What field-service software actually costs in 2026.

The short answer

For a small or mid-sized service company in 2026, the published field-service platforms run from about $21 to $499 per month at list before users and add-ons are counted, and the quote-only platforms run into the tens of thousands in year one. Those two sentences describe very different products, and the price difference is the least interesting part. What matters is the shape of the price — how many users it includes, what is bolted on separately, and what it becomes in month thirteen.

Five platforms cover most of the market for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and similar trades: ServiceTitan, Jobber, Housecall Pro, FieldEdge, and Service Fusion. Two of the five publish no prices at all. This page pulls together what each actually costs, using vendor pricing pages where they exist (labeled official) and aggregated buyer reports where they don’t (labeled reported), then works the totals for a 5-technician shop and a 20-technician shop.

All figures were checked on August 27, 2026 and are listed in the Sources section. Vendors change pricing without notice; treat every number here as a reference point for your own quote, not as the quote.

The five platforms, side by side

Official = the vendor’s own pricing page. Reported = aggregated buyer reports from third-party pricing guides; treat as ranges, not quotes.

What drives the real price

• How users are counted. Jobber and Housecall Pro include one user on their entry plans; every additional office person or technician is a separate monthly line. Service Fusion charges a flat rate with unlimited users. ServiceTitan and FieldEdge price per technician or per seat. The same 10-person shop is a wildly different bill on each model.
• The add-on ladder. The features a working shop needs — sales proposals, recurring service agreements, GPS, card processing, phones, marketing automation — are frequently sold separately or gated to the top tier. Housecall Pro advertises its sales-proposal tool as a “$40/mo value” included only on Max. ServiceTitan’s Marketing Pro, Phones Pro, and Pricebook Pro are reported at roughly $500–$1,500, $300–$800, and $200–$500 per month respectively.
• Annual vs. monthly billing. Jobber’s Grow plan is $105 on annual billing and $199 month-to-month — monthly costs 90% more. Housecall Pro’s gap is smaller ($299 vs. $329 on Max). Service Fusion discounts annual billing 15%.
• Promotional first-year pricing. Jobber currently advertises “save $67 for 3 months, then $169/mo” on Grow with a one-year commitment. The number in the banner is not the number on the renewal invoice.
• Implementation. For the published platforms, onboarding is self-serve or included. For ServiceTitan, the reported implementation fee alone ($5,000–$50,000+) can exceed a year of a competitor’s subscription, and it’s reported as non-refundable.
• Contract length. ServiceTitan is reported at a 12-month minimum. Service Fusion states no contract. That difference is worth real money if the software turns out to be the wrong fit.

Worked totals: a 5-tech shop and a 20-tech shop

Assumptions are stated so you can swap in your own. Both scenarios count office users and technicians, use list pricing on the billing cycle shown, and exclude card-processing percentages (which scale with revenue, not seats).

Scenario A · 5 technicians + 2 office users (7 seats)

Scenario B · 20 technicians + 5 office users (25 seats)

The spread is the story. At 7 seats the cheapest published option is under $2,500 a year and the quote-only leader is plausibly $20,000–$40,000. At 25 seats the range is $6,400 to well over $100,000. Nobody should pick from this table alone — ServiceTitan’s price buys capabilities the others don’t have — but nobody should sign a ServiceTitan agreement without having done this arithmetic first, either.

The add-on ladder, itemized

The base subscription is the price of admission, not the price of running the shop. Here is what typically sits on top of it, by platform, using only figures that are published or consistently reported. Where a vendor lists a feature but not a price, it says so — that absence is itself useful information before a demo.

• Card processing. Every platform takes a percentage of card payments run through it. None of the five publishes a rate on the pricing page checked for this article; the rate is negotiated or disclosed at signup. On $1 million of card revenue, one-tenth of a percent is $1,000 a year, so ask for the exact rate in writing and compare it to your current processor.
• Proposals and good-better-best quoting. Housecall Pro includes its sales-proposal tool only on Max and values it at $40/month. Jobber’s quoting features step up by plan. ServiceTitan’s Pricebook Pro is reported at $200–$500/month.
• Recurring service agreements. The maintenance-plan revenue every HVAC and plumbing owner wants is a plan-tier feature on Jobber and Housecall Pro and a paid add-on (“Progressive Billing & Recurring Invoicing”) on Service Fusion’s lower tiers.
• GPS and fleet tracking. Listed as an add-on on every Service Fusion tier and on Housecall Pro (“VGPS/Dashcams”), unpriced publicly on both. Budget hardware per vehicle as well as the monthly fee.
• Phones and call tracking. Housecall Pro lists “Voice” as an add-on without a public price. ServiceTitan’s Phones Pro is reported at $300–$800/month. If you already pay for a phone system, this is either a saving or a duplicate.
• Marketing automation. Housecall Pro “Campaigns” (unpriced), ServiceTitan Marketing Pro (reported $500–$1,500/month). These are the add-ons most likely to be sold on a demo and least likely to be used by a shop without someone owning marketing.
• Extra users. $29/month on Jobber; $100/month (Essentials) or $75/month (Max) on Housecall Pro; free on Service Fusion; per-technician on ServiceTitan and FieldEdge. This is the line that most often doubles the advertised price.

