Competitor comparison · all vendor facts checked 5 August 2026
Housecall Pro vs ServiceTitan, Jobber, Workiz and FieldPulse
Housecall Pro is one of only two platforms on this page that will tell you what it costs without a phone call. That is a real advantage and it shapes every comparison below — three of its four main rivals publish nothing at all.
The short answer
For a small team, Opsler is the stronger buy, and it is not close on price. Five people on Housecall Pro is $299 a month on the Essentials team plan. Five people on Opsler is $125. Eight is $649 against $200. That is the same week’s work — jobs booked, quoted, closed and billed — for well under half the money, with no card processing taken out of what you collect because Opsler is not the processor.
The rest of the field: ServiceTitan is a question of scale — quoted per technician, no trial, and it earns that once you are running departments. Jobber is Housecall Pro’s close fight and is generally cheaper on the published rate. Against Workiz and FieldPulse, Housecall Pro’s advantage is simply that you can see the price at all.
Opsler publishes this page and is held to the same four criteria as everyone else on it, including a section further down on the businesses Housecall Pro genuinely suits better. Disclosed here rather than buried at the bottom.
How the six compare at a glance
Entry price, seat model and trial. For Housecall Pro’s full plan table, add-ons and processing costs, the Housecall Pro pricing breakdown goes into more depth than belongs here.
| Platform | Entry price | Seat model | Trial | Price published? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Housecall Pro | $79/mo solo · $299/mo for a team of five | A Teams/Individual switch re-prices every plan: 1 user, or 5 on Essentials and 8 on Max | 14 days, no card | Yes |
| ServiceTitan | Request Pricing | Quoted per technician | None offered | No |
| Jobber | $49/mo monthly, solo band only | Set by a team-size band chosen before the plans render, not by the tier | 14 days, no card | Yes |
| Workiz | Quote only | Not published — every tier is Contact Us | Free trial, no card | No |
| FieldPulse | Quote only | Seat-based: full-access and limited field seats | None shown | No |
| Opsler | $25/seat/mo | No minimum — buy the seats you have | 14 days, plus a free plan | Yes |
Read from each vendor’s own pricing page — Housecall Pro on 6 August 2026, the rest on 5 August 2026. Housecall Pro and Jobber both re-price behind a headcount control, so every figure here is shown with the team size it belongs to. All figures are monthly with no commitment, which is how Opsler bills.
Three of the six will not tell you the price
ServiceTitan, Workiz and FieldPulse are quote-only — every tier is a Contact Us button, on their own sites and on the review directories. The third-party listings that do print a figure disagree with each other, which is the point: there is no public number to disagree about. A quoted price is set for you individually, by someone whose job is to find out what you will pay.
Opsler is the opposite of that arrangement, and deliberately. $25 per seat per month, the same number for a one-van shop and a ten-van one, published where anyone can check it. No minimum, no band to grow into, no tier above the one you are on, and a free plan for two people that does not expire. Five people is $125 a month. You can work that out yourself, right now, without giving anyone your phone number — and only three of the six platforms here let you do that at all.
Where Opsler beats Housecall Pro for a small team
Housecall Pro is genuinely good at the consumer-facing side, and that is worth paying for if marketing is how you grow. But for a two-to-thirty person business the economics work out badly, and here is exactly where.
The gap is the whole budget, not a rounding error
A five-person shop pays $299 a month on Housecall Pro’s Essentials team plan and $125 on Opsler — $174 a month back, every month. At eight people it is $649 against $200. Proposals with Good-Better-Best options and recurring maintenance agreements are part of Opsler at $25 a seat, with no tier above the one you are on, and campaigns, voice, websites and vehicle GPS are priced separately at Housecall Pro on top of the figures above.
Seats in blocks of 1, 5 and 8 — or just seats
Housecall Pro switches between an Individual view and a Teams view, and the plan re-prices around the block you land in: one user, five on Essentials, eight on Max. Hire a second person and the step is not one seat, it is a different plan — $79 becomes $299. Opsler has no seat minimum and no blocks: two people pay for two, seven pay for seven, and the next hire costs $25 whenever it happens.
0% of your payments, because we are not the processor
Housecall Pro processes card payments and takes a rate on each one. Opsler takes nothing — you present your own payment link, keep your existing processor and your existing rates. For a business collecting most of its revenue on cards, that difference compounds every month and never appears in a software comparison table.
It arrives speaking your trade
Eleven trade presets mean the account is configured before you touch it — an HVAC business gets service calls and maintenance agreements with the usual job types loaded, a cleaning business gets recurring rounds. Most teams are dispatching real work the same week rather than spending it typing their own service list into an empty system. The 14-day trial takes no card, and the free plan does not expire.
