Competitor comparison · all vendor facts checked 5 August 2026
Jobber vs ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, FieldPulse and Service Autopilot
Jobber publishes every plan price, every seat allowance and every processing rate on one page. That sounds unremarkable until you check the four platforms it is most often compared against — three of them publish no price at all. Transparency is Jobber’s strongest and least-discussed advantage.
The short answer
If you are a small team and you want the whole product on day one, Opsler is the better buy here — one plan at $25 a seat with nothing gated, no seat block to grow into, and 0% taken from your payments. Jobber puts routing, GPS and two-way texting behind Connect and sells seats five and ten at a time, so the plan you priced is rarely the plan you end up on.
The rest of the field: ServiceTitan is a size question — bought after a sales call, not before one. Housecall Pro is Jobber’s close fight, and Jobber is generally cheaper on published rates. FieldPulse asks you to accept a quote process for a seat model that may suit field-heavy teams. Service Autopilot is aimed squarely at lawn, landscaping and cleaning.
Opsler publishes this page and is compared on it against the same criteria as everyone else — including a section further down on the team sizes where Jobber genuinely costs less. We would rather you find that here than three weeks into a trial.
How the six compare at a glance
Entry price, seat model and trial. For Jobber’s full plan structure and billing terms, the Jobber pricing breakdown goes deeper than belongs here.
| Platform | Entry price | Seat model | Trial | Price published? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber | $199/mo at 2-5 people, $299/mo at 6-10 (Connect, monthly) | Set by the team-size band you pick before the plans render, not by the tier | 14 days, no card | Yes |
| ServiceTitan | Request Pricing | Quoted per technician | None offered | No |
| Housecall Pro | $79/mo Basic on the Individual view | Individual 1 each · Teams: Essentials 5, Max 8 · no seat top-up published | 14 days, no card | Yes |
| FieldPulse | Request Pricing | Full-access seats and limited field seats | None shown | No |
| Service Autopilot | $49/mo plus an undisclosed sign-up fee | Business users and mobile licences counted separately | Offered; length not published | 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 on 5 August 2026. Annual billing shown first where two rates are published.
Four reasons small teams pick Opsler over Jobber
Jobber is a good product with a real advantage — it publishes its prices, which three of the six here do not. These are the four places a two-to-thirty person business is measurably better off on Opsler, and they are the reasons people switch.
1. Everything is on one plan. There is no tier above it.
Routing, GPS tracking and two-way texting start at Jobber’s Connect tier, so the plan you costed at the start is rarely the one you sign. On Opsler there is nothing to unlock: route optimisation, the offline technician app, Good-Better-Best estimates, warranty tracking, van-level inventory and the customer portal are all on the one $25-a-seat plan. You never have to buy a tier to reach a feature you already needed.
2. If you are two people, Opsler is free — and Jobber starts at $199.
Jobber’s pricing page asks your team size before it shows a price. Pick 2-5 people and the cheapest plan on the page is Connect at $199 a month. Opsler’s free plan covers two seats — one admin, one technician — and does not expire, with parts inventory, Good-Better-Best estimates and invoicing included rather than reserved for a paid tier. For a business finding its feet that is the difference between $2,388 a year and nothing.
3. You pay for the people you have, not the band they fall into.
Jobber’s bands are steps, not slopes. At 2-5 people Connect is $199; at 6-10 it is $299, and a six-person business pays exactly what a ten-person business pays. Every band you cross adds about $100 a month to whichever plan you are on. Opsler has no bands and no seat minimum: six people cost 6 × $25 = $150, and the seventh hire costs $25 — not a jump to the next bracket.
4. Opsler takes 0% of what you collect.
Jobber processes payments at 2.9% + 30¢ on cards and 1% on bank payments. Opsler is not a payment processor and takes no platform fee — you present your own payment link and keep your existing rates with your existing bank. On a business doing real card volume this is usually a larger annual number than the software itself, and it is the line nobody compares.
5. You can be dispatching this week, in your own trade’s language.
Opsler ships 11 trade presets. Pick HVAC and the account comes up talking about service calls and maintenance agreements, with the common job types already loaded; pick pest control and it talks about treatments and follow-ups. You are adjusting a system that already fits instead of naming every service you offer into an empty one — and the 14-day trial needs no card, so you can find out before you decide.
The honest counterweight, and it is a real one: if your team lands exactly on a Jobber block and you want its integration ecosystem, Jobber will cost you less. That case is made in full further down rather than buried.
