Empowering solo architects and local teams

Archicad Studio is a complete professional BIM solution for local project delivery. It’s designed primarily for solo architects, interior designers, and small local teams who need the full Archicad design and documentation experience in their own language, at a predictable cost.
Archicad Studio is ideal for teams who do not yet need cloud-based collaboration or advanced AI capabilities. It’s also the natural first step for Archicad perpetual license holders moving to subscription.

• Solo practitioners: architects and interior designers
• Small architecture firms serving one local market
• Local teams delivering primarily lower-complexity projects
• Archicad customers moving from a perpetual license to a modern subscription setup

• Full architectural BIM: commercial Archicad in your local language, as a desktop app for macOS and Windows
• Local Teamwork with BIMcloud Basic, running on your own in-house server
• BIMx Pro Baseline to present your models to clients and consultants on desktop, web, and mobile
• Everyday AI support: AI Visualizer, the AI Assistant (Beta) for product and domain questions, and your own knowledge base with AI Assistant Spaces
• 50 AI credits/license/month added to your company pool
• 6 Foundation courses plus Upgrade courses for every major release on Graphisoft Learn
• Floating cloud licenses, so your team can share licenses flexibly

Studio is built for local delivery. The following are available with Archicad Collaborate:

• Cloud-hosted Teamwork with BIMcloud SaaS and Teamwork functions in BIMx Pro
• Discipline-specific MEP functionalities and tools, or MEP Designer as a standalone application
• INT English language version
• Archicad MCP (Beta): the agentic AI Assistant (Beta) and the Public Archicad MCP (Beta) Server
• Archicad to Autodesk® Forma® Connection
• Early access to Nemetschek Creator, the next-gen design intelligence platform
• The advanced Archicad ProKit Suite add-ons and the extended Graphisoft Learn course library

When local delivery is no longer enough. Typical signs: your team works across offices or with external partners, you coordinate architecture and MEP every day, you need International English in addition to your local language, or you want AI that works directly with your project data. Archicad Collaborate brings all of that together in one plan.

Studio gives you practical AI help built right into Archicad:

• AI Visualizer turns a model view into a high-quality image using top-tier AI image models such as Nano Banana Pro. Explore design ideas and prepare client visuals without leaving the model.
• AI Assistant (Beta), for product and domain questions, helps you learn faster, find answers in the documentation, and work with Archicad in natural language.
• AI Assistant Spaces lets you build a personal knowledge base from your own documents (10 spaces with 10 documents each) and get answers, summaries, and insights from that content.

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.

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

Archicad Studio includes 6 Foundation courses to get you up and running, plus Upgrade courses for every major release. That way, you and your team stay current with each new Archicad version.

BIMcloud Basic gives your local team 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 and Archicad Max, moves Teamwork to 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. You can buy standalone BIMcloud SaaS subscriptions separately, or move to Archicad Collaborate, which includes BIMcloud SaaS together with MEP Designer, BIMx Pro with Teamwork, and more.

Yes. BIMx Pro Baseline lets you present your models on desktop, web, and mobile, so clients can explore the design on their own. Teamwork functions in BIMx, such as markups, are part of Archicad Collaborate and Archicad Max.

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.