G2 Vendor Directory

DIALux vs. Veras

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

MetricDIALux

by DIAL

Veras

by Chaos Software

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count1218
Ease of use8.68.7
Ease of setup9.48.8
Quality of support8.39.5
Meets requirements9.38.2
NPS66.66666761.111111
Small Business66.7%88.9%
Mid-Market16.7%11.1%
Enterprise16.7%0.0%
Total page views275157
Total LLM citations1,8601,950

DIALux

DIALux is the world’s leading software platform for professional lighting design, calculation, and visualization, trusted by over 750,000 users worldwide. Developed by DIAL, a company based in Lüdenscheid, Germany, DIALux has set the industry standard since its launch in 1994, serving lighting designers, architects, engineers, and planners in more than 26 languages and across a wide range of project types. At its core, DIALux simplifies the entire lighting design process for both indoor and outdoor environments.

Pros

  • Library Variety
  • Lighting Quality
  • Realistic Rendering
  • Creativity
  • Collaboration
  • User Interface

Veras

Veras, now powered by GPT-6 Astra, lands your photos, sketches, and renders as editable 3D models. Veras is Chaos's AI rendering software for architects, interior designers, and landscape architects. It turns sketches, 2D images, and 3D models into photorealistic renders and animations, directly inside Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, Vectorworks, Autodesk Forma, and AllPlan, or through the Veras web app. Generate concepts in seconds, then convert AI renders back into real, scaled 3D geometry inside your BIM or CAD model, no exporting, no app-switching. in Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino.

Pros