Geo-Surface Pro pricing

One product. One price. The whole drainage suite.

Geo-Surface Pro — the full design suite (surface drainage, tile drainage, and 3D landforming) in your browser — is US$499/yr. Sign up before September 1, 2026 and that stays your renewal price for as long as your membership remains active; new signups pay US$799/yr after that date. That's your whole drainage design software cost: one flat membership covers every field you touch — unlimited acres, no per-acre fees, ever. Runs in Chrome or Edge on any reasonably modern Windows PC or Mac across the US and Canada — nothing to install, and you're always on the current version. Check current Canada coverage or US coverage.

One ~160-acre landforming design on a per-acre tool (~$9.90/ac) runs about $1,584 — more than three years of Geo-Surface Pro, which covers every field you design.

Complete tile drainage system designed in Geo-Surface Pro — **One product, real work:** design connected systems, validate profiles, size pipe, and deliver the plan—without an acreage meter.

Unlimited acres & fields No per-acre fees Surface, tile & 3D landforming — all included One annual membership · everything included

See the plans Try the demo first

30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime. Public elevation built in — no survey just to plan.

Plans

Look for free, or design it all

The free Geo-Surface Viewer lets anyone look at LiDAR terrain and open plans people share — no login. Geo-Surface Pro is the whole design suite: surface drainage, tile drainage, and 3D landforming, with reports for everything and machine files for landforming. One flat membership, unlimited acres, no per-acre fees, ever.

Free

Geo-Surface Viewer

Look, don't design — no login.

Free forever. No card, no account.

Terrain analysis layers available for viewing — Look at the terrain and understand the field.

Fetch and view high-resolution LiDAR terrain for any field (US 3DEP + Canada HRDEM)
2, 5 or 10 ft contour overlay on US fields, and a 3D terrain view of any field
Open and explore interactive plans people share with you
Free calculators: tile spacing, drainage ROI, flow capacity, grade

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Geo-Surface Pro

Surface, tile, and 3D landforming — the whole suite, in your browser.

US$499 /yr

Billed annually · launch price until September 1, 2026

A connected tile drainage system designed with Geo-Surface Pro — Design, size, validate, and deliver the fix.

Launch price until September 1, 2026. From then on new signups pay US$799/yr. Sign up before September 1, 2026 and your renewal stays $499/yr for as long as your membership stays active — and you get every new feature we ship, forever, at that price.

All three pillars — surface, tile & 3D landforming design
Surface & tile drainage with auto naming, Auto Best Fit grade, and stepped pipe sizing (3–48")
3D landforming (Beta): pick outlets on the boundary, set a max cut, hit Solve — it fills the lows and grades to your outlets with no ponding, moving as little dirt as possible (a few design models to try)
Built-in US 3DEP + Canada HRDEM elevation, or bring your own (GeoTIFF, RTK/XYZ, shapefile)
Read the water: ponding, wetness, flow paths — before and after your fix
Landforming machine files: Ditch Assist AGD (with benchmarks), AGS, CSV, TXT — plus dual-surface DXF and shapefile/KML that guide the field for surface & tile
Or just the deliverable: quantities and a branded PDF report — plus shapefile, KML/KMZ, GeoTIFF, DXF for CAD
Client-ready PDF reports, 3D terrain viewer, contours on demand
Soil recommendations, cited (SSURGO / SoilGrids)
Project folders on your own computer, 20-deep undo, share plans clients open free
24/7 in-app AI support with permission-based, privacy-filtered project context and guided navigation to known tools or manual sections
Your field data is processed on your own computer — interpolation and water analysis never upload it to a server
Unlimited fields & acres — no per-acre fees, ever

Lock in US$499/yr before September 1

30-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime · try the live demo first — no signup

30-day money-back guarantee on Geo-Surface Pro. Cancel anytime.

One annual membership, US$499/yr. From September 1, 2026 new signups pay US$799/yr — sign up now and $499/yr stays your renewal price.

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Free Viewer vs Geo-Surface Pro, line by line

The Viewer is for looking — terrain and shared plans, free, no login. Geo-Surface Pro is for doing the work: see the water, design surface, tile, and 3D landforming, then hand off reports for everything and machine files for landforming. Here's what each one does, grouped by the job.

