Compare · Poché vs Floorplanner
Poché vs Floorplanner, compared honestly. Floorplanner will insert your floor plan image into a project and let you scale it by hand and trace over it — 5 free projects, watermarked SD exports, 260,000 free 3D models. Poché reads the drawing scale off the sheet and recovers the rooms from the walls, then places true-scale furniture with clearance rules. The free-tier limits, the credit prices and when to pick Floorplanner instead.
Floorplanner will hold your drawing while you copy it. Poché measures it.
Floorplanner has been at this since 2007 and it is very good at what it does. Their own homepage puts it clearly: the editor "helps you quickly and easily recreate any type of space in just minutes." Over 30 million users, over 50 million projects, real-time 3D, and a model library big enough to be a category of its own.
The operative word is recreate. Whether you start from a blank canvas or from an inserted image, Floorplanner's model of your home is one you built, wall by wall. Poché never builds a model. It renders the sheet you upload, finds the wall mass in the drawing, and derives every room's outline and floor area from the walls themselves — then puts furniture footprints on the architect's own linework, at the drawing's own scale.
Floorplanner does let you start from a plan you already have, and it is worth being precise about the shape of it because the listicles rarely are. From their own help centre:
When you create a new project, one of the three options is to Upload Image … you can then select a JPG, PNG or PDF image of a floor plan to insert into the project. Then you will want to follow the directions in the left sidebar to scale the inserted image to real world scale 1:1.
So: the image goes in as a backdrop. You scale it. You then draw the walls, doors and windows over the top of it. That is a real and useful feature — plenty of people prefer working that way, and it means your traced model is dimensionally yours. But it is three manual steps before a single piece of furniture goes down, and each one is a place to be a few inches wrong.
Poché's equivalent is: upload the PDF. The scale comes off the sheet — from the wall thicknesses on a CAD-printed plan, or from the dimension strings printed on the drawing when what you have is a photo of a paper plan, measured in pixels and settled on the value the most strings agree about. The rooms come off the walls. Nothing is traced, because there is nothing to trace onto.
| Poché | Floorplanner | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you start | The plan you were given — builder's PDF or a photo of a printed sheet | A blank canvas, or an inserted JPG/PNG/PDF you trace over |
| Who sets the scale | Read off the drawing — wall thickness on a CAD PDF, printed dimension strings on a photo | You, using the sidebar directions to scale the inserted image to 1:1 |
| Who draws the walls | Nobody — the wall mass is recovered from the sheet | You |
| Room areas | Measured from the wall mass; odd numbers, because they are the space inside the studs | Computed from the rooms you drew |
| 3D | None. Top-down drafting view only | Real-time 3D, renders up to 8K |
| Furniture library | 280 pieces, 17 categories, researched real-world inches with clearance rules | Over 260,000 3D models, free to all users |
| Clearance and collision warnings | Redline on overlap, amber on tight clearance, on every piece | Not among the features described on their homepage or pricing page |
| Shopping by fit | Searches 40+ live stores for the exact footprint; ranked by fit, never payout | Not among the features described on their homepage or pricing page |
| Free tier | Everything; no tier above it | 5 projects, 3 floors and 3 designs each, SD 960×540 exports with a watermark |
| Paid | Nothing to buy | Credits from $8.15 for 5; Plus subscription $5/month with 4 credits |
| Try without an account | Yes — the demo plan opens in the real editor with no sign-up | A "Try DEMO" link sits beside "Create a FREE account" on the homepage |
Floorplanner figures read from floorplanner.com, floorplanner.com/pricing and help.floorplanner.com on 2026-08-21. Prices and limits change; check theirs before you decide anything on ours.
Floorplanner's free tier is one of the more honestly described in this category, and it is worth reading the sentence rather than the headline. Verbatim from their pricing page: five free projects, kept at no cost for as long as you need them, "limited to 3 floors with 3 designs total and can only export SD-quality images with a watermark."
| Floorplanner project upgrade | Cost | What it buys |
|---|---|---|
| Basic (default) | Free | SD 960 × 540 exports, Floorplanner watermark, 3 floors, 3 designs |
| Premium | 2 credits | Watermark removed, up to 7 floors with multiple variants |
| HD | 5 credits | 1,920 × 1,080 exports |
| 4K | 10 credits | 3,840 × 2,160 exports |
| 8K | 20 credits | 7,680 × 4,320 exports |
Credits cost $8.15 for 5, $16.30 for 10, $48.90 for 30 and $163.00 for 100, or you take the Plus subscription at $5 a month with 4 credits included and extra credits at $1.36. All of which is fine — it is usage-based pricing for the genuinely expensive part, which is rendering — but note that the metered thing is the picture. Poché produces no picture, so there is nothing to meter, and the money comes from disclosed affiliate commission on shopping links instead. The promise attached to that: results are ranked by fit, never by payout.
The reverse case is narrow and sharp. You have a builder's PDF. You do not want to spend an hour tracing it and you do not trust yourself to scale it to the inch. You want to know whether the 84-inch sofa and the 48-inch coffee table leave a walkway in the great room, and then buy them. That is the entire brief Poché was built for.
Yes, with limits they publish plainly. Floorplanner's pricing page says it is free for casual use: up to 5 free projects kept in your account for as long as you need, each limited to 3 floors with 3 designs total, exporting only SD-quality images at 960 × 540 with a Floorplanner watermark. Removing the watermark and going to 7 floors costs 2 credits per project, HD is 5 credits, 4K is 10 and 8K is 20. Credits are $8.15 for 5, or $5 a month on the Plus subscription which includes 4 credits a month.
It can hold one for you to trace. Their help centre article on Upload Image says that when you create a new project you can select a JPG, PNG or PDF of a floor plan to insert into the project, and then follow the directions in the left sidebar to scale the inserted image to real-world 1:1. So the image becomes a backdrop with a scale you set by hand, and you still draw every wall, door and window on top of it. That is a genuinely useful feature — it is just not the same thing as the software measuring the drawing.
Nothing is traced. Poché renders the sheet, finds the wall mass and recovers each room's outline and floor area from the walls themselves, and it takes the drawing scale off the drawing — wall thicknesses on a CAD-printed PDF, the printed dimension strings on a photograph of a paper plan. You place furniture on the original sheet rather than on a copy you rebuilt, and every piece is a researched real-world size with a clearance rule attached.
Floorplanner, by an enormous margin, and it is free to everyone. Their site says the library holds over 260,000 3D models available to all users at no extra cost, including branded items, plants, cars and a full-size dinosaur. Poché ships 280 pieces across 17 categories. The difference is what the two libraries are for: Floorplanner's is for showing what a space could look like, Poché's is for checking whether the space can take the object, so every entry is a measured footprint with a clearance halo rather than a model.
No. Poché has no 3D of any kind — it was built and then deliberately removed. Floorplanner's whole visual layer, from real-time 3D to 8K renders at 7,680 × 4,320, has no counterpart in Poché. If a picture of the finished room is what you want, this comparison ends here and Floorplanner wins it.
Poché, because the builder's plan set is the only measurement that exists and it is already drawn to scale. Poché is built to consume exactly that: upload the PDF, let it take the scale off the sheet and the rooms off the walls, and start testing furniture. Floorplanner would have you insert that same PDF as an image, scale it by hand and redraw every wall on top of it before the first sofa goes down.
The demo sheet is 2,080 sq ft with 13 rooms measured off their own walls and 53 pieces standing at true scale. It opens in the real editor with no account and no email.
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