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10 Best Jobber Alternatives for Field Service Businesses

Jobber asks how big your team is before it shows you a price, and every plan re-prices around that band. A five-person crew sees Connect at $199 a month; hire a sixth and the same plan reads $299 — you now pay the ten-person rate for six people. That step is why most people go looking for a Jobber alternative, and the ten worth comparing are Housecall Pro, Kickserv, Opsler, Service Fusion, ServiceM8, FieldEdge, FieldPulse, ServiceTitan, Simpro and Workiz.

They are listed in one deliberate order: the five that publish a price come first, alphabetically, then the five that do not. Nothing is listed without a stated drawback attached, and this site’s own product is scored on the same criteria as the other nine. External figures were read from each vendor’s own page on 6 August 2026.

Editorial disclosure: Opsler publishes this website and is one of the ten products below. The criteria are published in full before the list, the order is set by pricing transparency rather than by preference, and Opsler is held to the same criteria as everything else on it. Jobber is treated as a baseline to measure against, not as a target.

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Quick picks by use case

Ten Jobber competitors is more than anyone wants to read end to end. Find the row that matches your operation, jump to that section, and skip the rest. Two rows matching means two products to price, not a tie.

Two-person team

Opsler

$50 a month for two Pro seats with no minimum, or free on Budding for 2 seats and 50 jobs a month. Two people puts Jobber in its 2-5 band, where Core is no longer offered and the cheapest plan is Connect at $199 monthly.

Parts across vans and a warehouse

Opsler

Stock by named warehouse, truck and van locations, deducted against the job that consumed it, with low-stock alerts at two severity levels.

Technicians working without signal

Opsler or ServiceM8

The only two vendors here that document offline behaviour in detail rather than in one word. Test both in your own worst dead zone.

Phone-heavy dispatch operation

Workiz

A built-in phone system with AI Answering — the one thing here Opsler leaves to your existing provider. No published price on any tier.

Headcount growing fast

Service Fusion

Unlimited users on every plan. Nothing is published on its own site; Capterra reports a $259/mo entry point, which a small crew pays in full.

Solo, low job volume

ServiceM8

Free for 1 user and 30 jobs a month, then $29 for unlimited users and 50 jobs. Priced by jobs, not people.

Commercial project work

Simpro

Built for staged commercial contracting. Quote-led, with a disclosed setup fee for onboarding and data migration.

Enterprise, multi-branch

ServiceTitan

The deepest platform here and the biggest step up. Quote-only, per technician, with no published trial.

QuickBooks connection is the requirement

FieldEdge

FieldEdge describes its QuickBooks integration as real-time. No trial at all, so this is a demo-first purchase.

Many technicians, small office

FieldPulse

Field-only seats are priced separately from full-access seats. Quote-led, and seats commit for the term.

What Jobber does well: the baseline to measure against

Start with the baseline, because a comparison that treats the incumbent as a problem to be solved is not a comparison. Jobber features cover the residential service workflow properly and it is one of the few products in this category that puts a number on every plan and every billing term.

Current plans

Official
  • Four plans — Core, Connect, Grow and Plus — priced by the team-size band you select
  • Just me: Core $49/mo, Connect $139, Grow $199. Plus is not offered. 1 user
  • 2-5 people: Connect $199/mo, Grow $299, Plus $499 (Contact Sales). 5 users
  • 6-10 people: Connect $299/mo, Grow $399, Plus $599 (Contact Sales). 10 users
  • Core exists only at Just me — it is withdrawn the moment you select a larger band
  • Every rate above is the monthly, no-commitment price. Annual shows only “save up to 25%”, with no dollar figure
  • 14-day trial on Grow, no card. No free plan

Checked 6 August 2026.

Where Jobber is strong

  • Quoting, scheduling, invoicing and payment collection running as one workflow, refined over a long time
  • A client hub and a request form that handle inbound booking without extra tooling
  • One of the larger integration lists in the category, which matters more than buyers expect until they try to leave
  • Published monthly prices on all four plans at every team-size band — half of this category publishes nothing at all
  • A 14-day trial on the Grow plan with no credit card, so you can evaluate the top-tier feature set
  • A large community and a deep library of third-party training material

Jobber still fits when

  • A third-party integration you depend on is in Jobber's marketplace and nowhere else
  • Your inbound booking runs through Jobber's request form and the volume justifies it
  • Your crew is trained, productive, and the switching cost exceeds a year of the difference
  • You are a solo operator on Core at $49 a month and not about to hire — Core is withdrawn as soon as you select a larger team size
  • Your recurring visit schedules are complex and rebuilding them elsewhere is a genuine project
  • Multi-location parts stock, three-tier estimates and a technician app that finishes the job with no signal are not things you need today

The correction worth carrying, because it changes the arithmetic completely: the included user count comes from the team-size band, not the plan. Core, Connect and Grow do not each carry a fixed number of seats — select “Just me” and every plan reads as one user, select 2-5 and every plan includes five. That is why a Jobber price quoted anywhere without the band it was read at is not a number you can budget from. The full band-by-band breakdown is on our Jobber pricing page.

Plan figures read from Jobber’s own pricing page on 6 August 2026. Verify at getjobber.com

Why buyers look for Jobber alternatives

Six triggers account for most searches for apps like Jobber. None is a complaint about the product being badly built — they are requirements that a tiered, band-priced model serves well for one shape of business and awkwardly for another. Work out which apply to you and the ten below shorten to two or three.

