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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.
One platform. No plug-ins required.
Built for real estimating teams
Compliance from the start
Compliance from the start
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.