How this comparison was put together
Opsler wrote this page and Opsler is one of the six products on it. The method is stated so you can check it.
- Every price came from the vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing — or references a fee without an amount — this page records that rather than estimating.
- The same four criteria apply to all six — entry price, seat model, trial, and whether the price is public.
- No star ratings. Opsler is newer than the products it is compared with here and has the smaller review corpus, so scoring rivals on a measure it cannot yet supply for itself would be dishonest.
- Where Jobber wins, this page says so — including the sizes at which it costs less than Opsler.
Where Jobber is the right answer
Five business shapes where Jobber genuinely wins, so you can rule this comparison in or out quickly. Comparison pages written by competitors almost never publish this section, and it is the part worth checking against your own headcount.
Teams that sit exactly at the top of a band. This is the big one. Bundled seats are only good value when you fill them, and the fullest a band gets is its last seat: ten people on Connect at the 6-10 band is $299 a month, or about $30 a head. That is still above Opsler’s $25, but it is close enough that Jobber’s integration list can decide it — and on annual billing, advertised at up to 25% off, it can cross. Half-fill the same band and the arithmetic goes the other way hard: six people pay the same $299.
Businesses that want a mature, finished product. Jobber has been iterating on the same problem for years and it shows. If your operation fits what it does, there is little reason to trade that for something newer.
Anyone who values published pricing and a real trial. Three of the five rivals here offer neither. Being able to work out your own cost and test on real jobs is worth more than a feature row.
Teams whose growth comes in steps, not ones. If you hire in groups of three or four, you land inside tiers rather than half-filling them, and the bundle model works in your favour.
Seasonal businesses that flex up and down. Bundled seats mean a landscaping crew that doubles for summer is not billed per head for the extra people, provided the peak still fits inside the tier. That is a genuine structural advantage over per-seat pricing, and it is one Opsler does not have — per-seat billing tracks headcount in both directions, which helps when you shrink and costs you when you grow.
Jobber vs ServiceTitan
Jobber publishes prices, though from a team-size band rather than a fixed list: at 2-5 people on monthly billing Connect is $199, Grow $299 and Plus $499, each covering five users; at 6-10 they are $299, $399 and $599 covering ten. ServiceTitan publishes Starter, Essentials and The Works, prices none of them, and states the model is per technician.
Which is better jobber or servicetitan for your business
The question usually answers itself once you count departments. If you run one queue of jobs, Jobber models that well and you can be live this week. If you run install, service and maintenance as separate operations with their own boards, targets and margins, ServiceTitan is built around that shape and Jobber is not.
What ServiceTitan buys for its quote is depth Jobber 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 and an AI Virtual Agent — none of which carry a published price either.
What Jobber buys for its lower price is certainty. You know the cost, you can test it for a fortnight without a card, and you can leave. ServiceTitan has no trial, so the decision comes before the experience.
The awkward middle. Between roughly ten and fifteen technicians, Jobber’s Plus plan at $399 a month starts to look expensive while ServiceTitan is still asking you to book a demo. That is the band where it is worth pricing flat-rate and per-seat options properly rather than defaulting to either.
Jobber vs Housecall Pro
The closest comparison on this page, and the one where published prices make a clean answer possible. Housecall Pro puts a Teams / Individual control above its plans and re-prices everything from it. On Individual: Basic $79 a month, Essentials $229 and Max $349, one user each. On Teams: Essentials $299 for five users, Max $649 for eight. No additional-seat price and no annual rate are published.
On cost, Jobber is lower at the sizes both vendors publish: $49 on Core at the solo band against Housecall Pro’s $79 Basic, and $199 on Connect for a five-person team against $299 on Essentials under Teams. Opsler is lower again and does not step at all — $25 for one seat, $125 for five, $250 for ten, with the free two-seat plan underneath it costing nothing indefinitely.
Housecall Pro answers on the customer-facing side — online booking, review requests and customer communication are more developed — and on processing, where its published card rate starts at 2.59% against Jobber’s 2.9% plus 30 cents. On a business taking $40,000 a month by card, that difference is roughly $124 a month — about what five Opsler seats cost for the same month, and nothing at all if you take the money on your own processor, because Opsler takes no percentage of it.
