Doesn't matter how you slice it, Archicad is a better value. If you paid for a perpetual license with Archiplus SSA then your numbers might be right, but that license has great savings over time too. Here is current subscription pricing Graphisoft subscription$2250/year. So you purchased the perpetual license and then paid to upgrade it? Or you signed up for Archiplus SSA for the yearly upgrades? And finally, Archicad works with both Mac AND PC and that is somehow a negative? So you have the 'Revit is more popular' but that's about it. Archicad is initially slightly more expensive but the yearly subscription is only $1400 a seat and Revit is +/- $2500.work that out over a decade of renewals. Neither suite costs 5 grand to get into and Revit requires a subscription so not sure what your point is here. Not surprising, Autodesk has been more concerned with money than product forever. A group of 25 'major architectural firms' wrote a letter to Autodesk complaining about the software link.

Archicad improves their product significantly with most releases. Archicad is a smaller company for sure, but your take on how they treat their customers is literally laughable. And bigger / most popular isn't necessarily better. Plenty of architects don't work in major architectural firms first off. If you have your own firm and money is no object and you want to basically have a really expensive version of Sketchup for your Mac that makes you marketable in Europe go for Archicad. If you’re trying to be marketable to work within the U.S. **And if you skip a version or upgrade it’s another $3400 as a penalty fee. It charges them $5-$6k to make them think they’ve ‘bought’ the program but then charges another $900 a year for a meaningless upgrade to stay current. It’s not even close in terms of the percentages.Īlso importantly Graphisoft (owner of Archicad) treats it’s users horribly compared to Revit.

Also virtually all civil and structural engineering consultants and firms in U.S. So if you need to learn a program to actually get a job in the U.S. and in Europe and was developed for Macs originally. Archicad is mainly used by tiny firms in the U.S. Almost all major architectural firms in the U.S.

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