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Transit pricing
Transit 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, Transit 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
- Free to riders; revenue from agency data and fare-payment transaction fees
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Transit 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rider app | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Transit stops being free
Rider app, Free
- Real-time arrivals and trip planning
- No ads shown to riders
- In-app fare purchase where supported
- No account required for basic use
No paid tier on record
Transit lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Transit 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
- Real-time arrivals
- Multi-modal trip planning
- Service alerts
- In-app fare payment
- Offline schedules
- GO transit and micromobility layers
People bring Transit in for a commuter in a city with a well-maintained gtfs-realtime feed wanting live bus and train arrivals, a rider comparing a transit trip against a bike share or scooter leg for the last mile, a visitor needing offline-capable static schedules in a city with patchy data coverage, someone wanting to buy a transit fare inside the same app used to plan the trip, in supported cities. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Transit 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transit (this page) | Free | Free to riders; revenue from agency data and fare-payment transaction fees | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs Transit |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs Transit |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs Transit |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Transit |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs Transit |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs Transit |
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 Transit badges page.
Before you pay for Transit
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.
Transit runs on ios, android, web, and is published by Transit App Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The full record is on the Transit review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
Transit pricing questions
- How much does Transit cost?
- Transit publishes a single tier, Rider app, at Free.
- Does Transit have a free plan?
- Yes. The Rider app tier costs nothing and covers real-time arrivals and trip planning, no ads shown to riders, in-app fare purchase where supported.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside Transit have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with Transit?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a commuter in a city with a well-maintained gtfs-realtime feed wanting live bus and train arrivals, a rider comparing a transit trip against a bike share or scooter leg for the last mile, a visitor needing offline-capable static schedules in a city with patchy data coverage.
- Does Transit 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 Transit 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 Transit 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 Transit covering price, platforms and features.