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Best site selection & gis software

Which site selection & gis software is best?

We do not know, and we will not pretend to. Ranking software here would need five products each carrying eight verified first-party reviews. Today 0 products are scored, so any ordered list would be opinion dressed as research.

What follows is the evidence for all 3 products in this category, unordered, with the “best suited for” classifications the data does support.

Verified against the vendor’s own pages.

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This category holds only 3 products, so it can never clear the five-product gate from this dataset. It will remain a reference guide permanently. That is a deliberate constraint, not a gap to be filled later with an opinion.

How we would evaluate, when we can

  1. Job coverage — 40%. What the software verifiably does, from the feature database, counting verified rows only.
  2. Verified reviewer experience — 30%. Structured answers from reviewers whose identity we checked.
  3. Evidence quality — 20%. How much of the profile is verified rather than vendor-claimed. This rewards vendors who publish.
  4. Pricing transparency — 10%. Whether a buyer can find out what it costs.

Blank cells are excluded from the denominator, never scored as zero. Vendor claims count at half the weight of verified facts. Products whose surface we could not read are not scored at all. And the publisher’s own products are excluded from every ranking, permanently. Full methodology

All 3 products, unordered

Listed alphabetically. The ordering carries no judgement.

Product Best suited for Price Model Verified points
PVcase Prospect Utility-scale work Not publicly disclosed Quote only 9
Solargis Prospect Utility-scale work Not publicly disclosed Quote only 8
Transect Utility-scale work Not publicly disclosed Quote only 10

Products in detail

PVcase Prospect

PVcase (incl. acquired Anderson Optimization)

Site selection & GIS

A cloud site-origination platform for utility-scale solar, distributed generation and data-centre developers: parcel search, buildable-area analysis, permitting and environmental screening, and — the part competitors mostly do not have — interconnection capacity and wholesale power-price (LMP) analysis in the same map.

Pricing Not publicly disclosed Quote only
Sept 2026

Site selection & GIS · Web

A browser app for pre-feasibility solar site screening: 30+ validated map layers of solar, meteorological and environmental data anywhere on earth, plus a monthly-resolution PV yield calculator, so you can compare candidate sites and rank them before committing to a real study.

Pricing Not publicly disclosed Quote only
Sept 2026

Transect

Transect

Site selection & GIS · Web

A US environmental-due-diligence and permitting platform for site selection: it screens a parcel for protected species, waters, wetlands, soils, federal and state permits, local ordinances and community opposition, and returns a Critical Issues Analysis report in minutes instead of the weeks a consultant takes.

Pricing Not publicly disclosed Quote only Limited free allowance
Sept 2026