PreConstruct AICompared honestly
Looking for a Togal.AI alternative?
Togal.AI finds and measures areas on the drawings with AI, sold per user by the year after a demo. PreConstruct AI reads the drawings' text, suggests walls for you to confirm, and lets you start on your own set with no call. Here is how they differ.
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Togal.AI and PreConstruct AI, side by side
What Togal.AI says about itself was read on its own website on 27 October 2026; the pages are linked below. Prices and plans change, so check theirs before you decide.
| Togal.AI | PreConstruct AI | |
|---|---|---|
| How you start | Book a demo, or take their self-guided tour. Their pricing page lists no free trial or free plan; its Try Now button leads to booking a demo. | Your first bid free: one drawing set up to 75 sheets, from the upload to the proposal. No card, and no demo call. |
| What it costs | Growth: 299 US dollars per user per month, billed yearly. Business: a custom price for teams of four or more users. | 250 US dollars a month for 20 bids and 1 seat (the founding price for the first 50 paying companies; 350 after them). Team: 499 for 50 bids and 5 seats; Business: 999 for 120 bids and 15 seats. Priced by the drawings, not the seat. |
| How it runs | In the cloud. | A web app: you sign in from a browser, with nothing to install. |
| Reading the drawings | AI that detects, measures and compares quantities on the drawings, with image and symbol search and a chat assistant (Togal.CHAT). | Each sheet's text is read: partition legends and schedules become wall types you approve, door and window schedules, ceiling legends, footing schedules. Walls are suggested from CAD line work as a beta you confirm one by one, or you draw them. |
| Symbols | Image and symbol search, unlimited on the Growth plan. | It does not count symbols. It reads the text, so counts come from schedules and tags. |
| An accuracy figure | Togal publishes one on its home page. | We publish none. Every quantity read from the drawings shows its sheet and its arithmetic, so you can check it on your own job. |
| From takeoff to proposal | Takeoff and quantities; estimating and proposals were not covered on the pages we read. | Takeoff, estimate and a proposal your client reads, priced from your price book and your crews' rates, with your markup inside the unit prices. |
| Units | Not covered on the pages we read. | Imperial, metric or both, chosen for your company. |
Where Togal.AI is the better pick
- You want areas and quantities detected and measured by AI across the drawings, rather than suggested for you to confirm.
- You need symbols searched and counted on the drawings; we do not count symbols.
- You bid trades we do not cover, such as electrical, flooring or glazing.
- Your team wants a live demo and onboarding before it starts.
Where PreConstruct AI fits
- You want to try it on the set you are bidding tonight, without booking a call.
- You bid interior finishes, concrete and wood framing work and want the takeoff carried through to a priced proposal.
- You would rather pay by the sets you bid than per user, and add an estimator without another seat.
- You want each quantity read from the drawings to show its sheet and arithmetic, in imperial, metric or both.
Trying it next to Togal
Take a job you have already bid, with its drawings and your final quantities. Run it as your free first bid, then compare the walls, doors, ceilings and quantities line by line with what you sent. Every quantity read from the drawings shows its sheet, so each difference can be traced to the page it came from.
What PreConstruct AI does not do
- Wall suggestions are a beta: they miss walls and mark things that are not walls, and you check and confirm each one, or draw them.
- It reads the text on the drawings; it does not count symbols.
- It publishes no accuracy figure. Every quantity read from the drawings shows its sheet and its arithmetic, so you can check it yourself. Why we publish none.
- It never sizes a member or suggests a tax rate: sizes come from the drawings and the engineer, and you type the tax rate on every job.
Questions estimators ask
- How much does Togal.AI cost?
- On 27 October 2026 its pricing page showed Growth at 299 US dollars per user per month, billed yearly, and a custom Business price for teams of four or more. Check their page for today's price.
- Does Togal.AI have a free trial?
- Its pricing page on 27 October 2026 listed no free trial or free plan; the Try Now button led to booking a demo, and the home page offers a self-guided tour. PreConstruct AI's first bid is free, with no card and no call.
- How does PreConstruct AI handle walls, compared with Togal?
- It suggests walls from CAD line work as a beta. They miss walls and mark things that are not walls, so you check and confirm each one, or a wall type at a time after looking, or draw them.
- Is AI takeoff accurate?
- It depends on the drawings and on what you check. We publish no accuracy figure; our guide on it explains what reading a set gets right and wrong, and how to test any tool on a job you have already bid.
Try it on the set you are bidding
Your first bid free: one drawing set up to 75 sheets, from the upload to the proposal. No card, and no demo call.