Simple pricing:
Free to build - pay to share
It's free to build and check every plan, on as many farms as you like.
You only pay to export and share - reports, clean map snapshots and recommendations.
Are you a farmer whose agronomist uses Soil Benchmark? You don't need to pay anything
The whole farm team, including sprayer operators and farm secretaries, can view and complete recommendations with no added cost.
%20(1).png)
SB Pro
.png)
Nutrient Nerd
Soil Sage
.png)
Buying soil or nutrient plans for lots of farms? Use credits to save on the cost
SAM1 needs a Soil Management Plan, and NUM1 needs a Nutrient Management Plan. Both have to be updated every year of your agreement. SB Farm does both quickly and easily, and the SFI payments comfortably cover what it costs. Worth noting that SFI26 doesn't include SAM1 or NUM1, and that SFI schemes don't apply in Wales or Scotland.
Upgrade only the farms and cropping years you need. Only need one mode? Single modes are £200 per farm, per cropping year.
Thinking of moving off an older system?
A modern, cloud-based system
There's nothing to install - everything works online and syncs automatically between your devices, and between users. It's quick and easy to use, with a map-based interface.
Moving is less work than you think
Upload one export from your existing software for each year you want to bring across. We import cropping and operations straight in - it will feel like you've been on the platform for years!
You can actually get hold of us
Speak directly with the founders or the developers, not a call centre. We're UK-based, and can change things rapidly - raise something in the morning, we aim to have a fix out that day.
And we're 100% independent
We don't sell inputs, and we're not owned by an agronomy firm or a data company. We're not competing with you, not selling your data - just here to build great software for UK farms.
You can create and share fertiliser and spray recommendations, track them as they're applied on the farm, and build costings and basic nutrient management reports all for one monthly subscription. Label, NVZ & RB209 compliance checks are built in and alert you as you go.
Our happy customers
"Very easy piece of software to use. The team are all very helpful if you have a problem... and they are always asking us what we would like to see improved."
"Soil benchmark has been an absolute lifesaver... It really has been a huge asset to our business and the support from the team is outstanding."
"Easy to use, helps keep you compliant with industry standards and there are some brilliant features that allow you to get a more in-depth understanding of land! Highly recommend!"
Hectares using Soil Benchmark
Farms using Soil Benchmark
Everything before you click 'share' is free
Add your whole farm in seconds
Import every field straight from your SBI number and add as many farms as you like - all completely free. In Scotland or Wales, upload a shapefile or pick fields from the map.
Every map layer, already in place
Free to view and edit: risks, soils and sensitive areas pre-populated from Cranfield, the British Geological Survey, Ordance Survey, the Environment Agency, and MAGIC - incluing run-off and erosion risk, NVZs, SSSIs, waterways and boreholes, all in place before you start.
Existing data, added with AI
Upload soil analysis from any lab and our AI importer maps the results across your farm automatically - no typing, no reformatting, and nothing to pay to use it. Similarly you can easily import cropping and operations histories from other farm software platforms.
Plan nutrients and sprays, with compliance built in
Build nutrient, manure and fertiliser plans and spray recs with live FERA Liaison checks, and RB209, NVZ and pesticide-label compliance flagged as you go. All free to build and check - you only pay to download plans or share them digitially with your clients.
See exactly what you'll get before you pay
Price up plans, keep price lists, turn recs into product orders, and preview a draft nutrient or soil plan for 3 fields on any farm. You only pay when you're ready to export or share the finished thing.
Get your Soil, Manure and Nutrient Management Plans done today
Frequently Asked Questions
Still got questions? Email info@soilbenchmark.com or book a call with us via Calendly.
One farm, for one cropping year, across all four products - Soil Sage, Nutrient Nerd, Crop Rex and SFI Shepherd. Building and checking plans is free on as many farms as you like; the charge is for exporting and sharing the finished thing.
No, and there never will be. A farm upgrade unlocks that farm for every user with access to it - you, your colleagues, the farm team, sprayer operators and farm secretaries. Whether you are in the free mode or your farm is upgraded to SB Farm, you can add as many people as you like at no extra cost.
A lot. Receiving recommendations, seeing them on the platform and recording what was actually applied are all free, as are the risk and soil maps, RB209 recommendations, on-screen compliance checks and drafting plans. The upgrade is for the finished plans and reports - downloading and sharing them.
No. You can merge multiple holdings into one farm on the platform.
If a business has several SBI numbers (or multiple shapefiles) which have been uploaded - and you keep them as separate farms on the platform- then each one would indeed need its own upgrade. However, you can merge them into a single farm first using the Merge Farms button (under the 'Tractor' icon on the top bar), and then you only pay once for the merged farm.
It depends which product you're talking about.
Our SB Farm upgrade (and individual Product upgrades) are limited to a single cropping year on a single farm. However, once you have paid, this is the unlocked forever. If you wanted to export plans for a different cropping year, you would need to pay again to unlock that year too.
Our SB Agronomist subscription allows a user to create and share recommendations for all their farms, in any cropping year. It's a subscription, so while it is active, there is no limit on which cropping years you can work on.
There's nothing to cancel - you pay per farm, per cropping year, rather than by subscription. Anything you've already produced stays accessible, and the years you've paid for stay unlocked.
SB Farm is £475/year and allows you to make all the same key plans and reports as Gatekeeper or Omnia. For most farms other platforms can cost in the thousands of pounds for a large farm. Even a basic Telus subscription would normally be £600+, so Soil Benchmark should be significantly cheaper. And as other platform generally charge more the larger a farm gets, for those farms Soil Benchmark is a fraction of the cost (as well as, hopefully, a lot easier to use and with much better support!)
It's worth saying that we offer loads of support to help you migrate data across from all the main legacy farm management platforms (including Gatekeeper, Telus and Omnia). Get in touch to get set up.