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CloudPano vs Moorea 2026: who holds the account
The one competitor aiming at the same drone pilot we do. What changes when the subscription stays with the client, audience is never billed, and the product knows the trade of the place.
Let us start with what is true: CloudPano has several years’ head start on ground that is also ours, the contractor who resells virtual tours. Nobody has written the equivalent of its sales corpus, and we say so plainly in our guide to selling tours.
Three capabilities we do not have, and we may as well name them now: live 360 video chat inside the tour, publishing to Google Street View, and the dollhouse view. Add a dedicated mobile app, where we serve an installable web app.
On content, CloudPano fields ten industry pages, six feature pages, a community and a sales corpus written for its resellers right down to the headlines. It is the most structured competitor of the panel on this ground.
The rest of this page argues for Moorea, which is what you expect from a comparison signed by us. Three differences, and none of them is cosmetic:
- the subscription stays with the venue instead of sitting on your shoulders;
- a tour’s audience is never billed, and never given an expiry date;
- the product knows the trade of the place it shows - a golf course, a campsite, a wine estate, a marina.
The table
| Criterion | CloudPano | Moorea |
|---|---|---|
| Who holds the subscription | the contractor, who hosts for the client and re-invoices | the venue, in its own workspace - or you, if your client prefers |
| Home ground | interiors: real estate, car dealerships, retail | wide outdoor sites seen from the sky, with indoor panoramas in the same tour |
| Language of product and site | English only | English and French, both actually written |
| The tour's map | floor plan, dollhouse view | satellite map filled in from the flight data, or the plan you supply |
| The trade's structure inside the tour | ten industry landing pages on the site; the 17/08/2026 survey finds no equivalent in the product | golf, campsite, winery and marina templates, with the trade's navigation |
| Client sign-off before delivery | live 360 video chat, to show a prospect around remotely | the Atelier: notes anchored to the viewpoint, guests without accounts, layer closed to deliver |
| Free tier | 3 tours expiring at 120 days (recorded July 2026) | 3 active tours, 5 panoramas each, no expiry at all |
| Views and bandwidth | not billed on the paid tiers | never billed, on all four plans, and uncapped |
| White label and client domain | a dedicated product page; tier impossible to pin down, four public grids contradict each other | Pilot tier, €19 excl. VAT a month, client domain included |
| Prices shown | $19, $22.50, $27 and $33 to $49 depending which page you read (recorded 17/08/2026) | one public grid: €0, €9, €19 and €39 excl. VAT a month |
The subscription stays with your client
CloudPano makes no secret of it, it is its sales argument: the contractor holds the account, hosts the clients’ tours and re-invoices them for hosting. The arrangement has real merits - one contractual relationship, a margin on hosting, a client with no account to create.
It also has a mechanical consequence. Three years later you carry fifteen tours, fifteen responsibilities and the Saturday-evening phone call when a link stops answering. The day you raise your hosting rate, your clients discover they owned nothing. And the day you stop, their tours stop with you.
At Moorea the default arrangement is the opposite: the venue has its own workspace, takes the subscription and owns its tour, its captured leads and its analytics. You invoice what you actually do, flying and producing, at your rate, and you come back next year to the same tour.
The corollary is that the tour has to be able to carry the client’s brand, on the client’s own address. That is the point where the 360 market traditionally puts its price barrier, and where we do not.
Full white label and client domain
The 360 market
€99.90
a month on Klapty's top tier, or a €250 to €699 one-off add-on on 3DVista
Moorea
€19 excl. VAT
a month, Pilot tier: client domain, badge removed, the venue's brand
The custom domain goes through a CNAME the client creates, with a certificate issued and renewed automatically; it covers the public player and the embed, not the editing application.
Two points of honesty while we are here. Online payment is not wired up yet: the pricing grid is public, but nothing is billed today, and moving billing from one workspace to another will arrive with it.
What does exist right now is workspaces, the three roles, invitations and ownership transfer.
What is never billed, never gated, never expired
On its paid tiers, CloudPano bills neither views nor bandwidth: it is not this market’s bad pupil, and that deserves saying. What differs is what expires.
No expiry date, no invoice for audience
The free tier
CloudPano
3 tours
expiring at 120 days, which makes it a trial rather than an offer
Moorea
3 tours
active, 5 panoramas each, with no expiry date whatsoever
A tour that expires is incompatible with how these tours actually live: a QR code printed on a welcome sign, a link pasted into a Google listing, an iframe sitting on the club’s website.
