Best Engineering Software for SketchUp
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Compare the Top Engineering Software that integrates with SketchUp as of July 2025
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This a list of Engineering software that integrates with SketchUp. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with SketchUp. View the products that work with SketchUp in the table below.
What is Engineering Software for SketchUp?
Engineering software is software used by engineers to design, analyze and manufacture various products. It includes a wide range of applications such as CAD/CAE software, analysis tools, optimization tools, and programming tools. Engineering software can be used for a variety of tasks such as designing mechanical parts, analyzing structural stability, simulating system performance, and optimizing product designs. These applications enable engineers to optimize their designs for cost reduction and increased efficiency. Compare and read user reviews of the best Engineering software for SketchUp currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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SharkCAD
Punch CAD
Made for professional users, SharkCAD® has superior mesh-based and solid modeling tools that will make your architectural, mechanical, prototyping, and design projects a breeze. This is the perfect CAD software for those who have advanced past the basic 3D modeling CAD tools and are ready to swim with the big fish. Don’t get caught by underperforming software, get SharkCAD. Whether you run a solo engineering or design firm, or employ a big crew, SharkCAD will give you the power you need at a price you can afford. It includes 2D drafting and 3D modeling toolsets, with easy switching 2D/3D views. SharkCAD can help you accomplish 3D prototyping, photorealistic rendering, and designs for product manufacturing or packaging, architectural drawings, home remodeling plans, interior design, inventions, and more. Don’t waste another minute on entry-level software you’ve outgrown. SharkCAD can give you professional quality CAD design tools that won’t cost you an arm and a leg.Starting Price: $999.99 -
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D5 Render
D5 Render
Import models, and enjoy an instant sense of reality throughout the creation process. Outdated rendering tricks are now replaced by common sense. With a gentle learning curve and effortless reach for assets, with D5, it's never been easier or more intuitive to visualize a story. Slow 3D rendering has always been the bottleneck that slowed your workflow. You made an adjustment and then waited for the progress bar to drain your inspiration. Bursts of creativity had to be squeezed into the spaces between renderings. But now, You have D5. With each burst of inspiration, D5 keeps up with every thought and modification to keep you immersed in a seamless workflow. You can fully dive yourself into the creative moment, sculpting with light and truly playing in the worlds you create. D5 GI with Smoothness experience brings you real-time interactivity and near offline rendering quality. No need to compromise, you have the world at your fingertips.Starting Price: $38 per month -
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Edificius
ACCA Software
Edificius is the BIM software "all in one" that integrates 2D and 3D architectural design with Rendering, Scene Photomontages and Photo editing, Ray Tracing rendering with AI denoising, Real-Time rendering, Video editing, Immersive Virtual Reality and much more! You can also deal with MEP plant modelling, Job scheduling (BIM 4D), Dynamic Data extraction from the BIM model for cost estimating (BIM 5D). Edificius is an open solution that creates a seamless and interoperable system between other ACCA BIM software or other developers either by means of direct integration or IFC file exchange as certified by buildingSMART International.Starting Price: €21/month -
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Canvas
Occipital
The new power tool for home improvement. Fast, easy, mobile 3D scanning for home service pros and DIY warriors. Powered by the world’s first mobile depth sensor, the Structure Sensor, Canvas makes capturing a 3D model of a room delightfully easy. Simply tap scan, walk around the room, and watch as a scale-accurate model is built in real-time, right on your iPad. No more busting out the measuring tape and converting scribbles into floor plans later – Canvas captures tens of thousands of measurements all at once, and then pieces it together into an interactive 3D model. Your 3D model is saved on your iPad, so you can go back and revisit any space, at any time. Whether you just need to refresh your memory of a given viewpoint or capture a forgotten measurement, you're never more than a few taps away. Save hours with professional-grade CAD output. With our Scan To CAD service, we’ll convert your scan into an editable, professional-grade, CAD file.Starting Price: $10 -
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VORTEK Spaces
VORTEK Spaces
VORTEK Spaces is much more than a 3D rendering solution. It's a software dedicated to professionals without much time on their hands or deep 3D expertise to create stunning interactive 3D presentations within minutes. Our award-winning 3D presentation software is for design professionals, sales reps and account managers that are not 3D rendering experts: kitchen designers, interior designers, woodworkers and architects. Design professionals can use their favorite CAD software to design, and then use VORTEK Spaces to present. Your vision, your ideas and projects deserved to be presented live in a stunning way: live 3D walkthroughs, images, videos, 360 videos, virtual reality (VR) and much more!Starting Price: $1350 per year -
