AI takeoff tools

Estimateria vs Togal.AI for door, hardware and finish takeoffs

Togal.AI is the strongest example of automatic floor plan detection in the category: press the Togal button and rooms, walls, wall types and object counts come back measured and classified, with repeating groups so a master unit can be applied to hundreds of identical spaces. It is a takeoff tool and it says so — no pricing databases, no bid management, and through its eTakeoff integration it accepts only architectural floor plan PDFs with a scale already assigned. Estimateria works the other side of the sheet: the schedule table, the hardware behind it, and the price.

What Togal.AI is

A browser takeoff product for general contractors and specialty trades. It auto-names and organises the plan set on upload, detects and measures rooms, walls and wall types, counts objects, and lets you search by drawing a box around an element to find it across the set. Classifications can carry custom formulas, and 2025 added repeating groups, snapping, progressive loading, 3D takeoff and assemblies templates for wall types. Togal.CHAT answers questions about the plans, and drawing sets can be compared to quantify changes.

What Estimateria is

A workspace for the schedules rather than the plan geometry. The set is classified locally, the door, hardware and finish tables are read off the pages into an editable grid keyed by door mark, hardware sets break into items priced from suppliers, and every row keeps the page and region it came from. Plans are measured in a calibrated markup editor, with conditions, assemblies and a running bid behind the measurements. Detection on the plan exists — doors, rooms, repeated symbols — but as suggestions to review, not as the headline.

How the same job goes

One door schedule on a set of architectural PDFs, from the drawings to a priced, exportable list.

In Togal.AI

1Upload the set; sheets are named and organised automatically.
2Press the Togal button: rooms, walls, wall types and object counts come back measured.
3Build classifications, and attach custom formulas so a quantity carries a cost.
4Use repeating groups to apply a measured master unit to identical spaces.
5Search by drawing a box around a symbol to find it across the set.
6Export to Excel or PDF, and price it in your estimating system.

In Estimateria

1Upload the set; every page is classified locally, including which are schedules.
2Select the schedule on the page; the rows land in the grid, one per door mark.
3Review the flagged rows with the drawing one click away on the source chip.
4Run detection on a floor plan for doors, rooms and repeated symbols, and accept or reject each suggestion.
5Measure the rest with conditions, mark repeated millwork as typical, and watch the running bid.
6Hardware sets break into items, matched and priced from supplier listings.
7Export the estimating package to Excel, or the marked-up sheets to PDF.

1 · On the sheet

The schedule table on page 3 of A-601, found on the sheet and selected.

2 · In the grid

Extracted door schedule rows, sample data
Mark	Type	Size	HW
101	Hollow metal	3'0" × 7'0"	HW-01
102	Solid core wood	3'0" × 6'8"	HW-04
103	Hollow metal	3'0" × 7'0"	HW-01
104	Storefront pair	6'0" × 8'0"	HW-07

One row per door mark, editable like a spreadsheet. Sample data.

3 · Back to the page

Door 102

Solid core wood · HW-04

A-601 · p.3

Opens the page at the row it was read from

A reviewer checks the number against the drawing in one click.

Stay with Togal.AI when

Your quantities come off the floor plan geometry: rooms, walls, wall types, areas.
Repeated layouts dominate the job and repeating groups that measure a master unit for hundreds of spaces would pay for the licence.
You take off painting, drywall or flooring across many jobs rather than Division 8.
You want 3D takeoff and drawing-set comparison.
Unlimited external collaborators on the plan matters to your team.

Choose Estimateria when

The quantities you need are in a schedule table, not in the geometry.
You want the hardware behind each opening broken out and priced.
Your set includes elevations, sections, details and specs that a floor-plan-only tool will not read.
You want a record of where each quantity came from and who produced it.
You want the schedule and the plan detections in the same project rather than two tools.
You want the quantity to carry a cost: conditions, assemblies, supplier quotes and a recap in the same place.

