Hypar Review 2026: AI Space Planning and Test Fits That Round-Trip to Revit

Updated October 13, 2026 – Tested Intelligence

Quick verdict: Hypar started as a generative-design platform for whole buildings and has narrowed into something more immediately useful: a browser-based space-planning and test-fit tool that imports a floor plate, lays out rooms and furniture with live measurements, flags clearance clashes, and sends the result back to Revit. Professional seats are published at $100 per user per month, or $1,000 per year. It is a focused tool now – buy it for layout speed, not as a general BIM platform.

What it is

Hypar was founded by Ian Keough, the creator of Autodesk Dynamo, and Anthony Hauck, formerly a head of Revit product development. AEC Magazine followed it from its early form – design logic packaged as reusable functions generating hundreds of building options – to Hypar 2.0 in September 2024, which put the spotlight on space planning, with AI-infused layout suggestions.

Today the workflow is concrete. Import a floor plate – drawing it, tracing an image, or importing from DWG, Revit or Rhino – then lay out open office areas, meeting rooms and lounges using Hypar’s libraries. Projects support multiple design versions and sharing with clients through a live link.

Key features

• Browser-based test fits and space layouts for commercial, workplace, healthcare and data-centre projects
• Automatic measurement as you edit rooms and furniture, with clearances you can specify
• Automatic clash detection against those editable clearances in paid plans
• Revit add-in: send selections into Hypar and load Hypar projects back into Revit; DWG import and DXF/DWG export
• Design options within a single project, plus view-only live-link sharing for clients and collaborators
• Customisable space, furniture and equipment libraries (Professional and above)

Pricing

Hypar publishes three plans in its documentation. Personal is free, limited to three owned projects at a time, and explicitly not for professional work. Professional is $100 per user per month, or $1,000 per user per year (about $83 per month billed annually), and is the seat required for client work. Studio, for 20 seats and up, adds single sign-on and volume pricing – priced by Hypar sales. Older directory listings showing $75 per month are out of date against the vendor’s own documentation.

Who it’s for

Architects, workplace planners and BIM teams who agree building layouts with clients and need credible test fits fast – especially Revit shops that want options explored in a light browser tool and then pulled back into the model, rather than modelled from scratch in Revit every time a client changes the brief.

Who should skip it

Teams wanting the old Hypar promise – scripted, whole-building generative systems from code – should know the current product is centred on space planning. If your work is site feasibility and unit yields rather than interior layouts, a feasibility tool fits better.

Pros

• Published pricing and a genuinely free evaluation tier – rare in this category
• Revit round-tripping keeps test fits connected to the real model, not stranded in a browser
• Clearance-based clash flagging catches layout problems while options are still cheap to change
• Built by a team with deep BIM and computational-design credentials

Cons

• Narrower than its original generative-design platform vision – space planning is the product now
• Free Personal plan cannot be used on professional projects
• Studio pricing for larger firms is not public
• Best value sits inside a Revit-centred workflow; other authoring ecosystems get file exchange, not the add-in

FAQ

What does Hypar do?

It creates space plans and test fits in the browser – laying out rooms and furniture with automatic measurement and clearance clash detection – and round-trips the result with Revit, with DWG/DXF support for CAD workflows.

How much does Hypar cost?

Personal is free for evaluation (up to three owned projects, not for professional use). Professional is $100 per user per month or $1,000 per user per year. Studio, for 20-plus seats, is priced by Hypar sales.

Is Hypar still a generative design platform?

Its roots are generative, and layout suggestions in the 2.0 release are AI-infused, but the current product is focused on space planning and test fits rather than generating whole buildings from code.

Bottom line

Hypar is a sharp, honestly priced answer to a specific pain: getting a layout in front of a client quickly, with measurements and clashes handled, and a clean path back into Revit. Judge it on that job – the free tier makes it an easy demo to justify.