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Archi vs Hausey

Which one should you try?

Archi

Freemium

Best for Homeowners planning interior changes

Hausey

Freemium

Best for Contractors and remodelers

Pricing, capabilities and platforms side by side. Prices are as of the "Pricing checked" date in the table.

Archi

Archi

Archi AI takes a photo of an existing room or exterior, accepts a style-preference form, and generates a redesigned image in seconds. The workflow is upload-select-generate: no 3D modeling, no software installation, no steep learning curve. Where it earns its place is early-stage visualization — homeowners vetting renovation directions, designers generating client-facing concept images before committing to detailed plans. The ceiling appears fast: output is a single flat image, not a model you can navigate, measure, or hand off to a contractor. Teams needing dimensioned floor plans, furniture specs, or revision-tracked design files will hit that ceiling on the first real project.

Hausey

Hausey

Upload a single photo of an actual space—job-site concrete and all—and Hausey returns ten styled redesign directions in under sixty seconds. Each direction is a complete aesthetic treatment: materials, palette, lighting, not a filtered version of the original. For real estate agents, the vendor describes MLS-safer virtual staging with structural drift checks and state-specific disclosure text, which matters when the listing is in a disclosure-sensitive state. The tool is strictly one-shot: one photo in, ten images out. There is no iterative agent running in the background, no multi-step planning—text refinement of specific details is available after the initial render, but the core workflow is a single upload cycle.

AttributeArchiHausey
PricingFreemiumFreemium
Price$19/mo$9/mo
Pricing checkedOct 20, 2026Jul 1, 2026
Free trialNot statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNo
Has APINoNo
Self-hosted optionNoNo
PlatformsWebWeb
Released2024—
Pros
  • Photo-based input workflow, so you skip manual room modeling and get a styled render from an existing space photo without any 3D software knowledge.
  • Covers interior and exterior spaces across five room types, which means a single tool handles the breadth of a whole-home renovation concept phase without switching platforms.
  • Seconds-to-output generation speed, so a designer can produce multiple style directions during a single client meeting instead of returning with renders days later.
  • Commercial usage license available on paid tiers, which means agencies and design professionals can include generated images in client deliverables without rights exposure.
  • No credit card required to start generating, so teams can validate whether the output quality meets their bar before committing budget.
  • Ten distinct aesthetic directions from a single room photo in under sixty seconds, so a contractor can run a full visual options presentation on a tablet during the initial site visit rather than scheduling a follow-up.
  • MLS-safer virtual staging with structural drift checks and state-specific disclosure text, so real estate agents get listing-ready images without the compliance exposure that comes from standard AI staging outputs.
  • Plain-text refinement after the initial render, so a designer can steer a direction toward a client's specific preference without starting a new upload cycle.
  • Client-facing share-and-vote link built into the workflow, so alignment happens asynchronously and the designer enters the next meeting with a ranked preference list rather than an open debate.
  • Free-forever plan with no credit card required per the vendor page, so a team can validate fit against real client work before committing budget.
Cons
  • Output is a flat image only — no dimensions, material lists, or exportable design files — so the moment a project needs anything a contractor can act on, teams must rebuild the design from scratch in a separate tool.
  • Render count on the free tier is capped, and watermarks are present; a professional presenting to clients hits the paid-tier requirement immediately, at which point tools like Midjourney or Stable Diffusion with a custom interior-design workflow become direct cost competitors with more output control.
  • Style selection happens through a form with preset options, not open-ended prompting or granular control, so designers chasing a specific aesthetic that falls outside the preset categories get results that approximate but do not match the brief — with no documented way to correct or iterate beyond regenerating.
  • No API, no self-hosting, and no integration hooks, which means any team trying to embed generation into a client portal, internal tool, or automated workflow has no path forward with this product.
  • Output is a styled image, not a spatial or dimensional model—teams that need permit-ready drawings, SKU-level material specs, or CAD integration hit a hard wall immediately and carry Hausey outputs into a separate modeling tool manually, running two disconnected workflows.
  • No API and no self-hosted option means teams that want to embed visualization into their own client portal, CRM, or project management tool have no described integration path; when a firm's workflow requires white-labeled output or automated triggers from their existing stack, they move to a competitor with API access.
  • The tool generates one set of ten fixed style directions per upload; clients who want a highly specific aesthetic outside those named styles—or who need iterative, back-and-forth concept development across multiple sessions with version history—will find the one-shot model limiting and look toward platforms built around multi-round design collaboration.

Made up your mind?

Archi

Freemium

Best for Homeowners planning interior changes

Hausey

Freemium

Best for Contractors and remodelers

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