Felt vs uMap
Felt
felt.com
uMap
umap.openstreetmap.frSide by side
| Figure | Felt | uMap |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $199/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 0 |
| Spec score · Interactive Map Software | 9.3 (#3) | 6.3 (#40) |
| Spec score · Map Creation Software | 9.3 (#3) | 6.4 (#25) |
| Intended users | Felt lists GIS teams, field and operations teams, data science and analytics teams, product and engineering teams, and large GIS organizations as audiences. | The user documentation is intended for people using uMap, while developer documentation is provided separately. |
| Self-hosting | Enterprise includes regional deployment options and makes self-hosted deployment available. | The project provides installation instructions using Python and Django with PostgreSQL and PostGIS, and documents Docker deployment. |
| Support | Professional includes priority email and chat support and a one-hour onboarding session; Enterprise includes a dedicated customer success manager, technical support, and custom onboarding. | The user documentation points users to videos, articles, FAQs and error details, and says undocumented bugs can be raised through its community channels. |
Plans
Felt
- FreeFree
- PersonalFree
- Team$199 a month
- Business$599 a month
- Platform$1,000 a month
- Enterprise$1,250 a month
- ProfessionalPrice not published
In their own words
Felt
Felt is a cloud-based GIS platform for building maps, dashboards, and apps from spatial data. It combines spatial SQL and cross-table analysis with plain-language analysis through Felt AI. Connections include Amazon S3, BigQuery, Databricks, Esri, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, MS SQL, Postgres, Snowflake, STAC, WFS, WMTS, Wherobots, and Amazon Redshift. A QGIS plugin carries styling, symbology, and layer structure into Felt when publishing. Its iOS and Android Field App supports surveys, GPS capture, geotagged photos, offline work, and later syncing. Teams can collaborate on maps in real time, share them, use threaded comments, and manage permissions. The Personal plan is free forever and allows unlimited maps and sharing, but it is for personal use and excludes uploads of your own data files. Professional and Enterprise are annual contracts with prices not published; Professional lists 25 GB monthly data processing and 100K monthly map views. A seven-day trial is listed. Felt supports web, desktop, mobile, API, and self-hosted platforms.