The feature you need is one tier up

This is the single most common reason people go looking. Routing, GPS tracking and two-way texting sit on higher plans, so the plan you priced is not the plan you end up on. Products that put everything on one plan — or that publish exactly what each tier holds — solve this differently.

Seat maths on top of tier maths

The bill moves on two axes at once. The tier decides which features you get; a separate team-size band decides how many seats are included and re-prices every plan around it. That is why two people can compare notes on 'the Grow plan' and be quoting different numbers — and why a Jobber price copied from an article, without the band it was read at, is not information you can budget from.

Parts that physically move

A products-and-services list is not the same thing as stock in a van. If a part travels from a warehouse to a truck to a job and its cost has to land on that job, that is a specific requirement to raise on every demo.

Work in dead zones

Crawlspaces, plant rooms, rural properties. Jobber's offline support is partial and its depth is not documented publicly, which is not an accusation — it is a reason to test rather than assume. Only two vendors on this page publish a detailed offline list.

Estimates that need options

A repair-versus-replace conversation sells better as three priced tiers than one number. If you want Good/Better/Best quoting as standard, that narrows the field quickly.

Trade or job shape has changed

Residential service software strains when the work becomes commercial: agreements, assets, compliance paperwork, purchase orders. That is a category change rather than a vendor complaint.

Methodology

Fifteen criteria, applied identically to all ten alternatives and to Jobber itself. The Jobber alternatives methodology below is published before the list rather than buried after it, because a comparison written by one of the vendors on it has no other claim on your trust.

Published price

The vendor's own pricing page, with the date read. No blog figures.

Included users and seat model

Per seat, per user block, per technician, per job volume, or flat.

Free plan versus trial

Recorded separately. A trial is not a free plan.

Scheduling and dispatch

Assignment, conflict handling and same-day emergency insertion.

Quoting and invoicing

Single-price and option-based quotes, approval and invoice review.

Inventory

Whether stock is tracked by location and charged to the job that used it.

Offline and mobile

How the app installs and what the vendor documents as working with no signal.

Customer access

Booking, portal or tracking links, and what the customer must install.

Accounting

The mechanism — live connection, push or formatted file — not the logo.

Onboarding

What a new account configures before the first job can be booked.

Migration and imports

Which records import in bulk, and in what format.

Admin workflow

Review and approval controls between the field and the customer.

Technician workflow

What one person completes on a phone from arrival to payment.

Configurable controls

Statuses, service types, terminology and permissions you can change yourself.

Learning support

Whether guidance is embedded in the workflow, external-only, or needs a person.

Evidence rules

  • Every published price comes from the vendor's own pricing page, with the source linked on the row that uses it. Where a vendor publishes nothing and a directory is the only source, the figure is attributed to that directory and dated rather than stated as pricing. Nothing is sourced to a roundup or to the previous version of this page.
  • Five of these ten publish no price. Those rows say “not published” — they do not carry a range, an estimate or a “reported” figure.
  • The order is not a ranking. Vendors that publish a price come first, alphabetically, then vendors that do not, alphabetically. That order was chosen because you are leaving a vendor that does publish its prices.
  • Nothing appears here without a stated drawback attached, including the entry for this site's own product.
  • We do not score ease of use. Nobody has run the same task on all eleven products, and an ease score without a tested task is an opinion with a number on it.
  • Review-platform evidence and first-party product claims are kept apart, and self-serve product guidance is kept apart from human support. No review ratings are restated here.
  • “Not documented publicly” means the vendor does not say so. It is not a claim that the capability is absent.

How to read the labels on this page

Official

Stated by the vendor on their own site.

Reported

From review platforms or user communities — indicative only.

Historical

Previously published; may no longer be current.

Quote only

No public price; the vendor quotes per customer.

External vendor details checked 6 August 2026. Pricing and packaging in this category change frequently — confirm current terms on the vendor’s own pricing page before you commit. Figures labelled Official were read directly from the vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown. Where a vendor is quote-led, this says so rather than repeating a number from a third-party blog.

Sources and checked dates

SourceWhat it was used forChecked
Jobber — official pricingAll four plan rates at each team-size band, the users included in each band, trial terms and which plans carry routing, GPS and two-way texting. Re-read with the page's team-size selector checked at every band, after an earlier reading captured only its default state.6 August 2026
Jobber — developer centreConfirmation of Jobber's public GraphQL API and App Marketplace.6 August 2026
Housecall Pro — official pricingPlan rates, included users, extra-user rate, add-on prices, processing rates and trial length.6 August 2026
Kickserv — official pricingStart, Run and Scale rates, user counts, the 30-day trial, the QuickBooks Desktop add-on and the absence of a free plan.6 August 2026
Service Fusion — official pricingAnnual and month-to-month rates, unlimited users, contract terms, included support and the add-on list.6 August 2026
ServiceM8 — official US pricingFree plan limits, all four paid tiers with job caps, trial terms, SMS charges and the phone add-on.6 August 2026
ServiceM8 — official mobile app pageWhat ServiceM8 documents as working offline, and the stated exceptions.6 August 2026
Workiz — official pricingTier names, the five-user inclusion, extra-user rates, trial length and the add-on list.6 August 2026
FieldPulse — official pricingPackage names, the seat-based model and the full-access versus field-only split.6 August 2026
FieldEdge — official pricing and QuickBooks partner pagePlan names, mobile licence counts, the no-trial statement and the real-time QuickBooks description.6 August 2026
Simpro — official pricingThe tailored-pricing model, monthly and annual billing, and the disclosed initial setup fee.6 August 2026
ServiceTitan — official pricingPackage names, the per-technician model and the absence of any published rate.6 August 2026
Opsler — pricing and feature pagesEvery Opsler figure, limit and capability on this page, drawbacks included.6 August 2026

Comparison table

All ten Jobber alternatives on one row each, with Jobber at the top as the baseline. Included users and extra-user cost get their own columns because that is where the real difference between these products lives — the headline price rarely is.

