Maket vs Cedreo: Which Floor Plan Tool Is Right for You?
Maket’s floor plan editor with the Clearwater plan, next to a 3D floor plan from Cedreo’s website. Both take you from a floor plan to 3D and renders; they differ in who draws the plan.
TL;DR
Cedreo is professional house design software you draw in; Maket is an AI floor plan generator. Maket pulls ahead on four points: it generates a complete layout from your rooms, square footage, and house shape, one plan per generation that you can duplicate and rework by hand, where Cedreo has no AI plan generation; it converts an uploaded plan into an editable one, where Cedreo has you trace it; Auto-Furnish and the Move tool furnish and rearrange rooms in a click; and it starts at $20/mo with DXF export. Cedreo is the better choice if you already know the layout and need a full plan set with sections, elevations, roofs, terrain, and branded presentations.
Cedreo and Maket both let you create a floor plan, furnish it, see it in 3D, and export it, but they start from opposite ends. Cedreo is browser-based house design software for home builders, contractors, remodelers, and interior designers: you draw the plan with magnetism and automatic dimensions, then add roofs, terrain, sections, elevations, and renders. Maket is an AI floor plan generator: you answer a few questions about the home you need, it produces one complete layout per generation, and you refine it, or duplicate it and rework the copy, with the Move tool, Auto-Furnish, your own furniture, and renders in one browser editor. This comparison walks through both tools feature by feature, with every Cedreo claim checked against cedreo.com and its help center in October 2026, so you can tell which one fits the project in front of you.
Why Compare Cedreo and Maket?
Cedreo is built for professionals who draw house plans every week. It is a B Corp based in France, with teams in Atlanta, Nantes, and Munich, and its pitch is drafting speed: its homepage headline promises a complete house in 2 hours, and its features page adds automatic dimensioning, automatic roofs, and surface area tables. Cedreo keeps the plan itself manual: its AI works on finished renders, not on walls. We built Maket to answer a different question first: what should the floor plan be, given the rooms, the size, and the shape of the house? That difference drives almost everything else in this comparison, from how you get to a first plan to what each subscription buys. If you are searching for a Cedreo alternative because you need a layout generated from your requirements rather than drawn wall by wall, the sections below show where each floor plan software wins.
Quick Verdict: Cedreo vs Maket
Last Updated: October 2026
Generates the plan for you
A complete layout from your answers to a few guided questions in two to three minutes, with house shape as an input, one plan per generation; on paid plans, duplicate it and rework the copy by hand, and hand edits use no credits. Cedreo has no AI plan generation: you draw the walls, and its AI applies effects to renders.
Existing plans, converted
Upload a PDF, JPG, or PNG and get an editable plan: one AI-assisted upload on Homeowner, human-validated by our team on Pro. Cedreo imports JPG, PNG, PDF, DWG, and DXF files as a background you trace over by hand.
Auto-Furnish and the Move tool
Furnish a selected room in one click with Maket’s own assets, and move a whole room while the plan adjusts. In Cedreo you place furnishings from its catalog and bundles yourself; we found no automatic room furnishing.
Plan sets for builders
Cross sections, elevations, automatic roofs, terrain and site plans, and JPG, PDF, and DXF plan downloads from the Personal plan. Maket’s plans are design-stage floor plans, not construction documents.
Renders and presentations
HD or Full HD renders in under five minutes, a monthly render allowance, AI style, season, and time-of-day effects, and presentation documents with your logo and colours. Maket renders any room from a text prompt for 10 credits.
Price of the outcome
Depends
Cedreo Pro is $129/mo, or $79/mo billed annually, and Personal is $139 for one project. Maket Homeowner is $20/mo with 300 credits, generation at 20 credits per floor, and DXF export included.
