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RIB CostX vs. Sterling

Estimate cost and carbon in one place. Sterling gives you audit-ready outputs, framework alignment, and a faster way to meet commercial and sustainability goals, without changing how your team works.

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One platform. No plug-ins required.

Whether you're working toward PAS 2080 or preparing for your next framework bid, Sterling brings cost and carbon into a single aligned workflow. No bolt-ons, no exports, no third-party dependencies.

Built for real estimating teams

Sterling gives you what matters most: cost and carbon clarity, version control, and audit-ready outputs, all in a tool that fits how teams already work.

Compliance from the start

Sterling supports PAS 2080, ICMS, and public sector frameworks out of the box. You can estimate, report, and share structured data that stands up to scrutiny, without needing to retrofit or reformat.

How Sterling compares to RIB CostX

Comparison

SaaS

Effortlessly upload files by dragging and dropping them into the storage interface.

Comprehensive Ecosystem
(Integrated Solutions)

Effortlessly upload files by dragging and dropping them into the storage interface.

Automatic Updates

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Multi-dimensional Reporting

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Ease of Use for Data Importing

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Project Unlimited Snapshots /
Version Management

Shows the number of compatible file types, ensuring wide usability.

Undo (selective in sequence,
unlike Excel)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Cost & Carbon Estimating t
o PAS 2080

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Cost Planning

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

See why construction teams are switching to an integrated platform for cost and carbon.

Comparison

RIB CostX

Sterling

Storage

Storage capacity

The total amount of cloud storage space allocated for your files.

Storage speed

The speed at which you can upload and download files to and from the cloud.

Max upload size

The largest file size you can upload in a single action.

Cloud sync

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

FIle optimization

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Comparison

SaaS

Effortlessly upload files by dragging and dropping them into the storage interface.

Comprehensive Ecosystem (Integrated Solutions)

Quickly find your files with our powerful in-app search functionality.

Automatic Updates

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Multi-dimensional Reporting

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Ease of Use for Data Importing

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Project Unlimited Snapshots / Version Management

Shows the number of compatible file types, ensuring wide usability.

Undo (selective in sequence, unlike Excel)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Cost & Carbon Estimating to PAS 2080

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Cost Planning

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Estimating, Bill Preparation, Take-off, Rapid Pricing

Protect your data with robust encryption methods tailored to each plan.

Resource-Based Estimating (incl. complex resources)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Multi-Library Structure Mapping (ICMS, NRM1/2, SMM7, CESMM, HMM, RMM1/2, or custom.)

Manage access with a specified number of user accounts per plan.

Bid Management (Online enquiries, notes, etc.)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Planning Integration (MS Project, Primavera, or in-built scheduling.)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Lifecycle Cost and Carbon

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

How Sterling compares to RIB CostX

See why construction teams are switching to an integrated platform for cost and carbon.

RIB CostX

Sterling

Comparison

SaaS

Comprehensive Ecosystem (Integrated Solutions)

The speed at which you can upload and download files to and from the cloud.

Automatic Updates

The largest file size you can upload in a single action.

Multi-dimensional Reporting

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Ease of Use for Data Importing

Project Unlimited Snapshots / Version Management

The speed at which you can upload and download files to and from the cloud.

Automatic Updates

The largest file size you can upload in a single action.

Undo (selective in sequence, unlike Excel)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Cost & Carbon Estimating to PAS 2080

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Cost Planning

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Estimating, Bill Preparation, Take-off, Rapid Pricing

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Resource-Based Estimating (incl. complex resources)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Multi-Library Structure Mapping (ICMS, NRM1/2,
SMM7, CESMM, HMM, RMM1/2, or custom.)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Bid Management (Online enquiries, notes, etc.)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Planning Integration (MS Project, Primavera, or in-built scheduling.)

Planning Integration (MS Project,
Primavera, or in-built scheduling.)

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

Lifecycle Cost and Carbon

Explore and manage your data assets, ensuring high-quality, and governed data accessibility.

From carbon ambition to commercial advantage

Sterling replaces the need for siloed tools and BIM-heavy workflows. Estimate faster, align to frameworks, and deliver outputs that are both audit-ready and easy to use.

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