Spatial Map is indoor mapping software that builds a 3D operations map from your floor plans and keeps it live with RFID, BLE, sensor and stock data. Matterport vs Spatial Map is less a contest than a choice of job: Matterport captures what a space looks like in immersive 3D, and Spatial Map shows what is happening in it right now. Many teams will want both. If you are after a Matterport alternative for operations, this page explains where each fits.
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No credit card. Runs in the browser. Pro is $60/month for up to 4 facilities. Book a demo
Matterport, part of CoStar Group since 2025, describes itself as a way to capture, share and collaborate on spaces in immersive 3D. You capture a space with a supported camera and Matterport builds a digital twin: an immersive 3D tour, with floor plans and photos produced from the same capture. Its site targets corporate real estate, property marketing, facilities management and design and construction, and mentions integrations with construction and design tools.
Spatial Map is browser-based indoor mapping software for operations teams. You import a PDF or DWG floor plan, let AI Map draft walls, doors, racks, stairs and lifts for you to review, trace the rest, and stack the floors into a 3D map. Then you bind every shape to live data — RFID reads, BLE tag positions from your RTLS, sensor readings, stock from a WMS — through tables, REST sources and a per-table write API. Reports, in-app alerts, read-only share links and multi-floor wayfinding with step-free routes come from the same map, and Ask AI (beta) answers questions about a facility from its tables. Pro is $60 a month or $600 a year for up to 4 facilities after a 7-day free trial, and an open-source edition (MIT) runs on your own servers.
Choose Matterport when the point is to see the space itself: a visual walkthrough for buyers or tenants, as-built capture of a site during or after construction, remote inspections, documenting the condition of a building, or marketing real estate. A photographic 3D scan shows finishes, furniture and details no floor plan carries, and Spatial Map does not try to replace that.
Choose Spatial Map when the point is what is happening in the space: where tagged assets are, which racks are low on stock, which cold room is warming, which reader went offline, how busy a gallery is. That is a map that updates itself from your systems, and that a planner can redraw when the layout changes, rather than a capture of one moment.
The two fit together. Keep a Matterport scan as the visual record of the building and for walkthroughs, and use Spatial Map as the live operations view. If you have a floor plan of the space as a PDF or an image at a known scale, from any source, Spatial Map can use it as the starting plan of a floor.
| Spatial Map | Worth confirming with Matterport | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Live operations map for staff | Its focus for your use case (walkthroughs, documentation, marketing) |
| How the model is made | From PDF, DWG or image floor plans; AI Map drafts, you review | Capture devices and how long a capture of your site takes |
| What it shows | Shapes coloured and moved by live data, with history | How live operational data can be shown in a scan |
| When the layout changes | Edit shapes in the browser | When a new capture is needed |
| Sharing | Read-only links, no account needed | Sharing and viewer options |
| Pricing | Pro $60/month or $600/year, up to 4 facilities, published | Pricing for your spaces |
| Self-hosting | Open-source edition, MIT | Hosting options |
Matterport and the other product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify their products. Spatial Map is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. The description of Matterport is based on its publicly available product information as of November 2026 and is deliberately general — features and terms change, so check the vendor’s own site before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.
“What does it look like?” points to a scan. “What is happening in it now?” points to a live map.
RFID reads, tag positions, sensor readings or stock exports are what make a live map worth having.
Start a 7-day trial (no card) and import the PDF or DWG of one floor you know well.
Push a few rows to a table, link them to shapes and send a read-only link to the team who would use it.
Each use case is running on a demo facility you can open in the browser.
Gallery occupancy, climate sensors, tagged exhibits and BLE audio guides across three floors.
Shelf and department stock, RFID readers at the exits and fridge temperatures on a three-floor store.
Asset register, equipment checkout, meeting rooms and work orders on a three-floor office building.
Fictional names, real floor plans, live sensors, RFID, BLE tags and gateways — open any of them in the browser.
