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Esri AI
Esri
OpenAI API
OpenAI
Annual subscription. ArcGIS Online from $500/year. Enterprise custom. Private company.
Free $5 in trial credits for new accounts. Usage-based per token: GPT-4o at $2.50/million input tokens, $10/million output tokens. o1 at $15/million input tokens. Realtime API at $5/million audio tokens. Enterprise volume discounts.
AI-powered spatial analysis and location intelligence
Computer vision on satellite and aerial imagery
Government and environmental GIS analytics
Enterprise site selection and risk modelling
Cloud and desktop GIS for spatial decision-making
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. FedRAMP High. StateRAMP. Enterprise data handling agreements.
Enterprise API includes data handling agreements, no model training on data by default, and SOC 2 Type II certification. Standard API users: review data handling policy.
Spatial and geographic data processed on Esri cloud or customer on-premise ArcGIS Enterprise. FedRAMP High for US government GIS deployments.
Default API users: review OpenAI's data handling policy. Enterprise API: data not used for model training, with data handling agreements. Zero Data Retention option available for sensitive use cases.
