Best Point Cloud Sharing Platforms in 2026

The best point cloud sharing platforms in 2026 are Swyvl, ATIS.cloud, Pointscene, SurveyTransfer, AllGiS, PointView, Trimble Connect, Cesium Ion, Leica Infinity, Sketchfab, Lidarvisor and PointSharePlus. Each serves a different niche — some focus purely on LiDAR point clouds, others handle broader spatial data types, and a few are general 3D viewers with point cloud support bolted on. The right choice depends on what file types you work with, whether your clients need interactive viewing, and how much you want to spend.

I’ve used most of these platforms in real project workflows. Here’s an honest comparison based on format support, pricing, viewer quality, and practical usefulness for surveyors and drone operators delivering data to clients.

Why point cloud sharing is harder than regular file sharing

Before comparing platforms, it’s worth understanding why this category exists at all.

Point cloud files — LAS, LAZ, E57 — are not files that clients can just open. They require specialist desktop software like CloudCompare, Leica Cyclone, or QGIS. Most clients don’t have these tools and aren’t going to install them. If you send a LAZ file via Dropbox or WeTransfer, you’re sending a file the client cannot use.

Point cloud sharing platforms solve this by converting your data into a browser-viewable format — typically using Potree or 3D Tiles — and hosting it on a shareable URL. The client clicks a link, the point cloud loads in their browser, and they can orbit, zoom, and explore without installing anything.

That’s the baseline. The differences between platforms come down to format support, viewer features, collaboration tools, and pricing.

Want to try it now? Open a LAS, LAZ, or PLY file in the browser — free, no signup, your file stays on your computer.

Comparison table

Two notes on reading that table. Prices marked with a tilde are older estimates I have not re-verified; the rest were checked on 11 September 2026 against the vendor’s own site. And “not published” means exactly that, not that the feature is missing: several of these vendors document very little publicly, and a blank is a gap in their marketing rather than a verdict on their product.

Platform-by-platform breakdown

Swyvl

What it does: Swyvl is a spatial data platform for surveyors and drone operators. You upload files to a site, the platform classifies them automatically, generates browser-based viewers, and gives you share links to send to clients. Clients can view, comment, and approve deliverables without installing any software.

Format support: This is Swyvl’s primary differentiator. It supports 40+ file formats across point clouds (LAS, LAZ, E57), rasters (GeoTIFF), 3D models (OBJ, FBX, glTF, IFC, DXF), video (MP4), documents (PDF), 360 panoramas, Gaussian Splats, and 3D Tiles. Most competing platforms handle one or two categories. Swyvl handles the full range of deliverables a surveyor actually produces.

Viewer: Potree for point clouds, MapLibre for GeoTIFFs, Three.js for 3D models, CesiumJS for 3D Tiles, plus dedicated viewers for video, PDFs, 360 photos, and more. Each file type gets the right viewer.

Collaboration: Branded share links with client feedback — clients can approve deliverables or request changes with comments. Activity audit log tracks who viewed what and when.

Pricing: Free tier available. Paid plans on the pricing page.

Pros: Broadest format support of any platform in this category. Handles the complete survey deliverable set, not just point clouds. Client feedback workflow. Site-based organisation matches how surveyors actually work.

Cons: Newer platform. Measurements are session-only, so they are not saved to the file or shared with a teammate, and there is no volume tool. If you need saved markups, ATIS.cloud or a desktop package is the better fit.

Best for: Surveyors and drone operators who deliver multiple file types per project and want one platform for everything.

Full disclosure: I built Swyvl, so take my assessment with appropriate scepticism. But the format breadth claim is verifiable — check the other platforms and count how many file types they handle end-to-end.

Pointscene

What it does: Pointscene is a cloud-based platform for viewing and sharing point clouds, primarily aimed at infrastructure and road survey workflows. It has strong integration with Finnish and Nordic survey practices and a solid Potree-based viewer.

