Bildrix vs Togal.AI | The Ultimate Comparison Guide

If you have shopped for AI takeoff software in the last two years, you have seen Togal.AI. There is a reason for that. Togal was early, it made the idea simple (upload the plans, press the green button, watch the rooms and walls light up), and it put the product in front of general contractors with real names attached. The interface is clean, the demo is good, and on clean architectural drawings it does what it says.

Bildrix was built for a different shop and a different job. Our customer is the owner-estimator at a 1 to 15 person electrical sub or small GC, bidding commercial and TI work from PDF plan sets in the US and Canada. That person does not need a faster way to color rooms. They need device counts they can defend, wire runs they can edit, circuits grouped the way an estimate needs them, and a way to turn all of that into a priced estimate, a signed change order and an invoice without retyping a number. They also want to see the price before they talk to anyone, and try the product before they pay.

We could just tell you Bildrix is the better choice for that shop and leave it there. Instead we compared the two properly: the takeoff itself, electrical depth, what happens after the takeoff, revisions, getting started, and price. One ground rule. Everything we say about Togal comes from Togal's own website, read on August 19, 2026, and we link the page each time. Where Togal's pages are silent, we say "not described" rather than guessing.

TL;DR: Bildrix vs Togal.AI

Bildrix vs Togal.AI at a glance

Both products start the same way. You upload a plan set, an AI reads the sheets, and you get counts and measurements you did not click out by hand. Both run in the browser, both let you correct what the AI found, and both export to a spreadsheet. The differences start when you ask what the AI is looking for, who it was built for, and what happens to the numbers afterwards. Here is the short version of each.

Togal.AI

• Best known for one-button detection of rooms, walls, doors and windows
• Ten trade pages, from drywall to landscaping
• Real-time collaboration, including people outside your company
• AI image, text and pattern search across the whole plan set, plus Togal.CHAT
• Takes PDF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF
• Priced per user and billed yearly, with a demo before you can sign up

Bildrix

• Built for electrical subs and small GCs in the US and Canada who bid from PDF plan sets
• Counts electrical devices against the sheet's own legend
• Draws wire runs with a live footage readout, or suggests them run by run for you to accept, reject or reshape
• Groups circuits, devices and wire on separate ledgers
• Puts a confidence level on every detection and flags the uncertain ones, so you check a minority instead of recounting the sheet
• Carries the same quantities into the estimate, the signed proposal, the AIA G701 format change order and the invoice
• Turns a plan revision into a priced change order, reductions included as credits
• One flat published price for the whole workspace, up to 5 teammates included
• Free trial of 15 AI detection pages, no credit card, plus a free first takeoff
• Covers architectural and electrical in depth, plumbing fixture counts on demand, and says what it does not cover yet

Quick verdict

If you only read one table, read this one.

Feature comparison

A clean interface gets you through the demo. Features get you through bid week. So this is where we go category by category: the takeoff experience, electrical depth, what happens after the takeoff, revisions, and how you get started. In each category we show what each product does, in a table, and call a winner. Togal set a high bar for how easy an AI takeoff can look, and credit where it is due. But Togal was built to make architectural takeoffs faster for large teams, and Bildrix was built to get a small electrical shop from a plan set to a signed bid. Those are different jobs, and it shows. Every Togal statement links to the page it came from.

Takeoff experience

The first thing an AI takeoff tool has to do is read the plan set and give you something better than a blank sheet. Togal's pitch is the green Togal button: press it and the AI detects, measures, counts, compares and labels spaces and features on the drawing. It also names your sheets on upload and lets you box any image, text or pattern and search the whole set. On clean architectural PDFs, that is fast.

Bildrix starts from the same place, upload a PDF plan set and let Detect All run trade by trade, and then adds the part most tools skip. Every detection carries a confidence level. Uncertain detections are flagged and queued for review, so you verify the flagged minority instead of rechecking the sheet. Every count, boundary and wire route is editable on the drawing, and what the AI misses you count or draw in the same takeoff. Messy scans and sparse sheets are labeled as such, not reported as confident zeros. The complete guide walks through the first pass.

Bildrix flags the detections it is not sure about, so you review the flagged minority instead of the whole sheet.

