Maket vs Rayon: Which Floor Plan Tool Is Right for You?
Maket’s floor plan editor with the Pinewood Av. plan, next to a floor plan graphic from Rayon’s website. Both work on floor plans in the browser; they differ in who draws the plan and whether it goes to 3D.
TL;DR
Rayon is a collaborative 2D CAD tool for interior designers and architects; 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 Rayon’s AI turns an image or drawing of a floor plan into a vector plan; it turns any plan into 3D in one click and renders rooms with AI, where Rayon is 2D only; Auto-Furnish and the Move tool furnish and rearrange rooms in a click; and it generates multi-floor homes from the Homeowner plan. Rayon is the better choice if you draft technical 2D plans in DWG, need precise dimensions, layers, and blocks, or want real-time multiplayer editing with your team.
Rayon and Maket both let you create a floor plan, edit it, and export it, but they start from opposite ends. Rayon is a 2D CAD tool that runs in the browser and in Windows and Mac apps, for architects, interior architects, designers, and space planners: you draw walls, openings, and zones with snapping and associative dimensions, import DWG, DXF, or PDF files, and work on the same model with your team in real time, with AI tools for tracing, images, and plan conversion. 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, 3D, and renders in one browser editor. This comparison walks through both tools feature by feature, with every Rayon claim checked against rayon.design and its documentation in October 2026, so you can tell which one fits the project in front of you.
Why Compare Rayon and Maket?
Rayon calls itself “the effortless CAD,” AI-powered drawing for interior designers and architects, and it is built for technical drafting: walls, openings, zones, dimensions, layers, parametric blocks, tables, and DWG and DXF in and out, with real-time multiplayer editing and comments. Rayon’s AI supports drafting and presentation: its Generate floor plan tool, released in September 2026, turns an image or a drawing of a floor plan into a vector plan with walls, openings, and zones, and its visual tools generate and edit images, generate video on the canvas, trace images, and make axonometric images from a plan screenshot. Its own site is clear about the scope: it calls Rayon “a powerful 2D design tool.” 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, and what will it look like in 3D? If you are looking for a Rayon alternative because you need a layout generated from your requirements rather than drawn or traced, the sections below show where each floor plan software wins.
Quick Verdict: Rayon vs Maket
Last Updated: October 2026
Generates the plan for you
A complete layout from your rooms, square footage, and house shape in two to three minutes, one plan per generation; on paid plans, duplicate it and rework the copy by hand, and hand edits use no credits. Rayon’s Generate floor plan turns an image of a floor plan, or a drawing of one, into a vector plan; we found no generation from a text prompt or a list of rooms.
3D and AI renders
Switch any plan to 3D in one click, walk through it, and render any room from a text prompt for 10 credits. Rayon is 2D only; its AI generates images and video and makes axonometric images from a plan screenshot, with no 3D model to render.
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 Rayon you place blocks from its libraries yourself; we found no automatic room furnishing.
Technical 2D drafting
Associative dimensions, snapping, layers, parametric blocks, tables, and lossless DWG and DXF import, with PNG, PDF, DWG, and DXF export. Maket’s plans are design-stage floor plans, not construction documents.
Real-time teamwork
Multiplayer editing, comments with @tags, Viewer, Editor, and Admin roles, team libraries and templates, and a Claude connector. Maket shares plans by link on every plan, with team setups via Scale.
Price of the outcome
Depends
Rayon Pro is $27/mo, or $21/mo billed yearly, and Team $49 per editor per month, or $38 billed yearly. Maket Homeowner is $20/mo with 300 credits, generation at 20 credits per floor, 3D, and DXF export included.
Maket vs Rayon at a Glance
| Spec | Maket | Rayon |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free (30 credits, no card); paid from $20/mo | Free (no time limit, limited exports and libraries); Pro $27/mo or $21/mo billed yearly |
| AI floor plan generation | Yes: a complete layout from rooms, size, and house shape, one plan per generation, 20 credits per floor | Turns an image of a floor plan, or a drawing of one, into a vector plan; no generation from a text prompt or room list found |
| Platforms | Web browser | Web browser, plus Windows and Mac apps; read-only on phones and tablets |
| Export formats | DXF and PDF from $20/mo (Homeowner) | PNG, PDF, DWG, and DXF (pricing page: limited PDF and DWG export on Free, full on Pro) |
| 3D and rendering | One click to 3D, a 3D walkthrough, and AI rendering of any room (10 credits) | 2D only; AI image generation and editing, AI video, and axonometric images from a plan screenshot |
| Furniture | Built-in library plus your own pieces from a photo (10 credits each) | Block libraries (4,000+ elements per its homepage, 60k+ blocks per its docs), plus your own blocks |
| Existing plans | Converted to an editable plan: one AI-assisted upload on Homeowner, human-validated on Pro (up to five a month) | Lossless DWG and DXF import, PDF vector import, and AI Generate floor plan from images |
Last verified October 2026 against rayon.design, docs.rayon.design, and maket.ai. Rayon prices are the USD prices rayon.design/pricing showed us; it also publishes EUR prices.
