Gendo vs PLANA

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).

PLANA is a workspace for architecture and interiors that combines AI rendering, collaboration, and node-based workflows. In a browser, users can turn photos, sketches, or 3D models into photorealistic visuals. They can connect nodes to make rendering pipelines without code and save workflows as reusable templates. Workflows can also turn renders into video walkthroughs and produce structured, branded client proposals. Projects sit within hierarchical workspaces, with search across projects and files. PLANA offers web access, self-hosted deployment, and API access; enterprise options include integration with existing systems, dedicated server environments, on-premise software, and early API access. Enterprise controls include custom roles, permissions, organization management, and SCIM provisioning. A new account receives one 7-day Max trial without a card, which stops automatically without charge. Starter costs $8 a month and includes 500 monthly credits, one project, up to 2K image generation, and 5GB storage. Pro costs $20 a month and Max costs $50 a month.