Format support: LAS, LAZ, E57, with orthophoto overlay support. Focused on point cloud and raster — doesn’t handle 3D models, video, or documents.

Viewer: Potree-based with custom measurement tools, cross-sections, and orthophoto overlay. The measurement tools are mature and practical.

Pricing: Approximately $50/month and up, depending on storage and users.

Pros: Excellent measurement tools. Good cross-section views. Strong in infrastructure and road corridor workflows. Good viewer performance on large datasets.

Cons: Limited to point clouds and orthophotos — no 3D model, video, or document support. Pricing can scale quickly for large datasets.

Best for: Infrastructure survey teams who primarily work with LiDAR and need strong measurement and cross-section tools.

SurveyTransfer

What it does: SurveyTransfer is a straightforward platform for sharing point clouds and orthomosaics with clients via browser-based viewers and shareable links.

Format support: LAS, LAZ, GeoTIFF, and limited 3D model support. Covers the two most common drone survey outputs — point clouds and orthomosaics.

Viewer: Potree-based for point clouds, map overlay for orthomosaics. Simple and effective.

Pricing: Starting around $30/month. Affordable entry point.

Pros: Simple and affordable. Does the basics well — upload a point cloud, get a shareable link. Good for teams that don’t need advanced features.

Cons: Limited format support beyond point clouds and orthos. Fewer collaboration features. Less suited for terrestrial scanning workflows.

Best for: Small drone survey operations that primarily deliver point clouds and orthomosaics and want a simple, affordable sharing solution.

ATIS.cloud

What it does: ATIS.cloud is a reality-capture workspace from CYDIS, a French company based in Annecy, aimed at laser-scanning and BIM teams. It goes considerably deeper into the scan than most platforms here, with a browser CAD editor and Revit streaming on top of the viewer.

Format support: Broader than their own marketing suggests. Their help centre lists RCP, RCS, LAS, LAZ, E57, BPF, XYZ, LGSx and FCP point clouds, meshes and CAD including IFC, DXF, STEP, OBJ and FBX, shapefiles, and Gaussian splats including Xgrids LCC and LCC2 projects. No GeoTIFF, PDF, video or standalone 360 photos.

Viewer: One custom WebGL viewer for clouds, meshes and splats, plus a VR mode.

Measurement: The strongest in this roundup. Ten tools including volume from a placed box, circle from three points, perpendicular distance and delta XYZ, plus height profile, density and a slice plane. Measurements are saved to the project, visible to collaborators, and export to CSV.

Sharing: A public link opens with no account, and you can add a password and an expiry date, plus an iframe embed and a QR code. Note the expiry cap: their help centre gives seven days on Freemium, Standard and Access Advanced, with unlimited duration only on Advanced at fifteen or more users. Recipients cannot download anything from a public link.

Pricing: Not published. As of 11 September 2026 all three tiers say “request a quote”, Standard starts from four users and Advance from ten, billing is in euros, and some operations are metered in tokens whose price is also unpublished.

Pros: Persistent measurements and a real annotation task system. ATIS.cad draws scan-to-BIM geometry in the browser. Revit and ALLPLAN plug-ins stream clouds into the CAD application. Handles very large single files.

Cons: No published price and a four-seat floor. No GeoTIFF, PDF or video, so the rest of a survey delivery lives somewhere else. Links expire in seven days below the top tier. Branding is an Enterprise perk.

Best for: Scanning and BIM teams whose work happens inside the point cloud rather than around it. Full comparison with Swyvl.

Cesium Ion

What it does: Cesium Ion is a tiling service and hosting platform from the creators of CesiumJS. You upload spatial data, Cesium tiles it into 3D Tiles format, and you can view it in CesiumJS or embed it in applications.

Format support: LAS, LAZ, 3D Tiles, glTF, KML, GeoJSON, and more. Strong on the developer side — it’s a geospatial data pipeline, not a client-facing delivery tool.

