Scanaria vs Cintoo
Industrial asset owners and AEC firms managing large plants and campuses
What you gain
Four things a scanner owner gets from Scanaria that Cintoo does not offer in the same way.
- 01
The same E57 you would send to Cintoo, with no camera to buy on either side.
- 02
Keep the finished tour as a folder that opens from index.html on any desktop, with no server and nothing calling home. Cintoo keeps the tour inside its platform.
- 03
One flat $60 a month for unlimited processing, and hosting only if you want it, in the two larger plans. Cintoo: subscription, not published.
- 04
A phone-first viewer: the whole building under 15 MB, first view in seconds on 4G, Save for offline.
Where Cintoo is stronger
- Streaming very large industrial datasets as mesh with scan-vs-BIM and scan-vs-scan comparison
- Unlimited users and round-trip export back to RCP and E57
Cintoo is the strongest of the group at handling huge structured scan projects and comparing them against BIM, and it exports the data back out in standard formats. It is an enterprise subscription with no public pricing, aimed at laptops and desktops rather than phones, and the mesh is streamed rather than delivered. An upload-and-own service differs by being lighter, published in price, and portable.
Facts checked on 2026-10-29 at cintoo.com. If something has changed, write to us and we will correct it.
| Scanaria | Cintoo | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware required | None to buy. Any scanner that writes an E57: Leica, Trimble, Faro, NavVis, Z+F, Topcon, XGRIDS Lixel. Matterport exports accepted. | Any laser scanner; vendor cites Trimble, Leica (including BLK360), FARO and Z+F [source: cintoo.com] |
| Accepts your own E57 | Yes. E57 with its panoramas (Cyclone spherical or Matterport cube faces), plus an optional PDF plan. | Yes. Structured E57, RCP or Faro FLS/LSPROJ with scan locations, panoramas, depth maps and point cloud; generic unified E57, LAS and LAZ via a separate import [source: help.cintoo.com] |
| Pricing shape | First project free. Then a flat $60 a month for unlimited processing, downloads included. With hosting: Gold at $140 a month with 15 GB, or Platinum at $2,500 a month with up to 500 GB. | Subscription, not published. 'Unlimited business model' with unlimited users; BIM Edition and Twin Edition; free 30-day trial; storage-based terms sold through resellers on request [source: cintoo.com] |
| Ownership and offline download | Yes. Download the whole tour as a folder with index.html on top; opens on a desktop with no server. Nothing calls home. | Scan data exports back out as E57, POD, RCS or RCP and as mesh; data is streamed from the cloud; no offline tour package documented [source: help.cintoo.com] |
| Dollhouse view | Yes. Point cloud dollhouse with roof-off view and full-cloud toggle; true color and intensity modes. | Yes, TurboMesh streamed mesh with a 3D Navi mode and a Scan & Teleport mode [source: cintoo.freshdesk.com] |
| Section box | Yes. Six-sided section box with snapping and presets, identical in every view. | Not published. The documented crop tool selects a region for meshing and export rather than clipping the live view [source: help.cintoo.com] |
| Measurement | Yes. In the panorama, the dollhouse and the top-down view. | Yes: Freehand, Ortho X/Y/Z, Disto, Pipe, Surface and Polyline with PDF export; taken in 3D View, not in 2D panoramic mode [source: cintoo.freshdesk.com] |
| Phone performance | Phone-first hosted viewer: coarse whole-building cloud under 15 MB, first view under 5 s on 4G, Save for offline. | Runs in a web browser on 'almost any modern laptop or desktop'; mobile not mentioned [source: cintoo.com] |
| If you stop paying | The hosted link stops; the downloaded folder keeps working forever. You can download at any time while hosted. | Not published [source: cintoo.com] |
Common questions
Does Cintoo accept E57 files from my own scanner?
Yes. Structured E57, RCP or Faro FLS/LSPROJ with scan locations, panoramas, depth maps and point cloud; generic unified E57, LAS and LAZ via a separate import. Source: help.cintoo.com. Scanaria accepts E57 with panoramas from any terrestrial scanner.
Can I download a Cintoo tour and open it offline?
Scan data exports back out as E57, POD, RCS or RCP and as mesh; data is streamed from the cloud; no offline tour package documented. Scanaria tours download as a folder that opens from index.html with no server.
How does Cintoo charge?
Subscription, not published. 'Unlimited business model' with unlimited users; BIM Edition and Twin Edition; free 30-day trial; storage-based terms sold through resellers on request. Scanaria: first project free, then a flat $60 a month for unlimited processing, with hosting optional in the two larger plans.
What happens to Cintoo tours if I stop paying?
Not published. With Scanaria, the hosted link stops but the folder you downloaded keeps working.