komoot.comcontributed by Samuele Ongaro
The value is the network, the data or the infrastructure. Keep paying.
Route planning for cycling and walking with surface-aware routing, offline maps and turn-by-turn navigation, built on community-contributed map data.
Do not build this. Surface-aware routing is the product and it rests on data you would have to interpret rather than possess. The map data is open — OpenStreetMap — but knowing that this track is loose gravel unsuitable for a road bike, and that path is a staircase, comes from tags applied inconsistently across the world plus years of tuning and community correction. Routing engines are open too. The judgement between them is not. WHAT TO DO INSTEAD - Keep it if you plan routes on unfamiliar ground. That is exactly what it is for - If you ride the same routes and just want them recorded, that is a much smaller problem WHAT YOU CAN BUILD, AND SHOULD **Your own activity archive**, because a route planner is not a place to keep years of your riding: - Import GPX and FIT files from any device - Store the track, the elevation profile, the timestamps and the sensor data as rows - Compute your own statistics rather than trusting a platform's: distance, elevation, moving time with a stated threshold for what counts as stopped, and speed distributions rather than averages - A map of everywhere you have been, which is the thing people actually enjoy and which no platform lets you take with you - Search by date, distance, area and route similarity - Everything local, exportable in one command **And a self-hosted router if you want one**: an open routing engine over an extract of your own region, with a profile you tune. That covers 'give me a sensible route near here' without any subscription, and the region extract is a download. THE THING TO DO TODAY Export your history from whatever platform holds it and check what comes out. Sensor data and route metadata are often thinner in the export than in the application, and years of activities that live only in somebody's account are years you do not own. THE ONE-LINE VERSION Keep the planner. Own the archive, and export your history before you need to.
What you lose
- Routing that accounts for surface, gradient and whether a path is actually rideable, which is a tuned engine rather than shortest-path
- Offline maps and turn-by-turn voice navigation
- Community route recommendations for places you have never been
If you would rather not build
- BRouter, which specialises in bike routing
What it costs
as published on their pricing page
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Last read |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | $4.99/mo | — | — |
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The escape hatch
open source · no votes, no paid placement
GraphHopper
$0An open routing engine with custom profiles for bike and foot.
graphhopper/graphhopperfree · open source
Why this verdict
our own opinion · changed only by a person
28/100
Verdict no at 28. The map data is free and the engines are open, but a routing profile good enough to trust on a bike is tuning work with no shortcut.
History
tracked since 10 Aug 2026 · nothing is ever overwritten
Questions about Komoot
answered from the record above
Is Komoot free?
No — the plan we track is $4.99 a month. Premium at around €4.99/month billed monthly, cheaper annually; individual map regions are one-off purchases.
Can you replace Komoot by building your own?
KEEP IT. The value is the network, the data or the infrastructure. Keep paying. Replacement score 28 out of 100, build time longer than it saves. Read what you lose before you decide.
How much does Komoot cost?
$4.99 a month on Premium — $59.88 a year. Recorded 10 Aug 2026.
What do you lose by replacing Komoot?
Routing that accounts for surface, gradient and whether a path is actually rideable, which is a tuned engine rather than shortest-path; Offline maps and turn-by-turn voice navigation; Community route recommendations for places you have never been. If any of those carry weight for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Komoot?
Yes: GraphHopper, OsmAnd. The prompt on this page is for when you want it your way instead.
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