Side by side

Estimateria compared with Togal.AI
Feature	Estimateria	Togal.AI
Automatic floor plan detection	Partly Doors, rooms and count-by-exemplar as suggestions you review. Accuracy measured on synthetic drawings only.	Yes Rooms, walls, wall types and object counts detected, measured and classified in one pass.
Repeated layouts	Partly Millwork drawn once can be marked typical at N, which multiplies the takeoff quantity and never the measured one. Count-by-exemplar finds repeated symbols. Nothing measures a master unit and applies it to identical rooms automatically.	Yes Repeating groups: measure a master unit once and apply it to hundreds of identical spaces.
Schedule table read into rows by door mark	Yes Door, hardware and finish modules, with the hardware and finish hanging off the mark.	No Built around detecting and measuring the plan, not reading schedule tables.
Sheets beyond architectural floor plans	Yes Every page is classified — elevations, sections, details, specs — and the whole set is searchable.	Partly Through its eTakeoff integration it accepts only architectural floor plans with a scale assigned; elevations, sections, details, site, civil, structural and MEP are not supported.
Hardware matching and pricing	Yes Sets split into items, priced from supplier listings and selected in the grid.	No Takeoff only: no pricing databases and no bid management.
Quantities that carry a cost formula	Yes Conditions carry attributes and an assembly with labor rates, so a measurement becomes a priced line in the running bid; the Markups List has formula columns.	Yes Custom formulas in classifications, and assemblies templates for wall types. No pricing databases or bid management.
Scale	Partly Calibrate by two points, or read the scale from the title block where it is legible; viewport regions carry their own scale.	Partly Plans need a scale already assigned for the eTakeoff path.
Drawing set comparison	Partly Sheets of a reissued set are paired by sheet number, with your takeoff cost inside each changed area. It reads text, not lines, and there is no visual overlay.	Yes Compare drawing sets to quantify what changed.
Two people on the same bid at once	Partly Presence avatars, live pointers on the drawing (markup editor and the PDF pane of the takeoff tabs), selections in the editor, follow mode (click a colleague to go to their page, scroll and zoom), pinned comments with mentions and assignment, an in-app inbox and an activity feed. Pointers and pages are pushed over a websocket; the rest refreshes by polling.	Yes Multi-user simultaneous access with change tracking, and unlimited external collaborators on the plan.
Where a quantity came from	Yes Every row and accepted detection carries its page, region, producer and confidence.	Partly Quantities tie to the classification that produced them.
3D takeoff	No 2D only, though a volume tool multiplies an area by a depth.	Yes Interactive 3D takeoff shipped in 2025.

Reviewed September 2026, from public information. Products change. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.

What Estimateria does not do

If one of these decides the job for you, Togal.AI is the better answer and we would rather you knew now.

No repeating groups that measure a master unit and apply it to identical rooms; typical-at-N multiplies a quantity you have measured once.
No 3D takeoff and no BIM. Volume is area times a depth you enter.
Detection covers doors, rooms and repeated symbols; it does not classify walls and wall types in one pass the way the Togal button does.
No drawing set comparison for addenda.
Every detection accuracy figure we have is from drawings we generated ourselves; no real plan set has been measured.

What it costs

Togal.AI: Published at $299 per user per month on the Growth plan, billed yearly, with unlimited automated takeoffs, chat prompts, symbol searches and external collaborators. Business is custom for four or more users. There is no free tier.
Estimateria: Sign-up is open and free while the product is being built, so there is no published price yet. The free calculators need no account at all.

Prices are what the vendor published when this page was reviewed, and they move. Check with Togal.AI before you budget.

Common questions

Which of you is better at reading a drawing?

On an architectural floor plan with a scale assigned, Togal. Its detection has been in customers' hands for years and ours has not been measured on a real plan set. On a schedule table, or a sheet that is not a floor plan, Togal's own documentation says it will not read it.

Could I use both?

Sensibly, yes: Togal for the room and wall quantities, Estimateria for the door, hardware and finish schedules and the pricing. Both export to Excel, which is where they would meet.

Do I get costs from either?

Togal is explicit that it is takeoff only. Estimateria prices door hardware from supplier listings and carries measurements into conditions, assemblies with labor rates, supplier quotes and a recap. It is not a full cost database of every trade, but it does end in a price.

What about accuracy on poor scans?

A competitor's review reports Togal degrading on hand-drawn and low-resolution scans and on complex MEP — that source sells a rival product, so weigh it accordingly. Here, schedule extraction works best on selectable text; scanned pages open, mark up and measure normally, and the optional OCR add-on in the desktop app can read their text.

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