Where Maket Pulls Ahead of Rayon
A plan from your brief, not from a drawing
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 (multi-floor plans take longer), with preset architectural constraints built in, on one floor or several from the Homeowner plan. Want an alternative? On paid plans, duplicate the plan and change the copy yourself in the editor, where hand edits use no credits, or run a new generation.
Rayon: Generate floor plan builds a vector plan with walls, openings, and zones from “a simple image of a floor plan, or even a drawing of one”; we found no way to generate a layout from a text prompt or a list of rooms.
From 2D to 3D in one click
Switch any plan, generated or uploaded, to an isometric 3D view, walk through it in 3D, and render any room from a text prompt for 10 credits, in the same editor.
Rayon: its own site calls it “a powerful 2D design tool.” Its Generate axonometry tool makes a 3D-looking image from a floor plan screenshot, not a 3D model.
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.
Rayon: you edit walls, openings, and zones with CAD editing tools and snapping; 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 on a copy of the plan.
Rayon: you place furniture blocks from its libraries or your own; we found no automatic room furnishing in its site or documentation.
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.
Rayon: AI product generation creates the three views of a 2D CAD block from a text prompt or a product image; Rayon does not import 3D models.
AI Capabilities: Where Maket Goes Further
Both tools use AI, at different stages. Rayon’s AI helps you draft and present in 2D: it converts plan images into vector plans, traces images, generates and edits images and video, and makes CAD blocks and axonometric images. Maket’s AI produces the plan from your requirements, converts an existing plan, furnishes rooms, and renders them in 3D, in one browser editor.
Rayon’s AI: drafting and image tools
As documented on Rayon’s site and documentation:
Generate floor plan turns “a simple image of a floor plan, or even a drawing of one” into a vector plan with walls, openings, and zones; it shipped in September 2026.
AI tracing creates a CAD tracing of an existing image, which you can simplify or show in a wireframe style.
Image tools edit an image from a prompt or create one from scratch, remove backgrounds, expand images, and generate an axonometric view from a floor plan screenshot.
AI product generation creates the three views of a CAD block from a text prompt or a product image.
An AI chat panel answers questions and finds blocks, styles, and templates.
Generation credits per week: 2 on Free, 100 on Pro, and 200 on Team, reset weekly.
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; on paid plans, duplicate a plan and rework the copy by hand (hand edits use no credits), or run a new generation.
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 and reshapes the walls, doors and circulation around it 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.
Pinewood Av., 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 a bedroom in a Japandi style from the same model. No redrawing between steps.
Rayon vs Maket: Feature-by-Feature Breakdown
| Feature | Maket | Rayon | 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, with no credits for hand edits | Not found; Generate floor plan turns an image of a floor plan, or a drawing of one, into a vector plan | Maket |
| Convert an image or PDF to an editable floor plan | Yes: one AI-assisted upload on Homeowner, up to five human-validated uploads a month on Pro | Yes: Generate floor plan from images or sketches, and PDF vector import | Tie |
| DWG and DXF import | Upload plans as PDF, JPG, or PNG | Lossless import of layers, blocks, annotations, layouts, and Xrefs | Rayon |
| 2D floor plan to 3D | One click on any plan, with a 3D walkthrough | Not available: Rayon calls itself “a powerful 2D design tool” | Maket |
| Renders | AI rendering of any room from a text prompt, 10 credits each | AI image generation and editing, AI video on the canvas, and axonometric images from a plan screenshot; no 3D model to render | Maket |
| AI furniture placement (auto-furnish by room type) | Yes (Auto-Furnish: Maket’s own assets placed by preset architectural rules) | Not found | Maket |
| Room layout planner: move a whole room, plan adjusts | Yes (Move tool: surrounding walls, doors and circulation reshape to match, while room sizes and windows are kept) | Not found as a feature | 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) | Your own 2D blocks, drawn or imported from DWG or DXF, or AI block views from a prompt or image | Tie |
| Multi-floor plan generation | Yes (Homeowner and above) | No generation; floors are drawn by hand (e.g., its three-level Triplex template), with no dedicated levels feature found | Maket |
