Top 10 Agisoft Metashape Alternatives 2026

What is Polycam?

Polycam turns a phone into a 3D scanner, supporting LiDAR capture on compatible iPhones and iPads, photo-based photogrammetry on any device, and Gaussian splat capture. Scans process in the cloud and export to common formats including OBJ, GLTF and USDZ, plus point clouds and floor plans. It ...

What is Esri Drone2Map?

Esri Drone2Map processes drone imagery into orthomosaics, point clouds, meshes and elevation models, and publishes the results straight into ArcGIS as hosted layers. For organizations whose spatial data already lives in ArcGIS, that publishing path is the whole argument — the alternative is ...

What is Bentley iTwin Capture?

Bentley iTwin Capture, the product previously sold as ContextCapture, produces engineering-ready 3D reality meshes from photographs and point clouds at infrastructure scale — bridges, road corridors, plants, entire city districts. It handles very large datasets by distributing processing across ...

What is RealityCapture?

RealityCapture, from Capturing Reality and owned by Epic Games, is a photogrammetry engine built around GPU-accelerated dense reconstruction, and its defining characteristic is speed — it processes very large image sets substantially faster than CPU-bound alternatives, which is what matters ...

What is Pix4Dmapper?

Pix4Dmapper converts drone and handheld imagery into point clouds, meshes, orthomosaics and digital surface models for surveying, construction and agriculture. Its distinguishing feature for professional delivery is the Quality Report it generates with every processing run, documenting ...

What is Skydio?

Skydio builds autonomous drones and the software that plans and executes capture missions for them. Its relevance to photogrammetry is 3D Scan, which flies a structure autonomously and works out the imagery required for complete reconstruction as it goes, adapting the flight path rather than ...

What is Luma AI?

Luma AI captures 3D scenes using neural radiance fields and Gaussian splatting rather than classical photogrammetry, reconstructing a scene from phone video with convincing handling of reflections, transparency and fine detail that mesh-based reconstruction struggles with. The output is a ...

What is KIRI Engine?

KIRI Engine is a mobile and web 3D scanning application supporting photo-based photogrammetry, LiDAR capture and 3D Gaussian splatting, with cloud processing and export to standard formats. It includes an object-capture mode with automatic background removal, which removes the tedious masking ...

What is PhotoModeler?

PhotoModeler is a long-established photogrammetry product built around measurement accuracy rather than visual output. It is used in accident reconstruction and forensics, structural and industrial inspection, and archaeology — applications where the deliverable is a defensible dimension, not a ...

What is 3DF Zephyr?

3DF Zephyr from 3Dflow reconstructs 3D models from photographs and video, covering point cloud generation, meshing, texturing and measurement, with survey and aerial-specific editions above the base product. Its Free edition handles projects up to 50 photos with no watermark or time limit, ...