Mozaik Review 2026: Pricing, Pros, Cons, Alternatives

Start here if Mozaik is on your shortlist

Mozaik earns its money with A 2 to 15 person residential cabinet, closet or millwork shop that owns a nesting CNC router (or is about to buy one) and wants design, cut lists and G-code in a single Windows program rather than a CAD seat plus a separate CAM seat If that's you, it does the job. The sections below are the parts worth checking before you sign. But the fit is narrower than the marketing suggests, and the price isn't the whole cost.

It starts at $125 / month. And pricing was verified on 7 August 2026, so you can check every figure below in a browser tab.

Who Mozaik is for, and who it isn't

It fits A 2 to 15 person residential cabinet, closet or millwork shop that owns a nesting CNC router (or is about to buy one) and wants design, cut lists and G-code in a single Windows program rather than a CAD seat plus a separate CAM seat That's the half most reviews print. Here's the other half, which is the one worth your time.

Don't buy it if you're A design studio working on Macs, or a shop that wanted iPads on the assembly benches. There's no macOS, iOS or Android build and no supported virtualization path. The Paperless Shop Apps run on Windows tablets only. So buying Mozaik means buying Windows hardware alongside it. Look at Cedreo instead.

Don't buy it if you're A shop that needs the estimate to land in QuickBooks, Xero or Sage without re-keying. Mozaik names no accounting partner anywhere and publishes no API. And Cyncly sells an XML accounting bridge, but it ships with a different product in the catalogue, not with Mozaik. Look at Cyncly Design Flex instead.

Don't buy it if you're A one-person shop that can't absorb an uncapped renewal increase. Clause 7.5 permits CPI plus a discretionary mark-up at every auto-renewal, clause 7.4 permits mid-year revisions effective on notification, and clause 8.3 retires any introductory discount at the first renewal. And reviewers report 75% and near-doubling increases. So a shop with no headroom in its overhead is exposed to a number it doesn't control. Look at SketchList 3D instead.

Don't buy it if you're A shop still choosing its CNC router. Mozaik's 179-brand list is brand-level, not model-year-level, and the vendor asks you to email a working G-code file before you buy the machine. And a custom post takes up to two weeks. One reviewer bought on the strength of the advertised post-processor list, found the post didn't exist for their machine, and was refused a refund under the all-purchases-final clause. Look at Cabinet Vision instead.

The money question on Mozaik

The tiers are public. And that's worth more than it sounds in a category where half the vendors make you ask.

Mozaik is licensed by machine, not by named user. The products-page FAQ states it plainly: 'Mozaik is licensed per device. Additional user licenses are available for multi-seat setups within the same location. All features of the primary license are included with additional seats.' Two consequences follow. First, the second person in the shop costs $60 a month regardless of which edition you bought, so a three-station Mozaik CNC shop is $225 + $60 + $60 = $345 a month, not $225. Second, the same-location restriction means a designer working from home is not obviously covered by an additional seat. Cloud Rendering is the one component priced the other way round, at a flat $50 a month per company no matter how many seats you run.

There is a discount for paying annually up front: 10% off the first year if you skip the paid trial and commit to a year up front, paid monthly. The vendor's wording is 'Two ways to get started: try Mozaik with a 3-month paid trial - or commit for a year with monthly payments and save 10%*', and the asterisk resolves to '*10% discount applies to your first seat only. Additional seats and add-ons are excluded.' On a three-seat Mozaik CNC shop the discount therefore applies to $225 of a $345 monthly bill, which is 6.5% of the actual invoice rather than 10%. The Cyncly master conditions then end it: clause 8.2 says 'Any discounted pricing shall be valid and applicable for the duration of the Minimum Period only' and 8.3 says that on auto-renewal 'the discounted pricing shall cease to apply' and the customer 'shall be charged in accordance with the then-current standard rates'. And an annual prepay discount tells you an annual commitment exists, which is worth knowing before anyone mentions a term length out loud.