Maket vs Cedreo at a Glance
| Spec | Maket | Cedreo |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free (30 credits, no card); paid from $20/mo | Free (1 user, 1 project); Personal $139 per project; Pro from $79/mo billed annually |
| AI floor plan generation | Yes: a complete layout from rooms, size, and house shape, one plan per generation, 20 credits per floor; on paid plans, duplicate a plan and rework it by hand, and hand edits use no credits | No: walls are drawn by hand; Cedreo’s AI applies style, season, and time-of-day effects to renders |
| Platforms | Web browser | Web browser on Mac or PC (a mouse is required) |
| Export formats | DXF and PDF from $20/mo (Homeowner) | JPG, PDF, and DXF plan downloads from Personal |
| Furniture | Built-in library plus your own pieces from a photo (10 credits each) | 8,500+ furnishings and 5,300+ materials (limited on Free) |
| Rendering | AI rendering of any room, 10 credits each | HD or Full HD; 20 per project (Personal), 40/mo (Pro), 80/user/mo (Enterprise) |
| Existing plans | Converted to an editable plan: one AI-assisted upload on Homeowner, human-validated on Pro (up to five a month) | Imported as a background (JPG, PNG, PDF, DWG, DXF) and traced by hand |
Last verified October 2026 against cedreo.com, help.cedreo.com, and maket.ai. Prices in USD as cedreo.com/pricing showed them to a visitor in Canada in October 2026; Cedreo’s prices vary by visitor location.
Where Maket Pulls Ahead of Cedreo
A plan from your brief, not from scratch
Set your rooms, square footage, and house shape, and the AI floor plan generator returns one complete layout per generation in two to three minutes, with preset architectural constraints built in. Want an alternative? Maket offers a different option from the same inputs, or, on paid plans, duplicate the plan and change the copy yourself in the editor; hand edits use no credits.
Cedreo: you draw each wall with clicks on a grid, helped by magnetism and automatic dimensions; its homepage headline says a complete house takes 2 hours. Its help center describes its AI effects as changing a render’s style, season, or lighting.
Your existing plan, converted
Upload a PDF, JPG, or PNG and our AI floor plan recognition converts it into an editable floor plan you can export to DXF. On Homeowner you get one AI-assisted upload; on Pro, our team validates each upload, up to five a month.
Cedreo: Import loads a JPG, PNG, PDF, DWG, or DXF as a background; you set the scale with a ruler on a known dimension and redraw the walls over it.
Move a room, the plan adjusts
Drag a whole room with the Move tool in the floor plan editor and the surrounding walls, doors and circulation reshape to match, while room sizes and windows are kept: a room layout planner that keeps the plan coherent.
Cedreo: its help center covers drawing and resizing walls and mirroring the plan; we found no tool that moves a whole room and adjusts the rooms around it.
Auto-Furnish in one click
Select a room and click Furnish room: Auto-Furnish places Maket’s own assets by room type, following preset architectural rules. Run it on any room with a room type set, in a generated or uploaded plan or a copy of it.
Cedreo: you furnish from a catalog of 8,500+ customizable furnishings and furniture bundles; we found no automatic room furnishing on its site or in its help center.
Your own furniture, from a photo
Upload one photo of a sofa, chair, or table and Maket builds a 3D object with dimensions estimated from the photo or entered from the spec sheet, saved under Objects › Custom and shown in renders, for 10 credits.
Cedreo: you can resize catalog objects, change their colours, and build one-off pieces from parametric shapes; we found no option to import your own 3D models or furniture.
AI Capabilities: Where Maket Goes Further
The two tools put AI in very different places. Cedreo keeps the plan manual and uses AI only on finished renders, to change their style, season, or time of day. Maket uses AI to produce the plan from your requirements, convert an existing plan, furnish rooms, and render them, in one browser editor.
Cedreo’s AI: effects on finished renders
As documented on Cedreo’s site and help center:
AI effects (AI Variation) restyle a finished render as Marker, Architectural, Watercolor, or Black Pencil, or change its season or time of day.
An AI Variation from the gallery uses one AI credit and no rendering credit; applying AI from the scene uses one AI effect and one rendering credit.
