OpenCities Planner

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Web-based city-scale digital twin platform for design and visualization of infrastructure and urban development projects. Combines CAD/BIM models, GIS data, reality capture, and enterprise information into unified 3D environments accessible across multiple device types including desktop, tablet, mobile, VR/AR, and large touch-screens.

Made by Bentley Systems, public (BSY, $10.1B)

Hidden Pricing

2.8 /5 composite score

City-scale urban planning and feasibility visualization platform combining CAD, BIM, GIS, and reality data into unified 3D environment. No public pricing available; enterprise contact-sales model limits accessibility for medium-sized practices. Web-based cloud deployment is strong, but sales/IT gatekeeping creates friction.

Situational

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	2/5	Contact sales
Agent Friendliness	2/5	API: none documented; web UI only
Ease of adoption	2/5	web-saas
Portability & lock-in	4/5	7 file formats
Interoperability	4/5	4 integrations

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How we verified this: we checked OpenCities Planner against its live site and an independent source — bentley.com. Nothing on this page is listed from memory. See how we grade. Verified 2026-07-14.

Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
DGN	import	unknown
DWG	import	unknown
RVT	import	unknown
IFC	import	unknown
CityGML	import	unknown
GIS/map data	import	full
point-cloud	import	unknown

Integrations

CAD/BIM applications GIS tools ArcGIS database connections

Adoption

Deploymentweb-saas

Implementation requiredvendor-led

SSO/admin requiredyes

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