The Mozaik line items nobody mentions on the demo

Payment processing. Cyncly Payments is an in-house processor embedded in Mozaik's pricing tab, letting the shop send a payment link or QR code to a homeowner without leaving the job. No rate, per-transaction fee or interchange markup is published anywhere on the page. What is published is the contract shape and one revealing capability: 'We offer a month-to-month agreement with no early termination fee. It's that simple.', alongside 'Surcharging capabilities allow you to customize payment terms.' It supports ACH with next-day funding and claims PCI compliance with point-to-point encryption. Note the asymmetry: the payments agreement is month-to-month with no early-termination fee, while the software subscription underneath it carries a twelve-month minimum and a ninety-day non-renewal notice.

Implementation and onboarding. One onboarding session is included. The products page says 'Either option includes personalized onboarding from a cabinet industry expert to get you up and running quickly', and the FAQ describes it as 'the complimentary training session provided with your license'. Everything after that is a la carte and priced: a 30-minute online session is $75, 60 minutes is $95 and 90 minutes is $142.50. Free support is 180+ training videos, in-software visual help guides, a community forum and email support through a built-in helpdesk tool that ships your job file to the support team.

Minimum term. Twelve months. The Cyncly conditions define 'Minimum Period' or 'Initial Term' as 'a period of twelve (12) months starting from the Effective Date, unless an alternative Duration or Term is specified in the applicable Order Form'. The three-month paid trial is the only route to a shorter exposure, and it is a paid trial rather than a free one: 'There is no free trial, but Mozaik Software offers a 3-month paid trial period. You can cancel before the CNC software trial ends with no further commitment. If you continue, your subscription automatically converts to a one-year subscription.'

Getting out. There is no early-termination fee because there is effectively no early termination. Clause 16.1 reads: 'This Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date as specified in the Order Form and shall continue for the Minimum Period. Any termination rights or procedures applicable to the Agreement shall come into effect only upon the completion of the Minimum Period.' Termination for cause survives (a thirty-day cure period for material breach, or insolvency), but termination for convenience does not exist inside the twelve months. Clause 9.1 closes the refund route: 'Unless otherwise provided by Law or by a particular offer detailed in the Order Form, all purchases are final and non-refundable.' One reviewer describes being refused a refund on exactly this basis.

Auto-renewal. One-year automatic renewal with a ninety-day notice window. Clause 16.2: 'This Agreement shall automatically renew for a successive one (1) Year term, each, an Auto-Renewal, unless otherwise stated in the Order Form.' Clause 16.3: 'Either Party may prevent the Auto-Renewal of this Agreement by providing written notice of non-renewal to the other Party ninety (90) Days prior to the end of the then-current term.' Clause 16.4 treats continued use after the renewal date as express acceptance of the renewal and of any amendments made before it. Renewal is also when the price moves: clause 7.5 lets Cyncly 'increase the Fees for any Auto Renewal by the percentage increase in an appropriate local consumer prices index in the preceding 12 Month period, plus a percentage mark-up determined at Cyncly's sole discretion.'

Modules sold separately. , , , , . So price the Mozaik configuration you'll really run rather than the entry tier, because an add-on you need on day one is part of the price.

Third-party services you will also pay for. , , , . These are not on Mozaik's invoice, and they are still part of what this decision costs you every month.

The Mozaik costs that land afterwards

The subscription is the part everyone quotes. These are the lines that land afterwards, and the ones we could not find are named as unpublished rather than left blank.

Sold separately. , , , , . Price the configuration you'll really run, because an add-on you need on day one is part of the price.

Third-party services you'll also pay for. , , , . None of these are on Mozaik's invoice, and all of them are part of what this decision costs every month.

The four workflows you pay for

Feature totals are noise. So a shop in this category lives or dies on four things, and those are the four to grade, and each one below carries the evidence it's graded on.