The practical way to separate them: if most of your work arrives through quotes you send and chase, Jobber’s client hub and follow-up are the stronger side of the product and the lower price is a bonus. If most of your work arrives through customers booking you directly, Housecall Pro’s online booking and review flow are doing revenue work that Jobber leaves to you. Neither is a feature-list argument — both platforms list booking and both list quoting. It is a question of which one the product is genuinely built around, and you will feel that within a week of running real jobs through either trial.
Jobber vs FieldPulse and Service Autopilot
Both are quote-led, and both count users in ways that are not directly comparable to Jobber’s.
Jobber vs FieldPulse
FieldPulse lists Essentials, Professional and Enterprise and publishes no price for any of them. Its model is seat-based, but it distinguishes full-access seats from limited field seats — a sensible distinction, since a technician who needs today’s job list should not cost the same as an office user running reports. For a business with two office staff and eight technicians, that split could genuinely undercut Jobber’s banded pricing, where a two-office, eight-technician shop sits in the 6-10 band and pays the ten-person rate.
The catch is that you cannot check. Jobber’s cost is arithmetic you can do at your desk in two minutes; FieldPulse’s requires a quote conversation and a comparison of two different definitions of the word seat. Its add-ons — a phone system, Operator AI, payments, financing and fleet tracking — are named without prices too.
Jobber vs Service Autopilot
Service Autopilot is aimed at specific trades — lawn care, landscaping, cleaning, snow removal, pest control and pool work — rather than field service broadly. It publishes Startup at $49 a month, Pro at $199, Pro Plus at $499, and Elite on request.
Those figures need care, because the unit is unusual. Startup, Pro and Pro Plus each include only one business user — the full office login — with mobile licences counted separately at one, two and five respectively. So $199 a month on Pro covers one office user and two field devices, where Jobber’s Connect at the 2-5 band covers five users of any kind — $199 a month on monthly billing when read at that band.
All four Service Autopilot plans reference a sign-up fee, and none publishes the amount. It is the only mandatory undisclosed cost we found across the six platforms on this page. If you shortlist it, get that number in writing before comparing anything else — it changes the first-year total and nothing on the pricing page tells you by how much.
Where Service Autopilot earns its place is trade specificity. Route-dense recurring work — mowing eighty lawns a week — has scheduling demands that general field-service tools handle awkwardly. If that is your business, it belongs on the list despite the pricing opacity.
What each of these platforms is actually shaped around
Feature lists converge — everything here schedules, quotes, invoices and takes payment. What differs is the assumption each product makes about how your business runs, and that assumption is far harder to work around than a missing checkbox.
Jobber is shaped around the client relationship. Quotes, approvals, a client hub, follow-up. It reads as a product built for businesses whose work arrives one customer at a time and where the quality of that interaction wins the job. If your revenue depends on converting enquiries, that orientation matters more than any individual feature.
ServiceTitan is shaped around the operation. Departments, dispatch boards, memberships, payroll, reporting. It assumes there is someone whose job is to run the numbers and act on them. Given to a two-person shop it is not merely oversized — the parts that justify the cost are the parts nobody will have time to use.
Service Autopilot is shaped around the route. Recurring visits, dense scheduling, the same properties week after week. Mowing eighty lawns has different demands from attending eighty breakdowns, and general field-service tools handle that awkwardly.
FieldPulse is shaped around configuration. Two classes of seat, add-ons priced by line and licence, a quote for everything. That flexibility is genuine, and the cost of it is that nothing about your bill is knowable in advance.
Opsler is shaped around the job. Getting it dispatched, quoted, evidenced and billed with the fewest people involved — including when the technician has no signal. That is a narrower assumption than any of the above, which is why it fits a two-to-ten-person shop and stops fitting somewhere around the point you hire an operations manager.
Work out which sentence describes your business before comparing features. A platform whose assumption matches yours will feel obvious to use; one whose assumption does not will feel like it is fighting you, however complete its feature list looks in a table.
What a jobber review usually leaves out
Reviews cover the interface and the feature list, which are the parts Jobber does well. Two things matter more at month six, and both are published on Jobber’s own pricing page rather than hidden — they simply do not make it into most write-ups.
The band step. Price is set by a team-size band chosen above the plans, and it is a step rather than a slope. A sixth hire takes a five-person business from $199 to $299 on Connect — $100 for one person, and you now pay the ten-person rate while using six seats. Neither is unreasonable; both are worth modelling before you hire rather than after.
