OSQR VoiceQuote vs Buildxact
Buildxact measures your drawings.
VoiceQuote listens to the walk-through.
Both produce a priced quote. They start from a plan set on a screen; this starts from you talking about the work in front of you. Which is right depends on whether the job has drawings.
What Buildxact is
a construction estimating platform for builders and remodelers, built around digital takeoff.
The actual difference
Buildxact is the right tool when the job arrives as a plan set you can measure. It is the wrong tool when the job arrives as a homeowner pointing at a bathroom.
A base plan, then the AI costs extra
Buildxact charges for the platform and sells its AI estimate generator separately — it is an add-on on the entry paid plan, and included only once you move up a tier. Their takeoff assistant and estimate reviewer are further add-ons again. That is a coherent way to sell a deep estimating suite to a builder who will use all of it. VoiceQuote is one price with the AI in it and nothing metered on top.
OSQR VoiceQuote: $149/mo. What that includes.
We don't print Buildxact's prices here. They change without notice, and a stale number that flattered us would be worse than useless — check their site.
Where Buildxact is genuinely better
If one of these is what you need, buy theirs.
Takeoff from a plan set
Measuring quantities off architectural drawings is their core competence and VoiceQuote does not do it. If your jobs come with drawings, that capability is worth paying for and you should.
Supplier pricing and purchase orders
Live supplier catalogues, purchase orders, and material ordering wired into the estimate. For a builder buying materials at volume that is real money and real time.
The whole build after the quote
Job management, schedules, change orders, invoicing and client portals. VoiceQuote stops when the quote is signed.
Depth of estimating
Recipes, assemblies, estimate review — an estimator’s toolkit built over years. This is a quoting tool, not an estimating suite.
Where OSQR is
Mostly a question of what you had to buy.
The job with no drawings
Most repair and remodel work never has a plan set. You look at it, you talk through it, and the quote comes back written — no drawing to measure and nothing to type.
The AI is not an upsell
The thing that writes the quote is what you are buying at $149/mo. It is not an add-on line, a higher tier, or a credit balance that resets each month.
It goes out before you leave
The whole point is the quote reaching the customer while you are still in their driveway, rather than waiting for the evening you sit down with the estimating software.
Nothing to learn first
No recipes to build, no assemblies to configure, no supplier catalogue to connect before your first quote is useful.
Pick Buildxact if
Your jobs come with drawings, you buy materials at volume, and you want the estimate to carry through to purchase orders and job management. Buildxact is built for exactly that and does it properly.
Pick OSQR if
Your jobs come from a walk-through. What is costing you work is the days between looking at the job and sending the number.
See VoiceQuote