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Live Home 3D
BeLight Software
Live Home 3D is multi-platform interior design software that helps anyone create detailed floor plans and 3D renderings. By offering a variety of tools, the program simplifies the whole process of design creation, from drawing a floor plan to 3D visualization. The app lets an amateur create realistic and professional design projects and uses innovative technologies to present the final result.Starting Price: $9.99/one-time -
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RebusFarm
RebusFarm
At Rebus Render Farm we do not only offer you legal and easy to use cloud rendering. We also offer you an improved workflow which helps you to manage your team with ease when you render online. Our RebusFarm 3.0 Software allows you to export your render job directly from your 3D application. In addition, our ControlCenter gives you the opportunity to access and manage your render jobs at all times. RebusFarm is one of the very few render farms that has legal licenses for all the supported software and plugins on the farm. When you render online with RebusFarm you can be sure that your work is not rendered on illegal licenses. The Rebus Render Farm is the trusted CPU and GPU render farm service that supports all common 3D software. RebusFarm operates its own data center that consists of hundreds of thousands of servers. -
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Ultimate Unwrap 3D
Ultimate Unwrap 3D
Ultimate Unwrap 3D is a standalone UV mapping software for unfolding and unwrapping 3D models. It includes an easy-to-use UV coordinate editor, a standard set of UV mapping projections such as planar, box, cylindrical, and spherical, as well as advanced UV mapping tools for those difficult to map areas on a model. The Pro version includes a full-featured set of additional UV mapping editing tools, such as straightening, aligning, packing, and seaming. It is ideal for artists, professionals, modellers, game developers, and hobbyists, and easy enough to use for all levels of computer users. Ultimate Unwrap 3D supports over 100 file formats, including FBX, DAE, ASE, DXF, LWO, OBJ, and DirectX. We support 3ds Max, Maya, SoftImage, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Modo, Sketchup, and many more! Interactive seam picking mode. For marking seams in the 3D views. Repainting UVs for creating texture atlases from multiple textures. AutoTD UV islands. Scales UVs using the average texel density.Starting Price: $59.95 one-time payment -
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IrisVR Prospect
IrisVR
IrisVR Prospect is the leading VR software for immersive design review and collaboration. It is used by BIM and VDC teams, design firms, and engineers to coordinate models and implement design and construction processes in true, 1:1 scale. IrisVR Prospect integrates with Revit, Rhino, Navisworks, SketchUp, and other 3D tools out of the box, so you can instantly create immersive VR meetings for client presentations, design reviews, coordination, and more.Starting Price: $150 per user per month -
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Archicad
Graphisoft
Graphisoft Archicad - Design and deliver great buildings. Design: Unleash your creativity with the leading BIM software developed by architects like you. Focus on what you do best — designing great architecture — thanks to powerful algorithmic design tools and large model support. Visualize: Archicad’s professional architectural visualization tools translate your conceptual designs into compelling imagery of future buildings. Bring your models to life, inspire the audience, and invite stakeholders to engage with your designs. Collaborate: Work with your team and other disciplines around the corner or around the world on projects of any size and complexity. Open standards and workflows mean collaboration is guaranteed — regardless of what software other team members are using. Document: Complete, out-of-the-box documentation tools combined with a powerful publishing workflow that complies with local BIM requirements means you can focus on your designs, not the paperwork.Starting Price: $225/month -
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Revizto
Revizto
Revizto unifies BIM intelligence and makes it immediately accessible and actionable for the entire project team. With Revizto’s advanced Issue Tracker predefined workflows project team members can identify and manage model-based issues in the 3D space and 2D sheets, including addressing clash groups. Revizto provides unified access to a project’s data both for 2D and 3D workflows, so anyone can use it depending on project requirements.Starting Price: $600.00/year/user -
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Trimble Connect
Trimble MEP
Connect the right people to the right data at the right time. By giving everyone access to detailed project information, Trimble® Connect helps us all build better by making project information transparent, traceable and accessible. See 3D models with full-scale overlay in the real world with our HoloLens application. With mobile, desktop and web accessibility, stakeholders can access what they need, when they need it. Using our cloud-based collaboration platform, MEP contractors and engineers can coordinate, communicate and collaborate directly. Achieve predictable control by consolidating information across the design, build, and operate project phases. Trimble Connect is the glue between software and hardware products across the entire MEP workflow, connecting the different stages of a project and the countless contractors working on it.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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Enscape
Enscape
