Comparison · sketch to render
Archify doesn't replace drawing by hand — its Sketch to Image tool starts from your drawing. Scan or photograph the sketch, describe the materials and light, and a photoreal render comes back for 100 credits. Structure Lock is on by default and designed to keep the walls, openings and proportions you drew; the render is an image model's reading of your sketch, so check it against the drawing.
100 credits per render · Structure Lock on by default · New accounts start with 500 free credits.
A Real Run
A Sketch to Image run from October 16, 2026: Structure Lock on, the Faithful ↔ Creative slider at its 92% default, the Architectural style, and a one-paragraph prompt for materials and light. The input was a digital line drawing made as a test input, not a hand sketch — a scan or phone photo of your own sketch goes into the same upload.
The three volumes, the roof slabs, the long window wall and the chimney follow the drawing. The prompt asked for a drive to the garage, and Archify's render put a garage door into the tall wing's full-height window, with two windows above it that make the wing read as two storeys; the small left wing's garage door became a timber door, and a neighbouring house appeared at the left edge.
What Changes
Sketch to Image takes a scan or photo of a hand sketch, or a digital line drawing. The drawing is your input; Archify adds materials, light and a setting.
Structure Lock is on by default and the Faithful ↔ Creative slider starts at 92% (mostly faithful). Archify raised that default after a measured run: at the old setting, a sketch of a single-storey house came back with a second storey and a moved chimney. Even at 92%, the run above added two windows above the tall wing's new garage door.
Each Archify run is 100 credits and returns one image. Another view, another material or another light is another run.
Sketch to Image renders toward a photograph. When we tested a watercolour preset on Archify's exterior render tool in August 2026, it came back as a desaturated photograph — so Archify offers no marker, ink or watercolour style. If the drawing itself is your presentation, keep your pen for it.
Archify's Floor Plan Render turns a scanned or hand-drawn floor plan into a coloured, furnished presentation plan for 100 credits, designed to keep the wall layout.
Learn more →Archify's free Design Studio can start from a photo of a printed plan: rectangular rooms become walls, a placeholder front door is added, and no other openings are detected.
Learn more →How It Works
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Any image file works in Sketch to Image: a scan, a phone photo or a digital drawing.
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Write a short prompt for materials, light and setting, pick a rendering style (Architectural, Photorealistic, Artistic) and leave Structure Lock ticked — it is on by default.
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Compare the render with your sketch before you show it. If it drifted, move the slider toward Faithful and run again — 100 credits a run.
Honest Limits
The run above turned a full-height window into a garage door with two windows above it, and a garage door into a timber door. Archify's render is designed to keep your drawing, not guaranteed to — check every one.
An Archify render is one picture of one view. For several views of the same design, model it in the free Design Studio and render from saved cameras.
Learn more →Free and Starter output carries the Archify mark; watermark-free downloads start at Pro ($79/month). Free-account output is licensed for evaluation.
Pricing
Sketch to Image is 100 credits a render — counted below in renders a month.
Starter
$29/mo launch price
3,000 credits every month — about 30 sketch renders. Archify watermark included. Unused credits roll over while you stay subscribed.
Pro
$79/mo launch price
10,000 credits every month — about 100 sketch renders. Watermark-free downloads and the video tools. Unused credits roll over while you stay subscribed.
The Design Studio is free on every plan, and credit packs top up any plan. See current plans and one-time credit packs.
FAQ
Not on Archify. Sketch to Image starts from a drawing you made, and Archify has no hand-drawn render style — it renders toward a photograph. Your sketch stays the design; the render is one reading of it.
No. Sketch to Image renders toward a photograph, and when we tested a watercolour preset on Archify's exterior render tool in August 2026, it came back as a desaturated photograph — so there is no marker, ink or watercolour option.
Designed to, not guaranteed to. Structure Lock is on by default and the slider starts at 92%, but it is an image model: on this page's run it turned a full-height window into a garage door with two windows above it. Push the slider toward Faithful if a render reinterprets too much, and check every render against your drawing.
Any image file — a scan or phone photo of a hand sketch, or a digital line drawing. The run on this page used a digital line drawing.
100 credits a render. Starter is $29/month (launch price) for 3,000 credits (about 30 renders, with the Archify watermark); Pro is $79/month (launch price) for 10,000 (about 100, watermark-free).
New accounts start with 500 free credits. That covers 5 sketch renders, with the Archify watermark. On paid plans, yes — downloads on Pro and Studio are watermark-free and can carry your own studio branding. Free-account output carries the Archify watermark and is licensed for evaluation. Check your local MLS rules before using AI-altered video in a listing; that disclosure is the agent's responsibility.
Keep Going
The Sketch to Image tool page: every style, detail and lighting option.
Turn a scanned or hand-drawn plan into a presentation plan.
What Archify does on its own, and what to ask an agency.
What Archify runs in your browser, free, and what it renders in the cloud.
New accounts start with 500 free credits. No credit card required to start.
