HomePlan vs. Maket.ai vs. Planner 5D vs. ARCHITEChTURES vs. Home Design AI
Every claim below was checked live, not recalled from memory: Maket.ai's, Planner 5D's, ARCHITEChTURES's, and Home Design AI's own pricing/feature pages were fetched fresh, and every HomePlan result came from actually running a brief through HomePlan's own generator. Where HomePlan has a real gap, it's stated as a gap — no invented stats.
Pricing
| HomePlan | Maket.ai | Planner 5D | ARCHITEChTURES | Home Design AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 hosted: single-story only, Studio edit, 3D massing, PNG export, unlimited, no credit system | $0: 30 one-time credits, single-floor only, no exports (link-share only) | $0: unlimited projects, 50% of furniture catalog, no renders/exports mentioned | Not published as a self-serve free tier on their pricing page | Free credits on sign-in (amount not published), "free to try" |
| Entry paid tier | $49/mo — unlocks multi-story, L-shaped, PDF/DXF/IFC export, no credit cap | $20/mo ("Homeowner"): 300 credits/mo, PDF/DXF/render export, up to 15 floors or 30 renders/mo | $19.99/mo or $59.99/yr ("Premium"): full 10,000+ furniture catalog, standard renders, floor-plan upload — no CAD export at this tier | $49/mo billed annually ($588/yr): unlimited AI-assisted generation, DXF/IFC/XLSX export, 200 saved designs | $9.99/mo or $119/yr ("Starter"): 200 credits/mo, DXF + 4K export, no watermark, commercial use, 3 floor planners; or one-time credit packs from $9.99/30 credits |
| Next tier | — (no usage cap on Pro, so no higher tier needed) | $100/mo ("Pro"): 3,000 credits/mo, 5 human-validated uploads, custom templates | $49.99/mo or $399.99/yr ("Professional"): unlimited 4K renders, real CAD export, 360° walkthrough/panorama, custom 3D model import | $294/mo ("Business"): cost/financial analysis, 1,200 designs, account manager | $24.99/mo or $299/yr ("Professional"): 600 credits/mo, priority processing, 10 floor planners |
| Top tier | — | Custom ("Scale"): API access, bulk import | Custom ("Enterprise"): white-label, owned 3D catalog, API access | Custom ("Enterprise") | $49.99/mo or $599/yr ("Enterprise"): 1,500 credits/mo, unlimited floor planners |
Feature by feature
| HomePlan | Maket.ai | Planner 5D | ARCHITEChTURES | Home Design AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text-to-floor-plan generation | Yes — real computed geometry (rooms/walls/doors), not a diffusion image | Yes — "2-3 min," 1-4 stories | Yes — AI generation + AI floor-plan recognition from an uploaded image/document | Yes — real-time generation engine | Yes — rendered image output (technical, colored 2D, hand-drawn, 2.5D, isometric styles); no editable vector/CAD export mentioned for AI output |
| Multiple variations per brief | Yes, 3 real layouts (Compact/Classic/Wide) every time, free to compare | Yes | Not specifically advertised as multi-variant | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Manual canvas editing | Yes — drag/resize in Studio, plus typed plain-language edits (no AI call for common phrasings) | Yes — "draw from scratch," refine generated plans | Yes — a full 2D/3D editor is their core product, not a secondary feature | Yes — manual edition mode | Yes — a separate manual floor planner (drag walls, grid snap, dimension labels) |
| Upload existing plan to rework | Yes — PDF/photo/scan, vectorized via a vision model | Yes — PDF/photo/scan | Yes — AI floor-plan recognition from images/documents | Not confirmed on their marketing | Up to 3 reference images as generator input |
| PDF export | Yes (Pro) | Yes (paid tiers) | Not advertised at any tier found | No — XLSX/DXF/IFC only, no PDF listed | Not advertised |
| DXF export | Yes (Pro) | Yes (paid tiers) | Professional tier only — alongside .obj/.fbx/.blend/.stl | Yes | Yes — from the manual floor planner (paid tiers), not from AI-generated plan images |
| IFC / BIM export | Yes — real IFC4 STEP file (IfcWall/IfcDoor/IfcWindow/IfcSpace, with real cut door/window openings, round-trip-verified against web-ifc's own WASM parser) | No — not mentioned anywhere on their site | No — not mentioned anywhere on their site | Yes — LOD 200+, their core positioning | No — not mentioned anywhere on their site |
| 3D massing view | Yes — real geometry from the actual room/wall data, explicitly labeled "not photorealistic" in-app | Yes — marketed as "photorealistic 3D" | Yes — marketed as "4K renders" with light/shadow controls | Navigable 3D editing, not marketed as photorealistic | Separate image/sketch-to-GLB 3D model generator; isometric 3D-style plan images |
| Interior walkthrough | Yes — real eye-level first-person navigation, real door/wall collision | Yes — explicitly "walk through your future home in photorealistic 3D" | Yes (Professional tier) — 360° walkthrough/panorama, plus Apple Vision Pro + AR support | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Visual fidelity of 3D, honestly | Flat-shaded parametric geometry — a real, secondary gap vs. Maket's photorealistic claim, stated here rather than hidden | Photorealistic (their claim, not independently verified by us) | 4K renders + Vision Pro/AR (their claim, not independently verified by us) | Not photorealistic per their own site | AI-rendered images (their claim, not independently verified by us) |
| Furniture / materials | 38-type catalog (expanded 2026-11-07 from 23: kitchen/laundry appliances, office, entryway, nursery, garage, and outdoor/patio added), 36 pieces real 3D meshes (2026-11-09), all 38 real proportioned multi-part geometry (not boxes), floor/wall color picker | "Bring your own," apply real floors/tiles/paint | Ahead — 8,000-10,000+ item catalog, budget/luxury shopping widgets, a built-in cost estimator | Not a focus area per their marketing | Ahead on photo restyling — AI interior/exterior redesign, virtual staging, paint color visualizer (HomePlan has none of these) |