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What you can do	Viewer Free · no login	Most Popular Geo-Surface Pro Everything included US$499/yr
See the water
Fetch & view high-resolution LiDAR terrain for any field US 3DEP + Canada HRDEM, pulled straight from a boundary you draw — free in the Viewer, no login. Pro adds the resolution picker and a GeoTIFF download of the raster.	Included in the Viewer	Included in Pro
Contour overlay 2, 5 or 10 ft contours over the terrain on US fields, free in the Viewer. Pro generates contours at any interval from your designed surface, and exports them.	Included in the Viewer	Included in Pro
Measure distance & area Quick measurements straight on the map.	Included in the Viewer	Included in Pro
Ponding, wetness & flow analysis — before and after your fix See where water sits and runs, then burn your designed drains into the terrain and re-run it to watch how the field behaves after the fix is built.	—	Included in Pro
Design surface & tile
Surface & tile drainage design Mains & laterals with automatic naming, Auto Best Fit / Guided / Freeform grade, stepped Manning's pipe sizing 3–48", depth & grade limits with violation flags, and snap-to-main connections.	—	Included in Pro
Design 3D landforming
Solve for drainage (drain-to-edge) Pick outlets on the boundary, set a max cut, hit Solve — it fills the lows and grades the field to your outlets, no ponding left behind, verified on the finished surface. A focused drain-to-edge tool, not a full optimizer.	—	Included in Pro
Least-dirt grading, audited volumes & haul plan A few grading models to try, fill borrowed from nearby high ground so most of the field is untouched, cut/fill in yd³/m³ with shrink/swell, haul-distance analysis, a borrow plan, and an optional topsoil strip & return workflow.	—	Included in Pro
Prove it & hand it over
Reports, your design in 3D & cited soil Client-ready drainage and landforming PDF reports with your branding, the tile network shown underground at designed grade in the 3D view, contours at any interval from your designed surface, and cited SSURGO / SoilGrids tile spacing, depth & coefficient. (The 3D terrain view itself is free in the Viewer.)	—	Included in Pro
Share plans clients open free Design in Pro; your client opens the interactive plan in the free Viewer — no account needed on their end.	Opens shared plans in the Viewer	Create and share plans in Pro
Machine files & exports
Landforming machine files Ditch Assist AGD with existing + proposed surfaces, boundary, and on-map calibration benchmarks, plus AGS (OptiSurface/AGPS), CSV grid, and TXT — Ditch Assist is one format among several, not a requirement.	—	Included in Pro
Drainage design exports that guide the field XYZP points, dual-surface DXF (AGPS DirtPro, PipeFM, any CAD), ESRI shapefile, and KML/KMZ — check the planned runs on screen or in the cab. RTK surveys each run before install.	—	Included in Pro
Projects & the membership
Free calculators Tile spacing, drainage ROI, flow capacity, and grade — quick estimates, no login.	Free calculators included	Included in Pro
Projects & unlimited acres — no per-acre fees, ever Project folders on your own computer (Chrome/Edge) with ZIP backup, 20-deep undo and line tools, across unlimited US + Canada fields on one flat membership. Check current Canada coverage or US coverage.	—	Included in Pro
Price	$0 no login	US$499/yr US$799/yr for new signups from Sept 1, 2026
	Open the Viewer	Get Geo-Surface Pro or try the live demo — no signup

30-day money-back guarantee on Geo-Surface Pro. US$499/yr is the launch price until September 1, 2026 — then US$799/yr for new signups. Join before then and US$499/yr stays your renewal price.

Decision aid

What it costs, and whether it fits

There's one paid product — Geo-Surface Pro — and one price. So the only real question is whether it fits the work you do. Here's the money first, then the short version of that.

Collage of a completed Geo-Surface Pro drainage report — **The deliverable:** branded plans, profiles, quantities, and design documentation.

Landforming cut and fill design included with Geo-Surface Pro — **Included, not an add-on:** 3D landforming on the same flat membership.