One program covers floor plan, 3D, cut list, labels and machine code, which is the whole reason the price is defensible The comparison table shows layout and design, live 3D views, cabinet editing and shaping, inserts, pricing and reporting, Multiprint drawing presentations, CNC joint fasteners, automatic hardware boring and a parts and materials system on every edition including the non-CNC $125 tier. But what Manufacturing loses is machines: nesting routers, single-part processing, drill and dowel, beam saw CSV export and automatic labelling all sit on CNC and above. Shops running a table saw still get the optimizer, the cut plans and the labels. And this is a genuinely unusual amount of function at the bottom of a published price list in this category. But a cabinet shop, 2+ years on the platform, describes it it differently: "they jacked prices up almost double from $50 to $95, which is ridiculous"

179 named CNC brands, counted from the vendor's own list, and it's the strongest single thing about the product The CNC Router Links page lists 179 distinct machine brands across three A-F, G-L and M-Z blocks, from Biesse, Homag, SCM and Haas down to CNC Router Parts, Avid, ShopSabre, Shopbot and a long tail of Jinan-built imports. And alongside the brand list, Mozaik names the G-code dialects and control formats it speaks (Fanuc, Syntec, Siemens, Osai, Mach 3, Mach 4, Centroid, Masso, Technos, TPACad) and the file types it writes (.cix, .mpr, .nc, .xcs, .xxl, .tcn, .tap, .prg, .txt, .cnc, .anc). The products page rounds this to 'free stock post processors for over 175 different CNC machine brands', which the counted list corroborates.

Rendering is the one thing priced per company rather than per device, and V15 splits it into two paid products Cloud Rendering is $50 a month per company, unlimited renders, every seat included, running on Cyncly servers rather than the shop's workstation, built into the 3D Viewer and requiring V14 or newer. It uses HDRI lighting, supports batch rendering across multiple rooms, and lets you drop in your own HDRI files at C:\Mozaik\Textures\Environment. V15 adds a separate AI Rendering add-on 'from USD$75 per month' that auto-places accessories and furnishings and renders straight into Multiprint. So two rendering add-ons at two prices is worth pricing deliberately rather than adding both.

Self-serve checkout through a merchant of record, then a portal that can add seats but isn't documented for cancelling You buy through a renewal or purchase link, pay Cleverbridge as merchant of record, receive a Mozaik ID code within five minutes, then create a Cyncly Account which becomes the portal for subscriptions, seats, upgrades, downloads and the community. But the portal's documented functions are all expansionary: manage profile, see subscriptions, add seats, upgrade, manage renewal, access downloads. Cancellation isn't a documented portal action. The products FAQ says 'Log in to your Mozaik account portal or contact support to manage billing, renewals, or cancellations', and the master conditions require notification 'to the specified Support Desk team'.

Mozaik trade fit

The Mozaik accounting link, and where it stops

QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, MYOB connects, on every plan. Cyncly Payments connects one way only, so edits made in your books do not come back, on every plan. Cleverbridge (merchant of record) connects one way only, so edits made in your books do not come back, on every plan. XML accounting bridge (available on a sibling Cyncly product, not on Mozaik) connects, on every plan. Your costs map through cost codes, so test yours against your own chart of accounts before you commit. A code your books don't recognise is how a labour charge quietly lands somewhere useless.

Past those, the road ends. QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, MYOB, Zapier or any iPaaS, Any CRM, SketchUp, macOS, iOS and Android do not connect. So if your books run on an ERP rather than the platforms named above, weigh that before anything else.

Beyond accounting it connects to 179 named CNC router brands (Free stock post processors, counted from the vendor's own A-F, G-L and M-Z listing. Includes Biesse, Homag, SCM, Haas, Morbidelli, Masterwood, Weeke, Felder, Laguna, Shopbot, ShopSabre, Avid CNC, MultiCam, Onsrud, Northwood, CAMaster, Precix, Techno and a long tail of Jinan-built machines.), G-code dialects and control formats (Fanuc, Syntec, Siemens, Osai, Mach 3, Mach 4, Centroid, Masso, Technos and TPACad, writing .cix, .mpr, .nc, .xcs, .xxl, .tcn, .tap, .prg, .txt, .cnc and .anc.), Beam saw optimizers (CSV export rather than a native link. The comparison table row reads: 'Export customizable cutlists to beam saw optimizers through flexible CSV workflows.'), Mozaik Paperless Shop Apps (Shop-floor labelling, cutting and assembly apps for Windows tablets, sold as an add-on with no published price.), Cyncly Account portal (The customer portal for subscriptions, seats, upgrades, renewals, downloads, updates and community access. Cloud Rendering is self-serve-added here under 'Manage Subscription', which issues a new Authorization Code instantly.). A public API exists: No public API and no developer documentation. There is no API, developers or integrations URL on the domain (https://www.mozaiksoftware.com/integrations/ returns 404) and no API entry anywhere in the sitemap. The only extension surface Mozaik documents is the post processor, and even that is a support request rather than something you build: you email a working G-code file to cncpost@mozaiksoftware.com and allow up to two weeks. Under the Cyncly master conditions a bespoke connection would be a Customization, defined as including 'bespoke integration between the Product and Third Party systems', billed as a Professional Service against a Rate Card and scoped in a Statement of Work.

Mozaik support, and what it costs you

What happens when you want to leave Mozaik

Nobody reads this section before they buy, and it's the one that costs money afterwards. Four terms decide what leaving looks like.

Minimum term. Twelve months. The Cyncly conditions define 'Minimum Period' or 'Initial Term' as 'a period of twelve (12) months starting from the Effective Date, unless an alternative Duration or Term is specified in the applicable Order Form'. The three-month paid trial is the only route to a shorter exposure, and it is a paid trial rather than a free one: 'There is no free trial, but Mozaik Software offers a 3-month paid trial period. You can cancel before the CNC software trial ends with no further commitment. If you continue, your subscription automatically converts to a one-year subscription.'

Auto-renewal. One-year automatic renewal with a ninety-day notice window. Clause 16.2: 'This Agreement shall automatically renew for a successive one (1) Year term, each, an Auto-Renewal, unless otherwise stated in the Order Form.' Clause 16.3: 'Either Party may prevent the Auto-Renewal of this Agreement by providing written notice of non-renewal to the other Party ninety (90) Days prior to the end of the then-current term.' Clause 16.4 treats continued use after the renewal date as express acceptance of the renewal and of any amendments made before it. Renewal is also when the price moves: clause 7.5 lets Cyncly 'increase the Fees for any Auto Renewal by the percentage increase in an appropriate local consumer prices index in the preceding 12 Month period, plus a percentage mark-up determined at Cyncly's sole discretion.'

Early termination. There is no early-termination fee because there is effectively no early termination. Clause 16.1 reads: 'This Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date as specified in the Order Form and shall continue for the Minimum Period. Any termination rights or procedures applicable to the Agreement shall come into effect only upon the completion of the Minimum Period.' Termination for cause survives (a thirty-day cure period for material breach, or insolvency), but termination for convenience does not exist inside the twelve months. Clause 9.1 closes the refund route: 'Unless otherwise provided by Law or by a particular offer detailed in the Order Form, all purchases are final and non-refundable.' One reviewer describes being refused a refund on exactly this basis.

Payment processing. Cyncly Payments is an in-house processor embedded in Mozaik's pricing tab, letting the shop send a payment link or QR code to a homeowner without leaving the job. No rate, per-transaction fee or interchange markup is published anywhere on the page. What is published is the contract shape and one revealing capability: 'We offer a month-to-month agreement with no early termination fee. It's that simple.', alongside 'Surcharging capabilities allow you to customize payment terms.' It supports ACH with next-day funding and claims PCI compliance with point-to-point encryption. Note the asymmetry: the payments agreement is month-to-month with no early-termination fee, while the software subscription underneath it carries a twelve-month minimum and a ninety-day non-renewal notice.

