Planner 5D pricing: how the plans work and where Formas fits

Planner 5D pricing runs across four tiers, Free, Premium, Professional and a custom-priced Enterprise plan, while Formas works on plans and credits and is the one to look at when your real question is how the home will look. This is relevant if you are a homeowner or interior designer about to subscribe, since the tier decides whether you can show someone a 4K render or hand over a CAD file, and picking the wrong one means paying for features you never use. This guide gives the short Planner 5D answer, explains how Formas credits and plans work, then follows one floor plan through the points where a plan decision comes up.

Formas has plenty to try for free: templates in Drawing Studio and Style Transfer, and free credits that arrive every month. Open Formas Studio with a floor plan image and one flooring sample you like.

How much does Planner 5D cost?

Planner 5D uses a freemium model with a tiered pricing structure. The free plan costs nothing and covers basic features. Premium and Professional are paid plans billed monthly or annually, and Enterprise is quoted for large companies. Prices vary by platform and region, so read the current figures on Planner 5D's own pricing page before you buy.

Planner 5D is a home design platform known for being easy to pick up, and projects work on the web, on Windows and in mobile apps. The premium features are where most of the value sits: premium access opens the complete catalog, and floor plan recognition turns an uploaded plan into an editable 3D project. AI Studio adds AI tools that draw on a credit balance you can top up, and high-quality renders need a paid subscription. Formas comes in when a layout exists and someone has to agree on how it should look.

How Formas credits work

A Formas plan gives you a monthly credit allowance, and credits pay for what you generate. Each operation costs credits according to its complexity, so a plan does not convert to a fixed number of images, and you should distrust any figure that says it does. Paid allocations reset each month.

What is free and what spends credits. The templates in Drawing Studio and Style Transfer cost nothing. Generating with them uses credits, which is what the monthly free credits are for. The same goes for a Freeform render or a Smart Note edit: the tool is there to use, and the generation draws on your balance.

Draft first. Freeform's quality settings have been documented as Draft, Good 2.0, High 2K, Ultra 4K and Agent 2.0, and different choices use different amounts of credits. The advice from Formas's August workshop is Draft to test and Ultra 4K to deliver, so keep the higher settings for an image that has already won the argument. Drawing Studio follows the same logic, with a test quality to choose first.

Comparing models. Model Selection in Freeform lets you run one model or several on the same prompt, and selecting several at once earns a bulk discount. That suits an early question such as which model reads your timber floor best.

Top-ups. If a project outruns your allowance, Formas sells 1,500 credits for $39, 3,500 for $79 and 7,000 for $149, and top-ups expire after three months. On paid plans, AutoScale buys a pack you choose when your balance falls below a threshold, up to a monthly cap you set, and those credits expire after three months too.

What each Formas plan adds

These are the current Formas plans. Annual billing is charged yearly and saves 20%. It is the default toggle on the pricing page, so check which figure you are reading.

The lines that usually decide it are few. Starter does not include full-resolution, watermark-free exports, so Go is the first plan for an image you will send out. Pro is the step for a design business that needs 4K images and client comments on a shared board. Pro Plus mostly adds room for 3D model work and a faster place in the queue.

Students and active educators at eligible schools can apply for Formas Campus plans: $19.90 a month with 3,500 credits and full Pro features, or $39.90 with 7,000 credits and full Pro Plus features. The individual plans do not pool credits or share a team workspace; the Studio team plan that will do this is on a waitlist.

On billing, upgrades apply immediately and downgrades at the end of the period. Designs stay accessible for 30 days after you cancel, so download what you want to keep, because they may then be deleted.

Follow one floor plan through Formas

The Formas process starts where a planner stops. Practice on a two-bedroom apartment plan with one open question, oak flooring or pale stone tile, and one fixed piece, the sofa the owner refuses to replace. You want a board to send them. Swap in your own home when you explore further.

1. Render the plan and settle the floor at Draft

Upload a floor plan image with readable walls and openings to Freeform Studio, label the rooms with Smart Notes and ask for a top-down rendered plan that follows the original walls. Formas's floor plan to interior renders guide sets out this route. Then swap the tiles and flooring to compare oak and stone across the whole apartment, as the Formas interior design workshop does on a real board. Stay at Draft here, because you are choosing between two floors and nobody else will see these images. Check for moved doors and missing walls, and fix those in the Iterative Editor before you generate any room view, since later views will follow this plan.