Viewer: CesiumJS — the gold standard for geospatial 3D visualisation on the web. Beautiful globe-based rendering with terrain, imagery layers, and 3D Tiles.

Pricing: Free tier with 5 GB of tiling. Paid plans from $150/month for production use.

Pros: Best-in-class 3D Tiles rendering. Excellent for developers building custom geospatial applications. Google Earth-like experience in a browser.

Cons: Not designed for client-facing deliverable sharing. No built-in collaboration, feedback, or approval workflows. The free tier is generous for experimentation but limited for production. Requires developer skills to customise.

Best for: Developers and GIS engineers building geospatial web applications. Not a client delivery platform.

Sketchfab

What it does: Sketchfab is a 3D model hosting and viewing platform. It supports mesh formats (OBJ, FBX, glTF, STL, PLY) with a beautiful WebGL viewer and strong embeddable player.

Format support: PLY, OBJ, FBX, glTF, STL, and many other mesh formats. Critically, Sketchfab does not support LAS or LAZ — you’d need to convert your point cloud to PLY or OBJ first, losing metadata like classification and intensity.

Viewer: Excellent 3D model viewer with annotations, animations, and AR support. The viewer is polished and well-suited for design and architecture showcase.

Pricing: Free tier with 50 MB upload limit. Pro plans from $15/month.

Pros: Beautiful viewer. Large community. Easy embedding. Good for showcasing 3D models.

Cons: Not a spatial data platform. No LAS/LAZ support. No GeoTIFF support. No georeferencing. Limited file size for free tier. Not designed for survey deliverable workflows.

Best for: Architects, designers, and artists showcasing 3D models. Not for surveyors delivering spatial data.

Lidarvisor

What it does: Lidarvisor is a lightweight platform specifically for viewing and sharing LiDAR point clouds in a browser. Simple and focused.

Format support: LAS, LAZ only. Pure LiDAR focus — no orthomosaics, no 3D models, no documents.

Viewer: Potree-based with basic measurement tools. Straightforward and functional.

Pricing: Starting around $25/month. Budget-friendly.

Pros: Simple and affordable. Does one thing — LiDAR viewing — and does it well. Low learning curve.

Cons: LiDAR only. No orthomosaic, GeoTIFF, 3D model, or document support. If you deliver anything beyond point clouds, you need a second platform.

Best for: Small LiDAR teams that only need to share point cloud files and want the simplest, cheapest option.

PointSharePlus

What it does: PointSharePlus is a point cloud sharing platform with a focus on terrestrial scanning firms. It supports E57 alongside LAS/LAZ and offers basic link sharing.

Format support: LAS, LAZ, E57, and limited mesh support. Good for scanning firms that work primarily with E57.

Viewer: Potree-based with scan station navigation for E57 data. Handles multi-scan E57 files reasonably well.

Pricing: Starting around $40/month.

Pros: Good E57 support with scan station awareness. Designed for terrestrial scanning workflows. Reasonable pricing.

Cons: Limited format support beyond point clouds and meshes. No GeoTIFF, video, or document viewers. Smaller user base.

Best for: Terrestrial scanning firms that primarily deliver E57 point clouds and need a dedicated sharing platform.

AllGiS

What it does: AllGiS (allgis.io) is a browser-based LiDAR QC and delivery workspace from ALLGIS LTD, a UK-registered company incorporated in May 2026. Its pitch is close to ours, “upload once, QC in browser, share via link”, but the product wraps a project-management layer around it.

Format support: LAS, LAZ, E57 and PLY point clouds; GeoTIFF, JP2 and ECW orthophotos; SHP, KML, GeoJSON and GPX vectors; OBJ, FBX and glTF meshes; DXF and DWG; ASC and Grid DEMs. No IFC, 3D Tiles, Gaussian splats, 360 photos, video or PDF are listed.

Viewer: One web 2D/3D viewer, described as streaming billions of points.

