360° virtual tour cost in India priced per viewpoint or per property

A viewpoint is a single position in the tour. The visitor stands there, looks in every direction, and clicks the floor to move to the next one. A tour is a set of linked viewpoints. You can open the live tours on our home page to see how they connect.

A space needs at least one viewpoint in every room. Large rooms, passages and outdoor areas need more, so that each move forward feels like a step and the visitor does not get lost. A studio flat needs few. A hotel with rooms, a lobby, a restaurant and a pool needs many. The count is the first thing to settle, because it sets the size of the job.

A photographed tour is quoted per viewpoint, or as one price per property for a flat or house of a usual size. We shoot with an Insta360 camera. The charge covers the visit to the site, the capture at each viewpoint, stitching and colour correction, removing the tripod from the image, and linking the viewpoints into a tour that opens in a browser.

The price moves with the number of viewpoints, the travel to the site, and how much retouching the space needs. Mirrors and glass take longer, because the camera shows in them. A space that is not ready on the shoot day means a second visit. See 360° tours for real estate.

A rendered tour is for a flat, villa or hotel that is not built yet. It has two cost items. The first is the 3D model of the space, the same model used for still renders. The second is a 360° render at each viewpoint.

A still image shows only what the camera faces. A 360° image shows the whole room, so the room has to be finished on every side, including the wall behind the camera. This makes a viewpoint more work than a still of the same room. If you have already ordered renders of those rooms, the model exists and the tour adds only the viewpoints. See rendered virtual tours.

Use this table to see which tour your project needs and what its quote will be built on.

Matterport is another company's product: a system for scanning a finished space, with a platform that hosts the result. It publishes its own plans. We do not quote its prices here. Check its website for the current plans in your market.

If someone quotes you a Matterport tour, ask for two lines: their fee for the scan, and the platform plan that keeps the tour online. Ask every platform the same thing: what is paid once, and what is paid for as long as the tour stays live. Our Matterport alternative page compares the approaches.

Virtual tour cost moves with a short list of factors. Most can be settled before the shoot or the modelling starts.

To compare two tour quotes, reduce each to three things: the number of viewpoints, what is done to each image, and the hosting terms. A low price per property with few viewpoints and a recurring hosting charge can cost more over time than a higher one-time price.

These are the lines to look for.

• The number of viewpoints, and the rooms they cover
• Photographed or rendered, and for a rendered tour whether the 3D model is included
• Retouching: tripod removal, mirrors, colour correction
• Extras: floor plan, room labels, information points, your logo
• Hosting: where the tour is kept, for how long, one-time or recurring
• Delivery: how it embeds in your website, and that it opens on a phone
• Revision rounds, the schedule, and what the schedule depends on
• What is excluded, such as travel or a second visit, and where the tour may be used