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CloudPano vs Clear Pano: Uploading Gives CloudPano a Permanent Licence to Your Photos
CloudPano's free plan can't publish a tour, Google Street View costs $9.99 every time you publish, and its terms give it a permanent licence to what you upload. Clear Pano is $5 a month for 10 live tours, includes Street View and scans floor plans with your iPhone.
CloudPano is one of the best-known names in 360° virtual tours, and it's built around real estate marketing. Its own summary of how it works: capture with any 360° camera or its mobile app, upload to CloudPano.com and create your tour, then publish. It adds extras like live video calls inside a tour and lead capture forms.
But before you upload a client's home, it's worth reading what you agree to, and adding up what you'll pay once you need Google Street View and floor plans. I make virtual tours on my phone with Clear Pano. Here's how the two compare.
Full disclosure: I'm the founder of Clear Pano. Everything about CloudPano here comes from CloudPano's own website, help centre, terms of service and privacy policy, checked on 10 November 2026, in US dollars. Where CloudPano's pages give different prices, I've used its main price list. Prices change, so check before you buy.
CloudPano vs Clear Pano at a glance
| CloudPano | Clear Pano | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Build tours, but you can't publish them | Your first tour, published and shareable |
| 10 live tours | $49 a month, or $33 a month paid yearly | $5 a month |
| When you upload | You give CloudPano a permanent licence, including to promote its services | Your photos are used only to run your tours |
| Google Street View | $9.99 every time you publish | Included in every paid plan |
| Floor plans | Scan with a separate app, then order one from $13.99 a property | Scanned and drawn on your iPhone, included in your plan |
| When you cancel | Its terms say your content is deleted | Your tours stay in your account |
What you pay, and what costs extra
CloudPano's free plan lets you build a tour, but not publish it: its help centre says you need a subscription before anyone else can see it. Pro publishes 3 tours at a time, for $27 a month or $22.50 a month paid yearly. Pro Plus publishes as many as you like, for $49 a month or $33 a month paid yearly.
Some things cost extra on top:
- Publishing a tour to Google Street View: $9.99 each time
- Floor plans: from $13.99 a property, ordered through its Floor Plan Scanner app
- Tour Flash, which links your scenes automatically: new accounts get 5 credits, then you buy more
- Each extra white-label web address: $79
Clear Pano is priced by how many tours you have live at the same time: 10 for $5 a month, 50 for $10, 100 for $15, and up to 1,000 for $50. Street View publishing and floor plans are included in every paid plan, and your first tour is free.
Here's a year on each, at CloudPano's yearly prices:
| Live tours | CloudPano a year | Clear Pano a year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $270 (Pro: the free plan can't publish) | Free |
| 3 | $270 (Pro) | $60 ($5 a month) |
| 10 | $396 (Pro Plus) | $60 ($5 a month) |
| 50 | $396 (Pro Plus) | $120 ($10 a month) |
| 100 | $396 (Pro Plus) | $180 ($15 a month) |
| 200 | $396 (Pro Plus) | $240 ($20 a month) |
That's before Street View. Put 5 tours a month on Street View and CloudPano adds about $600 a year. On Clear Pano, it's included.
To be fair, Pro Plus has no tour limit, so if you keep more than 200 tours live and pay yearly, CloudPano works out cheaper: $396 a year, against our $420 for 500 tours and $600 for 1,000. Its terms say Pro and Pro Plus are meant for sole operators and businesses with a regional reach, and that it can move customers it judges too big onto an Enterprise plan.
What you agree to when you upload
CloudPano's terms of service, last updated on 12 March 2026, say you keep ownership of what you upload. But uploading gives CloudPano a worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable licence to host, copy, change, publish and distribute it, and to make new works from it, as reasonably necessary to run, improve, promote and commercialise its services and related products. It can transfer that licence or grant it to others, and you can't withdraw it.
The same terms let CloudPano combine your content with its own data about how the service is used, which can include spatial mapping data and scene metadata, into datasets. Where reasonably practicable, those datasets don't identify you, and CloudPano can license, transfer or sell them for any lawful business purpose. The terms also let CloudPano use your name and logo in its marketing, and name you as a customer in press releases and case studies.
Its privacy policy was last updated on 20 April 2021. It doesn't name the companies that host or process your photos, and it says your information can be stored and used in the United States and any other country where CloudPano operates.
Clear Pano works differently. You build the tour on your phone, and Remove, which takes tripod legs, people or clutter out of a photo, runs on your phone too. When you publish, your tour is stored on Clear Pano's own hosting on Amazon Web Services. Our terms only let us store, process and display your content to run the service, and that ends when you delete it. Our privacy policy lists every company we work with.