VendorBest forEntry priceIncluded usersExtra usersFree plan or trialMain drawback
Jobber (baseline)Small residential teams that want a mature product with a published price$49/mo solo on Core; $199/mo at the 2-5 bandOfficialSet by the team-size band, not the plan — 1 at Just me, 5 at 2-5 people, 10 at 6-10No per-seat top-up published — you move a team-size band instead14-day trial on the Grow plan, no card. No free planIncluded seats come from the team-size band you select, not the tier, and every plan re-prices with it
Housecall Prohousecallpro.com/pricingResidential teams that want the homeowner-facing side handled$79/mo in the Individual view; $299/mo for five in the Teams viewOfficial1 user per plan in the Individual view; 5 on Essentials and 8 on Max in the Teams viewNot published14 days free, no card, cancel anytime. No free planFive people is $299 a month in the Teams view — the same five seats cost $125 on Opsler
Kickservkickserv.com/pricingTeams of about five who want a short feature list and a readable price$60/moOfficial5 on Start, 10 on Run, 20 on ScaleNot published30-day free trial on every plan. No free planThe Start plan bills for five users whether you have five or two
Opsler(this site)opsler.com/pricingTeams tired of tier upgrades and a price that jumps every time they hireFree forever, then $25/seat/moOfficialPer seat, no seat minimum. Budding covers 2 seats free$25/seat/mo — the same rate as the first seatFree forever on Budding, plus a 14-day Pro trial, no cardEverything a service job needs is built in rather than assembled from a marketplace, so the integration list is short by design — check any third-party tool that is load-bearing for you before you move
Service Fusionservicefusion.com/pricingTeams past about six people who want the bill to stop tracking headcountNot published on its own site. Capterra reports $259/moReportedUnlimited on every plan, as reportedNone — unlimited users includedNo free plan and no trial; evaluation is a demo callNothing is published on its own site, and the reported $259 entry point is a hard floor a two-person business pays in full
ServiceM8servicem8.com/us/pricingOne- and two-person operations billed by job volume, not headcountFree, then $29/moOfficial1 on Free; unlimited users on every paid planNone — paid plans are priced by monthly job countFree plan: 1 user, 30 jobs a month. 14-day trial of the paid plansJob volume is a hard ceiling. Cross 50 jobs a month and Starter becomes Growing, a jump from $29 to $79
FieldEdgefieldedge.com/pricingHVAC and plumbing companies whose accounting cannot moveNot publishedQuote onlyMobile app licences: 2 on Select, 4 on Premier, 6 on EliteNot publishedNone — FieldEdge states it does not offer a free trialNo price published anywhere on the pricing page
FieldPulsefieldpulse.com/pricingCrews where field headcount far outnumbers office headcountNot publishedQuote onlyFull-access and field-only seats, priced separatelySeats bought upfront for the contract termNo trial advertised on the pricing pageNo published rate on any package
ServiceTitanservicetitan.com/pricingLarge residential and commercial operations with dedicated admin staffNot publishedQuote onlyPer technician, quotedNot publishedNo trial publishedNo published price on any package — a demo comes before a number
Simprosimprogroup.com/pricingProject-based commercial contractors with a funded rolloutNot publishedQuote onlySized to the team, with selectable add-onsNot publishedNo trial advertisedNo published subscription price at all
Workizworkiz.com/pricing-plansDispatch businesses where inbound calls are the productNot publishedQuote onlyNot publishedNot published7-day free trial, no credit card. No free planNo published price on any tier, and no published per-user rate either

External figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 6 August 2026. Rows are ordered by pricing transparency, then alphabetically — not ranked. Confirm every figure at source before you buy.

Detailed alternatives

Each of the ten in full: best fit, exactly what the vendor publishes about price, what it does well, where its limits are, and the specific way it differs from Jobber. The five that publish prices come first.

Alternatives that publish a price

You are leaving a vendor that puts numbers on its pricing page. These five do the same, which means you can build a budget before anyone calls you.

Housecall Pro — Best for the Homeowner-Facing Side of Residential Work

Official
Entry price
$79/mo in the Individual view; $299/mo for five in the Teams view
Included users
1 user per plan in the Individual view; 5 on Essentials and 8 on Max in the Teams view
Extra users
Not published
Free plan or trial
14 days free, no card, cancel anytime. No free plan

Housecall Pro is the nearest thing to a like-for-like swap for Jobber, and the two get shortlisted together for the same reasons: both publish prices, both sell online, both are built for residential home service. Read the price carefully, because a “How many users? Teams | Individual” control sits above the plans and re-prices every one of them. In the Individual view, Basic is $79 a month, Essentials $229 and Max $349 — one user each. Switch to Teams and Essentials becomes $299 for five users, Max $649 for eight. Card processing is advertised as low as 2.59% and bank payments at 1%. No annual rate and no additional-seat price appears anywhere on the page.