Where Housecall Pro wins, stated plainly: consumer booking, review generation and marketing tooling are more developed than anything Opsler offers. If winning residential work through the internet is the bottleneck in your business rather than running the jobs you already have, that is a real reason to choose it. If the bottleneck is the jobs themselves — booking them, quoting them, getting them closed and billed without paying for a seat you do not have — the four points above are what decide it.
How this comparison was put together
Opsler wrote this page and Opsler is one of the six products on it. So the method is stated up front and you can check every claim against the source.
- Every price came from the vendor’s own pricing page — Housecall Pro on 6 August 2026, the rest on 5 August 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing, this page says so rather than quoting a figure from a directory or a review site.
- The same four criteria apply to all six — entry price, seat model, trial, and whether the price is public at all. Where a pricing page hides figures behind a headcount switch, every state of that switch was read rather than whichever one loaded first.
- No star ratings. Opsler has no meaningful review corpus, so scoring rivals on something it cannot supply for itself would be dishonest.
- Housecall Pro’s genuine strengths are stated as such, including the ones where it beats Opsler.
Where Opsler draws the line
Most comparison pages skip this part. Four kinds of business should stay exactly where they are, because Housecall Pro is already doing the job and switching is a cost with no return.
Residential teams that already have it working. Housecall Pro is polished within its feature surface. If your dispatch, quoting and invoicing run cleanly and your team knows it, the migration cost is real and the upside is not.
Businesses using its consumer-facing side. The booking experience, review requests and customer communication are a coherent package. A platform that only handles the back office is a downgrade if that front end is doing work for you.
Teams that fill a plan tier neatly. If you have exactly five people, the Essentials team plan at $299 a month includes exactly five users and you waste none of it. Bundled seats are at their best when you fill them — it is the half-filled tier that costs.
Anyone who values a published price and a real trial. Two of the four rivals here offer neither. That is worth something on its own.
Housecall Pro vs ServiceTitan
This is the most searched comparison in the category and the two products are not really competing for the same business. Housecall Pro publishes its numbers behind a Teams/Individual switch: on Individual, Basic is $79 a month, Essentials $229 and Max $349, each covering one user. Switch to Teams and Essentials becomes $299 with five users included and Max $649 with eight. ServiceTitan publishes Starter, Essentials and The Works — and no price for any of them. Each carries a “Request Pricing” button, and the page states the model is per technician.
The difference that actually decides it
How long you can spend choosing. Housecall Pro can be evaluated in a fortnight on real jobs, for nothing, without speaking to anyone. ServiceTitan has no trial at all — the first step is a conversation and the decision comes before the experience. For a business with an owner who also runs calls, that asymmetry matters more than any feature row.
What ServiceTitan buys you for that is depth Housecall Pro does not attempt: configurable payroll, commission tracking, customizable memberships and advanced reporting on its top package, plus Pro add-ons including Marketing Pro, Dispatch Pro, Fleet Pro, Pricebook Pro, Contact Center Pro and an AI Virtual Agent. None of those carry a published price either, so the real bill only appears at quote.
Searched the other way round as service titan vs housecall pro, the answer does not change — it simply reframes which product you are starting from. The dividing line is roughly eight to twelve technicians and whether you run more than one department.
Above that line, budget weeks rather than days for the decision. Below it, the more useful question is whether you need either price structure at all — a six-person shop pays $150 a month on Opsler, six seats at $25, with no band to move into and no quote to sit through.
Housecall Pro vs Jobber
The closest match on this page. Both publish their prices, both offer 14 days with no card, and both aim at small residential teams. Jobber asks your team size before it shows a price: at 2-5 people on monthly billing Connect is $199, Grow $299 and Plus $499, each covering five users, and at 6-10 they are $299, $399 and $599 covering ten. Housecall Pro asks the same question a different way, switching between an Individual and a Teams view that re-prices every plan around it.
The arithmetic depends on where your headcount falls, and on published rates Jobber is the cheaper of the two at every size we could verify. Solo, Jobber’s Core is $49 a month against Housecall Pro’s Basic at $79. At five people Jobber’s Connect is $199 against the $299 Essentials team plan. At eight, Jobber’s 6-10 band starts at $299 against Max at $649. Run it at your own number rather than the headline — and note that five people on Opsler is $125.
Where Housecall Pro answers back is the customer-facing side — booking, review requests and communication are more developed. Payment processing differs too: Housecall Pro publishes card rates as low as 2.59% and 1% on bank payments, while Jobber publishes 2.9% plus 30¢ on cards and 1% on ACH. On meaningful card volume that gap is worth modelling against your own numbers.
