turn-by-turn voice navigation on unfamiliar roads rather than checking a screen, a rider who wants to see popular local routes via the heatmap before committing to a paid tier.
- Does Ride with GPS 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 Ride with GPS 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 Ride with GPS 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 Ride with GPS covering price, platforms and features.