What is VizBase AI, and is it any good?
VizBase is a browser-based AI renderer from Riga, launched in January 2026, that turns a screenshot of a 3D model into a photoreal image and lets you assign materials element by element. Plans run from free to €109 a month. On the public evidence it suits interior finish studies, and its own documentation says geometry can drift.
Search for AI rendering comparisons this year and VizBase sits in the line-up beside mnml.ai, MyArchitectAI, ArchiVinci and Veras. Follow the links and a pattern appears. The longest, most confident comparisons featuring VizBase are published on vizbase.ai. The next most detailed one is published by a competitor. That is not a scandal; it is how software marketing works in 2026. It does mean the reader has to do the sorting the posts do not.
So here is the sorting. This is a documentation review, not a hands-on test: ArchiGen has not run VizBase on anything. Every claim below comes from a page opened on 10 October 2026, and each is labelled by who said it.
Cloud image-to-render tool from Vizbase Ltd., Riga. Upload a PNG, JPG or WebP view, or send the viewport from the SketchUp plugin, then set materials per detected element in plain language. Four render modes, inpainting, upscaling to 7,680 px on the long edge, shared team boards.
What VizBase says it does
The VizBase homepage pitches the absence of a render pipeline: "No GPU, lights or render settings to configure." You give it a view from your modeller and it returns a photoreal image you may use commercially. The headline feature, on the vendor's account, is control at the level of the object. Scene analysis detects walls, floors, cabinets and fixtures, masks them automatically, and lets you describe a finish for each one in natural language instead of rewriting a prompt for the whole frame.
The features page fills in the kit. There are four render modes: Gen 2.0 "stays closest to the source image and is the fastest", Gen 2.1 "makes creative interpretations and works best with reference images", Gen 3.0 "brings strong material realism" and drops drawn SketchUp outlines, and Gen 4.0 "gives photographic light and materials, true to the design." Around them sit a library of "2,000+ materials", a tool that extracts a tileable material from any photo with five PBR maps (color, normal, roughness, metalness, height), a Refine inpainting tool at 0.5 credits an edit, and fixed-size upscaling "up to 7680 px on the long edge." Boards give teams a shared canvas where a sketch can be rendered in place.
The material extraction is the most architect-friendly idea on the list. Photograph a sample on a supplier's table, turn it into a map, apply it to the countertop. Whether the map survives the generative pass intact is exactly the kind of thing that needs a test, and none is published beyond the vendor's own.
Where it plugs into an architect's pipeline
Only one plugin ships today. The SketchUp page says the extension "supports SketchUp 2021 and newer on macOS and Windows", is available from the Starter plan, and "captures your current viewport as an image and sends it to Vizbase." The features page lists Revit and Rhino plugins as "in development." The architects page describes Revit, Rhino, Archicad, 3ds Max, AutoCAD and Blender as screenshot workflows. So when the pricing page promises "All plugins included" on Pro and Studio, read that, for now, as the SketchUp plugin.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A plugin that ships a viewport capture is still an image round trip, just a tidier one, and the trade-offs are the ones covered in our piece on native integration versus PNG upload. Speed, on the vendor's figures, is "77–151 s (Gen 3.0, our tests)": VizBase's tests, not anyone else's.
How much does VizBase cost?
The pricing page lists four plans in euros, with cheaper rates for annual billing:
| Plan | Monthly | Annual rate | Credits/month | Seats and extras (vendor list) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | €0 | 5 | All 4 render modes, smart inpainting, no card |
| Starter | €29 | €25 | 30 | 2 seats, 4K/6K/8K exports, SketchUp plugin |
| Pro | €59 | €50 | 75 | 5 seats, 5 guest editors per board, all plugins |
| Studio | €109 | €93 | 175 | 10 seats, dedicated support, all plugins |
A render costs "0.5–0.75 credits", inpainting 0.5 and upscaling 0.5 to 1.5, per the same page. The arithmetic is ours: Starter's 30 credits buy roughly 40 to 60 renders before any edits or upscales, which is why the free tier is described as "up to 10 renders" from 5 credits. The real number is renders you keep, which is the subject of our cost per usable image analysis.
