One is a measurable 3D model of a building. The other is a 5-minute site walk your whole team can see and act on. They're different products that get bought for the same job. Here's how to choose — and why weekly walks beat milestone scans for running a site.
Some teams use both: Milestone Matterport scans (pre-drywall, handover) + weekly BRCKS walks in between.
Reality capture / measurable digital twin. Stationary sweeps, cloud reconstruction, dollhouse and floor-plan views, BIM exports. Owned by CoStar. Built for as-builts, insurance documentation and marketing tours.
A visual site record inside your PM tool. One continuous 360° walk, auto-extracted 4K scenes, pins with threads. Pins convert to RFIs / Variations. Shares to the free client portal.
| Feature | BRCKS | Matterport |
|---|---|---|
| Capture time (typical floor) | ~5-minute walk | 25–40 min of stationary sweeps + cloud processing |
| Skill needed | Press record and walk | Sweep spacing, positioning |
| 3D model / dollhouse / floor-plan view | None | Yes |
| Measurements | None | ±0.2% with Pro3 |
| Floor plans & BIM/CAD exports | None | Paid add-ons |
| Pins → RFIs & Variations | Unique — one click, signed loop | Mattertags are annotation only |
| Client sharing | Free client portal, curated start view | Share links & embeds |
| Old scans stay viewable | No storage cap on past tours | Active-space caps; archived links go dead |
| Hardware | £999 kit, camera included | Phone (free) to Pro3 £4,995 |
| Realistic Y1 cost — weekly scanning, 1 site | ~£2,000 | ~£7,400 (Pro3) or ~£1,700 with own 360 camera |
| Integrations / API | None — lives in BRCKS | Procore/Autodesk (£291/mo tier), API, SDK |
| Brand recognition | Newer — built into your project record | Established name in reality capture |
£999 kit + £99 or £199/mo — Everything in one box. 360° camera, quick-start guide, 10 video credits, first month of Tier 1 free.
£12/mo Starter to enterprise — GBP prices from matterport.com/plans, July 2026. Pro3 hardware £4,995 separately.
For occasional scanning — a handful of models, phone capture — Matterport is cheaper. Its free tier and £12/month Starter have no BRCKS equivalent. The maths flips when you scan weekly, because Matterport charges for every scan you keep viewable. Matterport GBP prices from matterport.com/plans, July 2026.
Dollhouse view, walkable model, floor-plan generation. If a client asks for a digital twin, Matterport is what they mean.
±0.2% accuracy with the Pro3. If you're producing as-builts or measuring for handover, this is a real technical advantage.
Paid add-ons that produce genuine construction deliverables. BRCKS doesn't do this and won't with a moving-video capture model.
Procore, Autodesk, an open API and SDK. If you're inside an enterprise IT stack, this matters.
Matterport is the established name, and some insurers and lenders ask for it by name. What they're usually asking for is a dated, evidenced record of the site — which a BRCKS tour with pinned, actioned issues also is.
Stationary HDR sweeps produce higher per-image quality than a fast walking capture. Trade-off, but a real one.
The 40-minute Matterport routine dies by week six. A 5-minute walk survives — because it fits in an actual site day.
One click turns a pinned observation into a signed sign-off loop. Mattertags are annotation only.
Old tours stay viewable, free, forever. No storage caps on past scans, no archived links going dead.
Locked start view, free client portal, no need for the client to have a Matterport account.
£999 kit, camera included, everything in one box. No configuration research, no camera compatibility hunts.
Choose Matterport. That's Matterport's core job — measurable, exportable, survey-grade.
Choose BRCKS Site Tours. A 5-minute walk you'll actually do every week, with pins that become RFIs.
Choose Both. Milestone Matterport scans (pre-drywall, handover) + weekly BRCKS walks in between. That's a legitimate stack.
Yes (X3/X5 are supported on Starter, £12/mo). You'll get AI-inferred depth — a rough dollhouse, no survey-grade measurements or BIM exports — and still capture sweep-by-sweep with active-space caps. If you want a rough 3D model, that's a fair route; if you want a fast walk-record inside your PM tool, that's Site Tours.
No, none — and with a moving-video capture model it won't. If you need dimensions, as-builts or BIM, buy Matterport.
They stay viewable, free, forever — BRCKS charges per upload per month, not per stored tour. On Matterport, scans over your plan's cap must be archived and links go dead (reactivations ~£8.49 each).
360° camera, quick-start guide, 10 video credits, first month of Tier 1 free. Plans: £99/mo (20 uploads) or £199/mo unlimited.
Yes — tours share to the free client portal via email invite. There are no public embed links (Matterport wins there).
For anything needing dimensions or a measurable record, yes. For "what state was the site in on the 14th and who dealt with it", a dated BRCKS tour with pinned, actioned issues is exactly that record.