AI effects run on their own allowance, separate from rendering credits; Cedreo’s blog cites 20 uses per user per month.
Cedreo’s help center describes its AI effects as changing a render’s graphic style, season, or lighting; we found nothing that changes the floor plan itself.
Floor plans are drawn by hand or traced over an imported file, with magnetism, automatic dimensions, and automatic roofs to speed up the drafting.
Cedreo says project data is never used to train AI models.
Maket’s AI: generate, convert, furnish
What Maket’s AI does in the same project:
Generates a complete layout from your answers to a few guided questions in two to three minutes, with preset architectural constraints built in, one plan per generation, for 20 credits per floor; Maket then offers a different option from the same inputs, or, on paid plans, duplicate a plan and rework the copy by hand, and hand edits use no credits.
AI floor plan recognition converts an existing PDF, JPG, or PNG into an editable project (PDF to DXF on export): AI-assisted on Homeowner, human-validated by our team on Pro, up to five uploads a month.
The Move tool repositions a whole room; the surrounding walls, doors and circulation reshape to match, while room sizes and windows are kept.
Auto-Furnish places our own assets by room type with architectural preset rules in one click.
Bring your own furniture: one photo of a sofa or chair becomes a 3D model with dimensions estimated from the photo or entered from the spec sheet, saved to your own library and used in renders, for 10 credits.
Takes simple requests in plain language on paid plans, like “add a bedroom.” Long, detailed prompts are only partly used, so short, specific requests work best.
Converts the floor plan to 3D in one click, with a 3D walkthrough, and renders any room from a text prompt for 10 credits. No CAD skill needed.
Clearwater, one Maket project in three views: the 2D floor plan in the editor, the isometric 3D view one click later, and an AI rendering of the living room in a mid-century modern style from the same model. No redrawing between steps.
Cedreo vs Maket: Feature-by-Feature Breakdown
| Feature | Maket | Cedreo | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI floor plan generator (a few guided questions) | Yes, core feature: rooms, square footage, and house shape in, a complete layout in two to three minutes, one plan per generation for 20 credits per floor; on paid plans, duplicate and rework copies by hand, and hand edits use no credits | No AI plan generation; plans are drawn wall by wall | Maket |
| Getting to a first plan | Answer a few questions, get a plan in minutes | Draw walls on a grid or trace an imported plan; Cedreo’s homepage headline says a complete house takes 2 hours | Maket |
| Convert a PDF or image to an editable floor plan | Yes: one AI-assisted upload on Homeowner, up to five human-validated uploads a month on Pro | Import as a background (JPG, PNG, PDF, DWG, DXF) and trace by hand | Maket |
| AI furniture placement (auto-furnish by room type) | Yes (Auto-Furnish: Maket’s own assets placed by preset architectural rules) | Not found; furnish from the catalog and furniture bundles | Maket |
| Room layout planner: move a whole room, plan adjusts | Yes (Move tool: the surrounding walls, doors and circulation reshape to match, while room sizes and windows are kept) | Not found in Cedreo’s help center, which covers drawing, resizing, and mirroring | Maket |
| Your own piece of furniture in the plan | Yes: one photo becomes a 3D model with dimensions estimated from the photo or entered from the spec sheet (10 credits) | Resize, recolour, or build from parametric shapes; no 3D model import found | Maket |
| Natural-language editing of live plans | Yes on paid plans (simple requests only) | Not found | Maket |
| Furniture and material catalog | Built-in library plus any piece you photograph | 8,500+ furnishings and 5,300+ materials (limited on Free) | Cedreo |
| Sections, elevations, roofs, and terrain | Design-stage floor plans, not construction documents | Cross sections, elevations, automatic roofs, site plans, and cut and fill | Cedreo |
| 2D floor plan to 3D | One click on any plan, with a 3D walkthrough | Real-time 3D on every plan, with first-person walkthrough, 3D perspective, and top-down views | Tie |
