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Buildpartner vs RIB CostX

Updated December 16, 2025

Buildpartner vs RIB CostX: Which is best for you?

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  Features
For AEC Industry
5.0
Proposal Generation
4.77
Cost Estimating
4.63
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Historical Database
4.83
Takeoff
4.74
Cost Estimating
4.59
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Pros / Cons
  • The structured scope templates also make tendering far more transparent, ensuring contractors are pricing on a like-for-like basis.
  • One area that has confused me is when two or more extension shell types are included in a cost model, whether this leads to duplication of some preliminaries that in reality would be shared - e.g. project manager / scaffold / deliver excavator.
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  • The workbook has lots of potential to produce very detailed rate breakdowns, I currently work in the Civil Earthworks field and had previously used the program for 20 years in building and construction, so I understand it
  • We measure tenders for groups of builders, and now Global is being discontinued we are left in the situation where some builders in the group want CostX and some want Cubit (but few want Global), but the process of transferring first to Global then to Cubit is lengthy as the Global conversion has no headings, secondary quantities or Q coding transferred over (and the Q coding system is only compatible with two digit codes).
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4.5/ 5
4.3/ 5
Value for Money
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4.7/ 5
4.2/ 5
Customer Support
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4.8/ 5
4.3/ 5
Functionality
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4.5/ 5
4.2/ 5
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Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad