There is a growing global need to build affordable, eco-friendly, high-quality housing quickly. Industry is finding solutions in the industrialized construction field, which is generating tools to meet the needs of the global housing crisis. Modular construction methods are a promising asset to help face this crisis. In this study, the authors compare and evaluate different digital configuration platforms available on the market to understand to what extent they would satisfy the needs to develop a residential modular building project. The researchers employed a qualitative content analysis approach to identify the functions of configuration platforms and then generate evaluation criteria. The study found that the analyzed configurators can consider modular design criteria to find and evaluate various design solutions. However, they need help to automate the generation or incorporation of information chains. Such digital information chains would allow the correct data exchange between the various project stages, thus linking the production lines upstream and downstream. Furthermore, the design evaluation functions of the studied configurators offer only predefined indicators based on an internal database that cannot be edited or changed to select different indicators or database depending on the project needs. In summary, the study concludes that while the available digital configuration platforms can assist designers in generating modular design solutions, they still need to create information chains to automate the integration of manufacturing, assembling and transportation stages into the modular construction design process, and provide the option to connect to different databases depending on the project specifications.