Join now, or pay more later

Until September 1, 2026

Join now

US$499/yr

One annual membership — the whole suite, nothing held back
Your US$499/yr rate holds for as long as you stay a member
Every new feature we ship, included, forever, at that price
30-day money-back guarantee — try it on a real field first

From September 1, 2026

US$799/yr

New signups pay US$799/yr
That's US$300 a year more, every year
Members who joined at US$499 aren't affected — the increase never touches your renewal
Same full suite either way

Is Pro for you?

"I farm my own ground and want to plan the drainage myself."

Plan surface drainage and simple tile yourself, or lay out variable-slope landforming on straightforward fields — instead of paying a consultant or contractor per acre just to plan it.

Farmers & landowners

"I run drainage jobs and need plans, quantities, and quotes."

Get from a boundary to a defensible first-pass plan, quantities, and quote support — and design 3D landforming for a flat membership instead of per-acre billing, with the design leaving as a machine file or a PDF. Design and quote from LiDAR without surveying the field first — the quotes that don't land cost you an afternoon, not a survey day.

Drainage contractors

"I advise clients and want to hand them a plan, not just a map."

Turn the elevation and field data you already collect into client-ready surface, tile, and landforming designs with branded PDF reports — a new billable service line built on data you have.

Ag consultants

"I screen drainage and culvert questions across a district."

Screen rural drainage complaints, size farm culverts from LiDAR, and review ag drainage across a whole district on one flat membership — screening and visualization, no per-study data budget.

Watershed & drainage districts

Either way, it's low-risk. Every membership is 30-day money-back and you can cancel anytime — and you don't have to decide blind: the live demo runs the real tool on a real field with no signup and no email.

Try it with no risk

Try it for 30 days. If it's not for you, get your money back.

Sign up for Geo-Surface Pro at the $499/yr launch price, design a real field, and if it isn't the right fit in the first 30 days, email us for a full refund. The price is flat — no per-acre meter, no surprise invoices — and you can cancel anytime.

30-day money-back guarantee
No per-acre fees
Cancel anytime

Plan and design from LiDAR. Survey and grade with RTK when the job goes ahead — the landforming AGD file carries the calibration benchmarks you place on the map, so the machine ties into real ground before grading.

FAQ

Pricing questions, answered straight

What's included, what it costs, how the price lock works, and where Geo-Surface fits in the job.

What's included in Geo-Surface Pro?

All of it — there's one paid product and everything's in it. Surface drainage and tile drainage design, 3D landforming, built-in US and Canada elevation (or bring your own GeoTIFF/RTK data), ponding and flow analysis, machine-ready design files, CAD and GIS exports, client-ready PDF reports, the 3D terrain viewer, soil recommendations, and project folders on your own computer. No add-ons, no per-feature upsells. The only permanently free things are the Geo-Surface Viewer and the free calculators (tile spacing, drainage ROI, flow capacity, grade).

How much does drainage design software cost?

Geo-Surface Pro is US$499/yr right now; from September 1, 2026 it's US$799/yr for new signups. One flat membership, unlimited acres. For context on firm, public numbers: Autodesk Civil 3D runs about $2,945/yr, OptiSurface bills roughly $9.90 per acre per design, and commissioning drone-LiDAR runs $30–120 per acre. Because public elevation is built into Geo-Surface Pro, there's no survey just to plan — the data's already there.

Is there a per-acre fee? What does landforming design cost per acre?

Never a per-acre fee. It's flat: unlimited acres, unlimited fields. That's the whole point next to per-acre landforming design — one ~160-acre landforming design at a per-acre rate (~$9.90/ac) comes to about $1,584, more than three years of Geo-Surface Pro, and per-acre billing starts over on the very next field. Your membership doesn't.

Is Geo-Surface Pro the same as OptiSurface?

No — and it's a fair question. Geo-Surface Pro's landforming is a focused drain-to-edge tool: you pick the boundary edges water may leave from, set a max cut, and it fills the low spots and grades the field to those outlets with no ponding left behind, moving as little dirt as possible — with a few design models to try. It is not a full-featured optimizer like OptiSurface, and we don't pretend it is. What changes is the bill: a flat membership with unlimited acres instead of roughly $9.90 per acre every time you design a field. For straightforward drain-to-edge work, that's a real difference. See the demo and judge for yourself.

