PlanHub vs BuildingConnected

• Who each names: PlanHub has separate tools and pricing for general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and owners and developers. BuildingConnected names general contractors and owners (BuildingConnected Pro) and subcontractors (Bid Board Pro), with TradeTapp for subcontractor qualification; its pages now carry an Autodesk Forma banner after Autodesk Construction Cloud was folded into Forma.
• GC side: PlanHub's general contractor page lists posting projects free, unlimited projects and ITBs, public and private planrooms, automatic matching of subcontractors and suppliers by trade and region, mileage filters and saved groups, one-click ITBs and reminders, a virtual bid coordinator, prequalification requests and templates, and an integrated leveler for side-by-side bid comparison. BuildingConnected Pro lists unlimited Builders Network access, unlimited bid invites and projects, bid leveling and cost comparison, custom bid forms, and historical bid data and analytics.
• Subcontractor side: PlanHub sells subcontractors a Project Finder filtered by trade, location, keywords and project value, a bid board, a GC directory and takeoff and estimating tools; a free profile receives direct GC invitations and bids within a local radius. Bid Board Pro lists automated bid tracking, bid forwarding from invitations received outside BuildingConnected, company-wide views, calendar sync and bid analytics.
• AI: PlanHub AI ranks opportunities by trade, service area, activity and relationships; Project Fit and Ask AI answer questions from plans and specs with links to the source pages; GCs get coverage guidance and bidder recommendations, and PlanHub says the user reviews and verifies the information and makes the decisions. BuildingConnected's FAQ lists a Recommendation Engine that suggests bidders by location, trade expertise and past performance, Bid Forwarding that pulls key details from outside invitations into Bid Board, and TradeTapp Financial Data Extraction that turns PDF financial statements into structured data; Autodesk says some of its AI features do not use machine learning and points to its Trust Center.
• Qualification and links: PlanHub lists prequalification requests, templates and follow-up inside its platform plus a CRM integration and a data and API offer. TradeTapp lists custom questionnaires, automated risk assessment, project-specific approvals, custom financial calculations and ERP and backlog integrations; BuildingConnected integrates with Autodesk Docs and with Autodesk Build cost management to turn winning bids into contracts.
• Pricing (checked Oct 21, 2026): PlanHub lists subcontractor Premier at $1,999, $2,349 and $3,299 a year for 50, 100 and 200 miles, a flat annual subscription with no per-lead fees and a trial period, Enterprise for national reach and teams of 3+ users, and a free subcontractor profile; GCs can post projects free. BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro and TradeTapp are each Request a Quote, with flexible user, project and account-based pricing, a Forma for Preconstruction bundle and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
• Not used here: PlanHub's network, project and lead counts, its gift-card promotion and its ROI calculator, which it labels illustrative; BuildingConnected's network counts (the same page says over 1,000,000 and 1.5M+), project count and customer win-rate figures (vendor claims). Neither tool has been tested by Means & Methods Lab.

Paraphrased from the sources listed above. Vendor claims are reported as claims.