Three Tools, One Underlying Job
Measuring a roof for a proposal used to mean a truck roll before anyone talked pricing. EagleView, Aurora Solar, and Nearmap each solve that same problem, producing a roof measurement or aerial site model from satellite and aerial imagery instead, and each prices the job in a genuinely different way. Knowing which pricing model applies before signing up for any of the three changes the real monthly or per-report cost more than the headline number on any one vendor’s site does.
EagleView’s Transparent, Per-Report Pricing
EagleView’s own published pricing runs by roof size and report tier. A small roof, around 20 squares, costs $24.25 on its Gold tier up to $32.75 on its Bronze tier. A medium roof, around 40 squares, runs $49.00 to $60.00. A large roof, 40-plus squares, runs $75.50 to $87.00, with a Platinum tier available by quote for the most detailed reports. EagleView also offers volume and integration-partner discounts off that public rate card, meaning a team pulling many reports a month is not necessarily paying the sticker price on every single one.
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Aurora Solar takes a different approach, folding aerial measurement into its broader design platform rather than selling it standalone. On-demand site models, satellite and aerial-derived, start at $9.99 and vary by how fast the turnaround is, available inside Aurora’s subscription tiers running from Basic at $159 a user a month up through Enterprise. That per-model price looks cheaper than EagleView’s at first glance, but it only applies to a team already paying for an Aurora seat in the first place, a distinction worth spelling out plainly rather than comparing the two numbers as if they were apples to apples.
Nearmap’s Opaque, Coverage-Tiered Subscription
Nearmap does not publish self-serve pricing anywhere, a real gap compared to the other two tools here. What is directly citable instead is a government procurement document: the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ Spatial Data Cooperative Program’s published Nearmap rate sheet, effective December 1, 2025 through November 30, 2026, shows real tiered annual subscription costs by population-coverage size. Orthophotography-only ranges from $3,800 a year for the smallest tier, population 1,000 to 3,000 on a 5-year term, up to $240,500 a year for the largest, population 750,000-plus on a 1-year term. Orthophotography plus obliques runs $4,350 to $283,812.50 a year across the same tiers. That is a government and GIS-cooperative procurement rate, not what a solar sales org specifically pays, but it establishes the real order of magnitude: Nearmap is priced as a coverage-area subscription running into the thousands to hundreds of thousands per year, not a per-report tool.
Reading the Three Pricing Models Side by Side
The honest comparison is not which tool is cheapest, it is which pricing model fits how often the report actually gets used. A team pulling the occasional one-off report has a clear, transparent number to work from at EagleView. A team already running Aurora for design work gets the cheapest marginal add-on inside a platform it is already paying for. A team that needs continuous, wide-area coverage across many properties is the one Nearmap is actually built for, and that conversation starts with a sales call and a coverage map, not a price list.
| Tool | Pricing Model | What It Costs |
|---|---|---|
| EagleView | Per-report, published rate card | $24.25 to $32.75 (small, 20-square roof) up to $75.50 to $87.00 (large, 40-plus-square roof); Platinum tier by quote |
| Aurora Solar | Bundled into a design-platform subscription | On-demand site models start at $9.99, inside Basic ($159/user/month) through Enterprise tiers |
| Nearmap | Quote-gated, coverage-tiered annual subscription | $3,800/year to $240,500/year across coverage tiers, per a Dec 2025 to Nov 2026 government procurement rate sheet |
Nearmap figures come from a government and GIS-cooperative procurement contract, not a solar-sales-org-specific quote, cited for order-of-magnitude only. Confirm current pricing directly with each vendor before budgeting.
What this means for you
- EagleView prices per report by roof size and tier: $24.25 to $32.75 small, up to $75.50 to $87.00 large, with volume and integration-partner discounts available.
- Aurora Solar bundles aerial measurement into its design platform rather than selling it standalone, on-demand site models start at $9.99 inside a $159-plus-a-month subscription.
- Nearmap publishes no self-serve price; a real government procurement rate sheet shows tiered annual costs from $3,800 to $240,500 a year, establishing it as a coverage-area subscription, not a per-report tool.
- The right choice depends on usage pattern: occasional reports favor EagleView, a team already on Aurora gets the cheapest marginal add-on, and continuous wide-area coverage is Nearmap’s actual market.
Sources
The external data in this guide draws on the sources below. Figures described in the text as estimates or industry triangulations are directional and are not attributed to a single dataset.
- EagleView, Pricing, on per-report costs by roof size and tier
- Aurora Solar, Pricing, on on-demand aerial site model and subscription tier costs
- North Central Texas Council of Governments, Spatial Data Cooperative Program, Nearmap annual subscription rate sheet