Processing on top. Card payments are 2.9% plus 30 cents and ACH is 1%. A business running $30,000 a month through cards pays roughly $870 in processing on top of a $199/mo Connect subscription at the 2-5 band — the processor costs four times the software. The subscription is not the cost, the total is, and that ratio holds for every platform here that also processes money. Opsler takes 0% of it, because the money never passes through Opsler at all.
Annual billing ties the discount to the term. Every figure on this page is the monthly, no-commitment rate, which is the only like-for-like column against Opsler. Jobber advertises “save up to 25% with annual billing” and publishes no annual dollar figure for any plan, so there is nothing to quote and nothing worth computing — taking the discount means committing to a year, which is a good trade only after you have tested properly.
Model three years, not one month
Every comparison in this category is written around the monthly plan price because it is the one number every vendor prints. It is also the number least likely to determine what you actually spend. Three things compound, and only one of them appears on a pricing page.
Headcount moves and bands do not. A five-person business on Jobber’s Connect plan pays $199 a month. Hire a sixth and the same plan reads $299, because you have crossed into the 6-10 band — you are now carrying four seats you do not use. Over three years, the difference between landing neatly inside tiers and consistently half-filling them runs to thousands. Sketch your realistic hiring plan against each platform’s tier boundaries before you compare headline prices.
Processing scales with revenue, and revenue is what you are trying to grow. This is the one that catches people. At 2.9% plus 30 cents, a business taking $30,000 a month by card pays around $870 monthly in processing. Double the business and you double that line — it grows precisely as you succeed. The subscription does not move nearly as fast. Any platform that also processes your money has this shape; the question is only what the rate is and whether you had a choice.
Migration is a cost you pay twice if you get it wrong. Moving once is a fortnight of parallel running and some data cleanup. Moving twice — because the first choice ran out of room at fifteen technicians — is that cost again plus the disruption of retraining a team who had just got comfortable. This is the real argument for thinking about where you will be in three years rather than what you need this quarter.
None of that makes a cheap plan the wrong answer. It makes the plan price a poor proxy for the decision. A platform that is $50 a month more expensive but charges you nothing to take payments, or that does not force a tier jump when you hire, can be the cheaper option by a wide margin over the period you will actually use it.
What the workflow actually looks like
Comparison 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 settle this faster than a feature matrix.
1. How many people, and of what kind? Count office users and field users separately. Jobber and Housecall Pro charge the same for both; FieldPulse and Service Autopilot do not. That single distinction can reverse which platform is cheapest for your shape of team.
2. Will you fill a tier or half-fill one? Bundled seats are the cheapest option in this category when used fully and among the most expensive when not. Six people on a ten-seat plan is money left on the table every month.
3. What is your card volume? At 2.9% plus 30 cents, processing overtakes the subscription quickly. Model your real monthly card take before comparing plan prices — for many businesses it is the larger number by a wide margin.
4. Can you afford a sales cycle? Jobber, Housecall Pro and Opsler can be tested this week. ServiceTitan, FieldPulse and Service Autopilot start with a conversation. If you need to be running by month end, that decides more than features do.
What Opsler gives a small team, and where Jobber still wins
Opsler is built for the small end of this market — two to ten people needing dispatching, quoting, invoicing and a field app that keeps working without signal, with no seat minimum and no quote process.
What it does well
- A free plan that does not expire. Two seats — one admin, one technician — 50 jobs a month, unlimited customers, 100 inventory items, one location. None of the five other platforms here has a free tier.
- $25 a seat, no minimum, no bundles. Three people is three seats. There is no step when you hire a fourth, and nothing is wasted when you are between sizes.
- No cut of your payments. Opsler is not a payment processor. You attach your own payment link and keep the rate you already negotiated — which, against 2.9% plus 30 cents, is usually the largest line on this page.
- Offline work that finishes the visit. Job status, work notes, checklist ticks, before-and-after photos, the customer’s signature, the finalized invoice and the payment all queue on the phone with no signal and sync themselves on reconnect — arrival to money collected, four floors underground. We set that against what Jobber’s offline mode actually covers, which its pricing page names but never expands.
Where Opsler draws the line
- At the top of a band, Jobber closes the gap. A ten-person team on Connect pays $299 against $250 for ten Opsler seats — near enough that Jobber’s integration list, live accounting sync and public API can decide it. Below five people the gap is wide the other way: Opsler is $50 to $125, or free at two seats, against Jobber’s $199 floor.
- Payroll stays with your payroll provider. Opsler captures the hours worked against each job and reports them back, so whoever runs the pay run starts from evidence rather than a whiteboard.
