The honest comparison.
What Pix4D, DroneDeploy and Optelos ask you to do, from their own documentation, and what the portal does instead. Then the price row.
Six and a half minutes, with a real Nemo run on camera.
On one page
| Pix4D | DroneDeploy | Optelos | PrecisionSky portal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pick a template, tick outputs | You do | Fewer knobs | Vendor setup | Never. One upload. |
| AI findings, box and photo behind each | Not offered | Enterprise agents, quoted | Custom models, onboarding | Included |
| Thermal in real °C on the 3D model | Pix4Dmapper, desktop | Higher tier | By project | Included |
| Your customer's own login, your brand | Share links / seats | Seats, by quote | Vendor-provisioned | Included |
| Whiteboard and safety link on a phone | — | — | — | Included |
| Invoice your customers, your own Stripe | — | — | — | Included |
| Spray operators: job sheet, scout, field file | Pix4Dfields, separate | Plant-health maps | — | Included |
| Processing hardware | Your PC or cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Own server, 2×H100 + 2×A100 |
| Support | Ticket / community | Ticket | Account team | A person. Text us. |
| Price | from $333/mo, 1 seat | $4,188/yr, 1 seat | Quote | $2,000 once · $50/customer/yr · $60–240/run |
Pix4D, DroneDeploy and Optelos are trademarks of their owners. Rows describe each vendor's published workflow and list prices as of October 21, 2026 (support.pix4d.com, dronedeploy.com, optelos.com); tiers marked "quoted" are not listed publicly. "—" means not a function of that product.
What the table leaves out
The big names are good at what they sell: a mapping engine you drive yourself. The portal is a different shape. It is the thing your customer logs into, with your name on it, that holds the map, the model, the thermal, the findings, the whiteboard and the invoice for every job you have ever flown for them. You stop being the help desk, and you stop paying per seat for the privilege.
$2,000 once for your seat and your white-label. $50 per customer per year. Mapping runs $60 to $240 flat by photo count. No seats, no contract. Full price sheet.