| Renders | AI rendering of any room from a text prompt, 10 credits each | HD (1280×720) or Full HD (1920×1080) in under five minutes, two at a time; AI style, season, and time-of-day effects | Tie |
| Multi-floor plans | Yes (Homeowner and above) | Levels and basements on every plan | Cedreo |
| CAD and PDF export | DXF and PDF from Homeowner ($20/mo) | DXF (described as compatible with DWG), PDF, and JPG from Personal ($139 per project) | Tie |
| Sharing and collaboration | Share by link on every plan, including Free; team setups via Scale | Enterprise: multi-user workspace, roles and permissions, shared floor plan catalog; branded presentation documents | Cedreo |
| Free tier with no credit card | Yes, 30 credits that cover generation and renders | Yes: 1 user, 1 project, essential drawing features | Tie |
| Desktop and mobile apps | Browser-based, nothing to install | Browser-based on Mac or PC; no mobile app found | Tie |
| API access | Yes (Scale plan) | Not found | Maket |
Cedreo vs Maket: Pricing Compared
Pricing verified directly from each platform in October 2026. Cedreo’s prices vary by visitor location: the figures below are the USD prices cedreo.com/pricing showed a visitor in Canada, and they match the $129 and $139 quoted on Cedreo’s own comparison pages.
| Plan | Maket | Cedreo |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, 30 credits, no card required | $0: 1 user, 1 project, essential drawing features; the account stays accessible for 3 years |
| Entry paid | $20/mo (Homeowner), 300 credits/mo; 17% off on annual billing | Personal: $139 per project, paid once; 20 renderings per project |
| Professional tier | $100/mo (Pro), 3,000 credits/mo; 17% off on annual billing | Pro: $129/mo, or $79/mo billed annually ($948/yr); unlimited projects, 40 renderings/mo |
| Teams and enterprise | Scale (custom), API access | Enterprise: $159/user/mo, or $119/user/mo billed annually; 80 renderings per user per month, team tools |
| AI floor plan generation | 20 credits per generated floor; on paid plans, duplicate a plan and rework it by hand, and hand edits use no credits | Not available; plans are drawn by hand |
| Extra renders | 10 credits per render; top-up packs for paid subscribers never expire | Rendering packs on Personal and Pro; monthly renders don’t roll over |
| CAD export | DXF and PDF included from Homeowner ($20/mo) | DXF, PDF, and JPG from Personal |
| Cancel and refunds | Cancel anytime; plan runs to the end of the billing period | Cancel anytime; the plan runs to the end of the billing period, with no refund for unused time and no downgrade to a lower plan |
Pricing verdict: Cedreo is built and priced for professionals, and it buys a full drafting workflow: Pro at $129/mo, or $79/mo billed annually, gives unlimited projects, 40 renders a month, and sections, elevations, roofs, and site plans. Personal at $139 suits a homeowner with one project to draw. What neither plan buys is a generated layout: every plan is drawn by hand. Maket Homeowner at $20/mo includes 300 credits, enough for up to 15 generated floors or 30 renders, plus DXF and PDF export, and you can duplicate a plan and rework it by hand, with hand edits using no credits. If you need a full plan set of a house you have already designed, Cedreo is the tool; if you need the layout itself, fast, Maket is the lower price to that outcome.
Who Should Use Cedreo and Who Should Use Maket?
Choose Cedreo if you:
Are a home builder, contractor, remodeler, or interior designer who draws plans every week and needs cross sections, elevations, roofs, terrain, and site plans in one tool.
Need presentation documents with your logo and colours, and renders on a fixed monthly allowance.
Want a large catalog: 8,500+ furnishings and 5,300+ materials.
Run a team that needs a shared workspace, roles and permissions, and a shared floor plan catalog (Enterprise).
Choose Maket if you:
Are a homeowner who wants AI to generate a layout from your requirements, or have an existing plan you want to rework: upload it and our AI floor plan recognition turns it into an editable project, AI-assisted on Homeowner and human-validated on Pro.
