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Siteline vs Togal.AI

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Siteline

Construction

Pay application and billing workflow built only for speciality subcontractors

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Togal.AI

Construction

Automated drawing takeoff that measures and labels spaces without manual tracing

From
$299/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Siteline it serves subcontractors only, so a general contractor evaluating it is looking at the wrong side of the transaction entirely.; Togal.AI annual billing is mandatory at $299 per user per month, so an estimating team that ramps up and down for bid seasons pays a full year for seats it uses intermittently.
  • They diverge on capability: Siteline covers Pay application generation, Togal.AI covers Automatic space detection.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Siteline and Togal.AI actually diverge.

Attributes where Siteline and Togal.AI differ
AttributeSitelineTogal.AI
Starting priceOn request$299/month
Pricing modelquotePer user per month

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Construction).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Siteline

  • Pay application generation
  • Lien waiver management
  • Compliance document tracking
  • Billing status visibility
  • Accounting system integration
  • Accounts receivable reporting

Only in Togal.AI

  • Automatic space detection
  • Drawing comparison
  • Natural language search
  • Automated counts
  • Excel export
  • Plan set management
  • Team sharing

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Siteline

  • A trade contractor whose billing team rebuilds the same pay application in four different general contractor formats each monthnot Togal.AI
  • A subcontractor losing a billing cycle to rejected applications over missing lien waiversnot Togal.AI
  • A finance director trying to forecast collections across dozens of general contractors and retention balancesnot Togal.AI
  • A growing subcontractor whose billing process depends entirely on one person and a spreadsheetnot Togal.AI

Togal.AI

  • A commercial general contractor bidding repetitive multifamily or hospitality floor plates where room-by-room area takeoff dominates the effortnot Siteline
  • An estimating team that needs to requantify quickly when an architect issues a revised set two days before a bidnot Siteline
  • A finishes subcontractor pricing flooring, paint and ceiling areas across hundreds of roomsnot Siteline
  • A preconstruction group producing early order-of-magnitude budgets from schematic plans before a full estimate is justifiednot Siteline

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Siteline

  • It serves subcontractors only, so a general contractor evaluating it is looking at the wrong side of the transaction entirely.
  • It does not do job costing, project management or payroll, so it is an addition to your systems rather than a consolidation of them.
  • Value depends on a clean integration to your construction accounting system, and contractors with heavily customised or elderly installations should confirm the connection before signing.
  • General contractor portals and billing formats change without warning, and although the vendor absorbs that maintenance you still feel it as occasional friction in a month-end window with no slack.
  • The billing team has to adopt it fully in the first month-end or they revert to spreadsheets under deadline pressure, which makes the implementation timing more delicate than the software suggests.

Togal.AI

  • Annual billing is mandatory at $299 per user per month, so an estimating team that ramps up and down for bid seasons pays a full year for seats it uses intermittently.
  • Detection is tuned to architectural floor plans and space-based quantities; civil, structural detail and MEP riser takeoff still need a conventional tool, so most firms end up paying for two.
  • Automatically generated quantities still require estimator review before they enter a bid, so the saving is in tracing time rather than in checking time, and firms that skip the check are exposed on a hard-money bid.
  • The company spun out of a single general contractor, and drawing conventions that differ from that firm's typical project types produce weaker detection until the set is cleaned up.
  • It is a takeoff tool, not an estimating system, so pricing, rate build-up and bid assembly still happen elsewhere and the Excel handoff is the seam where errors get introduced.

Pricing, plan by plan

Siteline

On request
  • Siteline$undefined/year
    • Pay application workflow
    • Lien waiver and compliance tracking
    • Accounting system integration

Togal.AI

$299/month
  • Growth$299/month
    • One or two licences
    • Unlimited AI takeoffs
    • Drawing comparison and search
  • Business$undefined/year
    • Three or more licences
    • Quoted by the vendor
    • Team administration and shared takeoffs

Which should you pick?

Choose Siteline if

  • You need pay application generation.
  • You also want lien waiver management.
Siteline review

Choose Togal.AI if

  • You need automatic space detection.
  • You also want drawing comparison.
Togal.AI review

Questions people ask

Is Siteline or Togal.AI better?
Neither clearly leads. Siteline starts at On request and Togal.AI at $299/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Siteline or Togal.AI?
Siteline starts at On request and Togal.AI at $299/month.
Does Siteline or Togal.AI run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Siteline best used for?
Siteline is most often used for a trade contractor whose billing team rebuilds the same pay application in four different general contractor formats each month, a subcontractor losing a billing cycle to rejected applications over missing lien waivers, a finance director trying to forecast collections across dozens of general contractors and retention balances, a growing subcontractor whose billing process depends entirely on one person and a spreadsheet. Of those, a trade contractor whose billing team rebuilds the same pay application in four different general contractor formats each month and a subcontractor losing a billing cycle to rejected applications over missing lien waivers are not what Togal.AI is typically brought in for.
What can Siteline do that Togal.AI cannot?
Siteline covers Pay application generation, Lien waiver management, Compliance document tracking, Billing status visibility. Togal.AI covers Automatic space detection, Drawing comparison, Natural language search, Automated counts.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Siteline: Does it replace our accounting system?

No. It reads from Sage 300 CRE, Vista, Foundation and similar systems and handles the billing workflow those systems handle poorly.

Togal.AI: What does Togal.AI cost?

$299 per user per month billed annually for one or two licences. Three or more users are quoted individually.

Siteline: What should we measure in a trial?

Days sales outstanding and the number of rejected or delayed pay applications. The case is about cash timing, not headcount.

Togal.AI: Can I pay monthly?

No. The published Growth plan requires annual billing.

Siteline: Is it useful for general contractors?

No. It is built for the party submitting pay applications, not the party receiving them.

Togal.AI: Does it replace an estimating system?

No. It produces quantities. Rates, markup and bid assembly still happen in your estimating software or a spreadsheet.

Togal.AI: Who owns the drawings and takeoffs I upload?

You do, and quantities export to Excel, but check the contract for how uploaded drawing sets are retained and whether they inform model training.

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