CBRE CostLab vs Oracle Primavera Cloud

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.

Oracle Primavera Cloud connects project owners and delivery teams for shared planning, scheduling, resource management, and risk management on engineering and construction work. It links contract schedules with field schedules, while field planning supports short-interval plans, task cards, progress updates, dashboards, and reports. Resource tools draw on a centralized pool of labor, equipment, and materials to plan capacity and demand across projects. Risk management includes a register, qualitative scoring, schedule and cost analysis, response plans, monitoring, and reporting. Portfolio and capital planning help owners evaluate and prioritize projects against organizational goals. The service can exchange XER files with Primavera P6 and documents imports from P6 XML or XER, Microsoft Project MSP XML, and Excel XLSX. Integrations include P6, Microsoft Project, Primavera Gateway, Oracle Integration adapters, and a REST API; some integrations can take up to 14 days to set up. It runs on Android, iOS, web, and API. Mobile apps require iOS 18 or higher or Android 14 or higher. Monthly service prices range from $12 a month for Progress to $220 a month for Portfolio and Capital Planning, each billed per Hosted Named User. Access to functionality depends on license and security privileges.