Sentinel Hub alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Sentinel Hub, shown against it.

Sentinel Hub Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem NASA Earthdata USGS EarthExplorer
Vendor Planet Labs (formerly Sinergise) European Space Agency / European Commission NASA (EOSDIS) United States Geological Survey
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Free Free Free
Free tier Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source No No No No
Best for Developers and analysts needing scriptable, on-demand processing of satellite imagery through an API. Researchers and analysts needing free, high-resolution European satellite imagery and near-daily monitoring products. Researchers and agencies needing free, authoritative access to NASA's full satellite Earth-observation archive. Researchers needing free, long-term historical satellite imagery for land-cover change analysis.
Pricing

Free trial and limited free processing units, with paid plans for higher volume; pricing page redirects to Planet's site and could not be confirmed.

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Free with registration; funded by the EU as open public infrastructure.

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Free with registration; funded by NASA as US government data.

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Free with USGS registration; funded as US government data.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Multi-source satellite imagery API (Sentinel, Landsat, Planet)
  • Server-side band math and index calculation (evalscript)
  • Cloud masking and mosaicking
  • REST API and OGC-compliant endpoints
  • Custom web map and dashboard building tools
  • Statistical API for time-series area analysis
  • Integration with Planet's commercial imagery
  • Full Sentinel-1/2/3/5P satellite archive
  • 10m resolution Sentinel-2 optical imagery
  • Radar (SAR) data from Sentinel-1
  • Atmospheric composition data (Sentinel-5P)
  • Browser-based data viewer
  • OGC-compliant APIs and on-demand processing
  • Free global registration
  • Full EOSDIS satellite data archive
  • Earthdata Search web interface
  • Cloud (AWS)-hosted datasets
  • Multi-decade historical coverage for some sensors
  • Discipline-specific data centers
  • Programmatic API access
  • Free registration-based downloads
  • Full Landsat archive since 1972
  • 30m (15m panchromatic) resolution imagery
  • Cloud-cover and date-range search filters
  • Declassified historical imagery
  • Digital elevation models
  • Bulk scene ordering
  • Machine-to-Machine (M2M) API

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