Pricing
Pay once. Every build released in your first twelve months is yours, and it keeps working for good.
For anyone who wants to see and process 3D data.
No account, no trial clock.
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit.
For the surveyor, modeller or researcher who hands over files.
€790 Founder's price · renewal €159 a year
Checkout opens at launch.
For people who write Python and want the engine underneath it.
€2,490 Founder's price · renewal €499 a year
pip install neurones3d: the engine as a Python package, numpy in, numpy outDesktop owners upgrade for the difference. In build.
Desktop, for students and researchers, at the same price for everyone.
One-time · renewal €39 a year
Commercial or contract research needs Desktop or Engine & SDK.
One-time price, excl. VAT. Every build from your 12 months is yours forever. VAT is added at checkout where it is due. With French VAT at 20 %: Desktop €468, Engine & SDK €1,188, Academic €238.80. EU businesses with a valid VAT number pay no VAT (reverse charge). Teams: five seats for the price of four, at the price in force. Purchasing opens at launch, and the waitlist hears first. Sold by 3D Geodata Academy, Paris.
Founder's edition
Neurones 3D has been built in the open, on measured numbers, by one researcher. The Founder's edition is how the first buyers get in: the same licence, the same "own it" promise, at the launch price.
No lifetime deal, and no price that quietly expires: what you buy keeps working.
What "own it" means
A key is checked against the release date of the build, not against today's date. Nothing expires, and nothing needs a server.
Compare the editions
The same program in every edition. A licence decides what leaves it.
Swipe the table sideways to compare the editions.
| By task | Viewerfree | Desktop€390 €790 | Engine & SDK€990 €2,490 | Academic€199 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| View & process | ||||
| Open LAS, LAZ, COPC, E57, PLY, splats, IFC, STEP, USD and more | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Out-of-core rendering, Gaussian splats, every render mode | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Four trained classifiers, segmentation, ground filter | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Measure, sections, change detection, scene graph | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Floor plan, terrain and report previews | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Convert a file to another format, with nothing computed added | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Deliverables & exports | ||||
| Clouds with computed columns (class, segment, height above ground) as LAS, PLY, CSV | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Floor plans, sections and elevations as DXF, PDF and SVG | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Terrain rasters (DTM, DSM, CHM as GeoTIFF) and GIS vectors (GeoJSON, Shapefile) | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Meshes and voxels as glTF / GLB, USD stages (.usda) | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| MP4 flythroughs and orthoimages up to 8192 px | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Reports: self-contained HTML with provenance | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Python & automation | ||||
The Python package, pip install neurones3d: numpy in, numpy out | Not included | Not included | Included | Not included |
Headless command line, n3d-render-cli: more than thirty subcommands | Not included | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Run both on any number of machines inside your organisation | Not included | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Notebooks that mirror the course projects | Not included | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Engine source | ||||
Source of n3d-core, n3d-io and n3d-render | Not included | Not included | By agreement | Not included |
| Put the engine inside a product you sell | Not included | Not included | By agreement | Not included |
| Learning | ||||
| Guides, videos and sample data on this site | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| The academy's Write the Tool course line | Not included | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Licence & updates | ||||
| Who may use it | Anyone | One named person, all their machines | One developer, plus machines inside the organisation | One student or researcher |
| Commercial use | Included | Included | Included | Not permitted |
| Builds covered | Every build | 12 months, at least 4 releases | 12 months, at least 4 releases | 12 months, at least 4 releases |
| Those builds keep working after the 12 months | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Optional renewal, per year | Not included | €159 | €499 | €39 |
| Offline key: no activation, no account, no expiry | No key needed | Included | Included | Included |
| Support | ||||
| Feedback form and a public board to vote on what comes next | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| At least four releases a year | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Support is the same on every edition, and it runs on feedback: one feedback form, a public board, the guides and the FAQ, and a release every quarter planned from what users send. There is no service-level agreement and no phone line.
