One price per seat. Every feature on it.
No tiers, no AI paywall, no renewal ambush, no quote tied to your revenue. Pick monthly, annual, or own it outright. The number you see is the number you pay.
Volume discounts apply automatically: 3+ seats save 15%, 5+ seats save 25%. 15% is applied below at 3 seats.
Subscription
For the estimator or the crew who would rather expense it.
Billed once a year — that is $49 a month per seat, and 2 months you do not pay for. At 3 seats it is $502 a seat — 15% off, applied automatically.
Card checkout isn't live yet. Mail sales@groundworkai.io and a person sends an invoice the same working day — no discovery call in between.
- All 6 measuring tools, assemblies and the live estimate grid
- AI Detect, AI measure suggestions and AI-assisted redaction, on every seat
- Mac, Windows, iPad and browser — 2 device activations per seat
- Real-time collaboration and shared libraries across the org
Perpetual
For people who like owning the things they bought.
Includes the first year of updates and support. After that, $295/seat/yr keeps new versions coming — and dropping it never disables the software.
Card checkout isn't live yet. Mail sales@groundworkai.io and a person sends an invoice the same working day — no discovery call in between.
- A real perpetual license — the app keeps running on a perpetual entitlement, with no period to expire
- Keeps running if you never pay us another dollar
- Maintenance gates new versions, never access
- First year of updates and support included
Enterprise
For estimating departments, multi-office rollouts and procurement.
Quoted per rollout, usually within a day, by a person who will also do the migration.
- Volume pricing beyond the published ladder
- PO and invoice billing, net terms
- Dedicated onboarding and takeoff-data migration
- White-Label Portal included (otherwise $99/mo plus $500 setup)
- Priority support line
7-day free trial on every plan · no credit card to start · cancel yourself, any time · your exports are always yours.
A seat is a named login. Each one activates on 2 devices — a workstation and a laptop, say — and the stalest is reclaimed automatically if you add a third.
- Billed monthly
- $1,800$150 a month for 3 seats
- Billed annuallySelected
- $1,506$294 less than paying monthly
- Owned outright, once
- $7,500then $885/yr optional maintenance
Measured against an annual Groundwork seat at $590, before the volume discount, so the figure is the honest floor rather than the best case.
- Togal.AI$8,994($2,998 a seat)
- STACK$7,194($2,398 a seat)
- Kreo$4,530($1,510 a seat)
- PlanSwift$4,230($1,410 a seat)
On-Screen Takeoff and Drawboard Projects are not in that list because they publish no comparable price — estimating one and subtracting it would be inventing the saving. Every one of them gets a comparison page that names what it does better.
The same table your renewal call won't show you.
Published list pricing per seat, read off each vendor's own pricing page on September 20, 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price the row says so and carries no number — we would rather leave a cell empty than fill it with somebody else's figure.
| Product | Published tiers | Comparable tier / yr | Perpetual | AI included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwork TakeoffEvery feature on every seat | $590 / seat / yr | $590There is only one tier | $2,500, yours | Every seat |
| Bluebeam Revu | Basics $260 · Core $330 · Complete $440 · Max $590 (labeled an introductory price) | $590Max — the only tier with AI | New perpetual licenses ended Sept 30, 2023 | AI is the $590 Max tier only |
| PlanSwift | Essential $2,000 · Core $3,000 (adds Takeoff BOOST auto-takeoff) | $2,000Essential — includes Auto Count and Auto Scale | Subscription only — no perpetual license offered | Auto Count / Auto Scale from Essential; full auto-takeoff at Core $3,000 |
| STACK | Premium $249/user/mo · Pro $299/user/mo, 12-month terms (annualised) | $2,988Premium — takeoff only; estimating is Pro at $3,588 | Subscription only | AI Takeoffs included from Premium |
| On-Screen Takeoff | Quote-only — ConstructConnect publishes no price | Quote-only | Not published | Not published |
| Togal.AI | Growth $299/user/mo billed yearly | $3,588Growth — Business is custom-quoted, 4+ users | Subscription only | Included |
| Kreo | Lite $35 · Plus $70 · Pro $175 per user/mo billed annually | $2,100Pro — the tier that unlocks AI takeoff | Subscription only | AI measurement is Pro ($175/user/mo) only |
| Drawboard Projects | Team $270 · Growth $370 per user/yr | Quote-only | Subscription only | No AI takeoff |
On-Screen Takeoff and Drawboard Projects publish no comparable price. You will find figures for them on comparison pages across this category; they trace back to third-party price lists rather than to the vendor, so they are not on this page and they are excluded from every saving figure on this site.
“Comparable tier” means the cheapest tier that does what one Groundwork seat does — full measurement and AI-assisted takeoff. It is deliberately not the vendor's entry tier: comparing our whole product against somebody's viewer is the exact trick these pages exist to call out.
Sources for every figure above
- Bluebeam Revu — bluebeam.com/pricing, read September 20, 2026. Basics $260 · Core $330 · Complete $440 · Max $590 (labeled an introductory price). New perpetual licenses ended Sept 30, 2023. Mac app discontinued 2023; iPad app retired Dec 31, 2025.
- PlanSwift — planswift.com/pricing, read September 20, 2026. Essential $2,000 · Core $3,000 (adds Takeoff BOOST auto-takeoff). Subscription only — no perpetual license offered. Windows only.
- STACK — stackct.com/takeoff-and-estimate-pricing, read September 20, 2026. Premium $249/user/mo · Pro $299/user/mo, 12-month terms (annualised). Subscription only. Browser only.