Measurement: Their public site does not describe measurement tools as of 11 September 2026. Annotations are listed as a paid-tier feature, tied to an approve or send-back workflow with an audit trail.

Sharing: A client portal where clients “see deliverables in 3D, approve work, comment”, with no logins or installs, on the Professional tier and above.

Pricing: A free tier with 10 GB and 3 users, then Professional at $149 a month, Business at $199, and Enterprise from $899, each with 3 users included and $18 per user after that.

Pros: The project-management layer is genuinely different: a Kanban board with contracts, deadlines and milestones, invoicing, a six-role permission model, and a formal client approve or send-back step that most platforms here do not have. More free storage than we offer.

Cons: Very little is documented publicly. There is no docs site, no terms of service page, and the roadmap puts QGIS, MicroStation and AutoCAD plug-ins in a future phase. Three times our entry price.

Best for: Teams who want the commercial wrapper, contracts and approvals, around their QC pipeline rather than just a delivery link.

PointView

What it does: PointView is a browser platform for managing and analysing point clouds, 3D models and imagery, from IT34, a Danish geographic IT firm connected to the surveying business LE34. It is used by Danish municipalities and utilities, with Fredericia and Aalborg named publicly.

Format support: Not published. IT34 describes its inputs by capture method, offshore multibeam, drone photogrammetry, SLAM and terrestrial scanning, mobile mapping, rather than by file extension. LAS is named as an export, coordinate systems are handled by EPSG code, and there is CAD and WFS/WMS export.

Viewer: Browser only, and they are emphatic about it: log in, pick your data, with no programs or plugins to download.

Measurement: 3D point coordinates, vertical and horizontal distance, area, volume and cross-sections. Digitised points, vectors and polygons are saved in the platform and export to LAS or CAD.

Sharing: Account-based rather than link-based. Users create an account, and a dashboard controls which suppliers and customers see which deliveries. No public share link is described anywhere on their site.

Pricing: Not published. IT34 asks you to contact them, though demo data is available on signup. Hosting is Scandinavian, with ISO 27001 and ISAE-certified facilities.

Pros: A serious browser viewer with digitisation straight out to CAD, and the strongest published security posture in this roundup. Good fit for municipal-scale mobile mapping.

Cons: Sold as a managed service with consulting attached, not as self-serve software. No published price, no published format list, and no evidence of a no-account client link. Go-to-market is Nordic public sector.

Best for: Danish and Nordic public-sector bodies who want a managed platform rather than a tool.

Trimble Connect

What it does: Trimble Connect is a common data environment for construction and geospatial teams. It is a project hub first, with point cloud viewing as one capability among many, and it is where the work already lives if your client runs Tekla, SketchUp or Revit.

Format support: Wide. Point clouds as E57, LAS, LAZ, Potree, TDX, TZF and XTZ; 3D as IFC, DWG, DGN, Revit, Navisworks and SKP; 2D as PDF, images and Office documents; geospatial as SHP, KML, KMZ and GDB.

Viewer: A browser 3D viewer, with one important catch. Their own documentation says point cloud URLs must be added through the Trimble Connect for Windows application before they can be viewed in the browser, so there is a desktop step in front of browser viewing.

Measurement: The browser viewer gives you a point’s XYZ, distance between two points, and perpendicular distance between objects. No area or volume is documented, and nothing in the docs says whether measurements persist.

Sharing: Genuinely public links. Their docs describe a mode where “anyone who has the link can access the file, without signing in”, with an expiry option and a view-only or view-and-download choice. The catch is the tier: a free licence cannot use the Share Data feature at all. File views are not logged, only downloads.

Pricing: $349 per user per year for Pro and $499 for Innovate, plus a 30-day trial, as listed on 11 September 2026. A free licence exists but cannot share.

Pros: Federated 2D, 3D and BIM in one place, with ToDos, BCF, clash detection, versioning and an exportable activity log. If the project already runs on Trimble, nothing else here integrates as well.

