Pending benchmarksTracking since Oct 27, 2026
Is Echo-3 state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 27, 2026; no independent results yet.
SpAItial's physically grounded world model that turns iPhone captures into metric-scale 3D environments, filling in regions the capture missed.
Announced facts
The details so far
- Lab
- SpAItial
- Announced
- Oct 27, 2026
- API
- Waitlist
- Open weights
- Closed · None released
- Input
- Phone video capture (iPhone app; Android announced as coming soon)
- Output
- Metric-scale 3D scene (Gaussian splats), with point clouds, meshes and an auto-generated floorplan
- Method
- Reconstruction as conditional generation: completes areas the capture missed
- Access
- SpAItial iOS app by subscription (first month free); enterprise API by contact
- App plans
- Standard: 25 capture minutes a month; Pro: 50
- API pricing
- 300 credits per capture minute, 900-credit (180 s) minimum
- Paper
- None published
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
Next steps
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
Self-reported
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: sharp surfaces with no visible floaters in a side-by-side capture against Polycam, KIRI Engine and Niantic Scaniverse.
Receipts
Sources
LABIntroducing Echo-3 and the SpAItial app (SpAItial blog)spaitial.ai/blog/echo-3-release · Oct 27, 2026LABSpAItial on X: Echo-3 launchx.com/SpAItial_AI/status/2115081138415051124 · Oct 27, 2026LABMatthias Niessner (SpAItial co-founder) on Xx.com/MattNiessner/status/2115081248754282844 · Oct 27, 2026LABSpAItial API docsdocs.spaitial.ai/llms-full.txtTracking ends Jan 25, 2027 unless the API or weights become available.