Winner: Bildrix

Both products get you off the blank sheet quickly, and Togal's search is a real convenience on a big set. We call this one for Bildrix because of what happens next. A first pass you have to recheck in full has saved you very little. A first pass that tells you which twenty detections to look at has saved you the evening. That is the difference between an AI that helps you estimate and one that makes you audit.

Electrical takeoff

This is the category Bildrix was built around, so we will be specific. An electrical estimator needs three things from a takeoff: device counts that match the legend, wire footage per run, and circuits grouped so the estimate can price them. A room count does not bid a TI fit-out.

Togal has an electrical trade page, and it is honest about what it offers: image search to find and count outlets, exit signs, switches, fixtures and plugs, text search, auto-naming, and Togal.CHAT to help write an RFI. That is useful. It is also search. Nothing on the page describes wire runs, homeruns, circuits or an electrical estimate.

Bildrix reads the electrical sheets the way your estimator does. It finds the legend first and counts devices against it, so a recessed can is a recessed can and a GFCI is a GFCI, not a generic symbol. You draw wire runs that snap to devices and elbow orthogonally with a live footage readout, or let the AI suggest switch legs, receptacle chains and homeruns and review them one by one: accept, reject, or drag the route like you drew it. Circuits are grouped, devices and wire land on separate ledgers, and a built-in price catalog prices the counts before you have a price book. It all flows into a division-26 estimate; the electrical page shows each step.

Wire runs in Bildrix snap to devices and elbow orthogonally, with footage updating as you draw. AI-suggested runs are reviewed one at a time.

Winner: Bildrix

There is no contest here, and that is not a knock on Togal. Its electrical page is an extension of a tool built for architectural areas, and it says so in its own way: find, count, search, chat. Bildrix's electrical takeoff is the product. If your bids are devices, wire and circuits, the gap shows on the first sheet, and again when the counts drop into a priced division-26 estimate with no spreadsheet in between. If your work is painting or flooring, none of this matters and Togal's breadth serves you better, which is why the Togal.AI advantages section exists further down. We would rather you pick the right tool than the louder one.

From takeoff to estimate, change order and invoice

A takeoff is not the job. The job is a bid the client signs, a change order when the drawings move, and an invoice that gets paid. Most AI takeoff tools stop at measurement and hand you a spreadsheet. Every handoff is a place a number gets retyped wrong.

Togal exports quantities to Excel or your estimating software, and has added Assemblies, which turns measured walls into a bill of materials. Its own FAQ says Assemblies is built for drywall, with more trades to come. What Togal's pages do not describe is a priced estimate your client can sign, a change order, or an invoice.

Bildrix keeps going. The measured takeoff becomes a priced estimate with provenance on every line, so you can see which numbers came from your price book, which the AI priced, and which it quantified. The client signs on a share page, sealed with a SHA-256 fingerprint and bound to the plan revision. Payment schedules, deposit and progress invoices, retainage, online payment, and QuickBooks-ready CSVs close the loop.

Every line in a Bildrix estimate shows where its number came from: your price book, an AI price, or an AI quantity.

Winner: Bildrix

This is the biggest structural difference between the two products, and the one that matters most on a Friday afternoon. With Togal you get quantities and then you switch tools. With Bildrix the quantities keep their identity to the invoice, so a device counted on sheet E-201 is the device the client signed for and the device you billed. If you run a full estimating platform already, Togal's export may do. If you do it all yourself, one thread is the point.

Revisions and plan comparison

Drawings change. An addendum lands two days before the bid, a bulletin lands after award, and the cost of a missed wall is yours. Both products compare drawing sets, so let us be precise about what each gives you afterwards.

Togal's homepage lists Compare Quickly: compare drawing sets and quantify changes with a single click. That is a useful feature and we will not pretend otherwise. Plenty of tools overlay two sheets; Togal also quantifies the difference.

Bildrix treats the revision as the start of a document. Upload the revised set and the sheets pair by drawing number. Compare Pages overlays any two sheets. Then the diff is staged as a change order in AIA G701 format, added scope priced from your estimate and reductions booked as credits, ready for the client to sign against the revision it references. It is sealed like the original proposal, so nobody argues later about which drawing it was based on.

The revision diff becomes a priced change order in AIA G701 format, with reductions booked as credits.

