Horezmi vs FloorAI

By Ali Ismailov, founder of Horezmi · November 3, 2026

FloorAI and Horezmi both turn a photo or a scan of a floor plan into something cleaner. They come at it from different ends. FloorAI makes a picture of a plan, quickly and nicely. Horezmi redraws the plan in CAD and, since November 2026, also gives a colour picture drawn from that CAD file. We make Horezmi, so keep that in mind. In November 2026 we ran both on the same two plans and wrote down what came out.

What FloorAI is good at

FloorAI is a set of floor plan tools in the browser: generate a layout from a text prompt, turn an image or a sketch into a plan, edit it, make a 3D view or a video. The results look like a listing brochure, and they arrive in a couple of minutes.

On an old catalogue plan, the five-room Cape Cod house we use for every test, it did well. It took out the perspective and gave a clean, readable plan. The room labels and the overall 34'0" by 30'6" came across almost exactly. That is better than every tracing tool we have tried on this picture, and it looks better than our own sheet.

FloorAI result on the Cape Cod catalogue plan: two clean floor plan pictures with room labels — FloorAI on the Cape Cod catalogue plan: two clean versions, both pictures

Where it stops

The result is an image. FloorAI says so on its own page: you download the layout as a picture, and the sizes are estimated from what the photo shows. You can't open it in AutoCAD, snap to a wall or measure a room. The numbers on it are lettering, not geometry.

On a simple plan with large labels that mostly doesn't matter. Then we gave it a denser sheet: a phone photo of a marked-up photocopy of a bar, with small numbers written by hand. The two versions it made both looked tidy, and the numbers on them moved:

the hall written as 72.4 m² became 42.7 on one version and 7.43 on the other
the bar, 94.3 m² on the sheet, became 34.3 and 3.43
a 30.0 m² room became 3.27
both versions added a total area of 126.4 m² and a scale bar that the original doesn't have

FloorAI result on a marked-up bar floor plan, with hall areas that differ from the original — FloorAI on the marked-up bar plan: tidy, but the hall reads 42.7 and 7.43 where the sheet says 72.4

Why that matters

Nothing in the picture tells you which numbers moved. You only find out by checking every label against the original, and that is exactly the job you hoped to skip.

This is the most common worry people have about AI drawings: that the sizes look right and are not. A clean picture makes the problem harder to see, not easier.

What Horezmi does differently

Horezmi reads the drawing and draws it again as CAD: walls with their thickness, doors and windows in the walls, rooms with their areas, dimensions as real dimension objects, each on its own layer. You get a DWG, a DXF and a PDF sheet to scale.

From November 2026 every plan also comes with a colour version: dark walls, floors coloured by room type, names and areas in large letters, the overall size and the total area. It is drawn from the same plan as the DWG, so the areas on the picture are the areas in the CAD file. Nothing is estimated twice.

The plan is also a model, not just lines. From the same drawing you can get a bill of quantities for walls, openings, floors and finishes, a cost estimate by room with typical prices for the US, Europe or Central Asia, and an IFC model to open in Revit or Archicad.

On the bar plan, the 30.0 m² room came out as 323 SF and the 72.4 m² hall as 779 SF, the same as the handwriting on the sheet. Not everything matched. The big bar hall came out at 980 SF where the sheet says 94.3 m², about 1,015 SF. On the Cape Cod plan our overall width is 34'6½" against the 34'0" written on it. When the plan carries a number we can't confirm, Horezmi says so under the drawing instead of hiding it.

Horezmi colour floor plan of the same bar with room names and areas — Horezmi colour plan of the same bar: 323 SF and 779 SF, as written on the sheet

Horezmi colour floor plan of the Cape Cod house drawn from its DWG — Horezmi colour plan of the Cape Cod house, drawn from its DWG

Side by side

What you get: FloorAI gives an image. Horezmi gives a DWG, a DXF, a PDF sheet and a colour plan with the same numbers.
Clean, simple plan: both do well. FloorAI looks more polished.
Dense or handwritten plan: FloorAI's numbers drifted in our test. Horezmi kept the written areas on the rooms it could confirm and flagged the rest.
Editing: FloorAI has an editor for the picture. Horezmi takes changes in plain words or by clicking a wall and typing a number, then rebuilds the DWG.
Furniture: FloorAI draws fixtures and furniture into the picture by itself. Horezmi draws the furniture that is on your plan and doesn't invent any.
Quantities and cost: from the same plan Horezmi gives a bill of quantities, a cost estimate room by room with typical US or European prices, and a BIM model in IFC. We didn't find quantities or costs in FloorAI.
Other drawings: FloorAI is about floor plans. Horezmi also redraws parts, tanks, site plans and contours for CNC cutting.
How you pay: FloorAI is a subscription with a small free tier, and the free pictures carry a watermark. Horezmi has no subscription: looking at the drawing is free, the files of your first object are free, then $3–10 per object.

Which one to pick

Pick FloorAI if you need a good-looking plan for a listing or a client, fast, and nobody will measure from it.

Pick Horezmi if someone will build, quote or permit from the plan. Then you want the numbers to come from geometry you can check in CAD, with a presentable picture as a by-product. Either way, check the main dimensions of an AI drawing against the original before anything gets built.

Questions

Is Horezmi a FloorAI alternative?

For a plan you need to edit or measure, yes: you get a DWG and a colour plan with the same areas. For a quick picture with furniture placed for you, FloorAI does more.

Can FloorAI export a floor plan to DWG or DXF?

In our November 2026 test, Image to Floor Plan gave a picture only. Their site mentions DXF for the manual editor; we didn't test that part.

Does the Horezmi colour plan match the DWG?

Yes. Both are drawn from the same plan, so the room areas on the picture are the areas in the DWG.