| Technical drawing tools | Design-stage floor plans with dimensions | Associative dimensions, snapping, layers, hatches, parametric blocks, tables, and 2D sections and elevations | Rayon |
| CAD and PDF export | DXF and PDF from Homeowner ($20/mo) | PNG, PDF, DWG, and DXF; its pricing page lists limited PDF and DWG export on Free and full on Pro ($27/mo, or $21 billed yearly) | Rayon |
| Real-time collaboration | Share by link on every plan, including Free; team setups via Scale | Real-time multiplayer editing, comments, Viewer, Editor, and Admin roles, team libraries | Rayon |
| Block and furniture library | Built-in library plus any piece you photograph | 4,000+ elements per its homepage (60k+ blocks per its docs) | Rayon |
| Free tier | Yes, 30 credits that cover generation and renders, no card | Yes, with no time limit: limited exports and libraries, 2 AI generation credits a week | Tie |
| Desktop and mobile apps | Browser-based, nothing to install | Browser plus Windows and Mac apps; read-only on phones and tablets | Rayon |
| API access | Yes (Scale plan) | No public API found; a Claude connector | Maket |
Rayon vs Maket: Pricing Compared
Pricing verified directly from each platform in October 2026. Rayon’s figures are the USD prices rayon.design/pricing showed us; it also lists EUR prices, and its documentation describes a 20% discount for yearly billing.
| Plan | Maket | Rayon |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, 30 credits, no card required | $0 with no time limit: full editing, unlimited public models, limited PDF and DWG export and libraries, 7 days of model history |
| Entry paid | $20/mo (Homeowner), 300 credits/mo; 17% off on annual billing | Pro: $27/mo, or $21/mo billed yearly; private models, full PDF and DWG export, full libraries, 100 AI credits a week |
| Professional tier | $100/mo (Pro), 3,000 credits/mo; 17% off on annual billing | Team: $49 per editor per month, or $38 billed yearly; team templates and libraries, live support, 200 AI credits a week |
| Teams and enterprise | Scale (custom), API access | Team plan, with viewers not charged; no Enterprise tier found |
| AI floor plan generation | 20 credits per generated floor; duplicating a plan is on paid plans, and hand edits use no credits | Not available from a prompt; AI tools use weekly generation credits |
| 3D and renders | 10 credits per render, on every plan | Not available (2D only) |
| CAD export | DXF and PDF included from Homeowner ($20/mo) | PNG, PDF, DWG, and DXF; full on Pro |
| Cancel and refunds | Cancel anytime; plan runs to the end of the billing period | Cancel anytime; the account moves to the Free plan, normally at the end of the billing period; refunds only in listed cases, such as a confirmed major bug or a double charge |
Pricing verdict: Rayon is priced as a professional CAD seat: Pro at $27/mo, or $21/mo billed yearly, buys full DWG and PDF export, full libraries, and 100 AI credits a week, and Team adds team workspaces at $49 per editor per month, or $38 billed yearly; students and faculty use it for free. What none of its plans buys is a generated layout or a 3D view: every plan is drawn, imported, or converted from an image, and stays 2D. Maket Homeowner at $20/mo includes 300 credits, enough for up to 15 generated floors or 30 renders, plus 3D, multi-floor generation, and DXF and PDF export. If you need a precise 2D drawing set in DWG, Rayon is the tool; if you need the layout itself and want to see it in 3D, Maket is the lower price to that outcome.
Who Should Use Rayon and Who Should Use Maket?
Choose Rayon if you:
Are an architect, interior architect, interior designer, or space planner who drafts precise 2D plans with dimensions, layers, hatches, and blocks.
Work in DWG and DXF with clients or consultants and need lossless import and DWG export.
Want your team in the same drawing in real time, with comments, roles, and shared libraries and templates.
Are a student or teacher: Rayon is free for students and faculty.
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 to see the plan in 3D and render rooms with AI, without a separate 3D tool.
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.
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 eight-chair dining set on Pinewood Av., with 8’0”, 3’11”, and 2’11” marked around it.
The same 2D floor plan as a 3D floor plan, one click away. Describe materials or time of day and render it from here.
Rayon vs Maket: Our Verdict
Rayon is a modern, collaborative 2D CAD tool: you draw walls, openings, and zones with snapping and associative dimensions, bring in DWG, DXF, and PDF files, and export PNG, PDF, DWG, and DXF, with your team editing the same model in real time and AI tools for tracing, images, and converting plan images into vector plans. If you produce technical 2D drawings, Rayon is a strong choice.
