OpenRoads Designer vs. Plex-Earth
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | OpenRoads Designer | Plex-Earth |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| Review count | 139 | 20 |
| Ease of use | 7.3 | 9.1 |
| Ease of setup | 6.9 | 9.6 |
| Quality of support | 7.9 | 9.8 |
| Meets requirements | 8.6 | 9.5 |
| NPS | 37.5 | 80 |
| Small Business | 22.1% | 50.0% |
| Mid-Market | 34.6% | 30.0% |
| Enterprise | 43.4% | 20.0% |
| Total page views | 471 | 265 |
| Total LLM citations | 3,508 | 619 |
OpenRoads Designer
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition, the successor to Bentley’s industry leading civil engineering brands InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, and PowerCivil, is a truly innovative design application, built to address the demands of today’s evolving infrastructure industry. By blending traditional engineering workflows for plan, profile, and cross-sections with 3D parametric modeling, OpenRoads Designer enables the model-centric creation of all your design deliverables.
Plex-Earth
Plex-Earth is your geospatial go-to tool in CAD. Satellite and aerial imagery, years of historical archives, and 3D terrain, all inside your drawing. Built for AEC teams across civil engineering, solar, wind, telecom, oil & gas, and utilities, it integrates into AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Map 3D, and BricsCAD. Choose from basemaps including Google Maps, Azure Maps, and OpenStreetMap for general reference, or bring in premium imagery from Nearmap, Vexcel, Hexagon, Airbus, and Vantor when the project demands higher resolution and defensible source data.