Switch from Aurora Solar to SurgePV: What to Check Before You Move

This page compares Aurora Solar and SurgePV using what each vendor publishes. Aurora sells per-user plans at three levels: Basic, Premium and Enterprise. SurgePV lists a different price unit and a different product scope. Use the tables below to see what fits your work.

SurgePV publishes this page and is a vendor in this category: it competes with Aurora Solar, and this page compares the two. The facts here come from the vendors’ public pages, checked October 2026. We have not compared the two products side by side on a live project.

Aurora Solar plans and prices

These figures are from the Aurora pricing page, North America view, read October 2026. Prices are in US dollars, per user.

Aurora lists these features:

• Basic: tablet-friendly sales proposals (Sales Mode), design tools (Design Mode), HD imagery and access to on-demand site models.
• Premium: all Basic features, plus LIDAR-assisted modeling, bankable shade reports, and battery storage modeling (backup, self-consumption and arbitrage).
• Enterprise: all Basic and Premium features. It adds AI-assisted site models, drone mapping and unlimited users. It also adds APIs and integrations, advanced user permissions and dealer configurations. Aurora also lists premium services, plan sets and engineering stamps here.

Aurora’s site also has pages for other regions, such as Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom. We did not read their prices.

What SurgePV publishes

SurgePV’s published product scope is 3D roof modeling, solar array layout, shading analysis, energy-yield modeling, financial modeling, electrical workflow support, bill-of-materials output and proposal generation. See solar designing, shadow analysis, generation and financial modeling and solar proposals.

Price on /pricing: USD per user per year. It is $1,899 for 1 user, $1,499 per user for 3 seats and $1,299 per user for 5 seats. Access is a guided demo. No self-serve trial is advertised.

SurgePV also states limits. Results depend on source data, assumptions, equipment models, configuration and review. Outputs do not replace approval by the responsible engineer, authority, lender, insurer or utility. Pricing, access, scope and contract terms must be confirmed in a written quote.

Aurora’s figures are its annual-billing prices ($135 and $220 per user per month, times 12). Aurora Basic and Premium list 50 projects per month; SurgePV’s page lists unlimited projects with fair-use terms to confirm.

Aurora Solar and SurgePV side by side

The table shows scope only. It does not say which tool gives better results. The prices use different billing terms and limits. Do not read them as a like-for-like saving.

Pros and cons of each tool

Aurora Solar

• Pros: published plan tiers, LIDAR-assisted modeling and bankable shade reports on Premium, and drone mapping, plan sets and engineering stamps on Enterprise.
• Cons: 1 user and 50 projects per month on Basic and Premium, and Enterprise pricing is custom.

SurgePV

• Pros: one yearly price per user, discounted by seat count, with proposals and financial modeling in scope.
• Cons: guided demo only, no battery modeling in the published scope, and no published list of importable Aurora files.

What Aurora documents about exporting your data

Aurora’s help center describes these exports:

• Exporting DXF files: in Design Mode, click Export, choose DXF and pick the layers. The article says DXF is a standard CAD format that works with AutoCAD and other design tools.
• Hourly Production Data Export: in Design Mode, the Download menu gives a CSV file of 8760 hourly production values.

We did not find an Aurora help page about moving a whole project into another vendor’s software in the pages we read. This page does not say which Aurora files SurgePV can read.

How to plan a move

SurgePV does not publish a migration time or a list of files it can import. Plan these steps and ask for details in writing.

1. List your active projects and open proposals. Decide which ones finish in Aurora, so customers do not see a change in the middle of a sale.
2. Download your files. Use the exports above for each project you want to keep.
3. Book a demo. Ask what SurgePV can take from your existing files, and get the answer in a written quote.
4. Run one live project in both tools. Compare the inputs and results. Results depend on source data and assumptions, so check the differences.
5. Keep Aurora until your team trusts the new output. Your engineer, client or authority decides what output they accept, not the software.

Who should pick Aurora Solar, and who should pick SurgePV?

Pick SurgePV if you want a yearly per-user price for design, yield, financial modeling and proposals, and your work does not need Aurora’s Enterprise extras. Stay with Aurora if you:

• need drone mapping, AI-assisted site models or dealer configurations, which Aurora lists on Enterprise and SurgePV’s published scope does not list;
• need plan sets and engineering stamps from the vendor, which Aurora lists on Enterprise;
• want tablet-friendly sales proposals, which Aurora lists on Basic.

SurgePV’s published product scope does not list a CRM. If you need customer tracking, plan to keep a separate tool.

Bottom line

SurgePV fits teams that want one yearly per-user price for design and proposals and do not need drone mapping, dealer configurations or vendor engineering stamps. Aurora fits teams that do. Compare outputs on one live job: see the SurgePV pricing or book a demo.

Other migration guides

See how the same move looks from PVsyst or HelioScope, or browse all migration guides. For the wider field, read the Aurora Solar review, the Aurora Solar vs SurgePV comparison and the list of Aurora Solar alternatives.

Sources

All checked October 2026.

• Aurora Solar pricing: plans, prices, users and projects, features (North America view).
• Exporting DXF files: DXF export from Design Mode.
• Hourly Production Data Export: 8760-value CSV.
• SurgePV pricing page and product scope: price, scope and stated limits.