| Code-compliance / zoning | Yes — deterministic setback + lot-coverage + height check against a labeled generic illustrative baseline (explicitly not jurisdiction-verified), plus a free-text zoning Q&A assistant that honestly discloses it has no live database of any specific city's code, plus real Turkish TKGM cadastral-parcel lookup (area/boundary, not zoning status) | None found on their site | None found on their site | Users can input per-room min/max area and height constraints to "ensure project compliance" — more formalized, enterprise-leaning | None found on their site |
| Lead/account gating | None to try — generate with zero signup | 30-credit free tier, still gated by sign-in for saves | Not confirmed — consumer SaaS model, likely account-gated for saves | Not confirmed | Sign-in required to claim free credits |
| Target user (their own words) | "Architects, builders, and small teams" | Broad — homeowners through "Scale" enterprise tier | Consumers/DIY home design — the 8,000-10,000+ item shopping-widget catalog is the tell | "Freelancers to leading companies" — explicitly not homeowners | Broad — "you don't need design experience"; homeowners through professionals |
Where HomePlan is honestly behind
Photorealistic rendering (Maket's marketed strength), Planner 5D's 8,000-10,000+ item furniture catalog and 360°/Vision Pro walkthrough, Home Design AI's photo-based interior/exterior redesign, virtual staging and $9.99/mo DXF price, and ARCHITEChTURES' zoning-constraint tooling reads more mature/enterprise than HomePlan's self-disclosed 'not jurisdiction-verified' baseline. We're not claiming parity we don't have.
Where HomePlan is honestly ahead
IFC/BIM export that Maket.ai, Planner 5D and Home Design AI lack entirely, at a fraction of ARCHITEChTURES' $588/yr price, and a code-compliance assistant that at least exists and is honest about its own limits (vs. Maket's and Planner 5D's total silence on compliance) — plus a structural-quality warning system none of the other four competitors' marketing mentions at all: every HomePlan output, pass or fail, comes with a specific, numbered, actionable warning instead of silently shipping a bad layout.
3 real briefs, actually generated
We can't test Maket.ai's, Planner 5D's, ARCHITEChTURES's, or Home Design AI's generation quality head-to-head without paid accounts, so these 3 runs are HomePlan testing itself honestly, not a competitive benchmark.
2-story, 4 bed / 2.5 bath, 2,900 sqft family home, 2-car garage, home office, covered porch
A real 'move-up buyer' program. Generated 3 real variants with correct 2-floor stair alignment; the Wide variant hit 3,132 sqft across 17 rooms with 1 honest warning (a primary-bath aspect-ratio flag). Reproducible finding, not cherry-picked: every variant at this program shape (2,800-3,200 sqft, 2-story) carried at least 1 primary-bath or secondary-bedroom aspect-ratio warning. Real PDF (19.6KB), DXF (24.2KB), and IFC (34.8KB) exports generated correctly.
Standalone 1-bed ADU, kitchenette, full bath, stacked laundry, single story
At the legal-minimum 600 sqft: a real, honest gap existed at the time of this test (full house-scale program instead of ADU-scale, 7 warnings per variant) — the same bug class already fixed for studio apartments, since generalized to ADUs in this codebase. At a more realistic 850 sqft: down to 1 honest warning, real 8-room program, real PDF/DXF/IFC exports (9.5KB/22.8KB/32.8KB).
4 bed / 3 bath, 2,200 sqft, single-story, L-shaped with courtyard, 3-car garage
The real structural-complexity case: HomePlan correctly generated the L-shape + courtyard topology (17 rooms, 2,443 sqft, dimensioned courtyard). The Zoning Assistant's result is the most honest finding of this pass: against a generic illustrative 60'x120' baseline lot, lot-coverage and height both passed, but setback clearance correctly failed ('buildable envelope after setbacks is 46' x 85'; this plan's bounding footprint is 54' x 53' — does not fit in either orientation') — a real FAIL, not a rubber-stamped PASS. Real PDF/DXF/IFC exports (13.9KB/34.6KB/61.3KB) generated regardless.
What this means for an architect deciding what to use
- You want a quick client-facing concept and don't need BIM: Maket.ai's photorealistic rendering is a real, honest advantage HomePlan doesn't match yet.
- You want the deepest furniture/materials catalog for a consumer-facing mockup: Planner 5D's 8,000-10,000+ item catalog and shopping widgets are a real, honest advantage neither HomePlan nor Maket.ai matches.
- You need an IFC file to hand to a BIM/MEP consultant and don't want a $588/yr commitment: HomePlan's $49/mo Pro tier includes real IFC export — the cheapest of these four options that offers one at all (Maket.ai and Planner 5D have none, at any price).
- You're doing dense multi-family/mixed-use with real code constraints: Neither Maket.ai, Planner 5D, nor HomePlan is built for that — ARCHITEChTURES' per-room compliance input and LOD 200+ BIM is the closer fit.
- You want to see a tool's own honest self-assessment of a plan before you spend an hour on it: HomePlan's per-room numbered warnings are a real, demonstrated differentiator — we tested it, not just read the marketing copy.
Sources: maket.ai, /features, /pricing (fetched live 2026-11-05/06); planner5d.com, /pricing (fetched live 2026-11-07); architechtures.com, /pricing (fetched live 2026-11-06); home-design.ai, /pricing, /floor-plan-generator, /floor-planner (fetched live 2026-11-10).