Floors.live vs Matterport — for event venues
This is a comparison for venues, not real-estate scanning. On what a venue actually gets — owning your tour and keeping it forever, cost, floor plans, designing events in the space, and getting found by planners — Floors.live wins every line that matters. Your venue, your assets: self-shoot a walkable tour, keep it forever, and never pay rent on your own content.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Floors.live | Matterport |
|---|---|---|
| You own the tour — it’s yours to keep | Yours forever, even if you stop paying | Never yours — it goes offline the moment you stop paying |
| Your assets stay live if you stop paying | Your claimed page and tour stay live | Set to private — no view / share / export |
| Upfront capture cost | Self-shoot free, or a small capture-partner bounty | $750–$2,000 commercial · $2,000–$5,000+ large venues |
| Hardware required | A phone or any 360 camera | Pro3 camera $5,400–$6,000 (or a $300–$1,000 360 camera) |
| Monthly cost to keep the tour live | Included — hosted on your page | ~$10–$309/mo by active-space count (approx, per industry guides) |
| Design events in the toured space (zero setup) | Drag-and-drop on a scaled, pre-loaded plan | |
| Get found by planners in a directory | ||
| Floor plans + capacity data | Native, with capacity summaries | Schematic floor-plan add-on (extra) |
| Self-shoot with a phone / 360 camera | Guided capture wizard | Possible, with limits |
| Walkable 360° tour | ||
| Embed the tour on your website | ||
| 3D dollhouse / mesh view |
You own the tour — it’s yours to keep
Your assets stay live if you stop paying
Upfront capture cost
Hardware required
Monthly cost to keep the tour live
Design events in the toured space (zero setup)
Get found by planners in a directory
Floor plans + capacity data
Self-shoot with a phone / 360 camera
Walkable 360° tour
Embed the tour on your website
3D dollhouse / mesh view
The money, honestly
Floors.live
Self-shoot free (or a small partner bounty), hosting included in your venue plan, and the tour stays yours. Founding venues get months of Venue Pro free and a founder rate for life.
Matterport
Pro capture runs $750–$2,000 (commercial) to $2,000–$5,000+ (large venues), a Pro3 camera is $5,400–$6,000, and the subscription is ~$10–$309/mo by active-space count (approx). Stop paying and the tour goes offline.
Matterport publishes tiers by active-space count, billed annually; monthly dollar figures are third-party-reported. Cancellation behavior is from Matterport’s own Subscription Agreement §11.2 and Help Center FAQ.
What a venue tour actually costs, over time
Enter your spaces, how you’d capture, and a time horizon. The math is built from published Matterport pricing and our real venue plans — change nothing to see the default 3-space, 3-year example.
Matterport
- Capture
- $3,500
- Subscription (Starter)
- $360
- 3-yr total
- $3,860
…and if you stop paying, the tour goes offline — you can’t view, share, or export it. You never own it.
Floors.live
Winner- Capture
- $75
- Hosting
- Included
- 3-yr total
- $75
Your venue. Your assets. The tour stays yours — forever — on a page planners actually use.
$3,785 less over 3 years — and unlike Matterport, it never goes offline and it’s yours to keep.
Why Choose Floors.live
Keep it forever — no rent on your own content
On Matterport, when the subscription lapses your spaces are set to private and the links error out — you can’t view, share, or even export them without paying again. On Floors.live your claimed page and tour stay yours, and the page keeps working as a planner-facing showcase.
The tour is also a zero-setup design tool
A Matterport scan is a beautiful walkthrough — and that’s where it stops. On Floors.live your space is pre-loaded as a scaled floor plan, so any planner or couple can drag-and-drop their event — seating, stage, dance floor — right onto it and review it inside the tour. No CAD, no calibration, nothing to set up. That’s the row Matterport can’t fill.
Planners find you
Your tour lives on a venue page inside a directory that couples and planners browse while laying out events — discovery a standalone scan doesn’t give you. The tour markets the venue instead of just documenting it.
Honest about the tech
Matterport’s photogrammetric 3D dollhouse and mesh accuracy are genuinely different technology, and for pure spatial capture they’re excellent. Our tours are linked-360 walkthroughs — not scans. We compare venue outcomes and cost, not spec sheets.
Frequently Asked Questions
Tour your venue. Keep it forever.
Self-shoot a walkable tour, host it on a page planners actually use, and keep it even if you never pay us again. See what it would cost — and what you’d save.
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