Gaea vs Gaia Pro VS
Gaea
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| Figure | Gaea | Gaia Pro VS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Map Generators | 8.3 (#4) | 7.5 (#16) |
| Integrations | Gaea provides bridges for Unreal Engine and Houdini; the Gaea2Houdini plugin requires a Professional or Enterprise license. | The maker says Gaia works with GeNa roads and rivers, GTS terrain rendering, and Ambient Sounds soundscapes. |
| Purpose | Gaea is a terrain design platform for VFX, games, and virtual production. | Gaia Pro VS generates detailed landscapes, terrains, and levels for game worlds and environments. |
| Support | Support, maintenance, and minor updates are included at no additional cost, and the company says it does not offer a guaranteed support SLA. | Procedural Worlds recommends its documentation, tutorials, forums, and Discord for product help; it says forum support requires invoice validation or a subscription to post. |
Plans
Gaea
- Indie$99, paid once
- Professional$199, paid once
- Enterprise$299, paid once
- Community EditionFree
- Indie$99, paid once
- Professional$199, paid once
- Enterprise$299, paid once
In their own words
Gaea
Gaea is a Windows terrain design application for VFX, games, and virtual production. It builds terrain from procedural forms, imported data, or hand-drawn elements, then applies simulations for erosion, debris, glaciers, rivers, snow, and vegetation. It can produce terrain-aware color, textures, masks, material zones, vegetation data, and flow maps. Exports include heightfields, meshes, point clouds, textures, masks, and other terrain data. Bridges connect Gaea with Unreal Engine and Houdini; the Gaea2Houdini plugin requires a Professional or Enterprise license. Gaea also offers node-based compositing and a hybrid render engine.
The Community Edition is free for non-commercial use. The listed perpetual-license prices are $99 a month for Indie, $199 a month for Professional, and $299 a month for Enterprise; each is described as a one-time price. Gaea requires Windows, an AVX2-capable CPU, and at least 16 GB of RAM. CPU-only operation is supported; GPU compute needs CUDA 12.5 or higher or HIP 6.0 or higher.
Gaia Pro VS
Gaia Pro VS has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.