- Service history attaches to the customer and the address.A repeat visit starts informed — last year’s repair, the model off the side of the unit, the gate code — rather than starting cold.
- Accounting leaves as a reviewed batch. Opsler produces QuickBooks-formatted and Xero-formatted files your bookkeeper imports, so nothing lands in the ledger without a human seeing it first.
- Customer contact runs on email and the portal link. The customer opens it on their own phone — no account, no download — and a busy month never arrives with a per-message bill attached.
Keep reading
- Jobber pricing — plans, seat allowances and billing terms in full.
- Jobber alternatives — ten platforms reviewed and grouped by team size.
- ServiceTitan compared — the same head-to-head treatment from ServiceTitan’s side.
- Housecall Pro compared — including what a seat means on each platform.
- Best field service software — the wider category.
- Opsler pricing — free plan limits, $25 a seat, and the lifetime deal.
Jobber comparison FAQs
They are built for different businesses. Jobber publishes its prices — you set a team-size band and each plan shows a rate, from $199 a month for a 2-5 person crew on Connect — and it is designed to be bought without a sales call. ServiceTitan quotes per technician, publishes no price, offers no trial, and is built for multi-department operations that need configurable payroll, commission tracking and advanced reporting. If knowing the price before a conversation matters to you, Jobber answers that and ServiceTitan does not.
That cannot be answered directly, because ServiceTitan publishes no price. As of 5 August 2026, its pricing page shows Starter, Essentials and The Works with a "Request Pricing" button on each and states the model is per technician. Jobber publishes rates you can read in a browser — $199, $299 and $499 a month for a 2-5 person team on Connect, Grow and Plus. What is comparable is transparency, not cost.
Compare them at your own headcount, because they price on different logic. Housecall Pro puts a Teams / Individual control above its plans and re-prices all of them: Individual gives Basic $79, Essentials $229 and Max $349 a month with one user each, while Teams gives Essentials $299 for five users and Max $649 for eight. Jobber asks your team size first and re-prices everything around it — at 2-5 people its cheapest is Connect at $199 a month, at 6-10 it is $299. Neither vendor publishes an additional-seat price, so on both of them a new hire is a jump between priced states rather than a line on the bill. Housecall Pro processes cards slightly lower, at 2.59% against Jobber's 2.9% plus 30 cents. Opsler is the third answer and the only flat one: $25 a seat, no minimum, five people for $125.
Jobber publishes its prices and FieldPulse does not. FieldPulse lists Essentials, Professional and Enterprise, directs you to request a quote, and uses a seat model that separates full-access seats from limited field seats. That split can work out cheaper for a business with many field staff and few office users — but you cannot verify that without a quote, whereas Jobber's cost is arithmetic you can do yourself.
Service Autopilot targets lawn care, landscaping, cleaning, snow removal, pest control and pool work specifically, and prices differently: Startup at $49 a month, Pro at $199, Pro Plus at $499 and Elite on request. Each of those includes only one business user, with mobile licences counted separately — one on Startup, two on Pro, five on Pro Plus. Every plan also references a sign-up fee whose amount is not published. Jobber is the broader field-service product and the more transparent of the two on total cost.
No. Jobber offers a 14-day free trial on the Grow plan with no credit card required, but no free tier continues afterwards. The same is true of ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, FieldPulse and Service Autopilot. Opsler offers a free plan of two seats and 50 jobs a month that does not expire.
Most reviews cover the interface and the feature list, which are the parts Jobber does well. Two things matter more after six months. First, the price you were quoted depends on a team-size band you set before the plans rendered — cross a boundary and every plan jumps about $100 a month, so a six-person business pays the ten-person rate. Second, card processing at 2.9% plus 30 cents, which on real volume can exceed the subscription. Both sit on Jobber's own pricing page rather than being hidden, and neither tends to appear in a review.
Opsler charges $25 per seat per month with no minimum and no bands, so a three-person team pays for three seats — $75 — and a two-person team pays nothing at all on the free plan, which includes parts inventory, Good-Better-Best estimates and invoicing. Against Jobber's 2-5 band starting at $199 a month, that gap is wide for a small crew and it widens again at 6-10, where Jobber charges the ten-person rate whether you have six people or ten. Jobber's advantages are its integration ecosystem and a longer track record. Opsler is also not a payment processor and takes no percentage of what you collect.
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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