What the Engine & SDK is
Most of the people who build on this work in Python. So the SDK is a Python package first: pip install neurones3d, numpy in and numpy out, with the same engine the desktop program runs — the one every figure on this site was measured with.
neurones3dn3d-render-cliWith it, the academy's Write the Tool course line: The 3D Python Blueprint, 3D Point Cloud Intelligence Blueprint, 3D Segmentor OS, 3D Reconstructor OS, 3D Spatial OS, 3D Deep Learning OS, Gaussian Splatting for 3D, and Applied Semantic Segmentation for LiDAR Point Cloud.
Why it matters: no compiler, no CUDA, no conda knot. One wheel, and a 100-million-point cloud that opens instead of filling your memory.
import neurones3d as n3d # 100 M points, out of core cloud = n3d.open("survey.laz") # the cloth-simulation ground filter ground = n3d.ground(cloud) # numpy rasters, then GeoTIFF dtm = n3d.terrain(cloud, resolution=0.5) dtm.write("products/") # a numpy view of the engine's memory xyz = cloud.xyz_local labels = n3d.classify(cloud).labels
The arrays are the engine's own memory, so nothing is copied to hand them to numpy, scikit-learn or PyTorch.
One developer, and the machines of one organisation. The licence is perpetual for the builds your twelve months cover, and it is sent on request before you buy.
Pricing questions
A key covers every build released in the twelve months after you buy: at least four releases, because a new build ships every quarter. Those builds keep working for good. The key is checked against the release date of the build, not against today’s date, so there is nothing to expire, nothing to reactivate and no server to lose. The Founder’s edition is the same licence at the launch price: the first 200 licences, or 60 days after launch, whichever comes first.
Nothing breaks. Every build released in your twelve months keeps working. Newer builds need a renewal, which is optional and costs 20 % of the edition’s price for another twelve months of builds.
Desktop: one named person, on all of that person’s own machines. Engine & SDK: one developer, plus the Python package and the command line on as many machines as your organisation runs for its own work, servers and CI included, but not as a service for others. Academic: one student or researcher; a lab buys one per person. Five seats cost the price of four.
Yes. neurones3d needs an Engine & SDK key, which it finds in the N3D_LICENSE environment variable or in the same key file the program uses, so one activation serves the program, the command line and Python. Ask for a 30-day trial key if you want to try it on your own data first. A Desktop or academic key does not unlock Python.
Never. A key is an Ed25519 signature checked on your machine, with no activation server. The check is repeated whenever an export is asked for rather than remembered, and costs about 26 microseconds.
Yes. A Desktop owner upgrades by paying the difference between the two prices, at the prices in force when they upgrade.
It is one price for everyone in teaching and research: €199 per person, for the Desktop edition, for non-commercial work only, on proof of enrolment or of a research post. A lab or department buys one per person, on invoice or purchase order. Publications that use N3D should cite it. Commercial work, including contract research for a client, needs Desktop or Engine & SDK, and so does the Python package.
Yes. Institutes and organisations can ask for a quote at howto@learngeodata.eu, send a purchase order and pay the invoice by bank transfer. Every card order gets an invoice too, issued by 3D Geodata Academy.
Without. Prices are one-time and exclude VAT, which is added at checkout where it is due, and the total is shown before you pay. A business in the European Union with a valid VAT number is invoiced without VAT, under the reverse charge.
The key is delivered by email as soon as you pay, so at checkout you ask for immediate delivery and acknowledge that you lose the fourteen-day right of withdrawal: purchases are final. Your legal guarantee of conformity is not affected. That is why the free Viewer is the complete program without exports: try it on your own data first. The terms give the details, including how to withdraw if delivery had not started.
The same for everyone, and it runs on feedback: one feedback form, a public board to vote on what comes next, the guides and the FAQ, and at least four releases a year, planned from what users send. There is no service-level agreement and no phone line.
More in the FAQ and the terms. Anything else: howto@learngeodata.eu.
This site keeps only what it needs to work: a voting token on the board, a draft of a feedback message, and this choice. There is no analytics and no advertising. What is stored, and why.