What Mozaik operators say, in their own words

The realistic shortlist against Mozaik

The shortlist a buyer weighing Mozaik would put together. Billing units differ, so read the unit rather than the figure.

Cyncly Design Flex. Kitchen and bath design for a retailer or designer rather than a manufacturer: manufacturer catalogue access, closet design, Cycles rendering and, on the upper tier, an XML Application Integration Module that pushes data to accounting systems. Same parent company, so Cyncly Payments works the same way. Prices are fully published in CAD across four combinations. But It doesn't drive a CNC. There's no nesting, no G-code, no post processors and no shop-floor labelling. A manufacturing shop would be buying the wrong half of the workflow.

SketchList 3D. Commitment shape. A 14-day free trial with no credit card, a genuine month-to-month option, and a perpetual licence at $999.99 that removes renewal-increase exposure entirely. For a one-person shop that wants drawings and cut lists without a subscription that auto-renews annually, this is the cleaner contract. But It's woodworking design software, not a manufacturing system. No CNC post processors, no nesting, no shop-floor apps, no per-company rendering tier. Support and updates on the perpetual licence require a separate maintenance plan at $69.99 or $229.99 a year.

Cabinet Vision. Depth on commercial casework and multi-machine shops, and a mature module set for point-to-point, drill-and-dowel and beam-saw environments that Mozaik reaches through CSV. The deeper choice for a shop past 25 people running mixed machinery. But Publishes no price anywhere. cabinetvision.com now 301s to a Hexagon product page that returns 403 to every request tried, so a buyer can't self-serve a number, can't compare, and can't buy without a sales conversation. And Mozaik's three published tiers are the whole reason a small shop can price this category at all.

Microvellum. Commercial millwork and heavy customization, plus a documented ERP path: it integrates with INNERGY ERP for bill of materials, purchasing, job costing and scheduling, which is exactly the downstream layer Mozaik has nothing for. Free training through Microvellum University. But It runs on top of AutoCAD or BricsCAD, so there's a second licence underneath the first, and no figure is published for either. Its own FAQ confirms the subscription exists without ever naming a number: 'Yes, Microvellum software is available through an annual subscription.'

Who should not buy Mozaik

Don't buy Mozaik if you're A design studio working on Macs, or a shop that wanted iPads on the assembly benches. There's no macOS, iOS or Android build and no supported virtualization path. The Paperless Shop Apps run on Windows tablets only. So buying Mozaik means buying Windows hardware alongside it. Look at Cedreo instead.

Don't buy Mozaik if you're A shop that needs the estimate to land in QuickBooks, Xero or Sage without re-keying. Mozaik names no accounting partner anywhere and publishes no API. And Cyncly sells an XML accounting bridge, but it ships with a different product in the catalogue, not with Mozaik. Look at Cyncly Design Flex instead.

Don't buy Mozaik if you're A one-person shop that can't absorb an uncapped renewal increase. Clause 7.5 permits CPI plus a discretionary mark-up at every auto-renewal, clause 7.4 permits mid-year revisions effective on notification, and clause 8.3 retires any introductory discount at the first renewal. And reviewers report 75% and near-doubling increases. So a shop with no headroom in its overhead is exposed to a number it doesn't control. Look at SketchList 3D instead.

Don't buy Mozaik if you're A shop still choosing its CNC router. Mozaik's 179-brand list is brand-level, not model-year-level, and the vendor asks you to email a working G-code file before you buy the machine. And a custom post takes up to two weeks. One reviewer bought on the strength of the advertised post-processor list, found the post didn't exist for their machine, and was refused a refund under the all-purchases-final clause. Look at Cabinet Vision instead.

