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SW Maps pricing
SW Maps 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, SW Maps 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
SW Maps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SW Maps | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where SW Maps stops being free
SW Maps, Free
- All features included
- External RTK GNSS support
- Unlimited layers and exports
- No advertising
- No paid tier and no vendor support agreement
No paid tier on record
SW Maps lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full SW Maps 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
- Custom feature layers
- External GNSS support
- Offline basemaps
- Geospatial PDF layers
- Vector import
- Photo and media capture
- Export formats
- NTRIP client
- Tracking and navigation
People bring SW Maps in for an ngo or municipal utility mapping water points, pipe networks or road assets on a budget that cannot absorb per-user gis subscriptions, a survey team pairing a low-cost rtk receiver with android tablets to collect centimetre-accurate attributed features without buying field software seats, a university field course teaching gnss data collection where every student needs the tool on their own device, a consultant doing a one-off asset inventory who needs shapefile or geopackage output and does not want to start an annual subscription for a three-week job. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to SW Maps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SW Maps (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs SW Maps |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs SW Maps |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs SW Maps |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs SW Maps |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs SW Maps |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs SW Maps |
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 SW Maps badges page.
Before you pay for SW Maps
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.
SW Maps runs on android, and is published by Softwel (P) Ltd of Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. The full record is on the SW Maps review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
SW Maps pricing questions
- How much does SW Maps cost?
- SW Maps publishes a single tier, SW Maps, at Free.
- Does SW Maps have a free plan?
- Yes. The SW Maps tier costs nothing and covers all features included, external rtk gnss support, unlimited layers and exports.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside SW Maps have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with SW Maps?
- The record lists 9 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an ngo or municipal utility mapping water points, pipe networks or road assets on a budget that cannot absorb per-user gis subscriptions, a survey team pairing a low-cost rtk receiver with android tablets to collect centimetre-accurate attributed features without buying field software seats, a university field course teaching gnss data collection where every student needs the tool on their own device.
- Does SW Maps 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 SW Maps 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 SW Maps 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 SW Maps covering price, platforms and features.