Best Architecture Software

Compare the Top Architecture Software as of October 2025

What is Architecture Software?

Architecture software provides architects and design professionals with tools to plan, design, visualize, and manage building projects from concept to completion. It includes features for 2D drafting, 3D modeling, rendering, and simulation to create accurate and detailed architectural plans. Many platforms support collaboration, project management, and integration with other engineering and construction software for streamlined workflows. By enabling precise design and visualization, architecture software helps reduce errors and improve communication with clients and contractors. Ultimately, it empowers professionals to bring creative architectural visions to life efficiently and effectively. Compare and read user reviews of the best Architecture software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    SkyCiv Structural 3D

    SkyCiv Structural 3D

    SkyCiv Engineering

    SkyCiv Structural 3D is a cloud-based Structural Analysis software that allows users to model, analyze and design complex 3D structures. It is completely online; requiring no installation to use. SkyCiv Structural 3D offers the very best in online structural analysis. It includes the following: - Powerful Analysis: Linear, P-Delta, Cables, Buckling, Plates, Frequency, RS - Integrated Design checks for steel, wood, connections, foundations, wind (AISC, NSD, AISI, EN, AS, CSA, BS plus more...)
    Starting Price: $79/month/user
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    AutoCAD

    AutoCAD

    Autodesk

    CAD software to design anything—with time-saving toolsets, web, and mobile apps. AutoCAD® is computer-aided design (CAD) software that architects, engineers, and construction professionals rely on to create precise 2D and 3D drawings. Draft, annotate, and design 2D geometry and 3D models with solids, surfaces, and mesh objects. Automate tasks such as comparing drawings, adding blocks, creating schedules, and more. Customize with add-on apps and APIs. AutoCAD includes industry-specific features and intelligent objects for architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical design, and more. Automate floor plans, sections, and elevations. Draw piping, ducting, and circuiting quickly with parts libraries. Auto-generate annotations, layers, schedules, lists, and tables. Use a rules-driven workflow to accurately enforce industry standards.
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    Starting Price: $1,268 per user per year
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    Cedreo

    Cedreo

    Cedreo

    The only 3D home design software to create conceptual designs in just 2 hours. Cedreo is a 3D home design software for home builders, contractors, remodelers, real estate agents and interior designers. It allows you to create a complete conceptual design presentation in just 2 hours including 2D and 3D floor plans, site plans, electrical plans, and interior and exterior photorealistic 3D renderings. With Cedreo, you streamline your sales process, reduce the cost of the pre-sale phase and improve your client's buying experience. You can easily and quickly handle the design in-house to stay ahead of your competitors and save external design costs. You will create stunning photorealistic 3D renderings to help your clients envision the project before it is built, facilitate communication and sell faster.
    Starting Price: $130.9
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    Foyr Neo
    Ideate, Design and Render in Minutes with Foyr Neo Lightning fast interior design software built with YOU in mind. Neo is the all-in-one interior design software. Neo delivers everything you need to transform design ideas from concepts to photorealistic renders. Drag & Drop Furniture. Neo has thousands of pre-modeled products that can be directly dragged and dropped into your design, or added to your shortlist. Even better, you can also upload your own 3D models, for limitless designing. Edit Real Time in 3D. At the click of a button, you seamlessly shift between 2D and 3D modes to get a better feel for your space and make adjustments to the details. Get Photorealistic Render. Get a photorealistic 4K render in minutes. Set your desired lighting with an easy-to-use dial, and Neo’s AI will fill in all the highlights and shadows. Get Photorealistic Render. Switch to the Design Software That Does the Job of 5 Other Tools.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Edificius

    Edificius

    ACCA Software

    Edificius is the BIM software "all in one" that integrates 2D and 3D architectural design with Rendering, Scene Photomontages and Photo editing, Ray Tracing rendering with AI denoising, Real-Time rendering, Video editing, Immersive Virtual Reality and much more! You can also deal with MEP plant modelling, Job scheduling (BIM 4D), Dynamic Data extraction from the BIM model for cost estimating (BIM 5D). Edificius is an open solution that creates a seamless and interoperable system between other ACCA BIM software or other developers either by means of direct integration or IFC file exchange as certified by buildingSMART International.
    Starting Price: €21/month
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    VisualARQ
    VisualARQ is a Flexible BIM solution powered by McNeel’s Rhinoceros 3D. VisualARQ enhances Rhino by adding powerful associative object styling and dynamic documentation tools which adapt to fit the professional’s workflow. VisualARQ allows you to with parametric architectural objects, produce 2D drawings from the 3D model, generate dynamic BIM objects driven by Grasshopper, automate many modeling tasks through the VisualARQ components built for Grasshopper, add custom data to geometry and list in schedules and finally deliver BIM models and collaborate with other tools through the IFC import/export capabilities.
    Starting Price: $95-795 one-time payment
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    V-Ray

