Empowering growing, multidisciplinary teams

Archicad Collaborate is Graphisoft’s subscription offering for connected project delivery. It combines Archicad for architectural design, MEP Designer for MEP design, BIMcloud SaaS for cloud-based Teamwork, and BIMx Pro with Teamwork for project sharing—all in one plan, with no in-house servers or IT infrastructure required.

The Collaborate plan also includes productivity add-ons, AI tools that work directly with your project data, extensive learning resources, and early access to Nemetschek Creator.

• Growing firms with multiple users, typically working on medium-complexity projects
• Distributed teams working across offices or locations
• Practices that coordinate architecture and MEP design on a daily basis
• Firms ready for cloud collaboration that want to explore AI and data-driven workflows with low adoption risk

• Full architectural and MEP BIM with Archicad and focused full MEP BIM with MEP Designer, as desktop apps for macOS and Windows.
• Your local language version plus INT English Archicad/MEP Designer.
• Cloud-hosted Teamwork with BIMcloud SaaS, including portable BIMcloud licenses for Teamwork across companies
• BIMx Pro with Teamwork on desktop, web, and mobile
• Full OPEN BIM interoperability, BCF support, and a native Archicad to Autodesk® Forma® Connection
• AI that works with your project: agentic AI Assistant (Beta) and Public Archicad MCP (Beta) Server, plus AI Visualizer and AI Assistant Spaces
• Archicad Collaborate plan adds 50 credits/month to your organization’s credit pool
• 40+ hours of self-paced online courses on Graphisoft Learn
• Archicad ProKit Suite with 11 advanced productivity add-ons.
• Early access to Nemetschek Creator**, the next-generation design intelligence platform
• Floating cloud licenses, so your team can share licenses flexibly

**Early access to Nemetschek Creator is provided to all Members of the Graphisoft ID Company at no additional cost. Nemetschek Creator will continue to evolve toward its mature commercial release in 2027, irrespective of the end date of your active Subscription Term. We reserve the right to amend these terms, or to modify or discontinue the offering, at any time.

We’ve added more value to Collaborate:

• Archicad MCP (Beta), so AI can work directly with your project data
• Archicad ProKit Suite with 11 advanced productivity add-ons
• 40+ hours of included online courses
• Early access to Nemetschek Creator**

**Early access to Nemetschek Creator is provided to all Members of the Graphisoft ID Company at no additional cost to a product that will continue to evolve toward its mature commercial release in 2027, irrespective of the end date of your active Subscription Term. We reserve the right to amend these terms, or to modify or discontinue the offering, at any time.

When your team has outgrown local-only work, it’s time to step up to connected delivery. Archicad Collaborate is the right choice when you need cloud-based Teamwork across offices and partners, daily coordination between architecture and MEP, International English version, stronger productivity tools, and AI that works directly with your model data. The extra learning content included with the Collaborate plan also helps new colleagues get up to speed and keeps skills and workflows consistent across your practice.

When your needs extend beyond project-level coordination, Archicad Max is the right fit. Choose Archicad Max if you:

• Work internationally and need access to all language versions
• Plan to roll out agentic AI across your firm and require substantially greater AI capacity
• Want the full set of productivity tools and learning content
• Plan to adopt Nemetschek Creator fully

BIMcloud Basic gives local teams essential collaboration and communication on the same project. It’s included with Archicad Studio and runs on a dedicated in-house server. BIMcloud Software as a Service (SaaS), included in Archicad Collaborate, suits firms of any size that want to collaborate through the cloud. You don’t need in-house hardware or IT, and you get high-speed servers, backed-up data, and extras like markups in BIMx. See the BIMcloud comparison for details. 

Yes. Collaborate includes portable BIMcloud licenses built for Teamwork across company boundaries, so it’s easier to bring consultants and partner firms into the same BIMcloud project.

Both disciplines are in one plan. Archicad and MEP Designer share the same BIMcloud SaaS environment, so architects and MEP engineers coordinate on the same project every day with less back-and-forth and fewer surprises on site.

MEP Designer is also available as a standalone desktop app, with full MEP functionality for focused modeling, calculation, and documentation.

BIMx Pro with Teamwork lets your team, clients, and consultants explore the model on desktop, web, and mobile, with Teamwork functions such as markups. Feedback lands where it belongs: in the project.

• Agentic AI Assistant (Beta): project-aware AI that works directly with your model data
• Public Archicad MCP (Beta) Server: connects the desktop AI applications your office already uses to your Archicad model
• AI Visualizer: turns a model view into a high-quality image using top-tier AI image models such as Nano Banana Pro
• AI Assistant Spaces: your personal knowledge base built from your own documents (10 spaces with 10 documents each)

Availability of AI Solutions depends on your Archicad version and plan.  

The amount of AI credits available varies by product and subscription plan.

Each eligible subscription license contributes a defined monthly credit allowance based on its product or tier. These allowances are combined into one shared pool per Graphisoft ID Company, including licenses acquired through separate purchases. Every employee who has linked their personal Graphisoft ID to the company’s Graphisoft ID Company can use credits from this shared pool.

To provide maximum flexibility, credits are not restricted to individual AI Solutions. Users can spend the available credits on any Graphisoft AI Solution, whether that’s AI Visualizer, Archicad MCP (Beta), AI Assistant (Beta), or AI Assistant Spaces.

The number of credits included depends on the subscription plan.

• Archicad Studio plan: 50 AI credits/license/month added to your company pool
• Archicad Collaborate plan: 50 AI credits/license/month added to your company pool
• Archicad Max plan: 250 AI credits/license/month added to your company pool
• MEP Designer Studio plan: 50 AI credits/license/month added to your company pool

Each eligible subscription license contributes a defined credit allowance, and these allowances form a single shared pool tied to the company’s Graphisoft ID Company. Every employee who has linked their personal Graphisoft ID to the Graphisoft ID Company draws from the same pool, so you don’t need to assign individual quotas before people can start working.