Are an architect, builder, or designer who wants to skip the blank-canvas phase and have an AI architecture generator produce a starting point shaped by built-in architectural constraints, then duplicate it and refine each copy in the layout editor.
Want a simple floor plan maker: a light interface with a short toolbar and one credit type instead of a full drafting toolset.
Want your own furniture in the plan from a photo: one photo of a piece becomes a 3D model with dimensions estimated from the photo or entered from the spec sheet, saved to your library, so plans and renders show what you will actually buy.
Need DXF export for a contractor or structural engineer from a $20/mo plan, without a per-project fee.
Want to try changes quickly: duplicate a plan, Auto-Furnish a room in one click, and move whole rooms while the plan adjusts around them.
Select any piece and Maket shows its clearances: here the dining set sits 1’2” from the kitchen island and 9’9” and 12’9” from the walls on either side.
The same 2D floor plan as a 3D floor plan, one click away. Describe materials or time of day and render it from here.
Cedreo vs Maket: Our Verdict
Cedreo is a mature, professional house design tool: you draw the plan yourself with magnetism and automatic dimensions, then get cross sections, elevations, automatic roofs, terrain, site plans, and HD renders from the same project, with branded presentation documents for clients. If you already know the layout and need a complete plan set of it, Cedreo is a strong choice for builders, contractors, and remodelers.
Maket is the stronger option if you want AI to take the lead on the layout. It generates a complete, editable floor plan from a set of constraints, including the shape of the house, with architectural rules built into the generator, one plan per generation that you can duplicate and rework by hand. It converts an existing plan instead of having you trace it, and keeps furnishing, rendering, and DXF export in one browser editor from $20/mo. For homeowners designing their own house, and for architects and builders exploring layouts before detailed drawings, that generation step is what Cedreo does not offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Maket a good Cedreo alternative?
Yes, if you want the floor plan generated rather than drawn. In Maket you answer a few guided questions about a home and receive a complete floor plan in two to three minutes, then refine it with the Move tool and Auto-Furnish, duplicate it to try changes, and furnish it with your own pieces. Cedreo has no AI floor plan generator: you draw walls by hand or trace an imported plan, and its AI applies effects to renders. If you need a layout from scratch, Maket is the stronger Cedreo alternative; if you need a full plan set with sections, elevations, roofs, and site plans for a house you have already designed, Cedreo remains the better fit.
Does Cedreo have an AI floor plan generator?
No. Cedreo’s AI feature, called AI effects or AI Variation, changes the style, season, or time of day of a finished render; Cedreo’s help center describes these effects as changing a render’s graphic style, season, or lighting, and we found nothing that changes the floor plan itself. Plans are drawn wall by wall, with magnetism, automatic dimensions, and automatic roofs, or traced over an imported JPG, PNG, PDF, DWG, or DXF. Maket generates a complete layout from your bedroom, bathroom, square footage, and house shape inputs for 20 credits per floor, with architectural constraints built in, one plan per generation; to try an alternative, Maket offers a different option from the same inputs, or on paid plans you duplicate the plan and change the copy yourself.
Which is better for homeowners, Maket or Cedreo?
Maket is better for homeowners who do not have a layout yet: it generates one from a few simple inputs and lets you refine it in a visual editor, from $20/mo. Cedreo’s Personal plan, $139 for one project, includes 20 renderings and plan downloads, but you draw the plan yourself. If you have a paper plan, Maket converts it into an editable plan (AI-assisted on Homeowner, human-validated on Pro), while Cedreo imports it as a background you trace over.
How much do Maket and Cedreo cost?
Both have a free plan. Cedreo Personal is $139 per project, paid once; Pro is $129/mo, or $79/mo billed annually; Enterprise is $159 per user per month, or $119 billed annually. Those are the USD prices cedreo.com showed a visitor in Canada in October 2026; Cedreo’s prices vary by visitor location. Maket Homeowner is $20/mo with 300 credits, DXF and PDF export, and multi-floor generation, and Pro is $100/mo with 3,000 credits and human-validated plan uploads. Maket’s credits cover floor plan generation (20 per floor), renders (10), and optimizations (5), refreshing monthly on paid plans.