Enscape™ is a real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, and Vectorworks. It plugs directly into your modeling software, giving you an integrated visualization and design workflow. As an intuitive design tool, it requires no prior specialized knowledge to use. You can design, document, and visualize simultaneously from one model. It is the easiest and fastest way to turn your building models into immersive 3D experiences. Bring your designs to life and give your clients a design experience like never before. Used by 85 of the top 100 architecture firms worldwide, Enscape empowers your design workflow.Starting Price: $39.90 per month -
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The Wild
The Wild
Put your stakeholders inside your design remotely from any location. Effectively communicate spatial concepts through immersive design reviews to unlock better decisions and alignment. Collaborate in a shared virtual space that evolves with your ideas. See what your colleague is building, and they can see you. Meet together in real time remotely, or leave comments for your team to see later. Rapidly sketch, prototype, and iterate on your ideas. Import your SketchUp or Revit models, and gain critical context by experiencing your work at scale. Integrates with Revit, SketchUp, and BIM 360 workflows. Import from all major 3D filetypes. Easily access your content from HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Windows Mixed Reality, AR (iOS), or desktop (Mac or PC). Rapidly prototype and express ideas spatially in an immersive environment. Work and present from anywhere in real time, with up to eight people in a space.Starting Price: $295 per month -
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Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional
Ashampoo
Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional 7 is the professional solution for designers, draftsmen and landscapers. Plan, visualize and communicate your design ideas professionally and fuss-free! Create plan sections for building applications or construction documentation that meet the highest standards. Use powerful features to achieve technical excellence and rely on extensive modeling capabilities to design your own construction elements or sculptures and add an artistic touch to your building creations. Ashampoo 3D CAD Pro supports loading, editing and saving of various new 3D object formats. This gives you access to millions of 3D objects! Simply import them and add them to your designs! With support for SketchUp or Collada models, you can now instantly use numerous generic and brand-specific models. No good project design should be without photovoltaic installations. For roof-mounted system, you can already specify their layout, select modules from the object catalog and their placement.Starting Price: $89.97 -
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Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture
Ashampoo
Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture is for all who want to make their visions a reality. The integrated step-by-step wizard will get you reliable results fast. 2D, 3D and cross-section views help you keep an eye on your project and spot missing parts or sections that need more work. Whether you're building or redecorating a house - visualize in advance what the finished project will look like! Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture supports loading, editing and saving of various new 3D object formats. This gives you access to millions of 3D objects! Simply import them and add them to your designs! With support for SketchUp or Collada models, you can now instantly use numerous generic and brand-specific models. Whether you're simply taking a peek at your future dream house or plan on building it - Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture has what you need. Smart wizards help you avoid planning errors, numerous objects and appliances are ready for installation.Starting Price: $31.99 -
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Artlantis
ABVENT
A pioneer in architectural visualization and compatible with all the 3D modeling software on the market, Artlantis is the easiest and fastest solution for creating photorealistic renderings and animations. Handling DXF, DWG, OBJ, FBX and 3DS formats, and from now on IFC format, Artlantis is compatible with almost all 3D modelers currently on the market. This IFC import capability allows the user to receive a rich BIM data scene from a colleague using another modeler and to make any structural modifications to it in his daily work tool. Specific plug-ins for Archicad, Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Autodesk Revit, SketchUp and Arc + allow exports to Artlantis. Artlantis 2021 enters the world of Open BIM! Known and recognized for its almost universal accounting, Artlantis 21 now imports the IFC format. This new performance, concerning the model’s geometry only, allows the Artlantis user to receive any model from an interlocutor using a modeler other than their own.Starting Price: €600 -
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V-Ray
Chaos
Chaos® V-Ray® is a 3D rendering plugin available for SketchUp, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Revit, and more. It is widely used in architectural visualization, advertising, and visual effects for film and television. With V-Ray, artists and designers can explore and share their projects with real-time ray tracing and render high-quality visualizations. V-Ray has a large community of users and is recognized for its incredible versatility. V-Ray has been honored with a Sci-Tech Academy Award® and an Engineering Emmy Award® for bringing fully ray-traced photorealistic CGI to the film and television industries. For more information, please visit chaos.comStarting Price: $60 per month -