    V-Ray

    Chaos

    Chaos® V-Ray® is a 3D rendering plugin available for SketchUp, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Revit, and more. It is widely used in architectural visualization, advertising, and visual effects for film and television. With V-Ray, artists and designers can explore and share their projects with real-time ray tracing and render high-quality visualizations. V-Ray has a large community of users and is recognized for its incredible versatility. V-Ray has been honored with a Sci-Tech Academy Award® and an Engineering Emmy Award® for bringing fully ray-traced photorealistic CGI to the film and television industries. For more information, please visit chaos.com
    Starting Price: $60 per month
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    Giraffe

    Giraffe

    Giraffe

    Accelerate your ability to scale by conducting site analysis in real time with your design. Allowing you to focus on what's important: making a lasting impact on your communities. Quickly get a 360-degree view of your idea. Follow your instincts, draw an idea and let Giraffe do the heavy lifting: overlaying data, querying and automatically calculating your proof of concept. Utilize data discovery to see your site's most up-to-date local mapping data. Giraffe combines maps from any source and treats them like layers. Allowing you to analyze, sort and group them for ease of use. Engage your stakeholders with an immersive view of the potential you see for a site. Provide viewer level access to the plan for increased community engagement that includes context and images. With Giraffe, you create something you're confident in and share it when you're ready. Interrogate plans rapidly from a shared space.
    Starting Price: $250 per user per month
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    DataCAD

    DataCAD

    DATACAD LLC

    DataCAD is a professional-level Architectural CADD program for design, presentation, and documentation. DataCAD is one of the few software applications that are developed specifically for Architects, and it is the only CADD software ever to be endorsed by the American Institute of Architects (ca. 1987). Originally developed by an architectural firm more than 30 years ago, DataCAD is one of the stalwarts of the CAD industry.
    Starting Price: $1295
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    Trezi

    Trezi

    Trezi

    Trezi is a Virtual Reality platform for the Architect, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry. Trezi Lens is a software that dramatically transforms Revit, SketchUp, Rhino and FBX design models into Virtual Reality. It also offers a seamless way of design presentation and collaboration with its hero feature Trezi Teleport. Trezi showcase offers building product manufacturers a completely fresh platform to showcase their products with the power of digit twins, a centralized cataloging system and many more exciting features. Trezi offers immersive collaboration without any boundation of the number of people in the meeting or the size of the design model. Trezi's third offering Trezi Academy trains the students of architecture and Interior design with VR skills to upskill them and help them start their digital journey.
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    Architect 3D Ultimate 20

    Architect 3D Ultimate 20

    Avanquest Software

    Architect 3D is a Home Design application that allows you to design, equip and decorate your home and garden in 3D. Design your creative project step by step and room by room, from the basement to the loft space. Draw up plans of your house, equip your interior and exterior areas and add your own personal touch to your living space. A virtual tour and extremely realistic 3D allow you to review the results. Architect 3D Ultimate 20 brings you all the professional tools you need to design your home and garden.
    Starting Price: £159.99 one-time payment
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    Autodesk Forma
    Spend less time searching for data and working with fragmented tools. Import your site proposal and access all relevant data sets in one space. From feasibility to site acquisition, Autodesk Forma (formerly Spacemaker) empowers you to make confident data and insight-driven decisions. Work digitally from day one. Improve the quality and speed of the early planning phase. Never compromise! Discover ways to optimize for density and living qualities. You shouldn’t have to wait weeks every time you want to assess the living quality of your site. With Autodesk Forma you can improve your site proposal at any time, and instantly understand the impact of the changes made. Don’t settle for second best when it comes to your creativity. With Autodesk Forma you can discover and compare more options for your site than ever before. Autodesk Forma offers a single space where architects, developers, consultants, and municipalities can work together effectively and efficiently.
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    Chief Architect

    Chief Architect

    Chief Architect

    Chief Architect software brings home design projects to life. Automated building tools for home design, interior design, and kitchen & bath design make it easy to create construction drawings, elevations, CAD details, and 3D models. Download a trial and see why Chief Architect is the best residential home design software for architects, home builders, and remodeling professionals. Chief Architect software is the professional tool of choice for architects, home builders, remodelers, and interior designers. Smart building technology makes it easy to create construction drawings, floor plans, elevations, 3D renderings, and 360 panoramic renderings. Chief Architect's software is purpose‑built for residential design with building tools that can automatically generate roofs, foundations, framing, and dimensions. As you draw walls, windows, and doors, the program simultaneously creates a 3D model.
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    Finch

    Finch

    Finch

    Optimize building design with AI and graph technology. Get immediate feedback on performance, detect errors, and find optimal solutions in the early stages of design. Get flow in a tool that is focused on buildable exploration. Move freely between massing, setting programs, story design, and space planning. Compare variants in seconds. Automatically fill stories with plans. No more Excel roundtrips to calculate key figures. Instantly know how you match your customers’ demands. Unit and area distribution, daylight simulation, carbon footprint, and more. Built-in error prevention helps you stay within the right limits. Focus on the design and Finch stays in the background, making sure that your buildings are compliant with the rules of your firm, customer, and municipality. Share a fully interactive 3D model to anyone with a browser. Let them comment on massing, plans, and objects in the design. Get feedback right into your project.
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