OpenCities Planner

Contact sales Win & Set Up the Work

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)

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Hidden Pricing
2.8 /5 composite score
RF1 remains attached because pricing is contact-sales only, C2 2/5 reflects no documented API or scripting surface, and C4 4/5 reflects DGN, DWG, RVT, IFC, CityGML, GIS, and point-cloud import coverage.
Situational

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion Score Evidence
Value for the price 2/5 Contact sales Source →
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

Pricing

ModelContact sales
Free tierno
Free viewerno
Trialno
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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

FormatDirectionSupport
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

Sources

Pricing

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OpenCities Planner also appears in these sub-categories:

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The presentation-graphics placement is the multi-device web/mobile/VR-AR viewer over CAD, BIM, GIS, and reality data; C5 4/5 reflects ArcGIS and database integrations, and C2 2/5 reflects a web-UI-only surface.

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