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Render[in]
Render[in]
Render[in] is a fully integrated, real-time radiosity engine developed for SketchUp (Free and Pro) users. Powered by Artlantis 6.5’s rendering engine, Render[in] 3 gives SketchUp users the high-definition, photorealistic renderings they’ve been looking for, in a robust, easy-to-use application. Just as in photography, the respect of color is essential in rendering. Render[in]’s new global illumination engine improves images for a better perception of colors, textures, and materials. Thanks to both the ISO and Shutter parameters, it is easier than ever to fine-tune a scene’s lighting.Starting Price: €190 per license -
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FluidRay
Fluid Interactive
All the tweaking of materials, lights or any other scene properties are immediately visible as real-time feedback in the viewport, making your workflow faster and much more pleasurable. FluidRay is the only interactive renderer that doesn’t suffer from GPU limitations. GPU based renderers work well only on specific tasks while FluidRay does it all easily and quickly. Working with FluidRay is effortless. The interactive workflow is extremely intuitive and anyone can get up to speed in just a few minutes. FluidRay allows you to quickly make visually stunning previews of your architectural projects, interior designs, jewelry projects, and more. Interactive rendering makes designing products and environments an easy and fun process. FluidRay makes it easy to quickly prototype your designs and generate super high quality preview images. FluidRay’s compatibility with Rhino enables designers to create 3D models in Rhino and easily import into FluidRay.Starting Price: $14.99 per month -
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Maxwell Render
Maxwell Render
Reality means predictable, reliable first-time results. Maxwell Render™ unleashes your creativity without having to struggle with complex computer graphics terminology and countless parameter tweaks. Maxwell Render is specifically made to help architects, designers, and artists to visualize their projects efficiently and accurately with minimum set-up time. Maxwell 5 is the best rendering software for light simulation. The rendering engine combines physically correct lighting with thousands of Maxwell materials to create accurate and extremely realistic images. It is compatible with most 3D or CAD applications. Best lighting engine for designers, architects, and artists from any industry. We constantly strive to improve the realism quality of the render and make the engine faster and easier to use. Maxwell remains unbiased with an easy transition from GPU to CPU, as well as the best cloud rendering service.Starting Price: $60 -
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3D Warehouse
Trimble
We know you’re proud of what you create in SketchUp, you should be. Don’t keep that to yourself! Share your models with the community and inspire others. Need the perfect couch to provide context to your project? Download someone else’s model, add it to your project, and keep cruisin’. Have a product that an architect, interior designer, or woodworker might buy? 3D Warehouse has millions of relevant users. Increase sales and brand awareness by putting your product in front of the eyes of your customers. We’ve enhanced our search so it’s way easier to find exactly what you’re looking for in a vast warehouse of models. Create a realistic view of the project for your clients when you outfit your model with products that can actually be purchased. Browse hundreds of manufacturer catalogs of real-world products, and download them directly into your model for a professional finish.Starting Price: $119 per year -
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AUGmentecture
AUGmentecture
A Patent Pending augmented reality communication and collaboration tool for architectural, engineering, and construction industries. AUGmentecture is an augmented reality platform for design collaboration that enables the viewing of 3D models in augmented reality (AR) format. Over 10,000 users and over 500,000 models viewed, AUGmentecture is the only augmented reality application that is effortless, rapid in converting models, and consistent in the market. One of the leading applications in the AR space, the AUGmentecture app is rated as the highest start in the Autodesk App Store as well as Android and iOS stores. Architects, engineers, and design professionals are using the AUGmentecture platform to display their 3D models in augmented reality on mobile devices and share them with colleagues. Our goal is to make augmented reality a day to day design communication and collaboration tool for architects, designers, and artists to simply Design, Upload, and View their models onStarting Price: $15/month/user -
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Airteam Fusion Platform
Airteam Aerial Intelligence
Airteam is an AI-powered software that converts aerial data from drones into CAD models. This allows roofers, PV planners, architects and contractors to measure and inspect buildings quickly and cost-effectively in a 3D. Founded in Berlin in 2018, Airteam focuses on drone flight automation and image data analysis using computer vision and machine learning.Starting Price: €150 per month -
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IRender nXt
RenderPlus
