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Aeroyantra is significantly cheaper for most survey teams. Pix4D Cloud starts at $49/month (basic) to $249/month (advanced) with per-seat licensing - a 5-person team on advanced plans pays $1,245/month. DroneDeploy starts at $329/month per user, reaching $599/month for advanced features. Agisoft Metashape requires a one-time $3,499 license plus a high-end GPU workstation ($2,000-5,000). Aeroyantra charges $2.50 per gigapixel processed on Pay-As-You-Go, or $69/month for Professional with 40 credits included and unlimited users. A typical 500-image survey costs approximately $20 to process. There are no seat licenses - your entire team accesses the same account at no additional cost. For teams processing 10-20 surveys per month, Aeroyantra costs 60-80% less than Pix4D or DroneDeploy while delivering equivalent output quality.

Desktop photogrammetry (Agisoft Metashape, Pix4Dmapper) requires a dedicated GPU workstation ($2,000-5,000), ties up that machine for hours during processing, produces inconsistent results depending on operator settings, and makes sharing outputs difficult. Aeroyantra processes on cloud GPU clusters - you upload images from any browser, processing runs on our infrastructure, and results are ready in 2-4 hours regardless of your local hardware. A laptop, tablet, or phone is all you need. Results are consistent across projects because our proprietary engine applies standardized workflows. Sharing is instant: generate a view-only link and any stakeholder sees the 3D model, orthomosaic, and volume reports in their browser. No software installation, no license management, no workstation maintenance.

Unlike most drone mapping platforms that license third-party processing software (many cloud platforms are essentially resellers of the same underlying engines), Aeroyantra built its own photogrammetry pipeline from the ground up - feature extraction, bundle adjustment, dense point cloud generation, mesh texturing, and orthomosaic stitching are all written and maintained by our engineering team. This matters for three reasons. First, your data never leaves our infrastructure to be processed by external software vendors - complete data sovereignty. Second, we control processing quality and can optimize for specific use cases (mining volumes, construction earthwork, corridor mapping) rather than relying on generic third-party settings. Third, because we have no per-project software licensing costs, we pass that savings to you - which is why our pricing is 60-80% lower than competitors using licensed engines.