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deegree vs NextGIS Web: catalog facts
deegree	NextGIS Web
Best for: Organisations publishing spatial data through OGC web services	Best for: GIS teams publishing and sharing spatial data alongside QGIS
Free Free and open source, supported by donations and sponsorship.	Free + paid options Open-source Community Edition is free; cloud plans and on-premise products are paid.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Includes the OGC WMS reference implementation Fully compliant WFS plus CSW, WPS and WMTS All 3 strengths for deegree Includes the OGC WMS reference implementation Fully compliant WFS plus CSW, WPS and WMTS Long-running OSGeo project with several maintaining organisations	Vector and raster data management with a REST API Web map publishing with PostGIS support All 4 strengths for NextGIS Web Vector and raster data management with a REST API Web map publishing with PostGIS support Version control for vector data Close integration with QGIS
Requires running and configuring a Java server Aimed at GIS administrators rather than end users	Aimed at GIS professionals rather than casual map users Hosted and enterprise options are paid
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for deegree deegree.org Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for NextGIS Web nextgis.com/nextgis-web github.com/nextgis/nextgisweb Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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