Basking vs CBRE CostLab

Basking is a web platform for commercial real estate teams that combines lease administration, occupancy analytics, document abstraction and workflow automation. Occupancy Analytics draws on WiFi, badge, sensor, room and desk booking, and headcount data to report space use. Its API and Python SDK provide utilization, density, visit frequency and duration, and hybrid-work attendance insights. LeaseOps holds lease records, tracks critical dates, and supports portfolio reports and CSV/XLSX exports. DocsAI extracts lease fields, scores confidence and routes low-confidence results for human review; DocsAI and Flow are included in Pro and Enterprise. The listed WiFi vendors include Cisco, Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks; integrations include SAP S/4HANA RE-FX and Cisco Webex. Basking says occupancy signals are anonymized behind the customer's firewall and reported at team level at minimum, without identifying individuals. Its cloud backend is hosted on AWS servers in Frankfurt, Germany. LeaseOps Starter starts at $9,500 a year for 50 leases; LeaseOps Pro is $15,000 a year. A 14-day trial is listed.

CBRE CostLab is a web-based application for estimating and comparing facility operating costs across more than 400 locations and 75+ asset types worldwide. It provides equipment-level estimates for maintenance and repair, custodial work, energy, grounds management, and pest control. Its Cost Library includes labor, utility, and inflation rates, maintenance tasks, operating details, recapitalization assumptions, and national indexes. The Building Wizard uses seven questions to create a component-level estimate; Project Builder groups maintenance and repair work into projects and estimates material, labor, and equipment needs. For capital planning, CostLab estimates equipment failure probability and helps prioritize replacements by portfolio risk and budget. Users can customize building models and adjust rates and task assumptions. It also identifies deferred maintenance by equipment and provides deferred-cost reports and Facility Condition Index estimates. Mass Data Export sends annual and average asset costs, yearly task costs, deferred costs, and inventory to Excel. Access is through a browser on a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Paid plans include a 7-day trial; there is no free plan.