Plan-pinned defect and ticket management with site diary features.
PlanRadar is one of the strongest defect management tools in the market. Tickets pinned to a drawing or a BIM model, assigned to a person, tracked to close: for snagging, inspections and handover it is mature, well adopted across Europe, and it publishes its pricing.
It also offers site diary features, which is where the comparison usually starts. The difference is what produces the entry. In PlanRadar somebody creates a ticket or completes a diary form. In Construction Metric the entry comes from the message, photo or voice note the team already sent, and nobody is asked to open anything.
These are complementary more often than they are competing. A contractor can run PlanRadar for defects against drawings and still have a large hole where the day-to-day conversation lives. That conversation is where delay causes, verbal instructions and commercial risk usually surface first.
What PlanRadar is best at
Snagging against drawings: tickets pinned to plans and BIM models, mature and widely adopted, with published pricing.
Choose PlanRadar if
Defect management pinned to drawings is your main need and per-user pricing suits a small inspection team.
Choose Construction Metric if
You want the whole team on the record without counting seats, and the day captured as it happens rather than as tickets.
Side by side
PlanRadar
Construction Metric
Core strength
Defects and tickets pinned to drawings and models
The complete daily record, captured passively
How an entry is created
Someone raises a ticket or fills a diary form
Automatically, from what the team already sent
Drawing and BIM pinning
Yes, a core strength
No: we are the record layer, not a drawing tool
WhatsApp capture
Not published
The primary capture route
Voice notes and meetings
Not published
Transcribed, with speakers told apart
Pricing model
Published, per user
Published, per site with unlimited users
Sub-contractor access
Counts towards seats
Unlimited, at no extra cost
Every line is taken from each vendor’s own public materials, checked July 2026. If PlanRadar ships something that changes a line here, tell us and we will correct it.
Common questions
Does Construction Metric do snagging like PlanRadar?
Not to the same depth, and we do not claim to. PlanRadar pins defects to drawings and BIM models and manages them to close, which is a specialist job it does well. Construction Metric captures defects as they are reported in the day’s traffic and keeps them on the record with their evidence attached.
Can I run both?
Yes, and several teams do: PlanRadar for defects against drawings, Construction Metric underneath for the daily record, meetings and the conversation. Because we price per site rather than per user, adding the record layer does not multiply with headcount.
Which is cheaper for a small contractor?
It depends on your team size, because the models differ. Per-user pricing rises with every person you add, which is what pushes SMEs into rationing logins and leaving sub-contractors off. Construction Metric is £19 a site a month at entry with unlimited users, so the cost tracks live jobs rather than headcount.
Try it on one live job
The quickest way to settle a comparison is to run it on a real site. Thirty days free, no card: give us a site name and a mobile number and the first diary lands the same evening. Read a sample diary first if you want to see the output before you start.
