Virtuaaa vs Clear Pano: Paying $10 for Every Virtual Tour Adds Up Fast

Virtuaaa builds a 3D virtual tour from your 360° panoramas for you. You upload them in your browser, and its servers place the photos, link them and draw a dollhouse and a floor plan. It's clever, and you can try it for free.

But it charges for every tour you keep. If you make tours every week, for estate agents, holiday lets or local businesses, that's the number to look at first. I make virtual tours on my phone with Clear Pano. Here's how the two compare.

Virtuaaa vs Clear Pano at a glance

You pay for every tour you keep

Virtuaaa is free to try: building and previewing a tour costs nothing, and your first tour is free. You pay when you take a finished tour, according to its pricing page: $10 for up to 150 panoramas, $40 for a pack of 5 or $70 for a pack of 10, so $7 a tour at best. There's no subscription, and hosting is free. Once you've paid for a tour, editing it and downloading it again are free.

Clear Pano is a monthly plan, priced by how many tours you have live at the same time: 10 for $5 a month, 50 for $10 and 100 for $15. When a property sells, unpublish its tour and the slot is free for the next one.

So it comes down to how often you make tours. Say each tour stays live for about two months, until the property sells. Here's a year, at Virtuaaa's best price of $7 a tour:

New tours a month	Live at once	Virtuaaa a year	Clear Pano a year
1	2	$84 (12 tours)	$60 ($5 a month)
5	10	$420 (60 tours)	$60 ($5 a month)
10	20	$840 (120 tours)	$120 ($10 a month)
25	50	$2,100 (300 tours)	$120 ($10 a month)
50	100	$4,200 (600 tours)	$180 ($15 a month)

To be fair, if you make a few tours and leave them online for years, Virtuaaa can work out cheaper: 10 tours are $70 once, while 10 live tours on Clear Pano are $60 every year. Its hosting is free, though its privacy policy says accounts, panoramas and tours are deleted three years after your last sign-in.

What happens to your photos

Virtuaaa builds your tour on its servers, with what its pricing page calls an automatic AI build. Its privacy policy says your panoramas are processed by Modal Labs in the United States while the tour is built, and that the app, accounts and tours are hosted by Hetzner in Germany. Its terms say your original photos are deleted 7 days after the last activity on a finished tour, and the tour itself is kept.

Then there's section 11 bis of its terms. Virtuaaa may show a tour made with it as an example on its websites and in its presentations. It emails you first, but if you don't reply within 7 days, "consent is deemed given". You can say no, or change your mind later, by email.

And until you've paid for at least one tour, Virtuaaa's app won't let you delete a tour you've built, so it stays on its servers unless you email to ask for it to be deleted.

Clear Pano works differently. You edit the tour on your phone, and Remove, which takes tripod legs, people or clutter out of a photo, runs on your phone too, so the photo isn't sent anywhere to be edited. Clear Pano never sends your photos to an AI company. When you publish, your tour is stored on Clear Pano's own hosting on Amazon Web Services. Our terms only let us store, process and display your content to run the service, and that ends when you delete it.

Building the tour: at the property or after the shoot

With Virtuaaa, the panoramas have to link themselves, so you shoot the way its shooting guide asks. Viewpoints should be 2 to 3 metres apart and 4 at most, each one able to see the previous one, with a panorama in the doorway between rooms and at the top and bottom of every staircase, all at the same tripod height. Its own figures show why: 94% of points under 2 metres apart link by themselves, 60% at 3 to 4 metres and 24% at 5 to 6 metres. White walls, identical bedrooms, mirrors and windows can cause missed or wrong links. So you take more panoramas than one per room.

Then you upload them after the shoot. Its FAQ says the build takes 15 to 40 minutes on its servers, and an email tells you when it's ready. Any panoramas it couldn't place are marked "Needs linking" for you to fix, or its team fixes them with a $30 guaranteed build.

With Clear Pano, you link the rooms yourself, so one 360° photo per room can be enough, taken wherever it looks best. You build the tour on your phone while you're still at the property, add the hotspots that link the rooms, remove the tripod, and it's live as soon as you publish.

Floor plans: scanned on your iPhone, not drawn from panoramas

Virtuaaa draws its dollhouse and 2D floor plan from your panoramas, and both are included in the price. For the scale, you give the camera height, or Virtuaaa works it out from the electrical outlets in the photos, and it detects the doors and windows. For measured floor plans, it suggests adding a $400 Unitree L2 LiDAR on its own small stand under your tripod, set up on request.

In Clear Pano, the LiDAR is already in your iPhone or iPad Pro. Open Floor Plans and walk through the property room by room: the LiDAR scanner reads each room as you go, the scan is processed on the phone by Apple's RoomPlan, and Clear Pano draws the plan when you finish the floor. You can move walls, type a room's size, add doors and windows, share it as a PDF or picture, and link it to your tour. Your plan includes as many floor plans as tours.

When Virtuaaa is the better choice

Virtuaaa does things Clear Pano doesn't. It places and links your panoramas automatically, makes a dollhouse and a 3D model you can download as a GLB file, stitches DSLR photos into panoramas, builds drone tours, blurs faces, and turns a client's product pages into hotspots. It can also send a finished tour straight to a client's website by FTP. If you make a few tours a year and want them online for a long time with no subscription, its pay-per-tour price suits that.

For the wider picture, here are seven virtual tour tools compared.

The verdict

If you make tours every month, for agents, holiday lets or local businesses, $10 a tour adds up fast. Clear Pano is $5 a month for 10 live tours. You build them on your phone at the property, your photos are only used to run your tours, and floor plans are scanned with your iPhone and included in your plan. And your first tour is free.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Virtuaaa cost?

On 10 November 2026, Virtuaaa was free to try, with your first tour free. After that, a tour cost $10 for up to 150 panoramas, $40 for 5 or $70 for 10, with free hosting and no subscription. Clear Pano starts at $5 a month for 10 live tours, and your first tour is free.

Is Virtuaaa cheaper than Clear Pano?

Only if you make a few tours and keep them online for a long time. If you make tours every month and take each one down when the property sells, Clear Pano costs less: 5 new tours a month, each live for about two months, is about $420 a year on Virtuaaa and $60 on Clear Pano.

Do I have to pay again to edit a Virtuaaa tour?

No. Its app says building and editing stay free, and a tour you've paid for can be downloaded as often as you like. A tour with more than 150 panoramas costs $10 more for each extra 150.

Can Virtuaaa show my tour to other people?

Its terms let it show a tour made with Virtuaaa as an example on its websites and in its presentations, to show how the service works. It emails you first, and if you don't reply within 7 days, consent is deemed given. You can refuse, or withdraw consent at any time, by email. It says the photos are never sold, transferred or used for another customer.

Can Virtuaaa make floor plans?

Yes. It draws a 2D floor plan and a dollhouse from your panoramas, included in the price. For measured plans, it suggests adding a $400 Unitree L2 LiDAR under your tripod. Clear Pano scans each room with the LiDAR scanner on an iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro model, or an iPad Pro (2020 or later), and floor plans are included in your plan.

Is Clear Pano a Virtuaaa alternative?

For 360° virtual tours with floor plans, yes. You build the tour on your phone with any 360 camera, remove the tripod on the phone, scan the floor plan with your iPhone and publish, from $5 a month. If you need automatic linking, a dollhouse, drone tours or DSLR stitching, Virtuaaa does those and Clear Pano doesn't.