OpenSolar
by OpenSolar Inc. · Level 1/477 Pitt Street, Haymarket, New South Wales 2000, AU (per own Organization schema)
Proposals & sales · Software
- Entry price
- Free
- Charged
- Free
- Try before buying
- Free tier
- Runs on
- Web
- Built for
- Residential · C&I
- Named integrations
- 0
- Last verified
against the vendor’s own pages
What is OpenSolar?
A free-to-use solar design, proposal and project-management platform funded by manufacturers, financiers, distributors and other partners rather than by the installers who use it.
It publishes 0 USD free of charge. We recorded 22 verified capabilities.
Verified against the vendor’s own pages.
The two questions vendors rarely answer
Free or paid?
Free
Published
Dependencies & lock-in
None recorded
We did not establish a hard third-party dependency. That is not the same as confirming there is none.
Our editorial assessment — not a user review
Who it is for — and who it is not for
It suits installers of any size who want a full design-to-proposal workflow without a per-seat software line item, and who are comfortable with a platform whose revenue comes from the suppliers sitting inside it. It is not for a buyer who wants the software vendor's incentives to be aligned solely with the installer, nor for one who reads "100% free of charge" as meaning there is nothing on the platform to pay for — there are published paid tiers and pay-per-use imagery.
Editorial assessment from the research recordSourceopensolar.comVerified
Pricing
0 USD free of charge
Free tier, no time limit
Sourceopensolar.comVerifiedfirst-hand
Prices are shown exactly as the vendor writes them and are never converted between currencies — a converted figure would be a number we invented. How we verify pricing
Feature detail
24 normalised data points across 9 capability areas. Every row carries its evidence state; hover any chip for what that state means.
Solar design & simulation 2 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical design | ||
| Single-line diagram ⓘ | Advanced | Verified |
| Interoperability | ||
| Bill of materials generation ⓘ | Advanced | Verified |
| Shading & irradiance | ||
| Shading analysis ⓘ | — | Could not read |
Proposals & sales 2 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Proposal generation | ||
| E-signature ⓘ | — | Verified |
| Proposal document generation ⓘ | Advanced | Verified |
CRM & lead management 2 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lead management | ||
| Lead capture ⓘ | Advanced | Verified |
| Pipeline and deal stages ⓘ | Advanced | Verified |
Permitting & engineering 1 not found
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Permitting | ||
| Permit package / plan set generation ⓘ | — | Not found |
Financing platform 1 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Integration | ||
| Design/proposal tool integration ⓘ | Advanced | Verified |
Integrations & extensibility 2 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Extensibility | ||
| Public API ⓘ | Advanced | Verified |
| Named integrations | ||
| Named, documented integrations ⓘ | 0 | Verified |
Platform & deployment 2 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | ||
| Delivery model | software | Verified |
| Web application | — | Verified |
Pricing & commercial terms 5 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | ||
| Currency | USD | Verified |
| Entry price ⓘ | 0 USD free of charge | Verified |
| Price published ⓘ | Published | Verified |
| Pricing model | free | Verified |
| Trial | ||
| Free tier | free-forever | Verified |
Market fit & availability 6 verified
| Capability | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | ||
| Geographic availability | global; AU; US; EU | Verified |
| Buyer | ||
| Target buyer ⓘ | solo-installer; small-installer | Verified |
| Lifecycle | ||
| Product status | active | Verified |
| Segment | ||
| C&I ⓘ | — | Verified |
| Residential ⓘ | — | Verified |
| Utility-scale ⓘ | No | Verified |
AI capabilities
No AI claim on the vendor’s own pages
We found no explicit AI or machine-learning claim. Words like “smart”, “one-click automatic” and “magic” are automation claims and are deliberately not counted as AI — coding them as AI would fabricate a capability the vendor never asserted.
Integrations
No integration named on the vendor’s own site
We searched and found no named third-party product. Integration information has not been verified for OpenSolar.
Collected from users — none yet
Verified user reviews
No verified user reviews yet
We publish only reviews we collect and verify ourselves. No review of OpenSolar has cleared identity verification and moderation yet, so there is no score — and there will be none until eight verified reviews exist.
Third-party ratings from G2, Capterra and TrustRadius are never mixed into our score or our structured data; where we cite them they are attributed and dated. How our review system works · Write a review
Third-party review presence recorded during research: G2, Capterra, TrustRadius. Cited in prose only, never in our markup.
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Frequently asked
How much does OpenSolar cost?
OpenSolar publishes 0 USD free of charge, charged free. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 28 September 2026.
Is OpenSolar free?
Free tier, no time limit.
What does OpenSolar integrate with?
No third-party integration is named on OpenSolar's own site. A logo wall is not an integration list.
Sources and verification
Data coverage
22 verified · 0 vendor-claimed · 1 not found
92% of the 24 applicable data points were confirmed on OpenSolar Inc.’s own pages.
Last verified
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