Arkio

Freemium Design the Building

VR and AI-assisted conceptual massing tool that lets teams sketch and review 3D designs in mixed reality.

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2.8 /5 composite score
The rendering placement is mixed-reality review with .obj, .glb, .gltf, IFC, .dwg, .stl, .png, and .jpg support plus Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Archicad, Unity, and Autodesk Construction Cloud integrations. C1 3/5 reflects the freemium entry, and RF2 caps C2 because no public API, CLI, or MCP surface is documented.
Situational

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion Score Evidence
Value for the price 3/5 Freemium, free tier Source →
Agent Friendliness 1/5 API: none
Ease of adoption 3/5 --
Portability & lock-in 3/5 9 file formats Source →
Interoperability 4/5 6 integrations

Pricing

ModelFreemium
Free tieryes
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How we verified this: we checked Arkio against its live site and an independent source — aecmag.com. Nothing on this page is listed from memory. See how we grade. Verified 2026-07-18.

Evidence

File formats

FormatDirectionSupport
.obj unknown unknown
.glb unknown unknown
.gltf unknown unknown
.csv unknown unknown
IFC unknown unknown
.dwg unknown unknown
.stl unknown unknown
.png unknown unknown
.jpg unknown unknown

Integrations

Revit Rhino SketchUp Archicad Unity Autodesk Construction Cloud

Sources

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Arkio also appears in these sub-categories:

Conceptual Massing
The conceptual-massing placement is Arkio's push-pull VR or AR modeling surface with IFC, .obj, .glb, .gltf, .dwg, and .stl coverage. C5 4/5 reflects Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Archicad, Unity, and Autodesk Construction Cloud integrations, and RF2 caps C2 because no public API, CLI, or MCP surface is documented.

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