The terms are friendlier than many in this category. "Unused credits carry over to the following months", and "purchased credit packs do not expire." Renders "are your property" for commercial use, and VizBase takes "a limited license to process your images solely for the purpose of providing the rendering service." Refunds are "at our discretion" within 14 days. The contracting company is Vizbase Ltd. under Latvian law.
Who wrote the comparisons that list VizBase?
This is the question the search results do not answer for you.
| Source | Publisher | Relationship | What it says about VizBase |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Tools Compared (updated Sep 2026) | VizBase blog, no named author | Vendor | Calls VizBase the only tool with "true per-element control"; says the first five entries "come from hands-on use" |
| Best AI rendering tools for SketchUp | VizBase blog | Vendor | Picks VizBase for "the strongest SketchUp workflow integration" |
| CAD Scene vs VizBase (23 Jul 2026) | CAD Scene | Competitor | Credits segmentation and inpainting; flags undisclosed image models, no animation, no 3D viewer |
| Best AI rendering software for architects (9 Sep 2026) | CAD Scene, Vladimir Mindru | Competitor | "VizBase fits element-based finish studies" |
| Vizbase listing | Slashdot software directory | Directory | Latvia, from €29/month; "No User Reviews" |
Read the VizBase posts as what they are: a vendor's case for itself, with claimed hands-on testing nobody outside can check. They are not useless. They are candid that Veras has "better geometric accuracy than upload-based tools", which is the comparison a VizBase marketer would least like to make. CAD Scene's list is useful for the opposite reason: a rival has every incentive to find gaps, and the gaps it finds are about disclosure and scope rather than image quality. Several other 2026 roundups, from Rendero and Render a House, both vendors themselves, do not list VizBase at all. Our guide to reading render comparisons limitations-first applies in full.
Geometry: the small print, in the vendor's words
The most useful sentence about VizBase is on VizBase's own architects page: "It does not guarantee unchanged geometry: small fixtures and repeated joints can drift." A comparison table on the same page puts it more briefly: "Keeps layout; fine details can drift." Credit where it is due: VizBase prints that admission on its own product pages.
It also tells you where the tool belongs. The vendor's claim is that a render keeps the room's layout, which is enough for comparing finishes. A mullion rhythm, a stair nosing or a repeated balcony is a different matter, and the burden of catching drift sits with you. Run every frame through a geometry hallucination checklist before it leaves the office. If geometry fidelity is the point of the image, a model-linked plugin such as Veras, discussed in our Veras versus Rendair comparison, is built for that job in a way an image upload is not.
The verdict, for whom
VizBase is very young: its about page says the first version was built in roughly 24 hours at a Riga hackathon in December 2025 and launched publicly on 29 January 2026, and that the company is bootstrapped. Eight months after launch, it has a coherent product, readable terms, credits that roll over and a clear idea of who it serves. It has no independent reviews on Slashdot and no independent output tests that this review could find.
For an interior designer or a small residential practice in SketchUp, choosing between oak and terrazzo on a kitchen island, the per-element idea fits the work, and the free tier is enough to check it on your own views. For a practice that needs planning-grade or construction-grade images, VizBase is at most a mood tool beside something model-linked. Its Refine tool re-renders the frame guided by a mask, and the vendor notes that areas outside the mask can change too; read our piece on inpainting edits for why that matters. It is useful. It does not make an image upload into a measured drawing.
Use it as a finish sample board that renders. Do not hand its frames to anyone holding a scale rule.
Evidence note. This article is based on VizBase's own homepage, features, pricing, architects, SketchUp, about and terms pages; two VizBase blog comparisons; two CAD Scene pages (a competitor); the Slashdot directory listing; and two vendor roundups that omit VizBase. All sources were checked on 10 October 2026 and are listed in full in the article's source file. ArchiGen did not test VizBase, and no image on this page is VizBase output. Prices are as listed in euros on that date and can change.
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