- On-Screen Takeoff — Buyers are directed to contact ConstructConnect for pricing, read September 20, 2026. Quote-only — ConstructConnect publishes no price. Not published. Windows only.
- Togal.AI — togal.ai/pricing, read September 20, 2026. Growth $299/user/mo billed yearly. Subscription only. Browser only.
- Kreo — kreo.net/pricing, read September 20, 2026. Lite $35 · Plus $70 · Pro $175 per user/mo billed annually. Subscription only. Browser only.
- Drawboard Projects — drawboard.com/pricing, read September 20, 2026. Team $270 · Growth $370 per user/yr. Subscription only. Cross-platform.
Competitor names and pricing are the property of their respective owners. Read the full comparisons — including where they beat us.
Every seat gets everything.
Other vendors sell measuring in one tier, overlay in another and AI in a third. Here is the whole product, on every seat, at every price.
Takeoff
6 measuring tools — Linear, Segment, Perimeter, Area, Volume and Count — committing 5 quantity types. Snap-to-content, ortho, dimension chains, a formula evaluator, color legends and wall-height derivation.
Estimating
Assembly library and builder, materials catalog, the live estimate grid, markup percentages, and Excel, CSV and batch export.
AI
AI Detect, AI measure suggestions, AI-assisted redaction and OCR. Reviewed by a person before anything commits. Not a tier, not a metered add-on.
Markup & review
Revision clouds and deltas, stamps, signatures, highlighter, notes, symbols, the Tool Chest, the revision log and the markups grid — 16 markup tools in all.
Documents
Page operations, PDF text editing, compression, PDF/A export, Office-to-PDF conversion, batch OCR and printing.
Collaboration
Real-time multi-user markup, offline-first sync, the plan compare overlay, revision plan sets with takeoff migration, roles and permissions, and 19 dockable panels to arrange it all.
Need job cost, pay applications and certified payroll too?
Groundwork ERP is the construction platform this takeoff tool belongs to — estimating through scheduling, field, job cost and AIA billing, with Davis-Bacon and WH-347 in the box. From $299 a month, including 3 internal users. Takeoff seats and ERP plans are bought separately; you do not need one to use the other.
The things you'd ask on the call.
Except there is no call. Every figure below is read from the same file the prices at the top of this page come from.
Yes. You pay $2,500 once and the software is licensed to you permanently. The optional $295 a year maintenance plan adds updates, new features and support — but if you stop paying it, the version you have keeps working. The license gate is built that way, not just described that way: a perpetual entitlement has no period to expire, and maintenance gates the updater rather than the app. It is also worth knowing that as of September 20, 2026 no other vendor in the comparison table sells one: Bluebeam stopped selling new perpetual licenses on September 30, 2023, and the rest are subscription-only.
You pick a plan or you don't. Your projects stay accessible in read-only mode — viewing, panning, printing and every export keep working — and anything you already exported is yours for ever. No card is taken up front, so there is nothing to forget to cancel.
A seat is a named login. Each seat activates the app on 2 devices — typically an office workstation and a laptop or iPad. Activate a third and the stalest activation is reclaimed automatically, so nobody has to call support to move a seat. There are no license keys and no license-key spreadsheet.
Yes. Work saves locally and merges when the connection returns, and a signed-in seat carries a 14-day offline grace period. A fortnight in a dead zone will not lock you out of your own takeoffs.
Yes — AI Detect, AI measure suggestions and AI-assisted redaction ship on every seat, including trial seats. Where others gate it, we name the gate rather than waving at it: Bluebeam Revu: AI is the $590 Max tier only; Kreo: AI measurement is Pro ($175/user/mo) only. And where a competitor does include it, we say that too — PlanSwift at $2,000 a seat a year, STACK at $2,988 a seat a year and Togal.AI at $3,588 a seat a year. List pricing from each vendor's own page, September 20, 2026. We think assisted counting is table stakes, so it is simply in the product.
30 days, no questions, full refund — one email. The free 7-day trial means you will rarely need it, but it is there in writing.
Self-serve, effective at the end of your billing period. No phone call, no 30-day written-notice trap, no auto-renewal at a dramatically increased rate. Export everything first if you are leaving — we will show you how, and read-only access means you can do it after you have stopped paying too.
Yes, and we credit your current subscription year against the perpetual price. Email function(){throw Error("Attempted to call SALES_EMAIL() from the server but SALES_EMAIL is on the client. It's not possible to invoke a client function from the server, it can only be rendered as a Component or passed to props of a Client Component.")} and it is handled in one message.
Yes. Exported PDFs — with markups burned in or kept separate — and Excel and CSV estimates are standard files. No viewer seat, no account, nothing to install on their end.
3 or more seats save 15%, and 5 or more seats save 25%, applied automatically at checkout to both monthly and annual billing. For larger rollouts, multi-company accounts or education, ask for a quote — a person answers, usually the same day.
Your own branded front door: your team signs in at a subdomain of your domain and sees your logo and colors on the login screen. You add one DNS record; we handle the certificate, hosting and branding. Same app, same seats, same billing underneath. $99 a month plus a $500 one-time setup on top of any subscription — and included with Enterprise.
Paying for the year up front costs $590 a seat against $708 paid monthly — 2 months you do not pay for. The toggle at the top of this page computes that figure rather than quoting it, so it cannot drift from what you are actually charged.
Try the arithmetic yourself.
7 days, every feature, no credit card. If it doesn't measure the way you do, you've lost a week and nothing else.