--- title: QGIS Reviews meta\_title: 'QGIS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 154 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how QGIS works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 154 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # QGIS Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by QGIS but has limited features. Are you part of the QGIS team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/qgis/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! QGIS is a free and open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) that enables users to visualize, edit, analyze, and publish geospatial information across various platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Designed to be accessible to both beginners and professionals, QGIS offers a comprehensive suite of tools for creating, managing, and sharing spatial data. Key Features and Functionality: - Map Creation and Design: QGIS provides an extensive set of cartographic design options, allowing users to craft detailed and aesthetically pleasing maps suitable for desktop, mobile, cloud, and print media. - Layer Editing: Users can create and edit points, lines, polygons, and meshes with precision, utilizing advanced construction tools that support curves, CAD-like functionalities, and a wide range of geometry transformations. - Data Processing and Analysis: The software includes a comprehensive array of analysis tools, enabling users to uncover insights from their data. It supports automated analysis workflows through visual combinations of tools, facilitating reproducible processes. - Data Sharing and Interoperability: QGIS supports various data sources and formats, ensuring seamless data integration. It adheres to industry standards, allowing users to explore, utilize, and create web services, and extends its capabilities to cloud and mobile platforms for broader accessibility. Primary Value and User Solutions: QGIS empowers users by providing robust spatial visualization and decision-making tools without the constraints of proprietary software. Its open-source nature ensures continuous development and community-driven enhancements, making it a cost-effective solution for organizations and individuals requiring advanced GIS capabilities. By supporting a wide range of data formats and offering extensive customization through plugins, QGIS addresses the diverse needs of its users, facilitating efficient data management, analysis, and dissemination. * * * Seller [QGIS](https://www.g2.com/sellers/qgis) Discussions [QGIS Community](https://www.g2.com/products/qgis/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Hitesh Rajpurohit Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/qgis/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![AutoCAD](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AutoCAD") AutoCAD 4.4/5(1,940) ](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews) [ ![Esri ArcGIS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Esri ArcGIS") Esri ArcGIS 4.5/5(540) ](https://www.g2.com/products/esri-arcgis/reviews) [ ![Google Earth Pro](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Earth Pro") Google Earth Pro 4.6/5(385) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-earth-pro/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/qgis/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 154 real user reviews. 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[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") AutoCAD ](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") PostgreSQL ](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Python ](https://www.g2.com/products/python/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Revit ](https://www.g2.com/products/revit/reviews) Show More ![Hadgu E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hadgu E.") HE Hadgu E. Senior Instructor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/22/2021 "QGIS is a fantastic software for remote sensing and marine and oceanographic data" 5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? Qgis is the most powerful gis software ever I know, and it is absolutely free and fast developing with many help cetets and many training data. specially it is comfortable to work on remote sensing and spaial analysis. I would like to qgis to dedicate more in marine data analysis. I think there is less functionalities and training data available regarding ocean data analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? it isn't easy to find some plugins and some times qgis crushes and in some cases while performing some analysis, some time it works and with the same procedure it fails to perform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: Use the free and self-customizable gis software--QGIS, rather than using high cost and administrator/owner pre-customized software such as ...... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? user friendly good in remote sensing synchronized with GRASS and SAGA many plugins I solve many marine and oceanographic data for research Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/25/2021 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![CHANCY S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CHANCY S.") CS CHANCY S. Training and Research in Earth Eco-System Program Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/3/2021 "QGIS Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? QGIS software is used to create, visualize, analyze, update the data of the Geographic Information System. It has a plugin that can be developed and installed as per requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? QGIS has a plugin that is compatible with its particular version only. 3D view of QGIS does not work efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: QGIS software is open-source software. It is easy to use and very versatile software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? Using QGiS, GIS related problem are solved. Digital Images Processing is carried out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Tilok C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tilok C.") TC Tilok C. RS Executive Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/23/2021 "Excellent GIS software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? UI of QGIS is excellent and easy to learn for beginners. The best thing I like about this software is the availability and easy installation of plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? Software crashes while performing a heavy task Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: Explore QGIS and go for Ujaval Gandhi's tutorial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? I use QGIS for mapping the spatial distribution of forest cover, agricultural plots, interpolation of forest fire areas, analyzing NDVI time-series data. The most crucial benefit of QGIS is that it helps in creating beautiful self-explanatory maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Adriano B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adriano B.") AB Adriano B. Senior Researcher Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/27/2021 "I used it a long time ago" 4/5 What do you like best about QGIS? Qgis was for me a very powerful too to visualize and manipulate data without having the necessity to use an expensive GIS software under a commercial license The early version I used was already very good in terms of user interface, with a deign of icons and menu very close to the familiar windows environment. The QGIS was perfect for data analysis and printing screenshots of the map on the monitor, as well as calculating buffer zones or editing tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? Qgis was for little developed in the printing settings. To print a meaningful map, adding a legend, labels and titles was vary difficult, close to impossible. In this sense it was not possible to substitute the use of commercial software. I also dislike the point that sometimes it was crashing after a long time spent in calculation, without giving any output Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: Feel free to test and experiment, it is a quite easy to use software, it is a good starting point to entre into the GIS universe and compose your own maps and analysis. frequent updates have improved a lot the QGIS software during time, making it a real alternative to commercial software for many users. The various con-line communities will help you in case of need. Start with easy things, playing a bit with datasets, then add new features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? Qgis was the only and effective solution to work with students or young professionals not having access to expensive commercial software. I used it to compose thematic maps, perform spatial and environmental analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mukul S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mukul S.") MS Mukul S. Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/9/2021 "Geographic Information System" 5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? QGIS is free, and great training resources are available to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? The procedure to perform even a simple task is quite lengthy and time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: Tottaly recommendable, one can learn it easily and can do various assignments and make own applications for public use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? Getting and collecting the regional data, based on different criteria. Using the same to make own system to tranfer the information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Environmental Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Environmental Services") UE Verified User in Environmental Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/3/2021 "QGIS review" 5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? Very easy to use and doesn't use as much processing power as other GIS software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? Some features may not be as good or complex as other GIS software for complicated procedures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: Free and easy to download. Recommended for sure! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used GIS mainly for mapping, for example mapping air quality in a city Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Environmental Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Environmental Services") AE Verified User in Environmental Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/3/2021 "Powerful yet lightweight, easy to use and extremely useful" 4.5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? The best thing about Qgis is how powerful it is - I use paid gis software in my professional occupation and have to say that QGIS is by far the best program out there that provides so much for free. It is reliable - unlike the paid software that I use QGIS never crashes. It is functional and fast to load - I can do almost everything on it and it is for free. This is not a sponsored review, yet it would feel like one because I am grateful and happy that I learned about this program. I use QGIS version 3.18.0 and I love the fact that it is free and available for both 32 bit and 64 bit, unlike its main competitor that has only 32 bit. QGIS is also available for all operating systems that I use i.e. Linux, Windows, and Mac which is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? I am still learning and to be fair the only thing I don't like is that I don't know enough about the program. Some of the tasks that I execute are slightly more time-consuming in QGiS in comparison to other programs out there. However, for a program that is for free and offers so much, I honestly feel that complaints should be out of the question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? I am creating web maps, spatial analysis, and visualization of data. I use QGIS to alter and present to the public maps where one can see snow cleaning routes during the winter and maintenance services during the summer. The maps are presented on a municipal website. It is extremely easy to alter and modify the maps in real-time, and it takes one click on the refresh button in order to update a snow root for example, and make it visible to the citizens of the municipality that I work for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Matthew F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Matthew F.") MF Matthew F. Flood Modeller Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/28/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Great for spatial analysis" 4.5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? QGIS is a free software that enables data amateurs to discover trends within spatial datasets easily. It's use of plugins and accompanying tutorials make it a great piece of kit and invaluable for any aspiring GIS techies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? It is not as good with displaying datasets from different coordinate systems. ArcMap does a much better job. Additionally, regarding large vector files, it is more temperamental than ArcMap and certain features, that I take for granted in ArcMap are not as readily available in QGIS (ie: clip raster (Arcmap) - Clipper (QGIS plugin)). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: It is harder to get familiar with than other spatial software, but that is what makes it better as there is so much to learn and you can push the frontiers alot more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? As QGIS uses python, it is actually easier managing spatial attributes and adding data to columns. I needed to calculate the bounding box area of features (polygon dataset), which is easier in QGIS using python than with ArcMap. Additionally, QGIS has a faster loading time than ArcMap which allowed me to visually identify errors within a dataset far easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Architecture & Planning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Architecture & Planning") UA Verified User in Architecture & Planning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/16/2021 "Open source user friendly Geodata Analyst" 4/5 What do you like best about QGIS? I specially regard this is an open source software, where there's always the possibility to improve by accessing user-base websites or just fast improvement of possible software issues that may appear on the go. It is easily accesible and usable for everyone who wants to start getting into the mindset of georeferenced data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? You must understand how the software works to get especific outputs, for example the image export section is quite unhandy given that all the layer get exported as one file for graphic tasks. Thus is needed to export manually every layer and then re-format on a design software. Being an open source software theres constantly add ons or extra features that can be downloaded to add to your workplace, but they dont get seamlesly added to your workplace, making your (QGIS) desktop crowded and hard to read. Basemaps can not be added directly, you must search the dataset or online server that provides the needed information. Versus other softwares who work with geodata, this is quite unfriendly for new users and time wasting for experienced users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? Cartographic urban analysis in all its spectrum. I use it mainly as starting point for urban analysis and city planning data overview. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Priya S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Priya S.") PS Priya S. Geographic Information Systems Analyst Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/8/2021 "Very useful free and open-source cross-platform desktop GIS" 5/5 What do you like best about QGIS? It is free, open-source software, Converting between spatial data formats, Map composition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about QGIS? Some of the even simpler tasks need digging (tools are not open), Interface is not that good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering QGIS: Free, powerful software for GIS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is QGIS solving and how is that benefiting you? Data convrrsion, map prepration, vector layer creation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about QGIS? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about QGIS ](https://www.g2.com/products/qgis/discussions/new) GU Guest User • Last activity almost 3 years ago Is Qgis as good as ArcGIS? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-qgis-as-good-as-arcgis) ![Himanshu P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Himanshu P.") 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