What it does well

  • Five users included on Essentials in the Teams view, at $299 a month
  • Online booking, automated customer notifications and integrated payment collection
  • The sales proposal tool and membership plans are included in Essentials under Teams rather than sold as add-ons
  • A large community and a lot of third-party training material

Real drawbacks

  • Five people is $299 a month in the Teams view — the same five seats cost $125 on Opsler
  • Teams and Individual produce completely different prices for identically named plans, so any figure quoted elsewhere is meaningless without the view attached
  • No free plan, only a 14-day trial
  • No annual rate and no additional-seat price is published, so growth past eight people becomes a conversation

How it differs from Jobber

Both re-price around how many people you have; they just use a different control to ask. Housecall Pro has a Teams/Individual switch, Jobber a team-size band. Neither lets you read one number and budget from it. Opsler is $25 a seat at every team size, so five people is $125 no matter which way you look at the page.

Figures read from housecallpro.com/pricing on 6 August 2026Housecall Pro pricing

Kickserv — Best for a Short Feature List and a Readable Price

Official
Entry price
$60/mo
Included users
5 on Start, 10 on Run, 20 on Scale
Extra users
Not published
Free plan or trial
30-day free trial on every plan. No free plan

Kickserv sells in user blocks rather than by the seat: Start is $60 a month for five users, Run is $119 for ten and Scale is $199 for twenty, with 20% off for annual billing. The trial is 30 days, longer than anything else here. One correction worth carrying, because roundups repeat it constantly: Kickserv does not have a free plan. The pricing page offers three trials and nothing else.

What it does well

  • Prices published openly, with no sales call needed to get a number
  • Five users at $60 a month works out cheaper per head than most tiered plans at that size
  • A 30-day trial — the longest on this page — which is enough to run real jobs through it
  • A short, learnable feature set for a team that does not want a platform
  • QuickBooks Desktop integration available as a $50-a-month add-on

Real drawbacks

  • The Start plan bills for five users whether you have five or two
  • There is no free plan, despite what a lot of listicles say
  • The QuickBooks Desktop connection is a paid add-on on top of the plan
  • Inventory, reporting and field-mobile depth are all lighter than the platforms below
  • Annual dollar amounts are not shown on the page — only that annual saves 20%

How it differs from Jobber

Kickserv buys users in blocks; Jobber buys them one at a time. At exactly five people Kickserv's $60 is the cheaper arithmetic. At two people it is the more expensive one.

Figures read from kickserv.com/pricing on 6 August 2026

Opsler — Best for Every Feature on One Plan With No Tier to Climb

Official

Publisher disclosure: Opsler operates this website. Read this section as the vendor talking and check it against the pages linked underneath.

Entry price
Free forever, then $25/seat/mo
Included users
Per seat, no seat minimum. Budding covers 2 seats free
Extra users
$25/seat/mo — the same rate as the first seat
Free plan or trial
Free forever on Budding, plus a 14-day Pro trial, no card

Opsler publishes this website, so read this as the vendor talking and check it against the pages linked below. The Budding plan is free forever and covers 2 seats — 1 admin and 1 technician — with 50 jobs a month, unlimited customers, 100 inventory items and 1 inventory location. Pro is $25 per seat per month with no seat minimum and no tiers: all 42 features across 33 feature pages are on the one plan, so there is nothing above you holding the capability you need. Three seats is $75 a month, six is $150, and the sixth hire costs the same as the first. The trial is 14 days with no card, and a lifetime option is $499 for 5 seats with extra seats at $25 a month.

What it does well

  • One plan, no feature gating — the thing most people leaving Jobber are actually shopping for
  • Offline field work with a published action list: open assigned jobs, change status, record work performed, tick the checklist, check stock on your own vehicle, capture before-and-after photos and the customer's signature, create and send invoices and record payments — the whole visit, on a phone with no bars
  • Good/Better/Best estimates alongside single-price ones, approved by a one-time code emailed to the customer and signed on site
  • An invoice approval queue: invoices wait for an admin to release them, and a price override needs approval
  • Parts stock across named warehouse, truck and van locations, deducted against the job that used them, with low-stock alerts at two severity levels
  • Parts, labor and full warranty records attached to the customer and visible to the technician before arrival
  • A no-login customer portal delivered as an emailed link, plus a free branded website with online booking
  • 0% platform fee — Opsler is not a payment processor, so none of what you collect passes through it

Real drawbacks

  • Everything a service job needs is built in rather than assembled from a marketplace, so the integration list is short by design — check any third-party tool that is load-bearing for you before you move
  • Accounting leaves as a QuickBooks-formatted or Xero-formatted export your bookkeeper imports as a reviewed batch, so a human sees the numbers before the ledger does
  • Customer contact runs on email plus the no-login portal link — nothing for the customer to install, and nothing charged per message
  • The app installs straight from a supported browser on desktop, Android and iPhone, so there is no store approval queue between a fix and your technicians having it
  • Budding is a free plan rather than a trial — 2 seats, 50 jobs a month, 100 inventory items and 1 location, with no expiry — and Pro is $25 a seat the day you outgrow it
  • Scope stays on service operations: the customer, the job, the parts, the invoice and the money, rather than enterprise marketing attribution and multi-branch consolidation

How it differs from Jobber

How knowable the bill is. Jobber's pricing page asks your team size before it shows a price, and every plan re-prices around that band, so a figure you saw quoted anywhere may have been read at a different headcount than yours. Opsler is $25 a seat, the same number at every team size, with every feature on it. Worth saying plainly: at some headcounts Jobber works out cheaper, and its ecosystem — a longer integration list, a bigger community, more third-party training — is genuinely ahead.