Winner: Bildrix

Comparison is table stakes now, and Togal does it well. Bildrix wins because of the last step. A list of changed quantities is information. A signed change order is money. For a small sub the gap between those two is usually a week of chasing, an argument about which revision was priced, and sometimes a credit you forgot to claw back. Staging the change order straight from the diff, credits already on it, does not demo as well as a green button and saves you more.

Getting started: trial, sign-up and support

This is where the two products differ in a way that tells you who they were built for.

To use Togal, you book a demo. The pricing page says it plainly: hit Try Now and book your demo. After that there is a free onboarding session, a help library, and support specialists who used to be estimators. Business customers get a dedicated representative. That is an enterprise sales motion, and a large GC with a procurement process probably expects it.

Bildrix assumes you would rather try it than talk about it. Start free in the app with no credit card and run the AI on 15 pages of your own plan set. Viewing, measuring by hand and exporting never count against that cap. If you would rather have our eyes on it, book a call and we will run your first takeoff free and walk the results with you. Live chat is staffed Monday to Friday. The price is on the pricing page. Nobody has to qualify you first.

Winner: Bildrix

Togal's onboarding is good and its support is real, so take this verdict for what it is: a verdict about how you get in the door. A small shop bidding on Thursday does not have time for a demo on Tuesday and a follow-up next week. Uploading a set tonight, seeing what the AI flags on your own drawings, and deciding with a number in front of you beats a polished walkthrough. We will still do the walkthrough if you want it. We just will not make you book it to learn the price.

Pricing comparison

Both products publish prices, which is more than most of this category manages. Togal prices per user and bills yearly. Bildrix prices the workspace and bills annually. Here is what each costs as of August 19, 2026, from Togal's pricing page and ours.

The math for a small team is not close. Two Togal seats cost more per year than a full Bildrix workspace at list price. At the founding rate, five people on Bildrix cost about one tenth of five Togal seats. Prices change, so check both pages. The right price is still the price of the tool that does your job.

Togal.AI advantages

We said at the top that Togal became the best-known AI takeoff tool for good reasons. Here they are, stated as plainly as the verdicts above. A comparison that cannot name the other side's strengths is not worth reading.

• Trade breadth for area-based work: Togal lists ten trade pages, from drywall, painting, glazing and landscaping to mechanical, plumbing, FF&E and general contracting. If your bids are areas and lengths across several trades, Togal covers more ground than Bildrix does today. Bildrix covers architectural and electrical in depth, plumbing fixture counts on demand, and nothing else yet.
• Real-time collaboration: several people in the same takeoff at once, plus unlimited external collaborators who do not need a licence. For a precon department, or a GC passing plans to subs, that is a genuine advantage. Bildrix is a workspace for up to 5 teammates, and clients get a share page for the estimate rather than a seat on the plan set.
• Maturity and enterprise trim: thousands of professional builders on the homepage, named case studies, a free onboarding session, and on the Business tier SSO, security compliance, a dedicated representative and an API on request. Bildrix is newer and says so.
• Search, chat and file types: AI image, text and pattern search across the whole set, Togal.CHAT for questions and RFIs, and PDF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF input. Bildrix has symbol search sheet by sheet, text search over the set, and Ask AI with sheet citations, and takes PDF plan sets only.

Bildrix advantages

Bildrix was designed for the part of the job that starts after the counting, and for the shop where the owner is also the estimator. Every advantage below comes from that decision. None of them is a feature for the demo. They are for the night before a bid is due.

• Review-first AI that shows its doubt: every detection carries a confidence level and the uncertain ones are flagged for review, so you verify the flagged minority instead of recounting the sheet. We do not publish an accuracy percentage, and we wrote a research page on why no vendor's number should be taken at face value. The tool tells you which numbers to doubt instead.
• Electrical depth built for subs: devices counted from the legend, wire runs drawn or AI-suggested and edited run by run, circuits grouped with devices and wire on separate ledgers, a built-in price catalog, and a division-26 estimate at the end. Nothing on Togal's electrical page describes wire, circuits or an estimate.
• One thread from plan set to invoice: a priced estimate with per-line provenance, client e-sign sealed to the revision, change orders in AIA G701 format with credits, invoices with online payment, and QuickBooks-ready CSVs. The quantities never leave the system, so they never get retyped wrong. The product page lays the thread out trade by trade.
• A price you can see and a trial you can start: one flat workspace price on the pricing page, 5 teammates included, a founding rate for the first 100 customers, 15 free AI detection pages with no card, and a free first takeoff with a review call. Togal asks you to book a demo first.

