Planet Insights Platform
Planet Insights Platform: Compare satellite imagery over time, analyze results, and stream data to GIS tools. Ranked #23 of 27 in Geo Tools by our editors (7.1/10); pricing: Paid; best for satellite imagery monitoring and time-series analysis.
At a glance
- Editor score7.1 / 10
- PricingPaid
- Best forSatellite imagery monitoring and time-series analysis
- Free planNo
- Founded2010 · San Francisco, California, USA
- Facts checked24 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Compare satellite imagery and visualizations across dates
- Export analysis as images, time-lapses, or CSV
- Stream data into GIS applications through OGC services
Where it doesn't
- No free plan is offered
- Professional, Scale, and Enterprise plans target larger workloads
- Cloud-hosted access may not suit teams seeking on-premises deployment
Our verdict on Planet Insights Platform
Planet Insights Platform is a cloud service for accessing and analyzing Planet satellite imagery and public Earth-observation data. It is aimed at governments, businesses, researchers, and developers doing broad-area monitoring. Users can browse imagery, compare views across dates, extract statistics and time series, and export analysis. Web and API access support both visual workflows and programmatic processing, while GIS applications can receive data through OGC services.
Its monitoring workflow brings several steps together: imagery visualization, date comparisons, statistics, time-series analysis, and exports to images, time-lapses, or CSV. APIs can process imagery and calculate remote-sensing indices. Organizations can also register georeferenced raster data from AWS S3 using BYOC, so their own data can sit alongside Planet imagery. ArcGIS, QGIS, OpenLayers, and Google Earth are listed integrations. This breadth suits teams that need recurring imagery analysis and GIS connections more than a one-off map viewer.
The paid plans scale by monitoring credits and processing needs. Starter includes 7,000 monitoring credits per month, Sentinel and Landsat public data access, and BYOC from AWS S3. Professional includes 40,000 credits per month plus large-scale batch and asynchronous processing and statistical APIs. Scale includes 100,000 credits per month, with additional credits available as needed; Enterprise is positioned for large-scale and business-critical operations. There is no free plan. Choose Planet Insights Platform if satellite time-series work, API processing, or GIS streaming is central to your workflow; teams seeking a free entry point or a simpler, standalone mapping tool may prefer an alternative.
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Planet Insights Platform fact sheet
| Free plan | No |
|---|---|
| Paid from | Not verified |
| Offline maps | Not verified |
| Spatial analysis | Yes |
| Geocoding | Not verified |
| Data import formats | Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG); Zarr |
| Supported platforms | Web browser; API; GIS applications via OGC services |
| Satellite imagery | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Platforms | Web |
| Support | Docs, Community |
| Built for | Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 4 integrations: ArcGIS, QGIS, OpenLayers, Google Earth |
| Pricing | Paid (source) |
| Website | planet.com |
| Facts checked | 24 Sep 2026 |
Planet Insights Platform integrations
Planet Insights Platform lists 4 integrations on its own site.
- ArcGIS
- QGIS
- OpenLayers
- Google Earth
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