Both share the same step problem. Housecall Pro’s Basic and Jobber’s Core are single-user plans. Hiring one person moves you to a five-seat tier on either platform, whether you need the other four or not. Neither hides it — both publish it — but it is the change that catches people in their first year.
Housecall Pro vs Workiz and FieldPulse
Both come up as alternatives and both are quote-led, which puts them on the other side of the line from Housecall Pro.
Workiz
Workiz shows Standard, Pro and Ultimate, and every one of them is a Contact Us button rather than a number — on its own site and on the review directories alike. The third-party listings that do quote a figure disagree with each other, so nothing here states one. What you can plan for is the shape: a sales call before a price, and a quote that is yours rather than everyone’s.
Its distinguishing feature is the built-in phone system with call tracking and AI answering. If your business runs on inbound calls, that is a real reason to look at it — Housecall Pro expects you to keep the phone setup you already have.
FieldPulse
FieldPulse lists Essentials, Professional and Enterprise, publishes no price, and states its model is seat-based with a distinction between full-access seats and limited field seats. That split is worth understanding before you compare it to anything — a “seat” is not the same unit across these platforms. Its add-ons, including a phone system, Operator AI, payments, financing and fleet tracking, are named without prices. No free trial is shown on the pricing page.
Against both, Housecall Pro’s advantage is the same one it has over ServiceTitan: you can find out what it costs today, and try it, without booking anything. Opsler has that advantage too, and one more — the number it publishes is the same one everybody else is quoted. $25 a seat, whoever you are, whatever you spend.
What housecall pro complaints usually come down to
Worth separating structural trade-offs from faults. The recurring themes are the former, and all three are published facts you can verify before signing rather than surprises buried in a contract.
The single-user entry plan. Basic includes one user. The moment you add someone, the practical move is the Essentials team plan at $299 a month with five seats — the bill goes from $79 to $299 for one extra person, and you are paying for three seats you may not have filled yet.
Processing costs on top of subscription. Card rates are published as low as 2.59%, with 1% on bank payments. A business taking $40,000 a month on cards is looking at roughly $1,000 in processing — several times the subscription. That is not unique to Housecall Pro; it applies to every platform that also processes your money, and it is the reason to price the total rather than the plan.
The growth ceiling. The feature surface is deliberately smaller than ServiceTitan’s. Teams that add departments, need commission structures or want configurable payroll eventually find the edges. That is a product decision rather than a defect, but it is the point at which people start comparing again.
The price you first see is the one-user price. Housecall Pro’s pricing page opens on a Teams/Individual switch, and the figures move a long way when you flip it — Essentials is $229 for one user and $299 for five. Jobber does the same thing with a team-size band, and advertises “up to 25%” off annually without publishing an annual dollar figure anywhere. On both, decide your headcount first and read the price second, or you will budget from a number that was never yours.
On the offline question specifically — a common field complaint across this whole category — we documented what Housecall Pro’s offline mode actually covers on a separate page with the verified behaviour, rather than summarising it second-hand here.
A “seat” does not mean the same thing on each platform
This is the single most common source of a surprise bill, and it is almost never addressed in comparison tables — including the headline one further up this page. Six platforms, six definitions of the unit you are buying.
Housecall Pro and Jobber sell bundles. You buy a block of users — one, five or eight on Housecall Pro; one, five or ten on Jobber, with larger bands it does not price publicly. Filling a block is efficient. Half-filling one is not: a six-person team on Jobber pays for the whole 6-10 band’s ten users, and a six-person team on Housecall Pro has outgrown Essentials’ five. The unit is the block, not the person.
ServiceTitan counts technicians. Its pricing page states the model is per technician. That is a different question from how many people log in — an office manager and a dispatcher are not technicians. Whether they consume a paid seat is exactly the sort of thing to pin down at quote, because it changes the total materially.
Workiz does not say. Standard, Pro and Ultimate are all Contact Us, on Workiz’s own site and on the review directories. Whatever the unit is, you find out what it costs on a call — which makes it the one model on this list you cannot budget for in advance.
FieldPulse splits the unit in two. Its pricing page describes full-access seats and limited field seats as separate things. That is a sensible model — a technician who only needs today’s jobs should not cost the same as an office user — but it means a “seat count” from FieldPulse is not comparable to a seat count from anyone else without asking which kind.
Service Fusion removes the unit entirely. Unlimited users on every plan. Headcount stops being a pricing variable, which is why its flat rate looks expensive at three people and competitive at twenty.
