Google Earth Engine

Google Earth Engine is ranked #5 of 62 in GIS software on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, Web. There is a free plan. Paid plans start at $0.40/mo.

Google Earth Engine plans and pricing

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Storage Free $0.000035616 / 1 gibibyte hour Usage-based storage charge cloud.google.com · 30 Sept 2026

Compute (Online and Batch) $0.40/mo $0.40 / 1 hour, per 1 month / account for 0 to 10,000 hours; $0.28 for 10,000 to 500,000 hours; $0.16 for 500,000 hours and above Usage-based EECU-hour charges · tiered usage pricing applies cloud.google.com · 30 Sept 2026

Individual & SMB Basic $500/mo $500 per month 100 EECU-hour monthly batch credit · 33 EECU-hour monthly online credit · 100 GB storage credit · 20 concurrent high-volume API requests per project · up to 8 concurrent batch export tasks per billing account · no SLA cloud.google.com · 30 Sept 2026

Enterprise Basic $500/mo $500 per month 100 EECU-hour monthly batch credit · 33 EECU-hour monthly online credit · 100 GB storage credit · 20 concurrent high-volume API requests per project · up to 8 concurrent batch export tasks per billing account · no SLA cloud.google.com · 30 Sept 2026

Enterprise Professional $2,000/mo $2000 per month 500 EECU-hour monthly batch credit · 166 EECU-hour monthly online credit · 1 TB storage credit · up to 500 concurrent high-volume API requests per project (granted on request) · up to 20 concurrent batch export tasks per billing account · SLA included · VPC Service Controls supported cloud.google.com · 30 Sept 2026

Enterprise Premium Not published Contact us Customizable allocations · SLA included · VPC Service Controls supported · contact Google Sales cloud.google.com · 30 Sept 2026

Compared on GIS software

Free plan: Yes
Deployment: hybrid
Spatial analysis: advanced
Web mapping: Yes
Dashboard builder: Yes
Raster data support: Yes

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Google Earth Engine

What it does: Earth Engine combines a large catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis to detect changes, map trends, and quantify surface differences.
Data archive: Its public data archive contains over eighty petabytes of geospatial data and more than thirty years of historical imagery, updated and expanded daily.
Commercial access: Earth Engine is available for commercial use, with commercial and government operational customers charged for its services.
Noncommercial access: Eligible nonprofits, academic researchers and educators, journalists, certain government agencies, trainers, and individuals may qualify for no-cost noncommercial use under stated restrictions.
Code Editor: The Code Editor is a web-based JavaScript IDE with map visualization, API reference, Git-based script management, a task manager, interactive queries, and geometry drawing tools.
APIs: Earth Engine provides Python and JavaScript APIs, and its client libraries can be used locally with those languages.
Google Cloud integration: Earth Engine integrates with Google Cloud and can exchange data with BigQuery, including loading BigQuery tables, running BigQuery queries, and exporting results to BigQuery.
Other integrations: The maker describes interoperability with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Apache Beam, Spark, Dask, NumPy, Pandas, GeoPandas, and the Xarray integration Xee.
Apps: Earth Engine Apps are shareable interactive interfaces that let stakeholders explore analyses using Earth Engine data and analytics.
Security controls: VPC Service Controls are supported on Professional and Premium tiers and unavailable on the listed Individual & SMB tiers.
Support: Technical support is available through Google Cloud Care, and support packages can include 24/7 coverage, phone support, and a technical support manager.
Notable limit: The Limited plan is intended for self-serve, highly intermittent, non-business-critical, non-high-capacity workloads and has no usage credits, performance add-ons, or SLA.
Intended users: The maker describes use by scientists, researchers, developers, nonprofits, businesses, and government users for work including remote sensing, climate analysis, natural resource management, and sustainability.
Price from: $0.40/mo

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earthengine.google.com· checked 30 Sept 2026
earthengine.google.com/commercial/· checked 30 Sept 2026
earthengine.google.com/noncommercial/· checked 30 Sept 2026
cloud.google.com/earth-engine· checked 30 Sept 2026
earthengine.google.com/platform/· checked 30 Sept 2026
cloud.google.com/earth-engine/pricing· checked 30 Sept 2026