Niantic Studio (Beta)

Niantic Studio is two things - a new visual editor Niantic 8th Wall and a powerful new web gaming engine. 

It moves 8th Wall from a code-heavy website building tool to a true visual editing experience that makes everything you create accessible and visible in real time. Niantic Studio offers progressive complexity that enables you to build immersive experiences easily and quickly, while continuing to offer the professional-quality tools, code, and customization that you expect from 8th Wall.

Niantic Studio is a great fit for supporting other aspects of existing games like:

New user engagement/UA: With Niantic Studio, drive new users engagement or conversion by creating short first-time user experiences that encourage trial or demo without app installation. Studio makes it easy to build these types of short form, widely distributed experiences that drive conversion and engagement with fewer drop off points.

Concept prototyping and demo sharing: Niantic Studio supports creators and teams that want to quickly spin up a concept, collaboratively develop on it, and easily share it out. There’s no build compilation time, no Testflight management, or roundabout device permission flows to see the experience. And, with  Studio’s Simulator, in one-click you can virtually “deploy” an AR experience to a range of devices and real-world environments to view the user experience remotely and realistically.  Supporting this kind of rapid iteration and concept sharing is what Studio is all about.

Niantic Studio’s all-in-one tools are available for free and across all 8th Wall plan types. This means anyone can build, prototype, and deploy their  individual 3D and XR projects without any cost. With free access, nothing is standing in your way, allowing independent creators and developers to start building their personal projects in Studio immediately.

With the release of Niantic Studio, 8th Wall also introduced a new Basic free tier for Gaming and Marketing. 

This tier replacing the previously offered Starter and Pro plans. However, those currently on the Starter or Pro plans will be grandfathered in and can use both Niantic Studio and the legacy Cloud Editor. 

If you cancel a legacy Starter or Plus plan, you'll still have read-only access to projects created with the Cloud Editor. However, to edit them again, you'll need to upgrade to the Pro Marketing plan.

Once your Starter or Plus plan is canceled, you won't be able to resubscribe to those specific plans. If you want to access and edit your Cloud Editor projects again in the future, upgrading to the Pro Marketing plan will be your option. For more details, view our pricing page. 

Niantic VPS for Web offers a generous free tier, allowing developers to make up to 25,000 calls per month without any charges. Once a developer exceeds this limit, they will be billed starting from their 25,001st call at the following rates:
 
VPS usage is billed monthly, with your usage resetting at the start of each billing period. This allows you to scale your WebAR experiences as needed while only paying for the calls that exceed the free tier.

How is usage calculated and billed?
VPS calls are calculated based on the number of successful calls to the VPS server. Calls are calculated across the workspace. You are billed monthly, and your usage resets at the start of each new billing period.

Do I need to enter payment information to access the free tier?
No, you can start building with Niantic VPS for Web without entering any payment information. You will only need to provide payment details if you exceed 25,000 calls in a month.