Figures read from opsler.com/pricing on 6 August 2026Opsler pricing and lifetime option
Start Opsler free for two seatsSee the offline technician workflow

Service Fusion — Best for Teams Who Want the Bill to Stop Tracking Headcount

Reported
Entry price
Not published on its own site. Capterra reports $259/mo
Included users
Unlimited on every plan, as reported
Extra users
None — unlimited users included
Free plan or trial
No free plan and no trial; evaluation is a demo call

Service Fusion answers the per-user problem by removing per-user pricing — but it no longer publishes what that costs. Its own pricing page routes to a demo request. Capterra records Starter at $259 a month, Plus at $399 and Pro at $649, flat rate with unlimited users on every plan, no free version and no trial (read 6 August 2026). Those are a third-party report rather than published pricing, which is why they are attributed and dated here instead of stated as fact — confirm them on the call.

What it does well

  • Unlimited users on every plan, as reported — hiring never changes the invoice
  • One flat rate rather than a per-seat or per-band model
  • Onboarding and unlimited email, phone and live chat support included
  • Add-ons available including GPS fleet tracking, custom documents and eSign

Real drawbacks

  • Nothing is published on its own site, and the reported $259 entry point is a hard floor a two-person business pays in full
  • No trial at all, so evaluation means a demo before you have run a single real job through it
  • Add-on prices are not published either, so the real number still needs a conversation
  • Offline behaviour is not documented publicly

How it differs from Jobber

Flat-rate pricing stops tracking headcount, which is genuinely useful once you are large. The catch is where it starts: at the reported $259 a month, a two-person shop is paying more than ten Opsler seats cost. Opsler is $25 a seat with no minimum, so it starts where you actually are rather than asking you to grow into the bill.

Figures read from servicefusion.com/pricing on 6 August 2026Service Fusion pricing

ServiceM8 — Best for Solo Operators Billed by Job Volume

Official
Entry price
Free, then $29/mo
Included users
1 on Free; unlimited users on every paid plan
Extra users
None — paid plans are priced by monthly job count
Free plan or trial
Free plan: 1 user, 30 jobs a month. 14-day trial of the paid plans

ServiceM8 is the only product on this page that prices by job volume rather than by people, which makes it a genuinely different shape of answer. The free plan covers 1 user and 30 jobs a month with 10 AI uses a day. Starter is $29 a month for unlimited users and 50 jobs, Growing is $79 for 150 jobs, Premium is $149 for 500 and Premium Plus is $349 for 1,500 or more. SMS is charged at 10c a message on the free plan and included on the paid ones. A phone add-on starts at $19 a month.

What it does well

  • Unlimited users on every paid plan — a five-person crew doing 50 jobs a month pays $29
  • A genuine free plan rather than a trial: 1 user, 30 jobs a month, no time limit
  • Included SMS on paid plans, which is rare at this price
  • A 14-day trial with payment details only required if you subscribe
  • Documented offline work: job details, notes, photos, videos and signatures, with templates and sending emails or texts named as the stated exceptions

Real drawbacks

  • Job volume is a hard ceiling. Cross 50 jobs a month and Starter becomes Growing, a jump from $29 to $79
  • iOS-first with more limited Android support — check what your crew actually carries
  • The free plan's single user makes it a solo tool, not a two-person one
  • Depth in inventory, job costing and reporting is thinner than the platforms above

How it differs from Jobber

Opposite meters. Jobber charges for people and lets job volume run; ServiceM8 charges for jobs and lets headcount run. A three-person crew doing 40 jobs a month is dramatically cheaper on ServiceM8; a one-person operation doing 200 is not.

Figures read from servicem8.com/us/pricing on 6 August 2026
The Opsler technician app showing an assigned job while offline

Opsler’s technician app. Offline behaviour is published action by action on the offline technician app page rather than summarised in one word.

Alternatives that quote rather than publish

These five give you a demo before a number. That is not automatically worse — three of them do things nothing on the published-price list does — but it is a real change from how you buy today.

FieldEdge — Best for HVAC and Plumbing Companies Whose Accounting Cannot Move

Quote only
Entry price
Not published
Included users
Mobile app licences: 2 on Select, 4 on Premier, 6 on Elite
Extra users
Not published
Free plan or trial
None — FieldEdge states it does not offer a free trial

FieldEdge publishes three plans — Select, Premier and Elite — with two, four and six mobile app licences, and no prices: “Our three plans allow you to customize the software and add-ons based on the specific features you need, so pricing can vary!” Its pricing FAQ says the figure depends on technician and employee headcount and the add-ons chosen. It also says outright that there is no free trial, because it prefers to run onboarding and data transfer itself.

What it does well

  • FieldEdge's own partner page describes its QuickBooks integration as real-time, with one entry updating both systems
  • Three published plans with mobile app licences included
  • Guided onboarding with data-transfer help rather than self-serve signup
  • A trade focus on HVAC and plumbing rather than general field service

Real drawbacks

  • No price published anywhere on the pricing page
  • No free trial at all, so you cannot test it against your own jobs before signing
  • Mobile licences are capped by plan, so growing the crew can force a plan change
  • The trade focus that suits an HVAC company works against a multi-trade business
  • Offline behaviour and inventory depth are not documented publicly

How it differs from Jobber

Jobber sells itself online with a price and a trial; FieldEdge sells through a demo with neither. What you get for that is the accounting connection — if a real-time QuickBooks link is the reason you are leaving Jobber, this is the section to read twice.

