Jobber vs Housecall Pro: what each costs a crew, and who should pick which

Disclosure: Bloombilt makes Dispatch, a scheduling and crew app. We’re not in the head-to-head below. Jobber and Housecall Pro are two products we don’t make, and we’ve tried to compare them the way we’d want someone to compare us. We show up at the end, briefly, for the one kind of buyer we actually suit.

Prices verified October 3, 2026, on getjobber.com/pricing and housecallpro.com/pricing. Both companies change their pricing often. Check before you sign anything.

The short answer

Jobber and Housecall Pro are both all-in-one field service platforms. Quotes, scheduling, invoicing, payments, a crew app and client messaging, in one subscription. For most small shops, either one will run the business without much complaint. The choice comes down to a few specific things.

Jobber is usually the better pick if you’re a one-person operation looking for the cheapest way in, if most of your work is repeat residential visits, or if your headcount sits near the top of one of Jobber’s team-size bands, where the per-person cost drops a lot.

Housecall Pro is usually the better pick if you’re in a repair and replacement trade like HVAC, plumbing or electrical, where a flat-rate price book, customer equipment tracking and consumer financing matter. It also suits you if a contract term is a dealbreaker.

The rest of this post is the detail behind those two paragraphs.

How Jobber prices now

Jobber prices by team size. If you’ve read older comparisons that say Jobber charges $29 for each extra user, including our own breakdown from July, that’s not what the pricing page shows anymore. You pick a band (just you, 2 to 5 people, 6 to 10, 11 to 15) and every plan in that band includes that many users. Sixteen or more is a sales call.

There are also three ways to pay: annual (prepaid), monthly with a one-year commitment, and monthly with no commitment. Here’s what we saw for the first three bands.

Two things stand out. Core only exists for a team of one, so the moment you add a second person, Connect is the floor. And the bands create cliffs. Hire your sixth person and Connect goes from $149 to $229 a month on annual billing, even though you only added one phone. The flip side is that the seventh through tenth people cost nothing extra.

Add-ons, from the same page: Marketing Suite at $99 a month, the AI Receptionist at $29 a month, and Pipeline at $49 a month. Plus bundles all three.

How Housecall Pro prices now

Housecall Pro sells three plans, each with a set number of users included.

One note on where these came from. When we checked, Housecall Pro’s pricing page opened with a short quiz (industry, team size, goals) that ended in “get a free demo and tailored pricing.” The plan cards above are part of the same page, and its title reads “From $59/mo,” but you may have to dig to see them.

The page also publishes payment rates: card processing “as low as 2.59%” and a 1% fee on bank payments. Jobber’s pricing page didn’t list processing rates when we checked, so we can’t put the two side by side on that.

What the same crew pays on each

List prices only make sense against a real headcount, so here are four.

Just you. Jobber Core is $29 a month on annual billing or $49 month to month. Housecall Pro Basic is $59 or $79. Jobber is $30 a month cheaper either way. Core covers quotes, invoices, online payments, online booking and basic reporting. QuickBooks Online sync starts one plan up, on Connect. Housecall Pro’s Basic plan packs more into its entry tier: a price book, job costing and consumer financing are all on it.

Five people. Jobber Connect for a 2 to 5 team is $149 annual or $199 month to month. Housecall Pro Essentials, which includes five users, is $149 annual or $189 monthly. That’s the same price on annual billing and $10 a month apart otherwise. At this size, price shouldn’t decide it. Features should. One catch on Jobber: two-way texting with clients is a Grow feature, which is $229 at this size.

Eight people. Jobber’s 6 to 10 band puts Connect at $229 annual, $299 monthly. On Housecall Pro, Essentials includes five users, and the pricing page only shows an extra-user price on MAX, which includes eight. That’s $299 annual or $329 monthly. On annual billing Jobber comes out $70 a month cheaper. MAX does include more, like route optimization, recurring service plans and a dedicated onboarding specialist, so it’s not a perfect like-for-like comparison.

Ten people. Jobber Connect is still $229 or $299, because ten is the top of the band. Housecall Pro MAX covers eight, then lists $35 a month for each extra user, so ten people lands above MAX’s $299 annual price. Even comparing MAX to Jobber Grow ($299 annual at this size), Jobber comes out cheaper, assuming the extra-seat charge applies on annual billing too. Housecall Pro’s page doesn’t say. This is where Jobber’s bands work in your favor.