Opsler charges per person with no floor and no bundle. Three people is three seats at $25 each. There is no tier to step into and no minimum to clear, which is why it stays cheapest right through the sizes this page is about: five people is $125 against Housecall Pro’s $299 Essentials team plan and Jobber’s $199 Connect at the 2-5 band, and eight people is $200 against $649 and $299. Bundles only beat per-seat pricing once a flat unlimited-user rate is on the table — the Service Fusion model above, rather than anything Housecall Pro or Jobber sell.
The practical move before any of these comparisons means anything: write down how many people will log in, split by whether they are in the field or the office, and price that exact shape on each platform. The headline figure is rarely what you end up paying.
How to run a two-week evaluation that actually tells you something
Housecall Pro, Jobber and Opsler can all be tested without talking to anyone. Most people waste that window clicking around an empty account. A trial only answers the question if you run real work through it.
Days one and two — load real data. Import a genuine slice of customers rather than test records. Every platform’s import behaves differently on messy data, and messy data is what you have. Opsler uses Excel templates for customers, team members, inventory and locations; note how long it takes and what it rejects, because that is your migration in miniature.
Days three to seven — run live jobs through it in parallel.Keep your current system as the system of record and duplicate five real jobs end to end: schedule, dispatch, quote, complete, invoice, collect. Parallel running is tedious for a week and it is the only honest test.
Put a technician on it, not just the owner. The person who decides is rarely the person who uses it most. Give the field app to whoever complains most about the current one and listen to what they say on day four rather than day one.
Test the failure cases deliberately. Go to a basement or a rural site and try to complete a job with no signal. Take a payment that fails. Edit an invoice after sending it. Software is easy to like when everything works; you are buying what happens when it does not.
Days eight to fourteen — price the real shape. By now you know how many seats you need and of what kind. Put that number against each platform’s published rates, add card processing at your actual monthly volume, and compare totals rather than headline plan prices.
If a platform will not let you do any of this without a sales call, that is a data point too. It may still be the right choice — ServiceTitan, Workiz and FieldPulse all have genuine reasons to be on a shortlist — but you are deciding on a demo rather than on your own jobs, and it is worth knowing that is the trade you are making.
What the workflow actually looks like
Feature tables flatten everything into rows. This is Opsler’s dispatch board, estimate flow and technician app running, so you can judge the product rather than a description of it.
How to choose between them
Four questions get you further than a feature matrix.
1. Do you need to see the price today? Housecall Pro, Jobber and Opsler publish. ServiceTitan, Workiz and FieldPulse quote. If your decision cannot wait on a sales cycle, that halves the list before you compare a single feature — and of the half that is left, Opsler is the one whose published number does not move with your headcount.
2. Where does your headcount sit relative to the tiers? Bundled seats reward teams that fill them and penalise teams that half-fill them. Count your actual people against Housecall Pro’s 1 / 5 / 8 and Jobber’s 1 / 5 / 10 before comparing headline prices. There is no Opsler block to count against: the number you pay for is the number of people you have.
3. What is your card volume? Processing at 2.59% to 2.9% can quietly exceed the subscription. If you take most payments by card, model that first — it may matter more than the plan you pick.
4. Which workflow is actually broken? Inbound call handling points to Workiz. Payroll and commission point to ServiceTitan. Customer-facing booking and reviews point to Housecall Pro. Cost per seat at a small headcount points to Opsler.
Where Opsler fits in this line-up
Opsler is built for the small end of this market — two to ten people who need dispatching, quoting, invoicing and a field app that keeps working when the signal stops, without a seat minimum or a quote process.
What it does well
- A free plan that does not expire. Two seats — one admin, one technician — and 50 jobs a month, with unlimited customers, 100 inventory items and one location. None of the five other platforms here offers a free tier.
- $25 a seat with no minimum. Two people costs two seats. There is no tier step when you hire a third.
- No cut of your payments. Opsler is not a payment processor. You attach your own payment link to an invoice and keep the rate you already negotiated.
- Offline work with a stated boundary. Job status, notes, finalized invoices, payment collection and photos queue offline and sync on reconnect. A brand-new estimate drafts and saves locally but needs a connection to submit. That is the exact edge, not a claim that everything works offline.
What it leaves to other systems
- No payroll and no commission tracking. Opsler records work time against jobs and shows the hours, but it does not calculate gross-to-net pay, withhold tax or cut a deposit. ServiceTitan is the platform here that does.
- No asset or equipment register. Businesses tracking serial numbers and service history per asset need something built for it.
- Accounting is an export, not a connection. Opsler produces QuickBooks-formatted and Xero-formatted files you import yourself. No live link, no automatic transfer.
