Housecall Pro vs ServiceTitan: published prices against a per-technician contract
Housecall Pro publishes its prices and has no long-term contract. ServiceTitan quotes per technician on a noncancelable term. What that means at 5, 10 and 20 techs.
Disclosure: Bloombilt makes Dispatch, a scheduling and crew app. We compete with a small part of what both of these do, and we say near the end when neither one is what you need.
The short answer
They’re built for different sizes of shop. Housecall Pro publishes its prices, tops out at a plan built for eight users, and lets you cancel any time. ServiceTitan publishes no prices, charges per technician, and signs you to an annual or multi-year contract you can’t cancel. ServiceTitan does more, especially for a shop with dispatchers, CSRs and payroll. Housecall Pro is easier to buy and easier to leave.
- Up to about ten people, owner still on the phones: Housecall Pro.
- Fifteen or more techs, an office team, memberships and payroll in one system: ServiceTitan.
- In between: price both, and read the ServiceTitan term before you compare monthly numbers.
Side by side
From each vendor’s pricing page and ServiceTitan’s annual report, checked October 30, 2026.
| Housecall Pro | ServiceTitan | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $59 to $299/mo annual, $79 to $329 monthly | None. “Request Pricing” on every plan |
| How you’re charged | By plan, with 1, 5 or 8 users included; $35/mo per user past 8 on Max | Per technician per month |
| Contract | None; downgrades take effect at the end of the billing period | Annual or multi-year, noncancelable, with a minimum fee for the term |
| Plans | Basic, Essentials, Max | Starter, Essentials, The Works |
| Payroll | Add-on, no public price | Payroll management from Essentials; configurable payroll on The Works |
| Call booking | CSR AI and Voice add-ons, no public price | On every plan; Phones Pro sold separately |
| Price book | Every plan | Every plan |
| QuickBooks Online | From Essentials | Available to all customers, turned on by your success manager |
| Trial | 14 days on Max, no card | Demo |
The ServiceTitan contract terms come from its 10-K annual report for the year ended January 31, 2026, not the pricing page. We pulled the relevant lines in ServiceTitan pricing.
What each costs
Housecall Pro is straightforward to price. Regular prices, no intro offers:
| Team size | Plan | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Essentials | $149/mo | $189/mo |
| 8 | Max | $299/mo | $329/mo |
| 10 | Max plus two users at $35 (our math) | $369/mo | $399/mo |
| 20 | Max plus twelve users at $35 (our math) | $719/mo | $749/mo |
The 10 and 20 rows assume the $35 seat price applies on annual billing too. The page doesn’t say. Card processing starts at 2.59%, and add-ons like payroll and CSR AI aren’t priced, so the real bill is higher. Every plan and add-on is in Housecall Pro pricing.
ServiceTitan can’t be priced from anything public. What we know is the shape of the bill: a per-technician monthly fee, a contract minimum for the full term, separately sold Pro products, and onboarding run by an implementation team (ServiceTitan booked $35.5 million in professional services revenue last year, so ask whether yours is billed). Its annual report counts about 10,800 “Active Customers,” defined as customers paying more than $10,000 a year, who make up over 97% of its billings. That tells you who the product is built around.
Where ServiceTitan earns its price
- An office that runs the phones. Call booking is on every plan, and the call-center tools go further.
- Payroll and commissions in the same system as the jobs.
- Memberships and reporting for a shop that manages by the numbers.
- Onboarding as a project, with data and accounting migration done for you.
If you have dispatchers, CSRs and a sales process, those are worth paying for, and Housecall Pro will feel small.
Where Housecall Pro is the better buy
- You can see the price before the demo. And you can leave any month.
- The owner is still the dispatcher. Basic and Essentials put scheduling, estimates, invoicing, a price book and financing in front of a small shop without an implementation project.
- Seasonal headcount. Adding a tech is $35 a month on Max. On a per-technician contract with a term minimum, the off-season techs are still on the bill.
And Jobber?
People comparing these two usually have Jobber in the mix. Jobber sits closer to Housecall Pro: published prices, team-size bands from one person to fifteen, and a sales call above that. It’s cheaper than Housecall Pro solo and at eight to ten people, and it doesn’t list a price book or financing. Compared with ServiceTitan it’s the same trade-off as Housecall Pro: less depth, a much easier purchase. We compared them in Jobber vs Housecall Pro, and the rest of the field is in Jobber alternatives and Housecall Pro alternatives.
When neither fits
If what’s broken is the schedule, and quotes, payments and payroll already work fine in QuickBooks, both of these are more system than the problem needs. That’s who Dispatch is for: a schedule board for the week, a crew app that keeps working with no signal, timestamped proof photos on every job, and invoices sent through your QuickBooks Online, priced flat per company. It doesn’t do call booking, payroll, memberships, estimates or payments. If you need those, pick one of the two above.
Book fifteen minutes and we’ll tell you which of the three fits your shop.