The verdict, by shop size

One or two person non-CNC shop cutting on a table saw

Only under conditions, and they are worth being honest about. Mozaik Manufacturing at $125 a month is genuinely a lot of function for the money at the bottom of this category, and it's one of the only cabinet CAD tools that will tell you its price before a sales call. But the commitment shape is wrong for a shop this size: the paid three-month trial converts to a one-year subscription, termination rights don't exist until month twelve, and the renewal price is CPI plus a mark-up Cyncly sets alone. So take it if the software will demonstrably pay for itself inside three months and you can diary the ninety-day non-renewal deadline. And if you want a way out at any time, SketchList 3D's month-to-month or perpetual licence is the safer shape. This band runs 1 to 2 on the crew, doing residential work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

Three to fifteen person residential or millwork shop running a nesting CNC router

Yes, and this is the shape the product is built for. This is the shape the product was built for, and the 179-brand post-processor list is a real moat. Mozaik CNC at $225 plus $60 a seat replaces a CAD licence and a separate CAM seat with one program that goes floor plan to G-code, and the Hunt Bespoke case study describes exactly this: one file from designer to bench, no manual redrawing. So price the seat count honestly (three stations is $345, not $225), email a working G-code file to cncpost@mozaiksoftware.com before you sign so you know your machine's post exists, and go in expecting email support with paid sessions when you need a human. This band runs 3 to 15 on the crew, doing residential and commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

Shop past twenty-five people, multiple machine types, wanting the estimate to reach the books

No. Mozaik Enterprise adds admin controls, machine templates and a job dashboard, but the ceiling is structural rather than feature-level: no accounting integration, no ERP path, no public API, and a bespoke bridge would be a chargeable Customization under a Statement of Work. Beam saws are a CSV handoff. So Microvellum's documented INNERGY ERP link or Cabinet Vision's module set are the right conversations at this size, even though neither will publish a price. This band runs 25 or more on the crew, doing commercial work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

Mac-based design studio or any shop that wanted tablets on the bench

No. Mozaik doesn't run on macOS or iOS, virtualization is explicitly unsupported, and the Paperless Shop Apps need Windows tablets. There's no iOS or Android app at all. So the real cost of adopting Mozaik here is a Windows workstation plus a Windows tablet per bench, on top of a subscription that already auto-renews annually. Look at Cedreo or another browser-based design tool instead. This band runs 1 or more on the crew, doing residential work, and that's the profile the recommendation is written for.

How this Mozaik page was researched

So what's this built on. Documents rather than a deployment: Mozaik was researched, not run. What it is instead: Mozaik's own 17 pages read line by line on 7 August 2026, plus the review corpus read by complaint type rather than by star rating. And every figure above traces to a page we opened on that date, pricing included.

So: eight quotes on this page, eight from SourceForge.

And https://www.capterra.com/ (403 Cloudflare challenge to every request; no Mozaik product page found by search either. The one Capterra result that surfaced for 'Mozaik' was a different product, MOZAIK Clean at /p/211730/Dalyo-Clean/), https://www.softwareadvice.com/cad/mozaik-profile/ (403 to every request; no Mozaik profile found), https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/mozaik/ (403 to every request; no Mozaik profile found), https://www.trustradius.com/products/mozaik/reviews (403 Cloudflare challenge), https://alternativeto.net/software/mozaik/about/ (403 Cloudflare challenge; also blocked through r.jina.ai), https://hexagon.com/products/product-groups/computer-aided-manufacturing-cad-cam-software/cabinet-vision (403 to every request, including after following the 301 from cabinetvision.com), https://kcdsoftware.com/ (403 Cloudflare challenge), https://www.g2.com/ (not attempted; blocks reliably) and https://www.reddit.com/ (not attempted; blocks reliably) refused automated retrieval for Mozaik. Forum and social threads are the ones people most want quoted, and they are exactly the ones we cannot verify, so none of them are here.

What that leaves untested: apple App Store and Google Play (Mozaik has no iOS or Android app; the vendor states this outright at https://www.mozaiksoftware.com/resources/system-requirements). And everything above is 17 vendor pages and a review corpus, which is documentary rather than hands-on.