What happens when you stop paying
On CloudPano, tours stay online while your subscription is active, and the free plan can't publish. Its terms say that when you cancel, all your content is deleted within a reasonable time, and it can't be recovered. If you cancel Pro Plus, your membership ends that same day, and CloudPano may put its branding on your tours or remove them. A yearly plan can only be refunded in the first 30 days.
To be fair, Pro Plus lets you download your tours and host them on your own website first, and its help centre says downloaded tours keep working after you leave.
On Clear Pano, your plan stays active until the end of the month you've paid for. Then your account goes back to the free plan: one tour stays published, and the rest are unpublished until you upgrade again. Nothing is deleted.
Google Street View: $9.99 every time, or included
Both can put your tour on Google Street View. CloudPano charges $9.99 each time you publish a tour there, and its help centre says publishing again after edits may cost another fee. It also never deletes photos from Google: if you take a photo out of your tour, you have to delete it yourself in Google Maps.
In Clear Pano, Street View is included in every paid plan. You connect your Google account, publish straight from the app, and update or remove the photos from Clear Pano later.
Floor plans: drawn on your iPhone, not ordered from a team
CloudPano's tour editor lets you upload a floor plan picture and link its rooms to your scenes. To get the floor plan itself, you order one from its team, or use its separate Floor Plan Scanner app: you scan each room with an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR, then place an order and pay. Its Floor Plan Scanner website says prices start at $13.99 a property, with your first scan free. Its help centre says 2D plans usually take 24 hours and 3D plans 48 hours, and that 3D floor plans don't include measurements.
In Clear Pano, the scan and the floor plan are in the same app. Open Floor Plans and walk through the property room by room: the LiDAR scanner reads each room as you go, the scan is processed on the phone by Apple's RoomPlan, and Clear Pano draws the plan when you finish the floor, while you're still at the property. You can move walls, type a room's size, add doors and windows, share it as a PDF or picture, and link it to your tour. Your plan includes as many floor plans as tours.
When CloudPano is the better choice
CloudPano does a lot that Clear Pano doesn't. Up to 4 people can join a live video call inside a tour, viewers can fill in a lead capture form, and you can put tours on your own web address with no CloudPano branding, or download them to host yourself. It links scenes automatically with Tour Flash, sends tours to sites like realtor.com and Zillow, and handles 360° video, 360° spins for car dealers and 3D dollhouse floor plans. And if you keep hundreds of tours live and pay yearly, Pro Plus works out cheaper.
For the wider picture, here are seven virtual tour tools compared.
The verdict
If you want a free tour you can actually publish, Street View and floor plans included in the price, and terms that only let us use your photos to run your tours, Clear Pano does it all on your phone from $5 a month. And your first tour is free.
Frequently asked questions
How much does CloudPano cost?
On 10 November 2026, CloudPano's free plan let you build tours but not publish them. Pro published 3 tours for $27 a month, or $22.50 a month paid yearly, and Pro Plus published unlimited tours for $49 a month, or $33 a month paid yearly. Publishing to Google Street View was $9.99 each time. Clear Pano starts at $5 a month for 10 live tours, and your first tour is free.
Can I publish a CloudPano tour for free?
No. Its free plan lets you build a tour, but you need Pro or Pro Plus to publish it so other people can see it. On Clear Pano, your first tour is free to publish and share, with no time limit.
Does CloudPano own my photos?
No. Its terms say you keep ownership. But by uploading, you give CloudPano a worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable licence to use your content as reasonably necessary to run, improve, promote and commercialise its services, and it can transfer that licence or grant it to others. Clear Pano's terms only let us use your content to run the service, until you delete it.
What happens to my CloudPano tours if I cancel?
Its terms say your content is deleted within a reasonable time after you cancel, and can't be recovered. On Pro Plus, you can download your tours first and host them yourself. On Clear Pano, your account goes back to the free plan: one tour stays live, and nothing is deleted.
Can CloudPano make floor plans?
Yes, to order. You scan with its Floor Plan Scanner app on an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR, then pay from $13.99 a property, and its team sends the plan, usually within 24 hours for 2D. Clear Pano draws the plan on your phone when you finish scanning, on an iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro model, or an iPad Pro (2020 or later), and floor plans are included in your plan.
Is Clear Pano a CloudPano alternative?
For 360° virtual tours with floor plans and Google Street View, yes. You build the tour on your phone with any 360 camera, remove the tripod on the phone, scan the floor plan with your iPhone and publish, from $5 a month. If you need live video calls in a tour, lead capture forms, your own web address or tours you can download and host yourself, CloudPano does those and Clear Pano doesn't.
