ICEYE

Free and paid

ICEYE's open-data page says the public scenes are free: no registration and no paywall. The API guide says commercial catalog prices depend on the contract, that not every contract has a pricing plan, and that you should read hasPricingPlan rather than guess. No dollar figure was printed in that guide. Do not copy another vendor's SAR rate onto ICEYE. If you buy through SkyFi, quote SkyFi's page for that order and say so.

ICEYE's open-data page says the public set needs no registration and no payment. Three doors are named: an Open SAR Data Map Browser with filters for location, mode, and date; a STAC browser for SLC, GRD, and COG assets; and the AWS Registry of Open Data. The page shows an example label for Angkor Wat. It does not print a commercial rate card.

• Three free doors. The initiative page names a map browser, a STAC browser, and an AWS open-data bucket.
• Previews versus owned scenes. The API guide says public items carry low-resolution assets and full products sit on scenes you own.
• Price is contractual. The same guide says to read hasPricingPlan and not to invent a number from a failed call.

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   Start at the open-data initiative and use the map or STAC browser for a place you are allowed to study.

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   Record the mode, the date, and whether the file is a public preview or a purchased product.

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   If a price call fails, check hasPricingPlan before you tell anyone the scene is free or forbidden.

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   Use Umbra's open program or Capella's contracted console when the ICEYE public set has no scene.

• You need a public SAR scene and you do not have a contract. Open the ICEYE map browser linked from the open-data docs. On 16 Oct 2026 it read 640 of 640 scenes with every mode selected. Filter by mode when the question is a specific product. Setting the filter to Spot that day changed the counter to 28 of 640. Record the mode, the acquisition date, and whether the file is the public asset or a full-resolution product you own.
• A price call fails and someone concludes the scene is either free or forbidden. The API guide says to read hasPricingPlan and not to infer a missing plan from a failed request. Two contracts can price the same frame differently. The open-data initiative is the free door: no registration and no paywall, with low-resolution assets on public catalog items. A SkyFi purchase of ICEYE is SkyFi's checkout. Say which door you used.
• The public set has no scene of the site. That is a gap in the release, not proof the satellite never imaged the place. Switch to Umbra's open program if that site is one of Umbra's published locations, or to a Capella contract if one exists. Do not brief a low-resolution preview as the full product. The guide separates those assets.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

Questions

Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.