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Soil Scout pricing
Soil Scout publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the agriculture tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Soil Scout pricing is on request. 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
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Soil Scout 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soil Scout | On request | 4 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Soil Scout 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
- Fully buried sensors
- Ten to twenty year battery
- Underground radio
- Dual depth sensing
- Moisture, temperature and salinity
- Soil Scout Hub
- Web service API
- Long base station range
People bring Soil Scout in for a golf course monitoring greens moisture where a surface-mounted probe would be hit by mowers and play, a stadium pitch under a closed roof where hand-held probing is impractical during the season, a research plot needing consistent multi-year soil data below cultivation depth, an irrigated field where a surface logger would not survive tillage or a spray boom. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Soil Scout are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Agriculture
Too few agriculture 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soil Scout (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| GEA DairyNet | On request | quote | - | vs Soil Scout |
| DairyComp | On request | quote | - | vs Soil Scout |
| Davis Instruments WeatherLink | Free, then $3.95/month | Per device per month | - | vs Soil Scout |
| Lely Horizon | On request | quote | - | vs Soil Scout |
| Baseline Irrigation | On request | quote | - | vs Soil Scout |
| John Deere Operations Center | Free | Free platform, paid per-machine activations | - | vs Soil Scout |
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 Soil Scout badges page.
Before you pay for Soil Scout
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 On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Soil Scout against the tools that do have one before committing.
Soil Scout runs on web, and is published by Soil Scout of Vantaa, Uusimaa, Finland. The full record is on the Soil Scout review, and the rest of the category is under best agriculture tools.
Soil Scout pricing questions
- How much does Soil Scout cost?
- Soil Scout publishes a single tier, Soil Scout, at On request.
- Does Soil Scout have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Soil Scout is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which agriculture tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 agriculture tools listed alongside Soil Scout have a free tier: Davis Instruments WeatherLink, John Deere Operations Center.
- What am I actually paying for with Soil Scout?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a golf course monitoring greens moisture where a surface-mounted probe would be hit by mowers and play, a stadium pitch under a closed roof where hand-held probing is impractical during the season, a research plot needing consistent multi-year soil data below cultivation depth.
- Does Soil Scout 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 Soil Scout 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 Soil Scout against before paying?
- The closest agriculture tools in this directory are GEA DairyNet, DairyComp, Davis Instruments WeatherLink, Lely Horizon. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Soil Scout covering price, platforms and features.