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Togal.AI vs Trunk Tools

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Togal.AI

Construction

Automated drawing takeoff that measures and labels spaces without manual tracing

From
$299/month
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
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Trunk Tools

Construction

Answers questions from a project document set with citations, so field staff stop hunting drawings

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: 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.; Trunk Tools nothing about pricing is published, and because it is quoted by project rather than by seat, the cost of standardising it across a portfolio of jobs is hard to model before a sales process
  • They diverge on capability: Togal.AI covers Automatic space detection, Trunk Tools covers Question answering with citations.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Togal.AI and Trunk Tools actually diverge.

Attributes where Togal.AI and Trunk Tools differ
AttributeTogal.AITrunk Tools
Starting price$299/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer user per monthquote
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android

Identical on both: free tier (No), 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 Togal.AI

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

Only in Trunk Tools

  • Question answering with citations
  • Text message interface
  • Submittal review
  • RFI drafting
  • Schedule agent
  • Drawing and specification ingestion
  • Change awareness

What people use each for

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

Togal.AI

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

Trunk Tools

  • A superintendent on a data centre project who needs to know the required fire rating of a specific partition type without leaving the decknot Togal.AI
  • A project engineer reviewing 300 submittals who wants conflicts against the specification flagged before the architect sees themnot Togal.AI
  • A contractor whose RFIs are being rejected as already answered in the specification and wants the document checked firstnot Togal.AI
  • A team that has just received a revised drawing set and needs to know which in-progress work is now affectednot Togal.AI

Where each one falls short

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

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.

Trunk Tools

  • Nothing about pricing is published, and because it is quoted by project rather than by seat, the cost of standardising it across a portfolio of jobs is hard to model before a sales process
  • Answer quality is bounded entirely by the discipline of the underlying document control, and on a project with stale drawing revisions it will cite superseded sheets with the same confidence as current ones
  • It is an overlay on Procore or Autodesk rather than a system of record, so a contractor is now paying two vendors for the same document set and depends on the integration continuing to be maintained
  • The company is young and the product category is new, so there is little independent long-run evidence on accuracy, and a contractor putting field decisions on it should build its own verification sampling rather than trust vendor claims
  • Answers with citations do not carry contractual weight; an RFI response or a specification still governs, so the tool reduces search time without reducing the contractual review burden

Pricing, plan by plan

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

Trunk Tools

On request
  • Trunk Tools$undefined/year
    • Quoted by project, user count and modules taken
    • Pilot projects commonly priced separately from an enterprise agreement
    • Document ingestion and integration setup scoped per customer

Which should you pick?

Choose Togal.AI if

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

Choose Trunk Tools if

  • You need question answering with citations.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want text message interface.
Trunk Tools review

Questions people ask

Is Togal.AI or Trunk Tools better?
Neither clearly leads. Togal.AI starts at $299/month and Trunk Tools at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Togal.AI or Trunk Tools?
Togal.AI starts at $299/month and Trunk Tools at On request.
Does Togal.AI or Trunk Tools run on more platforms?
Togal.AI runs on Web. Trunk Tools runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Togal.AI best used for?
Togal.AI is most often used for a commercial general contractor bidding repetitive multifamily or hospitality floor plates where room-by-room area takeoff dominates the effort, an estimating team that needs to requantify quickly when an architect issues a revised set two days before a bid, a finishes subcontractor pricing flooring, paint and ceiling areas across hundreds of rooms, a preconstruction group producing early order-of-magnitude budgets from schematic plans before a full estimate is justified. Of those, a commercial general contractor bidding repetitive multifamily or hospitality floor plates where room-by-room area takeoff dominates the effort and an estimating team that needs to requantify quickly when an architect issues a revised set two days before a bid are not what Trunk Tools is typically brought in for.
What can Togal.AI do that Trunk Tools cannot?
Togal.AI covers Automatic space detection, Drawing comparison, Natural language search, Automated counts. Trunk Tools covers Question answering with citations, Text message interface, Submittal review, RFI drafting.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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.

Trunk Tools: Does it replace Procore?

No. It reads from Procore or Autodesk Construction Cloud and adds retrieval and review on top. You still pay for the document platform.

Togal.AI: Can I pay monthly?

No. The published Growth plan requires annual billing.

Trunk Tools: What does it cost?

Trunk Tools does not publish pricing. Expect a quote scoped by project, users and which modules you take.

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.

Trunk Tools: Can it be wrong?

Yes. It cites its source, which lets you check, but if the document set contains superseded drawings it will answer from them. Document control discipline is a prerequisite, not an optional extra.

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.

Trunk Tools: Can field staff use it without the app?

Yes. TrunkText answers questions by text message, which is the main reason foremen adopt it.

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