Maket is the stronger option if you want AI to take the lead on the layout and see it in 3D. It generates a complete, editable floor plan from a set of constraints, including the shape of the house, on one floor or several, with architectural rules built into the generator, one plan per generation that you can duplicate and rework by hand. It furnishes rooms in one click, turns the plan into 3D, and renders rooms with AI, with 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 and the 3D view are what Rayon does not offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Maket a good Rayon alternative?
Yes, if you want the floor plan generated rather than drawn, and you want to see it in 3D. 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, switch it to 3D, and render rooms. Rayon’s AI turns an image or drawing of a floor plan into a vector plan, and Rayon is 2D only. If you draft technical 2D drawings in DWG with a team, Rayon remains the better fit.
Does Rayon have an AI floor plan generator?
Rayon’s Generate floor plan tool, released in September 2026, creates a vector-based floor plan with walls, openings, and zones from an image of a floor plan or a drawing of one. We found no way to generate a layout in Rayon from a text prompt, a list of rooms, or a square footage. 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 you duplicate the plan and change the copy yourself, or run a new generation.
Which is better for homeowners, Maket or Rayon?
Maket is better for homeowners: it generates a layout from a few simple inputs, shows it in 3D, and renders rooms, from $20/mo with DXF export. Rayon is a CAD tool aimed at architects, interior designers, and space planners; its Free plan has no time limit, but you draw the plan yourself or convert an existing image, and it stays in 2D. If you have a paper plan, both convert it: Rayon with Generate floor plan, and Maket with AI floor plan recognition, validated by our team on Pro.
How much do Maket and Rayon cost?
Both have a free plan. Rayon Pro is $27/mo, or $21/mo billed yearly, and Team is $49 per editor per month, or $38 billed yearly; those are the USD prices rayon.design showed us in October 2026, and Rayon is free for students and faculty. 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 Rayon convert a PDF or image into a floor plan?
Yes. Rayon imports PDFs with their vector geometry, imports DWG and DXF files losslessly, and its AI Generate floor plan tool turns an image or a drawing of a floor plan into walls, openings, and zones; AI tracing can also vectorize an image. 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.
Can Rayon show a floor plan in 3D?
No. Rayon’s own site calls it “a powerful 2D design tool.” Its Generate axonometry tool creates a 3D-looking axonometric image from a floor plan screenshot, but there is no 3D model or walkthrough. 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.
Does Maket or Rayon export to DXF or DWG?
Both export CAD. Rayon exports PNG, PDF, DWG, and DXF; its pricing page lists limited PDF and DWG export on Free and full export on Pro. Maket includes DXF and PDF export from its $20/mo Homeowner plan. If your workflow runs on DWG drawings, Rayon covers more; if you need a DXF of a generated layout, Maket includes it from $20/mo.
Does Rayon have an auto-furnish feature?
We found none. In Rayon you place furniture blocks from its libraries or your own, and AI product generation can create a block’s three views from a text prompt or a product image. 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 on a copy of it.
Can I collaborate with my team in Maket or Rayon?
Rayon is built for it: real-time multiplayer editing, comments with @tags, Viewer, Editor, and Admin roles, share links, with viewers able to view, measure, comment, and annotate, and team libraries and templates on the Team plan. Maket shares plans by link on every plan, including Free, and offers team setups through its Scale plan.
Is Maket easier to use than Rayon?
Maket is faster to a first floor plan; Rayon goes deeper once you are drafting. Rayon is a full 2D CAD tool with walls, openings, zones, snapping, associative dimensions, layers, and parametric blocks, and it runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Opera, or in its desktop apps, but not in Safari. 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.
Is there a free version of Maket and Rayon?
Yes, both are free to start. 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, and no credit card. Rayon’s Free plan has no time limit and includes the full editing experience and unlimited public models, with limited exports and libraries, 7 days of model history, and 2 AI generation credits a week; models are archived after 3 months without activity. To export a DXF, Maket’s Homeowner plan is $20/mo; Rayon’s full DWG export starts on Pro.
Sources (last verified October 2026; prices in USD)
September 2026 product updates (Rayon docs)
August 2026 product updates (Rayon docs)
PDF and image import (Rayon docs)
Exporting and printing (Rayon docs)
Walls, zones, and openings (Rayon docs)
Associative dimensions (Rayon docs)
Sharing a model or a workspace (Rayon docs)
Pricing and billing (Rayon docs)
System requirements (Rayon docs)
Rayon for students (Rayon docs)
Use Rayon in Claude (Rayon docs)
Maket: AI floor plan generator
Maket: floor plan upload (PDF to DXF)