Blue Moon AI vs Gendo

Blue Moon AI is a web workspace for turning architectural sketches, elevations, facade plans, and 3D models into photorealistic renderings. Its Render tool supports exterior, interior, and text-based visualization workflows, while users can revise designs with written instructions or a brush. Virtual staging adds furnishings to room photos while aiming to retain their walls, windows, and layout. Other listed tools handle floor plans, upscaling, animation, vectorization, and converting photos into textured 3D models. Canvas gives teams a shared real-time workspace with pooled credits, version history, and generation lineage. Most single renders use one credit, though Pro models and higher-definition settings may use more. Unused subscription credits roll over while a subscription remains active, subject to the plan’s maximum balance: 1,000 for Light and Student, 3,000 for Standard, and 15,000 for Professional. The Free plan costs nothing and includes five daily generations on the Free Daily model and three signup credits; daily generations reset at midnight UTC. The site says renders and edits are licensed for commercial use. CAD/BIM import is not supported.

Gendo is a web-based collaborative canvas for architectural visualization. Architects and designers can generate renders from sketches, change materials, populate scenes, transfer styles, enhance images, and upscale renders to 4× resolution. Its natural-language assistant can use workspace tools, and teams can run simultaneous generations, share images, add comments and notes, and iterate together. Users bring scenes or views into the canvas by exporting them; direct plugins for Revit, SketchUp, and Blender are on the roadmap. The free plan includes Material Bank material specification, but its prompts and outputs are not treated as confidential. Studio and Enterprise prompts and outputs are contractually protected from AI training and marketing use. Gendo says data is stored in EU data centres, encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS. Free costs nothing; Studio costs £66 a year, billed annually at £66/mo (£790/year; excl. tax).