Which platform should you choose?

It comes down to what you bid and how many people bid it with you. The framework we would use:

Choose Togal.AI if you…

• Bid areas and lengths across several trades
• Run a precon team that works in the same takeoff at once
• Need SSO, a dedicated representative or an API
• Upload JPEG, PNG or TIFF as often as PDFs

Choose Bildrix if you…

• Are an electrical sub or small GC in the US or Canada
• Need device counts, wire runs and circuits, not just rooms and walls
• Want the takeoff to become the estimate, change order and invoice
• Want the AI to say which numbers to double-check
• Want to see the price and start a trial today
• Want one flat price for the workspace instead of a price per seat

That is the framework. Pick the one that matches your Tuesday.

Conclusion

Togal.AI and Bildrix are both real AI takeoff tools, and both are honest about what they are if you read carefully. Togal is the green button for architectural areas with a big team around it. Bildrix takes a small electrical shop from plan set to signed, invoiced job and tells you where to look.

For the shops this guide is written for, Bildrix comes out ahead where a bid is decided: electrical depth, the review queue, the thread to invoice, revisions, getting started. Togal keeps the edge on breadth, collaboration and enterprise trim.

If that sounds like your shop, try it on your own plans. Start free in the app, no credit card, 15 AI detection pages. Or book a free first takeoff review.

Frequently asked questions

1. Is Bildrix better than Togal.AI?

   For a 1 to 15 person electrical sub or small GC bidding plan-set work in the US or Canada, yes. Bildrix goes deeper on electrical, tells you which detections to double-check, carries the quantities through estimate, change order and invoice, and costs less for any team of two or more. A mid-size GC doing area takeoffs across many trades may prefer Togal.

2. What is the biggest difference between Bildrix and Togal.AI?

   What happens after the takeoff. Togal gives you quantities to export. Bildrix turns the same quantities into a priced estimate, a signed proposal, an AIA G701 format change order and invoices, with no retyping. The second difference is the review queue: Bildrix flags what it is not sure about; Togal's pages describe no confidence flag.

3. Which is better for electrical contractors?

   Bildrix. It counts devices against the sheet's legend, draws or suggests wire runs you can edit, groups circuits, prices the counts from a built-in catalog and lands everything in a division-26 estimate. Togal's electrical page offers symbol search, auto-naming and chat, and describes no wire runs or circuits.

4. Which is better for general contractors?

   It depends on the GC. A small GC running plan-set jobs gets one consistent set of base quantities plus the estimate, change order and invoice thread from Bildrix. A large GC with a precon department, many trades and several estimators in one file will get more from Togal.

5. Does Bildrix offer a free trial?

   Yes. Start in the app with no credit card and run AI detection on 15 pages of your own plan set; viewing, measuring by hand and exporting never count against the cap. Or book a call and we will run your first takeoff free. Togal's pricing page asks you to book a demo to sign up; it describes no self-serve trial.

6. Which is more affordable?

   Bildrix, for any team of two or more. As of August 19, 2026, Togal's Growth plan is $299 per user per month billed yearly, so five seats are $17,940 a year. Bildrix Pro is $397 per month billed annually, $4,764 a year for the whole workspace with up to 5 teammates, and the founding rate for the first 100 customers is $149 per month. Prices change; check both pages.

7. Does Bildrix handle estimates, change orders and invoices?

   Yes, from the same quantities. Estimates carry per-line provenance, the client signs on a share page sealed to the plan revision, change orders are staged from the revision diff in AIA G701 format with credits, and invoices cover deposit, progress, final and retainage with online payment and QuickBooks-ready CSVs. Togal exports quantities and offers drywall assemblies; its pages describe no estimates, e-sign, change orders or invoicing.

8. Can I switch from Togal.AI to Bildrix?

   Yes, and you do not need to export anything from Togal first. Bildrix works from the PDF plan set: upload it, let Detect All run, and compare the results with the takeoff you already have. The fair test is one real project. Bring a set you took off in Togal to the free first takeoff review and compare counts, flags and time to a priced estimate.