SkyWatch

Free and paid

Use the SkyWatch data-pricing page for numbers, and call them starting rates. On 16 Oct 2026 the satellite rows began at $2.50, $10, $19, and $25 per square kilometre for archive, and $3.50, $12, $29, and $30 for tasking, with the minimum areas printed beside them. The page says self-serve orders have no seat fee and no annual minimum, and that the cart shows the final total. Elevation tasking is 'request pricing.' HUB and other large programs are sales quotes. Do not label this table EarthCache unless a current SkyWatch page uses that word.

The SkyWatch data-pricing page says one price list covers satellite, elevation, aerial, and drone imagery, that you pay for the area you order, and that there are no subscriptions, seat licenses, or annual minimums on self-serve orders. Archive is imagery already captured. Tasking commissions a new collect. The satellite table, in U.S. dollars per square kilometre, starts at $2.50 archive and $3.50 tasking for 1–8 m optical, $10 and $12 for 50–99 cm, $19 and $29 for 30–49 cm, and $25 and $30 for 15 cm. Minimums on that table are 1 square kilometre for most archive rows, and 25 square kilometres for tasking below 50 cm. Elevation archive starts at $8.75. Aerial orthos start at $50 or $67. Drone tasking is listed as $45 per 0.1 square kilometre through Spexi. The page says the exact price is shown before checkout and that volume terms, including a product it calls HUB, are a sales conversation.

• Archive versus tasking. The pricing page defines archive as data already captured and tasking as a new collect, with different minimums.
• Printed starting rates. The satellite table lists four optical classes from 15 cm to 8 m, in dollars per square kilometre.
• The name on the page is SkyWatch. EarthCache does not appear on the pricing page opened for this listing.

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   Open the data-pricing page and match the resolution class before you quote a rate.

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   Check the minimum area. A cheap per-kilometre rate can still force a large order.

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   Read the checkout total. The table is a starting rate.

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   Name the imagery provider on the order, not only SkyWatch, when you cite the frame.

• You are pricing an archive frame and a tasked frame of the same small site. Open the SkyWatch data-pricing page and match the resolution class. On 16 Oct 2026 the satellite table started at $2.50, $10, $19, and $25 per square kilometre for archive, with tasking higher. Then read the minimum area. Tasking below 50 cm listed a 25 square kilometre minimum. Multiply the rate by that minimum, not by the city block, and then read the cart. The table is a starting rate.
• A write-up still says EarthCache. The pricing page opened for this listing says SkyWatch and does not use the EarthCache name. Change the product name. Keep any API detail that a current SkyWatch page still documents, and do not revive a third-party rate table that disagrees with the page you opened. Name the imagery provider on the order. SkyWatch is the catalog.
• The job is elevation, aerial, or drone rather than a satellite scene. The same page prices those separately: elevation archive from $8.75, aerial orthos from $50 or $67, and drone tasking through Spexi at $45 per 0.1 square kilometre. Elevation tasking says request pricing. HUB is a sales conversation. Do not force those rows into the satellite table.

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Questions

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