What does the price lock mean, exactly?

$499/yr is the launch price until September 1, 2026. Sign up on the annual plan before then and your renewal stays $499/yr for as long as you keep your membership active — the rate doesn't move, and every new feature we ship is included at that price, forever. No countdown gimmicks — just a real date and a real lock. There's one plan today — the annual membership — so there's nothing to work out: join before September 1, 2026 and US$499/yr is your price for good.

What happens on September 1, 2026 when the new-signup price goes to $799?

On September 1, 2026, Pro moves to US$799/yr for new signups. If you sign up on the annual plan before then, you don't pay the increase — your $499/yr rate stays put while your membership is active, so it never touches your renewal.

Do I need special hardware or software?

No. Geo-Surface Pro runs in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge on any reasonably modern Windows PC or Mac — desktop or laptop, nothing to install, nothing to maintain, no CAD licence and no special graphics card. Open a browser and go, and you're always on the current version. Project folders save into a folder you pick on your own computer, so your work stays on your machine. If your computer's from the last five years or so, you're fine. The one thing genuinely worth having is a big monitor — drainage design is much easier with room to work. (Safari, Firefox, phones and tablets can't run the full design app. See the full recommended setup.)

Do my customers or employees need their own licence to view my designs?

No — and this is one of the best reasons to buy a membership. Only the person doing the designing pays. When a design is done, hit Backup Project in Geo-Surface Pro and you get a single project file. Send it to anyone, any way you like, and they open it in the free Geo-Surface Viewer with no account, no licence and no cost — and they don't just get a picture, they get the whole job: your drain runs with grades and pipe sizes, the field elevation you designed on, and the ponding, wetness and flow-path maps behind the plan. Customers can see exactly what they're buying, crew and operators can pull the plan up on any computer in the shop, and landlords, agronomists or lenders can look it over — all on your one membership. One paid seat, the whole operation covered.

Does my field data get uploaded to your servers?

No. Geo-Surface Pro does the real work inside your browser, on your own computer — interpolating your survey points and running the water analysis never sends your field data off to a server to be processed. The app downloads public elevation and map imagery from government services, but your boundaries, survey data, and designs stay with you, in a project folder you choose. Nothing gets shared unless you export it and send it.

Do my designs work with Ditch Assist?

Yes. Landforming designs export as Ditch Assist AGD files — existing and proposed surfaces, the field boundary, and the calibration benchmarks you place on the map — so the machine ties into real ground before grading. GIS4AG builds both Geo-Surface Pro and Ditch Assist, so they're made to work together. That said, Ditch Assist is one format among several: designs also export as AGS (OptiSurface/AGPS), CSV grid, TXT, and dual-surface DXF for AGPS DirtPro, PipeFM, or any CAD package. And plenty of members never export a machine file at all — the plan, the quantities, and the branded PDF report are the deliverable.

Do I still need an RTK survey?

Yes, for installation. Geo-Surface Pro is the design, feasibility, and quoting stage: plan and design from LiDAR, then survey and grade with RTK when the job goes ahead. The landforming AGD file carries the benchmarks you place on the map, so the machine ties into real ground first. It gets you to a confident go/no-go and a buildable plan; it doesn't replace the survey.

Does one membership cover both Canada and the US?

Yes — same membership, both countries, unlimited fields. Availability depends on the public source data in each area (US 3DEP, Canada HRDEM), so check Canada coverage or US coverage before you plan. Already have your own data? Upload a GeoTIFF DEM or import RTK/XYZ survey points and design from that.

Still deciding? Read the user manual or reach out before subscribing.

Unlimited acres · one flat price

Sign up at US$499/yr — and keep that price for good.

Geo-Surface Pro is US$499/yr until September 1, 2026 — then US$799/yr for new signups. Sign up at $499 and that stays your renewal price for as long as you keep your membership, every future feature included. The whole suite, every field, no per-acre fees, ever, and the first 30 days are money-back. Still kicking the tires? Try the demo on a real field first — no signup, no email.

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