Accurate estimates in minutes, not weeks
Turn your drawings into a detailed cost estimate — labour, materials, and unit rates broken down by trade. No benchmark rates. No spreadsheets. Every item estimated and summarised to your required level of detail.
How Truecost works
Simply upload your plans to get accurate estimates in under an hour.
Upload your plans
Drag and drop your PDF plans. Architectural only or a full set with engineering and finishes — Truecost works with whatever you have.
Any level of planGet your itemised estimate
Truecost extracts every quantity into trade-level line items with labour hours, material quantities, and Australian supplier rates. We don't use ranges or benchmarks.
~40 minute turnaroundReview and export
Explore, edit and export by trade, element, or location. All in an interactive dashboard to easily understand costs and extract required information for your clients.
Fully editableSee the difference
Your QS gives you a summary. Truecost gives you every line item behind it.
What's in a Truecost estimate
1,500+ summarised line items
Not lump sums or ranges. Every trade broken down into labour, material, and equipment.
Location-adjusted Australian rates
Live supplier pricing, up-to-date labour rates, not benchmark rates from 2019. Real editable rates that reflect your market.
Every measure available
Confidence on every line. Override anything. Truecost shows its working, no black boxes.
Dashboard and Excel export
Full trade breakdown, labour summary, material lists, and equipment schedule in the format you need.
How accurate is Truecost?
Compared to standard QS outputs
Proven results for residential builders
Truecost customers save time, protect their margins, and win more work.
“Using Truecost has been absolutely game-changing for qualifying inquiries.”
Using Truecost has been absolutely game-changing for qualifying inquiries. I get inundated with inquiries with very light documentation—sometimes just a simple floor plan. By uploading it to Truecost, I can generate a quick, accurate cost breakdown. If someone comes to me with a $350k budget but the system returns an $850k estimate, I can immediately have an informed conversation and set expectations backed by real data and spreadsheets.
It's been a fantastic tool for cross-referencing subcontractor quotes and ensuring the full scope is covered. I particularly value the ability to adjust finishes and fixtures between standard, medium, or high.
To give you an idea of its accuracy, the team ran two of my live projects through the system. Their estimates came within $10–15k of my own detailed pricing. Truecost has become an invaluable tool in my business for qualifying, cross-checking, and referencing project costs.
Beth Moresi · Beth Builds“This job would have taken me 40 hours to do.”
This job would have taken me 40 hours to do — I would have worked after hours all week for that. We paid $2,800 for a QS to do that amount of work for a similar job and Truecost does it for such a low cost!
Damien Tobin · Tobin Building GroupSee it for yourself
Explore a real Truecost estimate with full trade breakdowns, line items, and material lists. Or run your own plans.