Figures read from fieldedge.com/pricing on 6 August 2026FieldEdge pricing

FieldPulse — Best for Crews Where Field Headcount Outnumbers the Office

Quote only
Entry price
Not published
Included users
Full-access and field-only seats, priced separately
Extra users
Seats bought upfront for the contract term
Free plan or trial
No trial advertised on the pricing page

FieldPulse publishes Essentials, Professional and Enterprise and no rates, but it is unusually plain about the model: “FieldPulse is seat-based. You purchase a set number of seats upfront for your contract term, and the rate depends on what each seat needs access to.” Full-access seats and field-only seats cost different amounts, so a business with twelve technicians and two office staff is not paying office rates twelve times. No minimum user count, contract term or trial is published.

What it does well

  • Full-access and field-only seat types — a genuine structural answer to lopsided teams
  • Three published packages: Essentials, Professional and Enterprise
  • Configurable customer and job records for processes that do not fit a template
  • Pricing framed around team shape rather than a flat rate

Real drawbacks

  • No published rate on any package
  • Seats are committed upfront for the contract term, so you cannot drop one in a quiet month
  • No trial advertised, and no minimum or contract length published either
  • Offline behaviour and inventory depth are not documented publicly

How it differs from Jobber

Jobber prices a whole band regardless of what the people in it do. FieldPulse charges by what each person needs to reach. For a crew-heavy business that is a materially different bill; for a four-person team it is mostly paperwork.

Figures read from fieldpulse.com/pricing on 6 August 2026FieldPulse pricing

ServiceTitan — Best for Large Operations With Staff Dedicated to the System

Quote only
Entry price
Not published
Included users
Per technician, quoted
Extra users
Not published
Free plan or trial
No trial published

ServiceTitan is the step up rather than the step sideways, and for most people leaving Jobber it is the wrong direction. Three packages are listed — Starter, Essentials and The Works — and all three say “Request Pricing”. The model is stated on its own page as per-technician: “Our per-technician pricing is designed to fit your business and goals, at any size.” No dollar rate, contract length, implementation fee, minimum or trial appears anywhere on the page, so the only figure you will ever hold is one produced for your business specifically.

What it does well

  • The deepest pricebook, reporting and platform breadth in the category
  • Built for multi-branch and multi-trade operations with consolidated reporting
  • Three published packages aimed at different operational scales
  • A per-technician model that at least keys off a number you already know

Real drawbacks

  • No published price on any package — a demo comes before a number
  • No contract length, implementation fee, minimum or trial is published either
  • Per-technician pricing means every hire is a budget conversation
  • Far more product than a Jobber-sized business needs, and unused capability is still paid capability

How it differs from Jobber

Jobber is bought with a card; ServiceTitan is bought with a project. The move only makes sense if you have outgrown Jobber's reporting and pricebook, not if you are looking to spend less.

Figures read from servicetitan.com/pricing on 6 August 2026ServiceTitan pricing research

Simpro — Best for Project-Based Commercial Contractors

Quote only
Entry price
Not published
Included users
Sized to the team, with selectable add-ons
Extra users
Not published
Free plan or trial
No trial advertised

Simpro publishes no rate. Its pricing page describes a package sized to your team with the add-ons you select, billed monthly or annually, and routes to a request-pricing form. It is one of the few vendors anywhere in this category that states plainly that there is an initial setup fee covering onboarding, training and data migration, with the amount depending on how complex and customised the business is. Disclosed cost is better than discovered cost, even when the number itself is not published.

What it does well

  • Packages sized to team size with selectable add-ons
  • Monthly or annual billing stated on the pricing page
  • A setup fee disclosed up front rather than left to the contract
  • A commercial and project-contracting orientation rather than residential service

Real drawbacks

  • No published subscription price at all
  • The setup fee is real first-year money and its size is not published
  • No trial advertised
  • Considerably heavier than a residential business leaving Jobber is likely to need
  • Offline behaviour and inventory depth are not documented publicly

How it differs from Jobber

Different category, not a cheaper Jobber. If your work has moved from residential calls to staged commercial projects with purchase orders, that shift — not the Jobber bill — is the reason to look here.

Figures read from simprogroup.com/pricing on 6 August 2026Simpro pricing

Workiz — Best for Dispatch Businesses Where the Phone Is the Product

Quote only
Entry price
Not published
Included users
Not published
Extra users
Not published
Free plan or trial
7-day free trial, no credit card. No free plan

Workiz is built around the phone — the one product here that puts telephony inside the job. Standard, Pro and Ultimate all show “Request pricing” rather than a rate, and no per-user figure is published either, on Workiz’s own site or on Capterra, which also records no free version. Widely-shared guides quote specific tier prices and per-seat rates that appear nowhere first-party and disagree with each other; that disagreement is itself the evidence nothing is published. The trial is seven days with no card.