Our free tier limits the size of tours, not their lifespan: five panoramas rule out any professional deliverable - a 9-hole golf course needs twenty-two - but they let you build a real subject, and keep it forever.
Analytics on all four plans
At Moorea they sit behind no tier, free plan included. The market puts them on the first or second paid tier (Klapty at €29.90, Panoraven at €29, recorded 17/08/2026).
Views, scenes visited, clicks on points of interest, over 7, 30 or 90 days, with no cookies and no persistent identifiers: the visitor fingerprint is a hash salted daily, and the day’s salt is never stored.
The industry template rather than the industry landing page
Almost every 360 tool has “for hotels”, “for golf”, “for schools” pages: CloudPano has ten, and they are well made. They are pages, not products, and the delivered tour is still a list of spheres linked to one another.
Our industry templates carry the structure of the place inside the tour itself: the holes of a golf course, the zones of a campsite, the parcels of a wine estate, the pontoons of a marina. The visitor is not browsing photos, they are walking a course.
And for you, the reseller, that is what makes a tour reproducible from one client to the next: a template is quicker to fill in than a tour is to build.
A wide outdoor site is not a bigger interior
On a site of several hectares, the sticking point is not displaying the spheres. It is everything around them: sharpness, orientation, the hole above the drone, and how you find your bearings between two viewpoints three hundred metres apart.
An aerial tour goes up to 512 megapixels per viewpoint, from sources that can reach 32,000 pixels wide. That is not vanity: at fifteen metres up, the visitor zooms in to read a sign or count the shaded pitches, and an 8,000-pixel sphere does not hold that zoom.
Flight metadata is read on import - GPS, altitude, heading - and the scene places itself on the satellite map, which becomes the tour’s plan. The invalid cap above the drone is filled with a gradient, and a logo can be reprojected under the visitor’s feet, where the drone leaves a hole.
CloudPano has a page about drone integration and a golf landing page; our 17/08/2026 survey finds no tooling specific to aerial work. That is a design difference, not a quality failing: their product was built for rooms, and it does rooms very well.
So what about interiors?
We may as well clear the opposite confusion straight away: our engine displays any 2:1 equirectangular panorama, wherever it comes from. An indoor panorama shot from a tripod imports and renders exactly like an aerial view, in the same tour and with the same navigation, in JPEG, PNG, TIFF or AVIF.
The mixed tour is in fact the normal case: the views from the sky tell the story of the site, and a few ground-level panoramas show reception or a sample room. And when the satellite map is not right, the interactive map takes any image you like.
What we do not do is reconstructed 3D: no mesh, no dollhouse, no measurements.
Client sign-off happens inside the tour
Between handing over the files and going live, there is always that moment: the campsite manager wants to move a point of interest, the greenkeeper disputes the order of two holes, and all of it circulates as annotated screenshots in an email thread.
That is the other reading of CloudPano’s 360 video calling: it excels when you have to show a prospect around live while they are elsewhere. Moorea’s Atelier answers the other half of the problem, asynchronous sign-off, the kind that happens on a Sunday evening with no shared appointment.
When CloudPano is enough
Three specific situations where the question does not arise.
Your market is English-speaking and your subject is residential or automotive interiors. Site, product, training, community: it is all in English and all mature, and the tooling was built for that sales cycle. If your clients are inside walls, Matterport belongs in the comparison too.
Your sales pitch is the remote guided tour. Live 360 video chat has no equivalent here, and nothing we do replaces it.
Google Street View is part of the brief. Publishing to Street View is a product for them; for us it is an exploration topic, not a feature.
Outside those three cases, the question goes back to the model: do you want to carry the hosting of fifteen clients, or invoice your flight and let each of them pay for their own?
Look at the product rather than take our word
The product page shows the player at work, and the pricing grid fits on one screen: four plans, from €0 to €39 excl. VAT a month, with no billing on audience and no expiry date.
If you are a drone pilot, the guide to selling tours sets out the full arrangement, from quote to delivery, and the cost guide breaks down what goes into the price of an aerial tour.
Développeur et télépilote de drone. Construit Moorea au sein d’Elvn Studio.
A place worth showing from above?
The free plan is enough to publish a first tour and show it around.