Agisoft Metashape is a stand-alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data to be used in GIS applications, cultural heritage documentation, and visual effects production as well as for indirect measurements of objects of various scales.
You may choose either "Professional" edition or "Standard" edition.
Please refer a comparison chart at http://www.agisoft.com/features/compare/
【Licensing Option】
Metashape is a proprietary software solution. The software and documentation are supplied electronically. You will receive a registration code by e-mail after your order is processed.
This registration code allows to convert a demo Metashape version into a fully featured registered version.
Agisoft provides node-locked licenses, i.e. one license allows to activate the program at one machine only. Metashape license is NOT time-limited.
Metashape license includes 12 month of e-mail based technical support and entitles the licensee to free updates of the software up to the version 2.0 (see the current released version number at Installer page).
To support education in the field of photogrammetry, Agisoft offers educational licenses to educational institutions.
●Node-Locked License●
Node-Locked License (previously called Stand-Alone license) is a rehostable node-locked license, i.e. one license allows to activate the program at one machine only, however, the license can be transferred to a different computer if needed.
Node-Locked license allows to use Metashape software in all kinds of paid and unpaid projects. The license is available both to individuals and legal entities, such as companies, firms, museums, research institutions, governmental institutions, etc.
●Floating License●
Floating license allows to install the program on as many computers as desired and run it, at any one time, on as
many systems as the number of licenses purchased indicates.
One computing machine shall be designated as the "license server"; the license server utility installed on it will manage license distribution across the network of computers where the program
has been installed.
Floating license is available for Agisoft Metashape Professional Edition only.
●Educational License●
Educational licenses (rehostable node-locked) and Educational Floating licenses are available exclusively to
accredited educational institutions, their employees and students of such institutions.
Only officially accredited educational institutions are eligible to obtain Agisoft Metashape educational licenses. This includes: universities, colleges, junior colleges, scientific and technical
schools, vocational schools, and correspondence schools.
Educational or Educational Floating licenses can also be purchased by students and officially employed teaching and research staff of officially accredited educational institutions.
Any educational license prohibits all commercial uses of the software. Educational / Educational Floating and Node-Locked / Floating licenses differ legally but are technically identical.
【System Requirements】
Minimal configuration
• Windows 7 SP 1 or later (64 bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 or later (64 bit), macOS High Sierra or
later, Debian/Ubuntu with GLIBC 2.19+ (64 bit)
• Intel Core 2 Duo processor or equivalent
• 8 GB of RA
Recommended configuration
• Windows 7 SP 1 or later (64 bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 or later (64 bit), macOS Mojave or later,
Debian/Ubuntu with GLIBC 2.19+ (64 bit)
• Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 processor
• Discrete NVIDIA or AMD GPU (4+ GB VRAM)
• 32 GB of RAM
The number of photos that can be processed by Metashape depends on the available RAM and
reconstruction parameters used. Assuming that a single photo resolution is of the order of 10 MPix, 4 GB RAM is sufficient to make a model based on 30 to 50 photos. 16 GB RAM will allow to
process up to
300-500 photographs