G2 Vendor Directory

Archicad vs. ArcGIS CityEngine

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricArchicad

by GRAPHISOFT

ArcGIS CityEngine

by Esri

Overall rating4.64.2
Review count29522
Ease of use8.78.9
Ease of setup8.67.1
Quality of support8.58.7
Meets requirements9.09.0
NPS75.77854745
Small Business87.2%27.3%
Mid-Market9.7%40.9%
Enterprise3.1%31.8%
Total page views1,238220
Total LLM citations21,366787

Archicad

Archicad is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) software platform developed by Graphisoft. It’s designed for architects, designers, engineers, and other AEC professionals. Archicad is available natively on both Windows and macOS, empowering professionals to design, model, visualize, document, and collaborate on projects of any size—from initial concept through construction. Archicad is ideal for architects, designers, engineers, and other AEC professionals who want to streamline building design, modeling, documentation, collaboration, and visualization using BIM workflows.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • 3D Modeling
  • Features
  • Design Efficiency
  • Intuitive
  • Drawing

ArcGIS CityEngine

Esri CityEngine is 3D modeling software for quickly creating large urban environments. The environments you choose to create can be based on real-world data or can be completely conceptual. CityEngine saves you time by using rules to automatically create the urban environment based on your input. You can import 3D models you've created in other software to create context around them and export your entire environment into visualization tools, game engines and VR experiences.

Pros