How Much Does onX Hunt Cost in 2026?

Short answer: onX Hunt runs $34.99 to $99.99 per year in 2026. Premium is $34.99/yr for one state of land-ownership data, Premium Two-State is $49.99/yr, and Elite is $99.99/yr (or $14.99/mo) for all 50 states plus Canada. A 7-day free trial unlocks everything, including Elite tools. What's changed this year is the bottom of the lineup: onX no longer markets a named free "Basic" membership.

Here's the full breakdown — what each tier actually gets you, where the price is justified, and where it isn't.

01onX Hunt pricing at a glance (2026)

Prices are from onX's own pricing page as of August 2026, and all four are unchanged from earlier in the year. Paying monthly for Elite costs $179.88/yr — onX's own math ("save $80 annually") tells you the annual plan is the only sensible way to buy it.

One discrepancy worth flagging: the App Store listing still shows a legacy $29.99 Premium in-app purchase. That SKU is not sold on onX's website. If you see $29.99 quoted somewhere, it's the old App Store entry, not a price you can buy today — plan on $34.99.

There's also a 7-day free trial that unlocks all features, including the Elite-only tools, so you can pressure-test the app on your actual hunting ground before paying.

02Is there a free version of onX Hunt?

This is the part that changed, and it's worth being precise about, because plenty of articles (including an earlier version of this one) still describe a free "Basic" membership as if it were a real tier you could plan around.

As of August 2026, onX has de-branded Basic. The pricing table has no Basic row. The page that used to live at the free-trial-basic-membership-details slug no longer contains the word "Basic" at all — it's now purely a 7-day-trial page. And the "Managing your onX Hunt Membership" support article lists only Premium and Elite.

The only surviving description of unsubscribed use is a single FAQ line: "While the App can still be accessed without a subscription, use of features (e.g. Land Ownership, Offline Maps, and Map Layers) will be limited."

So: the app still functions without a subscription, and whatever you've already saved doesn't vanish. But onX no longer names, markets, or documents a free tier, and there is no published feature list for it. That's a meaningful difference. "Free tier" implies something you can evaluate and commit to; what onX offers now is an unsubscribed state with undefined limits. Don't build a season around it.

What's certain is that the things most people buy onX for sit behind a paid plan:

• Property lines and land-ownership data
• Landowner names and info
• Offline maps
• Most of the map layer library

If you hunt public land in the West and need to know exactly where a boundary sits — or you're knocking on doors for permission in the Midwest — you're paying.

03Premium: $34.99/yr for one state

Premium is the entry point for the features onX is famous for: parcel boundaries, landowner information, offline maps, and the bulk of the layer library — but only for a single state you pick. Hunt two states and you'll need the $49.99 Two-State plan; hunt three and you're staring at Elite.

For a hunter who works one state and mainly needs to answer "whose land is this, and where's the line?", Premium is the honest sweet spot of the lineup.

04Elite: $99.99/yr — and where the tools got fenced

Elite covers all 50 states plus Canada, which matters for out-of-state applicants, border-country hunters, and anyone running a multi-state season.

But Elite is also where onX has parked its newest scouting tech. Two features worth knowing about are Elite-only:

• Trail Camera Analysis — onX automatically analyzes synced trail-camera images, filters out non-deer photos, places photos on your map, and charts movement trends by time of day, day of week, and historical wind at the camera site. It integrates with camera brands like Moultrie and Bushnell.
• Deer Movement Forecasts — predicted deer activity, also gated to Elite.

So the AI trail-camera features that hunters increasingly ask about aren't a Premium perk — they're bundled into the $99.99/yr tier whether or not you need nationwide maps.

05Is onX Hunt worth it?

Depends entirely on what you're buying it for.

Where onX earns the money: land-ownership data. It is genuinely best-in-class — the parcel boundaries, landowner info, and public/private overlays are the industry standard, and for western public-land hunting or permission-based access in farm country, that data alone can be worth $34.99 for your state. Nobody should pretend otherwise. If boundary confidence is your core problem, onX Premium is a fair buy.

Where it's harder to justify: paying $99.99/yr primarily for trail-camera analysis and deer forecasts. If you already know whose land you're hunting — your own ground, a family farm, a lease you've held for years — the ownership layer is dead weight, and you're effectively paying Elite money for the scouting tools stacked on top.

The trial tip: use the 7-day free trial during a real scouting week, not a random one. Sync your cameras, mark your boundaries, and see which tier's features you actually touched by day seven. With no documented free tier to fall back on, the trial is now your only real look at the product before you commit.

06The free alternative for trail-camera AI

If the Elite-only trail-camera analysis is the feature pulling you toward $99.99/yr, it's worth knowing that Trail Pro Intel does AI trail-camera analysis on its free plan — drop in your SD card and it auto-tags 50+ species, scores antler class, and recognizes individual bucks across photo sets.

Be clear on how that free plan is metered, because the two halves work differently: photo uploads are unlimited, but the AI analysis is not. Free accounts get 10 AI photo analyses per month; Pro raises that to 15 credits per month. You can dump every card you own into the app and keep the whole library, but you choose which photos spend a credit.

The rest of the free plan has no such cap: unlimited properties, cameras, and gear, a 3-day Hunt Forecast, basic analytics, a 3-day solunar and moon guide, the Gear Locker, and field notes, stands, and gear that work with no cell service (though unlike onX Premium, there's no downloadable map region — tiles only cache ground you've already viewed). Pro adds 7- and 10-day forecasts, heatmaps, the full solunar calendar, and CSV export for $1.99/mo or $19.99/yr — a fraction of Elite pricing.

To be fair in the other direction: Trail Pro Intel doesn't do land-ownership data, and onX's downloadable offline maps cover new country Trail Pro Intel can't. If property lines are why you're shopping, onX still wins that fight outright. The realistic setup for a lot of hunters is Premium for boundaries in their home state plus a free AI trail-cam workflow — instead of Elite for everything.

For the head-to-head, see Trail Pro Intel vs onX Hunt, and for the wider field, the best free hunting apps in 2026.

07Bottom line

• onX Hunt in 2026: $34.99/yr Premium (1 state), $49.99/yr Two-State, $99.99/yr Elite ($14.99/mo). Prices as of August 2026.
• onX has de-branded Basic. The app still opens without a subscription with "limited" features, but there's no named, documented free tier anymore — don't plan around one.
• The App Store still lists a legacy $29.99 Premium SKU that onX's site doesn't sell.
• Trail Camera Analysis and Deer Movement Forecasts are Elite-only.
• Buy onX for the land-ownership data — it's the best there is. Think twice before buying Elite just for the scouting tools, because free alternatives cover that ground.