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WhiteboxTools pricing
WhiteboxTools 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, WhiteboxTools 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
WhiteboxTools 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WhiteboxTools open core | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where WhiteboxTools stops being free
WhiteboxTools open core, Free
- MIT licence
- Over 450 geospatial tools
- Python, R and QGIS front ends
- Community support via GitHub issues only
- No commercial support contract
No paid tier on record
WhiteboxTools lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full WhiteboxTools 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
- Hydrological analysis
- LiDAR processing
- Terrain derivatives
- Raster analysis
- Image processing
- Python and R front ends
- QGIS plugin
- MIT licence
- Cross-platform binaries
People bring WhiteboxTools in for a hydrologist who needs depression breaching rather than filling on a large dem, because filling destroys the drainage structure the model depends on, a forestry or environmental team processing airborne lidar into canopy height and terrain models without buying a point cloud licence per analyst, a gis developer embedding terrain analysis into a commercial product, where the mit licence avoids the copyleft obligations of grass or saga, a university teaching geomorphometry where every student needs the full toolset on their own laptop at zero cost. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to WhiteboxTools 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WhiteboxTools (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Leica Infinity | On request | quote | - | vs WhiteboxTools |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | On request | Per user per year by ArcGIS user type | - | vs WhiteboxTools |
| Foursquare Spatial Studio | On request | quote | - | vs WhiteboxTools |
| Potree | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs WhiteboxTools |
| Cesium ion | Free, then $149/month | Per month by storage, streaming and gigapixels | - | vs WhiteboxTools |
| onX Maps | On request | Separate per-product subscriptions, per user per year | - | vs WhiteboxTools |
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 WhiteboxTools badges page.
Before you pay for WhiteboxTools
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.
WhiteboxTools runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by Geomorphometry and Hydrogeomatics Research Group, University of Guelph of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The full record is on the WhiteboxTools review, and the rest of the category is under best maps tools.
WhiteboxTools pricing questions
- How much does WhiteboxTools cost?
- WhiteboxTools publishes a single tier, WhiteboxTools open core, at Free.
- Does WhiteboxTools have a free plan?
- Yes. The WhiteboxTools open core tier costs nothing and covers mit licence, over 450 geospatial tools, python, r and qgis front ends.
- Which maps tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 maps tools listed alongside WhiteboxTools have a free tier: Potree, Cesium ion, Fused, GRASS GIS.
- What am I actually paying for with WhiteboxTools?
- The record lists 9 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a hydrologist who needs depression breaching rather than filling on a large dem, because filling destroys the drainage structure the model depends on, a forestry or environmental team processing airborne lidar into canopy height and terrain models without buying a point cloud licence per analyst, a gis developer embedding terrain analysis into a commercial product, where the mit licence avoids the copyleft obligations of grass or saga.
- Does WhiteboxTools 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 WhiteboxTools 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 WhiteboxTools 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 WhiteboxTools covering price, platforms and features.