Cons: A Windows desktop step before browser point-cloud viewing. Sharing is disabled on the free licence. Per-user annual seats make it a team platform rather than a per-delivery link, and views are not tracked.

Best for: Construction and BIM teams already inside the Trimble ecosystem.

Leica Infinity

What it does: Leica Infinity is geospatial office software from Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon. It is worth including precisely because people reach for it expecting a sharing tool, and it is not one. It is where you make the deliverable, not where you send it.

Format support: Not published as a consolidated list. DXF, SHP and IFC import are named, RINEX for GNSS, JXL from Trimble, and LGS for point cloud export. Whether it imports LAS, LAZ or E57 is not stated on their public pages, though it very likely does.

Viewer: None in a browser. It is installed desktop software.

Measurement: The deepest here by a distance, and the only one doing GNSS post-processing, levelling and network adjustment alongside scan registration, cloud-to-cloud and target registration, classification, stockpile volumes, cut and fill maps, cross-sections and associative drafting dimensions.

Sharing: No client-facing web viewer of its own. Their documented route to web viewing is to publish into Leica Cyclone ENTERPRISE or a JetStream-powered product, which is a separate purchase. Everything else is data exchange: GeoCloud Drive, ConX, BIM 360, ProjectWise, Procore, ArcGIS Online.

Pricing: Not published. Available as a subscription or a perpetual licence, with a 30-day trial, and upgrades gated on a maintenance end date.

Pros: Rigour. Nothing else in this roundup produces a defensible survey audit chain from field to office in one project file.

Cons: Not a sharing platform. No browser viewer, no link, and reaching a client on the web means buying another Leica product on top.

Best for: Leica field kit owners doing the processing work. Pair it with something else for delivery.

What most platforms get wrong

The fundamental problem with most point cloud sharing platforms is that they’re point cloud sharing platforms — and surveyors don’t deliver only point clouds.

A typical drone survey delivery includes a point cloud (LAZ), an orthomosaic (GeoTIFF), a 3D model (OBJ or glTF), a report (PDF), and sometimes video or 360 photos. A terrestrial scanning project might include E57 point clouds, IFC models, floor plans (DXF), and a report PDF.

If your sharing platform only handles point clouds, you’re using it for one file type and falling back to Dropbox or WeTransfer for everything else. The client gets a fragmented experience — a nice viewer for the point cloud, and a download link for everything else.

How to choose

Here’s my practical decision tree:

1. If you only deliver LiDAR point clouds: Lidarvisor or SurveyTransfer. Cheapest options that cover the basics.
2. If you’re a terrestrial scanning firm: PointSharePlus or ATIS.cloud. Good E57 support and scanning-specific workflows.
3. If you need saved measurements, volumes or cross-sections: ATIS.cloud, or PointView if you are in the Nordics. Swyvl measures in the browser too, but not volumes, and its measurements last only for the session.
4. If you’re building a custom geospatial app: Cesium Ion. Developer-focused with best-in-class 3D Tiles rendering.
5. If you deliver multiple file types per project: Swyvl. The only platform that handles point clouds, GeoTIFFs, 3D models, video, 360, PDFs, and CAD in one place.
6. If you’re showcasing 3D models (not survey data): Sketchfab. Beautiful viewer, wrong category for surveyors.
7. If the project already runs on Trimble: Trimble Connect, accepting the Windows step to get clouds in and a paid seat to share them.
8. If you want contracts, invoicing and approvals around the QC work: AllGiS.
9. If you are doing the processing rather than the delivering: Leica Infinity, and pair it with something else to reach the client.

Final thoughts

The point cloud sharing category is maturing. In 2023, most surveyors were still sharing LAS files via Dropbox and hoping clients would figure out CloudCompare. In 2026, there are real platforms solving this problem.

The question isn’t whether to use a sharing platform — it’s which one matches your workflow. Pick based on the file types you actually deliver, not just the file types you wish you delivered.