- No built-in phone system. If call handling is the problem you are solving, Workiz is built around it and Opsler is not.
- Automated text messaging is planned, not live. It will work by connecting your own provider. Today it is not something you can use.
Every one of those is published here rather than discovered in month three. For a two-to-ten person business that needs jobs booked, quoted, closed and billed — with a field app that keeps working in a basement — none of them is what stops your week, and the bill is $25 a seat with nothing gated above it.
Keep reading
- Housecall Pro pricing — the full plan table, add-ons, processing costs and user-count scenarios.
- Housecall Pro alternatives — nine platforms reviewed and grouped by team size and workflow.
- ServiceTitan compared — the same head-to-head treatment from ServiceTitan’s side.
- Best field service software — the wider category.
- Opsler pricing — free plan limits, $25 a seat, and the lifetime deal.
Housecall Pro comparison FAQs
Of those two, for most residential teams under about eight technicians, Housecall Pro. It publishes its prices, starts at $79 a month for a single user, and gives you a free trial without a card so you can test it on real jobs. ServiceTitan is the stronger platform once you are running multiple departments with their own dispatch boards, need configurable payroll and commission tracking in the same system, and have someone accountable for reporting. It publishes no price and offers no trial, so the evaluation is longer and the commitment comes first. Worth knowing before you pick either: at that size both are priced for a bigger business than you are running. Five people on Housecall Pro's Essentials team plan is $299 a month; five people on Opsler is $125, with no seat minimum and a free plan that does not expire.
A direct comparison is not possible, because ServiceTitan publishes no price. As of 5 August 2026, servicetitan.com/pricing shows Starter, Essentials and The Works, each with a "Request Pricing" button, and states the model is per technician. Housecall Pro publishes $79, $229 and $349 a month for a single user, and $299 and $649 for teams of five and eight. What can be said is that Housecall Pro tells you the number before a sales call and ServiceTitan does not.
Two structural things rather than bugs. The first is the seat model: Basic includes one user, so the second person on the team moves you to the Essentials team plan at $299 a month whether you need the other three seats or not — a jump from $79. The second is payment processing — Housecall Pro publishes card rates as low as 2.59% and 1% on bank payments, which on real card volume can exceed the subscription itself. Both are published facts rather than hidden ones, but they are the two that surprise people after signing.
Both of them ask your headcount before they show a price, and on published rates Jobber is the cheaper of the two at every size we could verify. Housecall Pro switches between Individual and Teams: $79, $229 and $349 for one user, or $299 for a team of five and $649 for a team of eight. Jobber asks your team size first and re-prices every plan around it — at 2-5 people its cheapest is Connect at $199 a month, at 6-10 it is $299. Housecall Pro's strength is a more finished experience within a smaller feature surface, not the bill. Opsler sidesteps the question the pair of them create: five people is $125, six is $150, and the seventh hire costs $25 rather than a tier or a band.
No. Housecall Pro offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, but there is no free tier that continues afterwards. The same is true of Jobber, ServiceTitan, Workiz and FieldPulse — none of them publishes a free plan. Opsler does: two seats and 50 jobs a month, free indefinitely.
Housecall Pro is the only one of the three that publishes a price. Workiz shows Standard, Pro and Ultimate with a Contact Us button on each, and the third-party listings that quote a figure disagree with one another. FieldPulse shows Essentials, Professional and Enterprise, publishes nothing either, and uses a seat model that distinguishes full-access seats from limited field seats. So the real comparison is between one company that tells you the price and two that quote you one. Opsler tells you as well, and it is the same number for everyone: $25 a seat a month, no minimum, no call.
Yes, and the three sit on a size ladder. Jobber and Housecall Pro both publish prices and offer 14-day trials, aimed at owner-operators through to roughly ten-person teams. ServiceTitan sits above both, quotes per technician, offers no trial, and is built for multi-department operations. The practical split is that the first two can be evaluated in a fortnight and the third cannot.
Opsler is aimed at the smaller end of the same market: $25 per seat per month with no seat minimum, so a two-person shop pays for two seats rather than stepping up a tier, and nothing is taken from what you collect because Opsler is not the payment processor. Payroll, an asset register and a live accounting connection sit outside it — accounting is a QuickBooks- or Xero-formatted export you import yourself. For a team of two to eight running dispatch, quoting and invoicing, that trade buys the lowest published cost of the six compared here: $125 a month for five people, against $299 on Housecall Pro's Essentials team plan and $199 on Jobber's Connect.
All competitor pricing on this page was read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026. Vendors change prices without notice — check the source before deciding.
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