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Stop doing takeoffs by hand.
Every takeoff tool on the market still needs a person to run it — measuring screen by screen, trade by trade. Matrak reads your drawings and drafts the full BOQ with zero clicks — marked up so you can verify every number — then feeds it into your whole supply-chain. Here's how it stacks up against every major tool.
No subscription. Pay per takeoff.
Most takeoff tools bill a recurring subscription or per-seat licence whether you use them or not. Matrak is pay-as-you-go: $89 for one trade on one project, or $1,370 for 20 credits you spend however you like. Compare that with the $2,000+ and the days a human estimator charges for a single-trade BOQ: a marked-up first pass at a fraction of the cost — and cheap enough to run just to screen a job before you bid.
Manual & PDF-era takeoff tools
Trusted and precise — and entirely operator-driven. You measure every count, length and area by hand.
- Matrak vs Bluebeam RevuBluebeam Revu is the industry-standard PDF markup tool — millions of users rely on it to review, annotate and mark up drawings, with manual measurement tools for takeoff.
- Matrak vs Autodesk TakeoffAutodesk Takeoff runs 2D and 3D quantity takeoff inside Autodesk Construction Cloud, with automated counts and tight links to BIM models and project documents.
- Matrak vs PlanSwiftPlanSwift is a long-established desktop takeoff tool: point-and-click linear, area and count measurements on drawings, with drag-and-drop assemblies for pricing.
- Matrak vs STACKSTACK is a widely adopted cloud takeoff and estimating platform with online plan markup, some auto-count assistance, and shared team databases.
- Matrak vs On-Screen TakeoffOn-Screen Takeoff (ConstructConnect) is a long-trusted digital takeoff tool for GCs and trades, with detailed on-screen measurement and conditions.
- Matrak vs CostXCostX (RIB/Exactal) is a professional 2D and BIM measurement and estimating suite, popular with QS teams for auto-revisioning and workbook-linked rates.
- Matrak vs TrimbleTrimble offers a broad estimating stack (including Accubid and ProjectSight) with model-based and trade-specific takeoff, and emerging machine-learning assists.
- Matrak vs Cubit (Buildsoft)Cubit (Buildsoft) is an Australian takeoff and estimating tool combining on-screen measurement with a natural, spreadsheet-style estimating workflow.
- Matrak vs ProEstProEst is a cloud estimating platform with digital takeoff, cost databases (RSMeans), bid-day tools and multi-user bid management.
AI-assisted takeoff tools
AI speeds up the measuring, but an estimator still drives it, plan by plan — and it stops at the takeoff.
- Matrak vs Togal.AITogal.AI uses computer vision to auto-detect and colour-code rooms, walls and areas from architectural PDFs in the browser, cutting manual measurement time dramatically.
- Matrak vs KreoKreo is an affordable AI-assisted 2D and 3D takeoff tool with automated detection and a chat-style interface to refine measurements conversationally.
- Matrak vs CountfireCountfire is a focused AI tool that auto-counts repetitive symbols on drawings — light fixtures, sockets, sprinkler heads and the like — very quickly.
- Matrak vs BuildxactBuildxact is estimating and job-management software aimed at residential builders and remodelers, with an AI assistant ('Blu') to speed up estimates.
Done-for-you takeoff services
Send your plans, get takeoffs back in days. Hands-off — but not instant, and not connected to the rest of the build.
Embodied carbon tools
LCA and carbon platforms do the carbon maths well. Every one of them needs the quantities first: a BIM model, an imported bill of quantities, manual entry, a massing model or delivery dockets. Matrak measures the quantities from the PDF drawings and puts the carbon on each line.
- Matrak vs One Click LCAOne Click LCA is a leading whole-life LCA platform. Matrak produces the quantities it needs, straight from the PDF drawings.
- Matrak vs Cerclos (eTool)Cerclos (formerly eTool) models whole-of-life impacts. Matrak measures the quantities from the drawings first.
- Matrak vs EC3EC3 is a free EPD database and carbon calculator. Matrak supplies the quantities and applies Australian NABERS factors.
- Matrak vs CarbonConstructCarbonConstruct calculates carbon from a bill of quantities. Matrak produces that bill from the drawings.
- Matrak vs Autodesk FormaAutodesk Forma estimates carbon from early massing. Matrak measures it from the documented design.
- Matrak vs QflowQflow tracks carbon from what actually arrives on site. Matrak measures it from the drawings before you build.
- Matrak + NABERS Embodied CarbonNABERS Embodied Carbon is Australia's certified rating. It needs a bill of quantities, and Matrak produces one from the drawings.