Do you need a subscription to process an orthophoto from 2,000 images?

If you only need to process an orthophoto occasionally, for example from a construction site, you do not need a monthly subscription to get a usable result. You can pay per job for the images you actually process.

A subscription or an owned workstation with software can make sense if you fly and process every week, need full control over every step or run highly repetitive workflows. What fits best depends on frequency, requirements and how much operation you want to handle yourself.

Established photogrammetry tools often perform very well and have their place. For teams that process every week, must deliver the same output with high repeatability or need close control of parameters and integration with internal systems, a subscription or an owned workstation can be the most practical choice.

In that model you pay for ongoing access and operation, whether you use it a lot or a little in a given month. It fits best when demand is constant and predictable.

If your work is seasonal or varies a lot through the year, the fixed monthly cost is less directly tied to the specific job.

Pay per job is a pragmatic alternative for occasional and seasonal work, for example an orthophoto of a construction site from around 2,000 images. You only pay for the processing you order, with no monthly image allowance.

It often fits smaller teams, consultants and pilots who want a GIS-ready orthophoto without operating the full stack themselves. You upload the images, choose the processing and receive deliverables ready for QGIS and similar tools, without maintaining software and hardware yourself.

Established professional tools have their place, and pay per job is not the right answer for every specialist workflow. It is a lower-commitment alternative for routine work.

Our current list price for an orthophoto is €0.05 per image. This is our list price, not a comparison with another provider and not a promise of identical processing time or total project economics.

The minimum purchase is €15, equal to 300 credits. Credits never expire. An orthophoto up to 100 images is free for every user, every time. This is for smaller datasets and testing.

Examples at list price for an orthophoto: 2,000 images costs €100, 1,000 images costs €50 and 500 images costs €25. You only pay for the images included in the job, and only when you start a job.

There is no monthly image allowance. That does not mean every dataset can be processed without assessment. The price per image is fixed, but processing time, capacity and deliverables can vary with the dataset.

No monthly image allowance does not mean unlimited capacity. Large or demanding datasets are assessed beforehand based on images, overlap, output, processing time and capacity.

Specialist workflows that require a specifically validated method, close control of every step or a fixed internal pipeline may fit better in an established professional tool or an owned workstation. We recommend contacting us before you upload a large or specialist dataset so we can assess whether pay per job is the right model.