Contracts and the slow season

This is where the two differ most, and it matters a lot if you’re seasonal.

Jobber’s FAQ spells out its three billing types. Annual is billed up front and the payment is non-refundable if you cancel partway. The one-year commitment keeps billing monthly until the twelve months are up, even if you cancel. Month to month with no commitment can be cancelled anytime, but you pay for that flexibility: $50 a month more than annual on a five-person Connect plan, which adds up to $600 a year.

Housecall Pro says plainly that it “does not require long-term contracts.” You can upgrade anytime and downgrade at the end of your monthly or annual billing period. Monthly costs more than annual there too ($40 a month more on Essentials), but no option on the page locks you in for a year.

If you’re a lawn or snow company that goes quiet for months, do the math on annual billing before you take the discount. We worked through what twelve-month commitments do to a seasonal crew’s real cost in more detail.

Side by side

Where Jobber wins

Getting started cheaply. At $29 a month on annual billing, Core is the lowest entry price of either product.

Mid-size crews. Bands mean a ten-person team pays the same as a six-person team. If you’re at eight or nine people, that’s real money compared to paying per seat.

Repeat work and quote follow-up. Jobber’s Connect plan is pitched at turning “repeat work into more 5-star visits”: automated client reminders, quote and invoice follow-ups, and checklists. In lawn care and cleaning it’s the name most people start with. If you’re already on it and looking around, we also wrote up Jobber alternatives for lawn care.

Where it costs you. The band cliffs, the commitment options, and the fact that features like two-way texting (Grow) and crew scheduling (Plus) sit on higher tiers than you might expect.

Where Housecall Pro wins

Trades that sell from a price book. Flat-rate pricing, a price book, customer equipment tracking, consumer financing, commissions and employee GPS are all listed on the pricing page at the Basic or Essentials level. If you run an HVAC or plumbing shop where a tech prices a repair on site and offers financing on a replacement, those are daily tools, not extras.

No term. If you hate being locked in, Housecall Pro is the simpler deal.

Published payment rates. You know the card floor before you call anyone.

Where it costs you. Basic is more expensive than Jobber Core and only covers one person. Route optimization and recurring service plans are MAX features. And the pricing page itself makes you work to see a number.

A third option, if the schedule is what’s broken

Both of these are suites, and they’re priced like it. That’s fine if you’ll use the quoting, payments and marketing. Plenty of crews don’t. Their quotes are simple, their money already runs through QuickBooks, and what actually hurts is the schedule: who’s where today, what moved because of rain, and whether the work got done.

That’s the buyer we built Dispatch for. It’s a schedule board for the week, with recurring jobs that stop and restart with the season. Crews get a mobile app that keeps working with no signal, and every finished job gets timestamped proof photos. Completed work becomes an invoice that QuickBooks creates, sends and collects. It’s priced flat per company, so adding people for the summer doesn’t change the bill.

What it doesn’t do matters just as much. Dispatch doesn’t quote or estimate, doesn’t take payments, and doesn’t run payroll. If you need any of that in the same system, Jobber or Housecall Pro is the right call, and we’ll say so on a call. Dispatch is also new, and both of these companies have been at it for years.

If you do switch, we move your clients, properties and recurring schedules over from Jobber or Housecall Pro ourselves, and most customers are live in two to three weeks. Our guide to switching off Jobber covers what moves cleanly and when to do it, and dispatch-only vs all-in-one explains when splitting the schedule from the money side makes sense and when it doesn’t.

How to decide this week

1. Count everyone who needs the app on their phone, including you and the office.
2. Price that exact headcount on both pricing pages, at the billing option you’d really pick. If you’re seasonal, multiply by twelve, not by the months you work.
3. Write down the features you’d use every week. Price book, financing and equipment history point to Housecall Pro. Repeat visits and quote follow-up point to Jobber.
4. If that list is mostly scheduling and crew coordination, and QuickBooks already handles your money, book a call with us or see a demo of Dispatch. We’ll tell you if one of the other two fits better.