The pattern to notice: the cheaper the entry price, the more of the working feature set has been moved into the ladder. That is not deceptive — it lets a two-person shop start cheaply — but it means the entry price is only the real price for a two-person shop.

Contract terms and the cost of being wrong

The second price nobody quotes is the cost of leaving. Service Fusion states no contract on any plan. Jobber and Housecall Pro sell annual plans at a discount and monthly plans without one, which makes the annual discount the price of flexibility: on Jobber Grow, $94 a month buys the right to cancel. ServiceTitan is reported at a 12-month minimum with a non-refundable implementation fee, which means a wrong choice there costs the full year plus the fee — plausibly $20,000 or more for a small shop. The right way to read that is not “avoid ServiceTitan” but “be sure before you sign,” which is exactly what the worked totals above are for. A three-month trial on a monthly plan with a published platform is often the cheapest research a growing shop can do before committing to the enterprise tool.

The three-year view

Year one is the number vendors compete on. Year three is the number you live with. Two things move it: renewal increases, which the published platforms have applied in recent years (the List-Price Theater report documents the pattern), and growth — every technician you add is a new line on a per-user model and nothing on a flat one. For Scenario A, a shop that grows from 5 to 9 technicians over three years adds about $1,400 a year on Jobber and nothing on Service Fusion. For Scenario B, the same growth on ServiceTitan is reported at $300–$500 per added technician per month. Model the shop you expect to have in year three, not the one you have today, and you will pick differently about a third of the time.

When the expensive option is the right one

ServiceTitan is not overpriced Jobber. It is a different category: enterprise-grade dispatch, pricebook management, call tracking, and marketing attribution designed for shops that run on call volume and technician efficiency. The honest question is whether your business is big enough, and managed tightly enough, to use that. Rules of thumb in the trade press cluster around 15–20+ technicians and a dedicated office team; below that, the reported implementation fee and 12-month minimum are hard to recover. A 5-tech shop that buys the enterprise tool usually ends up paying enterprise money to use 20% of it.

The opposite mistake is just as expensive: a 25-tech operation squeezed onto an entry plan, with dispatchers working around missing features in spreadsheets and group texts. That is the spreadsheet-debt bill, and it doesn’t show up on any software invoice.

Where this fits in a systems decision

Field-service software is rarely the only system in play. It has to talk to accounting (QuickBooks in most shops), payroll, a phone system, and whatever the sales side uses for estimates — and the cost of that integration work is not on any pricing page. Our List-Price Theater report covers the four pricing patterns above across the whole small-business software stack; our HVAC & field-service page describes the operational problems these tools are supposed to solve. When the decision is bigger than one product, a Technology Strategy engagement maps the whole stack before any money moves; if the underlying question is “why does the office feel chaotic,” the Business Systems Assessment is the right first step, and its pricing is published too.

Questions to ask any field-service vendor

• What is the price with all of my office users and technicians on it, on monthly billing, in month 13?
• Which of proposals, service agreements, GPS, payments, phones, and marketing are included, and which are add-ons — with prices?
• What is the implementation fee, is it refundable, and how long until we’re live?
• What is the minimum term, and what does it cost to leave?
• How does it sync with QuickBooks, and who fixes it when the sync breaks?

Get those five answers in writing. Then compare them to the tables above.

Sources

• Jobber pricing page, getjobber.com/pricing — official; accessed 2026-08-27. Plans $21/$70/$105/$280 annual, $49/$139/$199/$499 monthly; +$29/user; promotional “save for 3 months” language.
• Housecall Pro pricing page, housecallpro.com/pricing — official; accessed 2026-08-27. Basic $59/$79, Essentials $149/$189 (5 users, +$100/user), Max $299/$329 (8 users, +$75/user); proposals “$40/mo value” on Max.
• Service Fusion pricing page, servicefusion.com/pricing — official; accessed 2026-08-27. Starter $208/$245, Plus $325/$382, Pro $533/$627; unlimited users; no contract; 15% annual discount.
• Tooled Up Pro, “ServiceTitan Pricing 2026,” tooleduppro.com — reported; accessed 2026-08-27. ~$245 / $300–$400 / $400–$500 per tech per month; $5,000–$50,000+ implementation; 12-month minimum; add-on ranges.
• Projul, “ServiceTitan Pricing 2026,” projul.com — reported, corroborating; accessed 2026-08-27. $10,000–$25,000 implementation for 5–20-tech companies.
• HVAC Software Hub, “FieldEdge Pricing,” hvacsoftwarehub.com — reported; accessed 2026-08-27. Tiers from $89/$149 base; setup $299–$599; add-ons $39–$99/mo.
• Contractor ToolStack / ServiceAgent FieldEdge pricing guides, contractortoolstack.com — reported; accessed 2026-08-27. ~$100/office user and ~$125/technician per month; $500–$2,000 setup. Sources disagree on FieldEdge’s model; both are shown.
• Applied Architecture Group, What Business Software Actually Costs (July 2026) — the four pricing patterns and the earlier verification of Jobber/Housecall Pro per-user rates.