If you want a rough size check, set a scale on the board with two points and a known wall length, then read area and perimeter from your board geometry. That reading comes from what you drew, and it does not make the generated image dimensionally accurate.

2. Bring in the sofa and test furniture placement

Photograph the owner's living room and run Deconstruct on it. You get an unfurnished view plus the furniture as separate objects, and you can save the sofa to a catalogue and reuse it. Extraction can reconstruct hidden parts and alter details, so compare the sofa with the photo before it appears in every option.

Fill the rest from Formas Assets, dragging furniture, fixtures and decor onto the canvas and writing on each card how it should apply. The Using Assets in Freeform tutorial shows pieces being cleaned up, scaled and placed into sketches and photos. Arrangement Variations on a board then gives you other layouts for the same pieces. Asset records hold estimated dimensions, so use the supplier's numbers for anything you plan to buy.

3. Turn the living room into a design concept

Build a moodboard around the winning floor, then use the checked plan with Design Chat and Smart Notes to develop a room render, naming the room, the camera position and the direction it faces, such as eye level from the entrance toward the sofa. The Formas moodboard to renders video follows a similar route through a hotel bedroom, bathroom, corridor and lobby.

For a change to one area, such as the oak meeting the kitchen worktop, point a Smart Note at it, attach the sample and write what should change. Formas's own tutorial pairs Context mode with controlled local edits like this, and Precise with agentic capabilities, so start in Context when the rest of the room is already agreed.

4. Make a material board for the whole home

Drawing Studio creates material moodboards from interior images, using presets or a custom style. Start with a free template. If the two bedrooms and the living room need to read as one home, make a custom style from your references and keep the palette consistent across each board. The material moodboard template guide walks through each setting. A board of oak, plaster and fabric is easier for an owner to react to than a list of product codes.

5. Pay for the last step only when you reach it

Now the plan matters. Testing at Draft got you to a decision; sending a clean image is what Go adds, and an Ultra 4K final or a board where the owner leaves comments is what Pro adds. Board collaboration was labelled Beta as of July 2026. If you run short on the final renders, a top-up adds credits without changing plan.

If a contractor or CAD user needs lines, Vectorize exports sketches and floor plans as 2D PDF or DXF. The CAD vectorization workshop shows the export. Expect to check for double lines, try the centerline options and rescale in the receiving application.

Planner 5D or Formas: which design software should you pay for?

Formas and Planner 5D do different jobs, so the useful comparison is the output you need to pay for.

Pay for a planner if you need dimensions someone will build from, since nobody should order a kitchen from a generated image. Start in Formas if you already have the layout and need realistic visualization and design ideas that a client will respond to. Plenty of projects use both: the planner holds the room sizes, and Formas develops materials, light and furniture. If you already model, Formas is directly integrated with SketchUp, and its 3D model to image studio imports 10 formats, including SKP, IFC and 3DM.

Planner 5D pricing questions

Is Planner 5D free?

Yes, there is a free plan with basic features, and it runs alongside the paid plans. High-quality renders and CAD export sit on paid tiers. Formas also has a free way in, through its templates and monthly credits.

Which Planner 5D plan is best value?

That depends on the job. Premium suits one home project that needs the complete catalog. Professional is the plan built for commercial use, with 4K renders and CAD export. Compare them on Planner 5D's pricing page, then ask whether your deliverable is really a layout. If it is a look, a Formas board may be what your client wants to see.

Can I cancel Planner 5D?

Yes. Its support pages say you can cancel at any time, at least 24 hours before renewal, and app-store subscriptions are managed through the store. Check its refund policy before you commit, and if you are comparing it with Formas, remember that Formas keeps your designs accessible for 30 days after cancellation.

How long do Formas credits last?

Paid monthly allocations reset each month, and top-up credits expire after three months.

Are there alternatives to Planner 5D?

Formas is the alternative for developing and presenting how a space looks. RoomSketcher suits floor plan work and SketchUp suits modeling.

Can I use Formas images commercially?

Formas terms permit personal, academic or commercial use of generated content, subject to those terms and applicable law, and you keep ownership of what you create.

Try it on your own floor plan

Bring one floor plan image, one flooring sample and a photo of a piece of furniture you want to keep. Open Formas Studio, render the plan on a Freeform board at Draft and swap the floor once. Then run the room through a Drawing Studio template, using the free templates and the free credits Formas gives you each month.

You will know what your project actually needs from Formas before you choose a paid plan, if you need one at all.