Spacewell vs Planon
Spacewell and Planon both sell facility software from the Benelux, but they are built for different estates. Spacewell pairs maintenance and compliance tracking with a workplace app for desk and room reservations, and its header names Nemetschek as parent. Planon is an IoT-enabled IWMS with modules for real estate, space, assets and energy, lease accounting, and a Planon for SAP link, and the vendor pages we checked name no parent. Neither site publishes a price, a free plan or a trial, so cost is learned only through a demo.
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Choose Spacewell ifyou want room and desk reservations and occupancy overlays next to maintenance planning in one product, and you are happy with a Belgian contracting entity inside a larger group. You are prepared to request a demo for any price.
Choose Planon ifyou manage leases, real estate and energy data and need FASB and IASB lease accounting or an SAP connection. You accept that the pages we looked through show no price, trial or limits.
Spacewell and Planon side by side
| Spacewell | Planon | |
|---|---|---|
| Our facility management rank | #1 of 17 | #3 of 17 |
| Established in | Belgium | Netherlands |
| List price, 10 November 2026 | Per module and per building, quoted; the pricing link on the site leads to a demo request, with no figures shown | Quoted per organisation by module and portfolio size; the homepage offers only a demo request and contact link |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Built for | Mid-sized estates wanting workplace and building services in one European system | Large European portfolios needing leases, services and space in one platform |
| Not for | Single-site teams that only need desk booking and nothing else | Organisations with no internal application administrator to own it |
Both are reviewed in full in our facility management ranking: Spacewell and Planon.
Where they differ
Spacewell 2 · Planon 3 · open 1- 01
Desk bookings against lease accounting
Spacewell's site names reservations for rooms and desks through the Spacewell Workplace app, with interactive 2D and 3D floorplans and real-time occupancy overlays. Planon's site lists a Lease Accounting Solution covering lease administration, FASB and IASB lease accounting and ERP integration. The two products start from opposite ends of the estate: Spacewell from the people using space, Planon from the contracts behind it. Neither wins outright, because the right choice follows your main problem.
Depends on the buyer
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Where the contracting company is registered
Spacewell's terms of use name Spacewell International NV/SA, a Belgian naamloze vennootschap, with its registered office in Wilrijk and company number BE 0846.845.929. Planon's privacy page places the head office in the Netherlands and names Planon International B.V. and Planon Shared Services B.V. among the entities of the Planon Group. Spacewell gives the more complete legal identification on the sections we had open, down to the registered number.
Edge: Spacewell
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Which cloud your data sits in
Planon's privacy page says Planon Apps data is processed on Amazon Web Services EMEA in a customer-chosen region, with Frankfurt given as an example, and that its developer portal runs on Microsoft Azure West Europe. A self-hosted option is not stated. For Spacewell, the platform and security page returned 404 when we tried it, so the pages we opened do not show where data is hosted. Planon is the one that answers the data-location question.
Edge: Planon
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What the site says about parent and acquisitions
Spacewell's header reads A Nemetschek Company, which names its parent, though the terms of use do not. Planon's pages name no owner. Its about page instead describes Planon Group acquisitions, taking over control.IT, a real estate software business, and a majority stake in the PropTech company Ubigreen. Spacewell is clearer on who it belongs to, while Planon shows a record of buying other products. Both are worth raising in a contract review.
Edge: Spacewell
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Reach, scale claims and age
Spacewell's site claims a presence in 60 countries, 2,000 customers, more than 10K buildings and over 50m sqm under management, and we treat those as vendor claims that we could not verify. Planon's about page gives checkable facts instead: founded 18 December 1982, with offices in 17 countries. Planon's history is easier to state precisely, and its offices count is a plain statement rather than a customer tally.
Edge: Planon
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Energy, sustainability and the Marketplace
Spacewell lists AI energy anomaly detection and benchmarking alongside maintenance planning, vendor coordination and compliance tracking. Planon names an energy and sustainability module, MJOP long-term maintenance planning and inspection software for NEN 2767 and RVBBOEI, and a Marketplace of specialist apps. Planon names more Dutch-standard maintenance tooling and an app marketplace, which gives it the wider listed scope for a large portfolio. Spacewell's list is shorter but more oriented to buildings in daily use.
Edge: Planon
When neither fits
If you only need desk booking for a single site, both are more than you need, and deskbird or Matrix Booking in our facility management list are lighter options. For a work-order-first approach, Facilitor is another name to check.
Spacewell or Planon: questions
3 answersIs Spacewell a Belgian company in a legal sense?
Its terms of use name Spacewell International NV/SA, a Belgian naamloze vennootschap, with a registered office in Wilrijk. The company number given is BE 0846.845.929. The header also says it is a Nemetschek Company.
Does Planon run on its own servers or a public cloud?
The privacy page we read says Planon Apps data is processed on Amazon Web Services EMEA in a region the customer chooses, with Frankfurt as an example.
The developer portal is hosted on Microsoft Azure West Europe. It does not state a self-hosted or on-premise option.
Can I trial either product before talking to sales?
Neither site we looked at mentions a free plan or a trial. Spacewell's pricing link leads to a demo request and a contact sales page. Planon offers a demo request and a contact link instead.
Sources
Checked 10 November 2026- Spacewell website: the Nemetschek header, the Workplace app reservations, occupancy overlays, energy anomaly detection and the vendor scale claims.
- Spacewell terms of use: the legal entity name, Wilrijk registered office and company number BE 0846.845.929.
- Planon UK site: the Lease Accounting Solution with FASB and IASB support and the Planon for SAP offer.
- Planon privacy statement: Dutch head office, group entities, AWS EMEA region choice and Azure West Europe developer portal.
- Planon about page: founding date 18 December 1982, 17 countries, and the control.IT and Ubigreen acquisitions.