CAD drafting is most commonly priced per square foot for plan production: 2D drafting typically benchmarks between $0.85 and $1.45 per sq ft, BIM modeling between $1.45 and $1.85, with minimum project fees from roughly $450 for single renderings to $1,500+ for full CD sets. Commercial and multi-family scopes carry multipliers for added coordination.
Four factors move the price: project size and complexity, deliverable type (2D plans vs. LOD 400 BIM vs. photorealistic renderings), turnaround (rush 24–48-hour delivery typically adds around 35%), and jurisdiction extras such as California Title 24 documentation or Florida HVHZ detailing.
Apex quotes fixed fees, not open-ended hourly billing: you send sketches, PDFs, or site dimensions, we return a guaranteed price within 24 business hours, including two revision rounds. Use our on-site cost estimator for an instant preliminary range before requesting the formal proposal.
To keep costs down, provide clean inputs — dimensioned sketches or existing PDFs — approve the scope in one review cycle, and bundle services (for example, floor plans plus 3D renderings from the same model) instead of commissioning separate vendors.