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Esri ArcGIS

Industry-standard GIS platform spanning desktop, server and cloud products for mapping, spatial analysis and enterprise geodata.

ArcGIS is Esri's family of GIS products: ArcGIS Pro for desktop spatial analysis and cartography, ArcGIS Online for cloud-based mapping and sharing, ArcGIS Enterprise for self-hosted server deployment, plus field data collection apps and imagery/AI extensions. It has been the long-standing standard in government, utilities and land-use planning, offering the deepest and most established spatial analysis toolbox of any platform on the market. Licensing is organized by named user type -- Viewer, Creator, Professional and others -- each bundling an allowance of credits used for storage, analysis and imagery processing, with self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise available for organizations that cannot put spatial data in the cloud.

At a glance

Vendor Esri
Pricing model Quote only
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No
Best for Government, utility and enterprise GIS teams needing the broadest, most established spatial analysis toolset.

Pricing

Licensed by named user type (Viewer through Professional Plus) with included credit allowances; dollar pricing requires contacting Esri sales.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Features

  • Desktop GIS authoring and spatial analysis (ArcGIS Pro)
  • Cloud mapping, dashboards and story maps (ArcGIS Online)
  • Self-hosted enterprise deployment (ArcGIS Enterprise)
  • Field data collection and offline mobile apps
  • Imagery and remote-sensing analysis tools
  • Extensive spatial analysis and geoprocessing toolbox
  • Large ecosystem of extensions and industry-specific solutions

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

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