Does Cedreo convert a PDF or image into a floor plan?
Not automatically. Cedreo imports a JPG, PNG, PDF, DWG, or DXF as a reference background: you set the scale with a ruler on a known dimension and redraw the walls over it, and DWG and DXF imports let you pick layers and snap to them. Maket’s AI floor plan recognition turns an uploaded PDF, JPG, or PNG into an editable plan; Homeowner includes one AI-assisted upload, and on Pro our team validates each upload, up to five a month.
Does Cedreo have an auto-furnish feature?
We found none. Cedreo offers a catalog of 8,500+ customizable furnishings and furniture bundles that you place in the plan, and its AI works on renders only. Maket’s Auto-Furnish places Maket’s own assets by room type with preset architectural rules in one click, on any room with a room type set, in a generated or uploaded plan or a copy of it.
Does Maket or Cedreo export to DXF or DWG?
Both export DXF. Maket includes DXF and PDF export from its $20/mo Homeowner plan. Cedreo downloads plans as DXF, which it describes as compatible with DWG, plus PDF and JPG, from its Personal plan at $139 per project. We found no native DWG export for either tool. If you also need sections and elevations in the plan set, Cedreo covers more; if you need a DXF of a generated layout, Maket includes it from $20/mo.
Can I use my own furniture in Maket or Cedreo?
In Maket, yes: upload one photo of a piece, Maket estimates its dimensions (or you enter them from the spec sheet), and it becomes a 3D model saved under Objects › Custom, reusable in any project and visible in renders, for 10 credits. In Cedreo, you can resize catalog objects, change their colours, and build one-off pieces from parametric shapes, but we found no option to import your own 3D models or turn a photo into furniture.
Is Maket easier to use than Cedreo?
Maket is faster to a first floor plan; Cedreo goes deeper once you are drafting. Cedreo is a full drafting tool with magnetism, automatic dimensions, roofs, terrain, sections, and elevations, and it needs a mouse; its homepage headline says a complete house takes 2 hours to draw. Maket starts from a few questions, generates the plan for you in two to three minutes with preset architectural constraints built in, and keeps editing to a short toolbar and one credit type, so there is less to learn before you have a plan you can act on.
Can Maket and Cedreo show a floor plan in 3D?
Yes. Cedreo shows every plan in real-time 3D, including on Free, with first-person walkthrough, 3D perspective, and top-down views, and produces HD or Full HD renders in under five minutes. In Maket, the 2D to 3D switch is one click on any plan, including generated ones, with an isometric view and a 3D walkthrough, and an AI rendering of any room costs 10 credits on every plan, free included. The difference is the starting point: in Maket the 3D model comes from a layout the AI generated for you, so you can duplicate it, rework each copy, and compare them in 3D before you commit.
Is there a free version of Maket and Cedreo?
Yes, both are free to start, and neither asks for a credit card to sign up. Maket’s Free plan includes 30 credits, enough to generate a floor plan and render a room, with single-floor plan generation, the editor, and AI rendering available. Cedreo’s Free plan gives 1 user and 1 project with essential floor plan drawing features and limited libraries, and the account stays accessible for 3 years. To export a DXF, Maket’s Homeowner plan is $20/mo and Cedreo’s Personal plan is $139 per project.
Sources (last verified October 2026; prices in USD)
Cedreo AI rendering styles (Cedreo blog, in French)
How to improve your renders with AI (Cedreo help)
How to import a floor plan (Cedreo help)
How to import a DWG or DXF file (Cedreo help)
How to draw walls (Cedreo help)
How to export plans in DXF/DWG format (Cedreo help)
How to choose a rendering format (Cedreo help)
How to cancel my subscription (Cedreo help)
How to use the mirror effect (Cedreo help)
Maket: floor plan upload (PDF to DXF)