What it does well

  • An integrated phone system with AI Answering — nothing else on this page bundles telephony
  • Genius Leads and Genius Scheduling, available on Pro and above
  • Field payment collection through Workiz Pay
  • A shape that suits an office-plus-crew operation running on inbound calls

Real drawbacks

  • No published price on any tier, and no published per-user rate either
  • A long list of everyday operational features sits on the top tier only, so your plan is decided by which features you need rather than by headcount
  • The phone system, lead tools and scheduling intelligence are separately sold rather than included
  • Seven days is a short trial for a product this configurable — half of Opsler’s fourteen
  • Offline behaviour is not documented publicly

How it differs from Jobber

Jobber publishes its prices and Workiz does not, which is a real step backwards on transparency. You would accept that for one reason: the telephony. Everything downstream of the call — scheduling, quoting, parts, invoicing, offline field work — Opsler does on one published $25 seat with nothing gated above it.

Figures read from workiz.com/pricing-plans on 6 August 2026Workiz pricing

Feature-by-feature decision matrix

A Jobber comparison is only useful at the level of a specific capability, so this matrix puts Jobber and Opsler side by side on twelve of them and says in the notes column where a third vendor is the better answer. Two of these rows go against Opsler, which is the point of publishing it.

CapabilityJobberOpslerWhat the rest of the list does

Offline field work

Creating records, not just viewing them, with no connection

Opsler publishes an action list. Jobber's offline depth is not documented publicly. ServiceM8 documents job details, notes, photos, videos and signatures, with templates and outbound email or text as the exceptions. Nobody else on this page documents it at all.

Stock by location

Parts tracked per warehouse, truck and van and charged to the job

Jobber holds products and services rather than stock by location. Opsler tracks it by named warehouse, truck and van and charges it to the job that used it, on the one Pro seat.

Pricebook

A reusable catalog of priced tasks technicians build quotes from

Both have one. Opsler's arrives pre-loaded from your trade preset rather than as an empty catalogue, so the first quote goes out the same week.

Three-tier estimates

Good/Better/Best options presented side by side

Jobber's estimate is a single priced document. Opsler offers flat and three-tier quotes, approved by a one-time code emailed to the customer.

Scheduling and dispatch

Drag-and-drop assignment with conflict visibility

Comparable. Jobber gates routing and GPS behind higher tiers; Opsler puts scheduling, dispatch and route optimisation on the one Pro plan.

Customer portal

Where the customer sees the job without installing anything

Jobber has a client hub. Opsler's portal is a no-login emailed link covering current job, history, invoices and warranties.

Live accounting sync

A two-way connection, not a file

A genuine Jobber advantage. Opsler produces QuickBooks- and Xero-formatted exports your bookkeeper imports as a reviewed batch — nothing reaches the ledger until a person decides it should, which some owners prefer and some do not.

Recurring work

Repeat visits and maintenance agreements on a schedule

Both handle recurring visits. On Opsler a maintenance round is set once and keeps landing on the board, on the same seat price as everything else.

Reporting

Revenue, job and technician performance analysis

Both report. Opsler adds per-job profit with labour and parts cost attached, on the free plan’s core cards as well as Pro. Branch-level consolidation is an enterprise-platform feature.

Public developer API

Building your own integrations

Jobber's genuine advantage. Opsler is built to be complete rather than extended, so a business that writes its own tooling should confirm what it needs before moving.

Built-in phone system

Calls and call tracking inside the software

Workiz is the only vendor here that bundles telephony, and it is separately sold there too. Everything downstream of the call sits on Opsler's one seat price.

SMS to customers

Text reminders and updates sent from the platform

Jobber gates two-way texting to higher tiers, so the reminders you costed may sit above the plan you priced. Opsler reaches customers by email plus a no-login portal link they open on their own phone — nothing to install, and no per-message charge on a busy month.

Tick means the vendor documents it. The amber marker means partial or not fully documented. A dash means the vendor does not offer it. Opsler capabilities are first-party claims you can check on multi-location inventory, tiered estimates and accounting CSV export.

Setup, imports and learning support

Ease of setup is a disclosed criterion here, not a score. Nobody has run the same configuration task across eleven products, so what follows is what each vendor documents about onboarding, imports and learning support — and where a vendor documents nothing, the row says so rather than guessing.

VendorOnboardingImports and migrationLearning supportTerms
JobberStep-by-step onboarding flow on signup, with a 14-day Grow trial and no card.CSV import for clients.Help centre plus live chat, with access varying by plan.Monthly, no commitment, at every band. Annual is advertised as saving up to 25% with no dollar figure shown.
OpslerA four-step checklist on first login — set up the business, add your team, add a customer, schedule a job — with 11 trade presets that load your trade's service types and terminology instead of an empty account.Bulk import for customers from an Excel template, with duplicate phone numbers skipped automatically, plus bulk import for the pricebook, inventory items and locations.Video and written help built into the app header on both the office dashboard and the technician app, resolved by the screen you are on and by role. Self-serve, not a booked call.Month-to-month, no seat minimum. Free plan needs no card. Lifetime option at $499 for 5 seats.
Housecall Pro, Kickserv, ServiceM8All three are self-serve signups with a trial: 14 days at Housecall Pro, 30 at Kickserv, 14 at ServiceM8 with a free plan underneath it.CSV import available; the exact field lists are not published.Help centres and community material. Support channel varies by plan.Published prices. Housecall Pro and Kickserv sell user blocks; ServiceM8 sells job volume.
Service FusionPersonalised onboarding included with every plan; no trial advertised.Not documented on the pricing page.Unlimited email, phone and live chat support included on every plan.Month-to-month, no contract required, unlimited users.
FieldEdge, FieldPulse, Simpro, ServiceTitan, WorkizDemo-led. FieldEdge states it has no trial at all; Workiz offers seven days; the others advertise none. Simpro discloses an initial setup fee covering onboarding, training and data migration.Not documented publicly. Get the exact import format in writing before signing.Not documented in enough public detail to compare on the same rubric.Quote-led. FieldPulse commits seats upfront for the contract term.

