How much does a construction takeoff cost?

At DraftTakeoff it is one flat fee, set by the number of drawing sheets in your plan set and shown free before you pay.

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The free Plan Check counts your drawing sheets in your browser. Nothing is uploaded until you order.

The fee by drawing-sheet count

The Full Draft Takeoff Pack covers every trade in the set. The fee depends only on how many drawing sheets the set has.

Drawing sheets in the setFull Draft Takeoff Pack, until 31 December 2026From 1 January 2027
1-8 drawing sheets$199$249
9-15 drawing sheets$299$379
16-30 drawing sheets$399$499
31-60 drawing sheets$499$629
61-100 drawing sheets$599$749
101-150 drawing sheets$749$939
151-220 drawing sheets$899$1,129
221+ drawing sheets$1,099$1,379

Launch prices until 31 December 2026. The second column is what the same pack costs from 1 January 2027; nobody has been charged that price yet, so nothing here is a discount. Your price is locked when you order.

Trade Draft Takeoff Pack — only the trades you name, from $149, never more than the Full Draft Takeoff Pack for the same set.

One flat fee, locked before you pay.

How long does it take?

A standard order is delivered in 48 hours from when payment clears, weekends included. Rush is a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround, for an extra 40% of the fee, rounded to the nearest $5 and shown before you pay. Our system keeps a measuring lane reserved for Rush orders, so a Rush order goes to the front of the queue and never waits behind standard work. The work, the method and the checks are the same; what Rush buys is the guaranteed turnaround, and a deadline we miss is refunded in full.

What is the difference between a takeoff and an estimate?

A takeoff is the list of quantities measured from the drawings: cubic yards of concrete, square feet of drywall, linear feet of conduit, counts of fixtures. An estimate adds prices to those quantities. We deliver the takeoff as an Excel workbook in which every quantity is traced to the sheet it came from, with the calculation behind it, so you can check it and put your own prices on it.

What does the fee include?

It is a first draft to check before you bid, not a final takeoff and not a sealed engineering document.

What if the delivery date is missed?

If we miss the delivery date, the order is refunded in full. The refund rules are in the Terms of Service & Refund Policy.

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