Boon vs Togal
If you love AI takeoff but you’re tired of exporting quantities into a spreadsheet and building the estimate by hand, Boon vs Togal comes down to one thing: Togal counts and hands you numbers to drive; Boon reads your drawings and specs together, flags where they disagree, and returns a bid-ready package — delivered back in one Slack message.
Async path: drop a plan set in the email. Gandalf reads it and sends the bid-ready package back — no call required.
Both are AI construction estimating software. The difference is where the work stops. Togal is an AI takeoff and chat tool — it measures and exports quantities to your own estimating software or Excel, and you assemble the bid. Boon runs the whole preconstruction loop and hands back a bid-ready package.
Togal auto-measures areas and counts from your drawings and lets you ask questions via Togal Chat, then exports quantities to your estimating software or Excel. Assembling the bid — pricing, libraries, markups — is still on you.
Boon reads every sheet and every spec section as one document, flags spec ↔ drawing mismatches before they become change orders, and returns a bid-ready package to the same Slack channel — not a quantity file you have to import and finish.
A fair, factual comparison. Togal facts below are from togal.ai; Boon facts are from our live product pages.
| Capability | Togal | Boon |
|---|---|---|
| Returns a bid-ready package (not just quantities) | ✕ Exports quantities to Excel / your estimating tool | ✓ Bid-ready package back in one Slack message |
| Reads drawings and specs together | ✕ Measures from drawings | ✓ Flags spec ↔ drawing mismatches |
| Assembles the bid (libraries, markups) | ✕ You assemble it in your own tool | ✓ Bid-ready summary across trades |
| Works in your existing Slack (no new tool) | ✕ Togal app; integrates w/ Procore, PlanSwift, Bluebeam | ✓ Lives in Slack — nothing new to learn |
| Publishes per-trade accuracy (F1) | ✕ Not published | ✓ Elec ≥ 0.90 · Mech ≥ 0.74 · Arch ≥ 0.85 |
| Onboarding | Per-seat sign-up | ✓ One message; async or a 20-min call |
| Pricing | Growth $299/user/mo billed yearly; Business custom for 4+ | ✓ Pay for only what you use |
Togal pricing and positioning verified from togal.ai (2026-07-30). We only state Togal facts we can source; if we can’t verify a claim, we leave it out.
Four reasons estimators looking for a Togal alternative land on Boon.
Boon treats drawings and specs as one document, the way an estimator does, and surfaces where they disagree before it becomes a change order. A takeoff off the drawings alone can miss that.
Instead of exporting quantities to import and finish elsewhere, Boon returns a bid-ready summary across trades — the last mile is done.
Drop a plan set in a project channel and the package comes back to the same channel. No new login, no per-seat rollout, no app to train the team on.
Electrical ≥ 0.90, mechanical ≥ 0.74, architectural ≥ 0.85. The Construction Vision Model is one foundation model trained across every trade — ask any vendor for their numbers.
F1 score is the standard accuracy metric for object detection. We publish ours. Ask any vendor for theirs.
| Trade | F1 (current) | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical | ≥ 0.90 | Receptacles, fixtures, panels, devices, conduit runs. |
| Mechanical | ≥ 0.74 | Ductwork, fittings, equipment, piping. |
| Architectural | ≥ 0.85 | Walls, doors, windows, fixtures, finishes. |
Numbers are floors on real customer plan sets, not best-case demo decks. If a vendor won’t publish theirs, that’s the answer.
Book a 20-minute call — we’ll provision your workspace and run your first takeoff on the call. Or email a plan set to plans@getboon.ai and Gandalf returns a bid-ready package back in Slack.