Without that link, the user is not recognized as part of the company and therefore has no access to the shared credit pool. Linking the personal Graphisoft ID to the Graphisoft ID Company is a one-time step and is a prerequisite for using any credit-based AI solution.

Not yet. Currently, all linked users share one credit pool. Admin-controlled credit allocation is on our roadmap and planned for a future release.

Yes. Your company’s AI credits are held in a single shared pool and are not allocated in advance to individual AI solutions. Users can use the available credits with any supported AI solution, as needed.

Usage patterns differ significantly from company to company and from project phase to project phase: A studio in early concept design may rely heavily on AI Visualizer, while a team in documentation may lean on AI Assistant (Beta) and Archicad MCP (Beta). A single shared pool lets each company use its credits where they create the most value at that moment, rather than working around limits set in advance.

Consumption is driven by how much work the AI has to do, not simply by the number of clicks. The main factors are:

• Which solution is used: Image generation in AI Visualizer is computationally heavier than a short text answer, so it typically consumes more credits per action.
• The complexity of the request: Broad, multi-step, or open-ended requests require more processing than narrow, well-defined ones.
• The amount of context involved: Longer conversations, larger documents, and larger BIM models or project context all increase the work performed per request.
• Output size and settings: Longer responses, higher resolution, and a greater number of generated variants each increase consumption.
• The number of iterations: Refining a result several times means several requests, and each one draws from the pool.
• The number of active users: Since the pool is shared, total monthly consumption scales with the number of linked colleagues who are working with the AI solutions.

Formulating requests clearly, avoiding unnecessary regeneration of results that are already good enough, and generating high-resolution or multi-variant output only when it is genuinely needed all help the allowance last through the month.

Before starting to work with the AI solutions, it’s worth reading through the User Guide, which also includes useful examples, for instance, around MCP workflows. These can help users get up to speed with effective prompting techniques. It’s also worth following the AI-related discussions and user best-practice write-ups on the Graphisoft Community platform.

The full allowance is restored at the start of each month, so every cycle begins with the amount defined in the subscription plan.

Unused credits do not carry over to the next month. Each month, the allocated credits are recalculated based on the licenses available under the Graphisoft ID Company.

Credit-based AI features will be unavailable until the next monthly renewal. Users are not left guessing: AI Assistant and AI Visualizer services display a clear message when the available credit allowance has been used up, so it is immediately obvious why a request cannot be completed. (“Your company has reached its credit limit. You can continue using AI solutions as soon as the credits refill.”) Everything in Archicad that does not rely on AI credits continues to work exactly as before.

Graphisoft is working to make credit consumption easier to track and plans to introduce the option to purchase additional credits for companies that use up their monthly allowance. Updates on credit management will be shared on the Graphisoft Community platform.

No, it does not collect or process personal data generated from user interactions. It remains the user’s responsibility not to include sensitive content or personal data in prompts, or in any uploaded documents in AI Assistant Spaces.

Inside Archicad, the AI Assistant (Beta) and AI Visualizer never use project data or prompts to train AI models, and Graphisoft does not use user-generated or project-specific content — project data, project files, documentation, or generated images — for training.

Graphisoft collects software usage data, such as which features are used and how often. This data is never linked to project content. It helps assess feature performance and fix malfunctions while protecting project confidentiality.

When you connect through the Public Archicad MCP (Beta) Server, you choose which desktop AI application to use, and that application’s own license terms and data processing agreements govern the data it receives — the same terms already in place for that tool.

Detailed information on how each AI Solution works is available in the product Help documentation: AI Assistant Help and AI Visualizer Help.

Nemetschek Creator is a cloud-based, AI-powered design intelligence platform. In a browser-based workspace, it helps you explore massing, layout, and performance scenarios quickly, compare options, and understand the consequences of your design decisions early.

Early access to Nemetschek Creator is provided to all Members of the Graphisoft ID Company at no additional cost to a product that will continue to evolve toward its mature commercial release in 2027, irrespective of the end date of your active Subscription Term. We reserve the right to amend these terms, or to modify or discontinue the offering, at any time.

Collaborate includes Archicad ProKit Suite with 11 advanced add-ons: Cabinets, Coverings, Doors + Windows, Electrical, Fitout, Keynotes, MetaData, Quantities, Site, Stairs, and Structure.  

Archicad Collaborate subscribers get access to technical support, learning content on Graphisoft Learn, and peer help from fellow users on Graphisoft Community.

Collaborate includes more than 40 hours of self-paced online courses on Graphisoft Learn. They go deep into Archicad skills and workflows, helping new colleagues get up to speed and maintaining consistent skill levels across your practice.

A floating license can be used by anyone in your team or company; it isn’t tied to a specific person. When a user starts Archicad, they check out a floating license. When they finish, they release the license for others to use. Your team uses licenses flexibly, and you don’t have to manage individual license assignments.

As part of our conversion program, your converted licenses stay with you as Archicad 25 perpetual licenses. That keeps you compatible back to Archicad 8.1, so you can still open and edit your older projects.

Yes. Licensing controls access to the software, not to the content you create with it. Archicad cloud licenses can open projects created with physical key-based licenses and vice versa, and the same goes for perpetual and subscription licenses. Firms with a mixed license pool can open, edit, and work on the same project.

Yes. Subscriptions allow us to deliver innovation and fixes faster. That doesn’t mean forced updates, though. You stay in control of when to update. This also helps teams who keep differently licensed Archicad installations on the same build for compatibility.