Category overview
Field service management software, compared on published price
Most comparisons in this category rank products by how much the vendor pays for the referral. This one ranks them by what they cost, states plainly when a price cannot be confirmed, and shows the source and check date for every number. 9 of the 15 products reviewed publish a real entry price. The rest require a sales call.
Trade and company size disqualify; features and integrations only rank. So pick your trade and your headcount first, then compare. One truck should start at solo operators; a 2–10 technician shop at small business. If your accounting system is fixed, start instead from QuickBooks support.
Every reviewed platform, cheapest published price first
| Software | Published entry | Pricing model | Trades served | Free trial | Pricing source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber | $29/mo | tiered | 6 | 14 days | Checked 2026-08-18 |
| ServiceM8 | $29/mo | tiered | 8 | 14 days | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Fergus | $31/mo | tiered | 8 | 14 days | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Tradify | $47/mo per user | per user | 4 | 14 days | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| GorillaDesk | $49/mo | tiered | 3 | Not published | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Housecall Pro | $59/mo | tiered | 8 | 14 days | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Kickserv | $60/mo | tiered | 8 | 30 days | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| ServiceMonster | $79.99/mo | tiered | 1 | 14 days | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Service Fusion | $208/mo | flat | 4 | Not published | Checked 2026-08-09 |
| Commusoft | Quote only | quote only | 3 | Not published | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| FieldPulse | Quote only | quote only | 4 | Not published | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| ServiceTitan | Quote only | quote only | 5 | Not published | Checked 2026-08-09 |
| ServiceTrade | Quote only | quote only | 2 | Not published | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Simpro | Quote only | quote only | 3 | Not published | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Workiz | Quote only | quote only | 6 | 7 days | Checked 2026-09-26 |
What the pricing column is telling you
Three states are kept apart on this site because collapsing them would put an unsupportable claim on the page. A published number means the vendor states it openly and somebody opened the page and checked. Quote only means the vendor genuinely does not publish pricing — that is a fact about the vendor, and usually signals a sales process with discovery calls and an implementation fee. Not verified means we have not confirmed a current number, which is a fact about us, not about them.
Publish a real entry price (9)
- Jobber — $29/mo
- ServiceM8 — $29/mo
- Fergus — $31/mo
- Tradify — $47/mo per user
- GorillaDesk — $49/mo
- Housecall Pro — $59/mo
- Kickserv — $60/mo
- ServiceMonster — $79.99/mo
- Service Fusion — $208/mo
Quote only (6)
- Commusoft — sales call required
- FieldPulse — sales call required
- ServiceTitan — sales call required
- ServiceTrade — sales call required
- Simpro — sales call required
- Workiz — sales call required
Narrow it in this order
Five decisions, and only two of them disqualify
The ranking on this site weights trade fit at 40 and company size at 20, because a product built for a different trade or a different headcount is wrong regardless of its feature list. Integrations and features are weighted lower and reported as gaps rather than used to remove a product silently. The weights are published on the methodology page.
- Trade. Does it serve your work? This rules products out.
- Headcount. Enterprise tools are actively wrong at one truck, and the reverse is also true. This rules products out.
- Accounting. QuickBooks Desktop in particular removes most of the market.
- The one feature you cannot work around. Service agreements, job costing, inventory or offline mode — pick the real one, not all four.
- Total first-year cost. Subscription, onboarding, payment processing, add-ons, and the hours spent migrating data.
Shortlists by trade
- HVAC — 13 products
- Plumbing — 12 products
- Electrical — 13 products
- Lawn care — 6 products
- Cleaning — 7 products
- Pest control — 6 products
- Roofing — 3 products
- Appliance repair — 6 products
- Garage door — 4 products
- Locksmith — 3 products
Shortlists by company size
- One truck — 9 products
- 2 to 10 technicians — 11 products
- 11 to 50 technicians — 15 products
- 50+ technicians — 4 products
Field service management, service dispatch, or job management?
The labels overlap and vendors use them interchangeably, but the emphasis differs. Dispatch tooling is about the live day: who takes the call, whether the arrival window still holds, what happens when a technician runs late. Job management leans toward the record: quotes, costs, parts and profitability per job. Full field service management claims both, plus the customer and accounting sides. Products priced under roughly fifty dollars a month are usually strong at one of these and thin at the others, which is fine if you know which one you are buying.
What does field service management software actually cost?
Among the products here that publish pricing, paid entry tiers run from $29 to $208 a month, and the model matters as much as the number: per-user pricing scales with headcount while flat pricing does not. Quote-only vendors are typically the larger platforms and price by implementation.
Is the most expensive option the most capable?
Usually it is the most capable at scale, which is not the same thing. Depth costs implementation time and administrative overhead, both of which are a poor trade at small headcounts.
How is this list ranked?
By a published, deterministic scoring function rather than by commercial relationship, and the table above is sorted purely by published entry price. The weights and the reasoning are on the methodology page.
Facts here come from the reviewed catalog: trades, integrations, size fit and pricing, each carrying a source and a check date. Fit for your operation is a judgement the data cannot make for you.