IRender nXt will improve client presentations of your SketchUp models. High-quality architectural renderings created with IRender nXt from your SketchUp models can be an important addition to your client presentations and proposals. Stop waiting on your 3D renderings. Deliver projects ahead of schedule. Render multiple jobs simultaneously. Get your computer back while you are rendering your 3D models. Stop upgrading your computers and use our fast machines instead. Watch IRender nXt create a photo-realistic rendering of an object with just one click. Without changing the SketchUp model, use IRender nXt to create a high-quality rendered image. It’s easy to create light fixtures and add them to a model. IRender nXt includes point, spot, ceiling, floor, and table lighting. IRender nXt is a powerful plugin for producing high-resolution architectural renderings from SketchUp models. IRender nXt is fully-integrated with materials, lighting, and components with an easy-to-use interface.Starting Price: $499 one-time payment -
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Snaptrude
Snaptrude
The collaborative building design for architects. Snaptrude helps design better buildings faster, by bringing project teams together. Snaptrude is used by designers from some of the world’s leading companies. Planned, designed, and visualize with the entire project team from concept to construction. Share models and document communication in real time. Whether you're designing a house or a city, get it done faster with intelligent automation and parametric modeling. Being fast doesn't have to mean sacrificing creativity or quality. Leverage BIM data to control costs & design sustainably. Gather real-time insights from automated BoQs, site topography, daylight simulation, and more. Import from AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, or Revit & Export directly into Revit, with complete parametric family information, without any data loss. Create flawless architecture that satisfies the client's brief. Brainstorm ideas with your team & rapidly turn them into detailed BIM models.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Modelur
Modelur
Modelur brings architects, urban designers, and planners all the essential tools needed to easily test multiple urban massing options in your favorite 3D modeling environment. Without having to manually recalculate areas and other parameters in Excel! Enter the area’s zoning regulations such as max. FAR, site coverage, green areas, max. building height and more, and create custom land-use types for greater flexibility and calculation precision. Use the urban massing generator to see how zoning rules perform in space and set maximum geometrical building values for the generator to get you started with a basic draft or simply import your dwg floor plans. Use the power of parametric modeling and automated data calculations to start designing and iterating your ideas. Say no more to manually transferring your model data to spreadsheets. Our Excel LiveSync functionality synchronizes all your model data to Excel spreadsheets in real-time.Starting Price: €149 per month -
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ARKA 360
ARKA 360
We made this end-to-end solar platform after speaking to hundreds of solar installers to make sure our software adapts to your workflow and improves that, and we're not something you have to massively change the way you work to use our software effectively. Take your business digital, reduce human errors, save on costs, and serve your customers better. From capturing leads to filling in site survey information and a lot more solar features, this is not the average CRM. Design & CRM in one software made especially for salespeople to design by themselves. Salespeople can do just about everything helped by AI and the easy-to-use design features. Send prospects a beautiful proposal with accurate design, solar and battery energy analysis, and financials within minutes. ARKA 360’s powerful design studio is made for technical salespeople and engineers with full 3D design, modeling to the inch, and advanced 3D analysis.Starting Price: $ 1,699 per year -
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Irrigation F/X
Land F/X
This add-on to CAD allows you to access current data from manufacturer catalogs, place equipment, and draw pipe. Calculate pressure and flow automatically. Achieve error-free plans on time, every time. This add-on to CAD allows you to access current data from manufacturer catalogs, place equipment, and draw pipe. Calculate pressure and flow automatically. Achieve error-free plans on time. The planting design tools help make your plans quick, easy, and error-free with automatic quantities, error checking, instant schedules, and fast revisions. Share organized, consistent, and up-to-date details within CAD. This detail management system makes it easy to customize, design, save, edit, call out, and organize your details. The site and hardscape design tools include everything from grading and zoning to paving, placing site amenities and lighting equipment, and calling out site objects such as retaining walls and furniture.Starting Price: $875 per year -
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Veras
EvolveLAB
Veras is an AI-powered visualization app compatible with SketchUp, Revit, Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, and web platforms, designed to enhance creativity and inspiration by utilizing your existing 3D model geometry. It offers a geometry override slider, allowing users to balance creativity and precision by adjusting the adherence to the original model geometry. The render selection feature enables targeted modifications within specific image areas, facilitating real-time adjustments with precision. Additionally, the render from the same seed function allows for consistent iterative design by reusing initial parameters with new prompts. Veras is accessible via a web app, eliminating the need for complex installations or expensive BIM software; users can upload images or sketches directly through their browser to utilize its full capabilities. The software supports various versions of popular design tools.Starting Price: $49 per month