SkyFi

Free and paid

SkyFi's FAQ, opened 16 Oct 2026, contains two price blocks. Keep them apart. The pricing-work answer says a single existing image starts at $15 and a single new image starts at $200, with the total set by area, sensor, and resolution. The cost answer says rates start at $1 a square kilometre, optical archive from $5 and tasking from $8, and Umbra SAR from $450 archive and $675 tasking per scene. Neither block is a quote for your polygon until the cart shows it. Open Data is the free low-resolution filter, not the $15 image. SkyFi Pro is mentioned as enterprise pricing without a figure.

skyfi.com describes a self-serve Earth-intelligence platform: search an archive, task a new collect, run analytics, and pay by card, with an API for larger workflows. The FAQ says an existing image was already captured and a new image is tasked for a time window, a resolution, and a sensor. Existing images can be previewed, including cloud, and the FAQ says those orders are not refunded. A new image that misses the window or comes back cloudier than ordered is refunded or reordered. Downloads of existing images are promised within 24 hours of the order. New images are promised 48 hours after capture.

• Existing, new, and open. The FAQ separates archive purchases, tasked collects, and a free Open filter.
• Two published price stories. One answer is per image. The other is per square kilometre and per SAR scene. Both are on the FAQ.
• Many operators, one cart. The cost answer names Vantor, Planet, Satellogic, and Umbra as sources SkyFi sells.

1. 1

   Decide whether you need an existing image, a new tasking, or the Open filter before you read a price.

2. 2

   Quote the FAQ sentence that matches the unit, image or square kilometre, and then check the cart.

3. 3

   Save the provider name with the file. SkyFi is the shop.

4. 4

   Do not describe a person in a 30–50 cm frame. The FAQ says that resolution does not identify one.

• You want one existing image and you will not open the operator's own contract. Read the SkyFi FAQ line that prices a single existing image from $15, then open the cart for your polygon. Do not mix that figure with the other FAQ answer, which starts at $1 a square kilometre and quotes optical archive from $5. They are different units. The provider name on the order, Vantor or Planet or Satellogic or someone else, goes in the caption next to SkyFi.
• The collect has not happened yet. Use the new-image line, which starts at $200 in one FAQ answer and from $8 a square kilometre for optical tasking in the other. The FAQ says a new image that misses the window or comes back cloudier than ordered is refunded or reordered, and that delivery is 48 hours after capture. An existing image, once previewed, is not refunded. Know which rule you are under before you pay.
• A low-resolution free frame is enough. Use the Open filter the FAQ describes, and do not call that file the $15 image. If the sensor has to be Umbra SAR, quote the SAR lines, $450 archive and $675 tasking per scene, and say they are SkyFi's. The FAQ also says 30–50 cm imagery lets you see people and not identify them. Do not write an identification from that frame.

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.