Opsler’s in-app video and written help is a first-party product claim, not an ease-of-use score, and it is not a substitute for human support. Vendor onboarding details read from each vendor’s own pages on 6 August 2026.

Workflow flexibility: what you can change yourself

The quiet difference between two products that look identical in a demo is how much of the workflow you can adjust without asking anyone. Four things are worth testing on every trial.

Job statuses and service types

Whether you can rename statuses and add service types to match how your trade actually talks. Opsler ships 11 trade presets that load service types and terminology at signup, and both remain editable afterwards.

Who can send what to a customer

Opsler holds invoices in an approval queue and requires approval for a price override, so a technician cannot send a $0 invoice by accident. Ask every vendor whether that control exists and whether it can be turned off.

How a customer gets access

An account, an app, or a link. Opsler's portal is a no-login emailed link; Jobber has a client hub. Neither is automatically better — it depends on whether your customers will create a login.

How team members join

Opsler emails an invitation the moment you add a team member, and they install the app straight from the browser already on their phone. A new hire is working the same afternoon, on the same version as everyone else.

Price and included-user comparison

Everything below is the monthly, no-commitment rate, because that is how Opsler bills and it is the only like-for-like column. Jobber publishes a monthly figure at every team-size band, which makes it one of the few products here you can model precisely — note that the band, not the plan, sets how many seats you get. Every figure is arithmetic on published prices, and the quote-led vendors are absent for exactly that reason.

Team sizeJobber (monthly, by band)OpslerOther published-price options
1 person$49/mo on Core at the Just-me band, monthly billing$0 on Budding, or $25/mo on ProServiceM8 free for 30 jobs a month; Housecall Pro Basic $79/mo, Individual view
2 peopleTwo people selects the 2-5 band, where Core is no longer offered — Connect $199/mo monthly, five users included$0 on Budding within its 50-job limit, or $50/mo on ProServiceM8 $29/mo for unlimited users up to 50 jobs; Kickserv $60/mo for a 5-user block
5 peopleConnect $199/mo at the 2-5 band on monthly billing — five users included, nothing surcharged$125/mo on ProKickserv $60/mo on Start; Housecall Pro Essentials $299/mo in the Teams view
10 peopleThe 6-10 band: Connect $299/mo, Grow $399, Plus $599 (Contact Sales) — ten users included$250/mo on ProKickserv $119/mo on Run; Service Fusion reported at $259/mo, unlimited users
20 peopleNeeds the 16-or-more band, which is not verified here — read it from the selector at your own headcount$500/mo on ProKickserv $199/mo on Scale; Service Fusion reported at $259/mo, unlimited users

What the table does not show

Feature tier. Jobber’s figures above assume the plan named; if the capability you need sits a tier higher, the real comparison starts from that tier instead. Workiz, FieldPulse, FieldEdge, Simpro and ServiceTitan publish nothing, so they cannot appear in a cost table honestly — get quotes and add them yourself.

Where the models cross over

Per-seat pricing wins at the bottom and flat rate eventually wins at the top; against Service Fusion’s reported $259 the crossover lands around ten Opsler seats. Below that, Opsler is cheaper at every single headcount — and free at two. Job-volume pricing is a different axis entirely: ServiceM8 is cheapest of all for a small crew doing few jobs and stops being so quickly. Free field service management software covers the genuinely free end of this list.

Migration checklist

Twelve steps to switch from Jobber without losing anything that matters. The client list is the easy part — a CSV and an afternoon. Recurring schedules, attachments and payment history are the parts that catch people out, so they are on this list rather than assumed.

  1. 1

    Export your client list from Jobber

    Check that service addresses, alternate phone numbers and email addresses all survived. A customer with three properties is three addresses, and an export that flattens them costs you a day.

  2. 2

    Clean the file before you import it

    De-duplicate repeat customers, fix addresses typed into the wrong field, and delete the test records every account accumulates. This is faster now than after the data is live.

  3. 3

    Export quotes and job history

    Decide how far back you actually need — two or three years covers warranty and repeat-visit context for most shops. Keep the full export as a file regardless.

  4. 4

    Export invoices, payments and open balances

    Freeze a statement of who owes what on cutover day. Payment history rarely migrates as a live record anywhere; treat it as an archive you keep, not data you move.

  5. 5

    Export products and services

    This becomes your pricebook on the other side. Prune it while it is in a spreadsheet — most lists carry a third dead weight — and rebuild what you actually sell.

  6. 6

    Collect attachments and custom forms

    Photos, signed documents and job forms usually come out separately from the records they belong to. Confirm the format before assuming they came with the CSV.

  7. 7

    Write down every active recurring schedule

    Frequency, next visit date, assigned technician and what is included. Recurring visits do not carry across from any platform automatically — rebuild them before cutover, never after.

  8. 8

    List every integration Jobber is currently doing work for

    Accounting, payments, marketing, lead sources. Confirm each one exists on the other side, or plan what replaces it, before you commit to a date.

  9. 9

    Test the accounting path with one real invoice

    Push or export a single invoice into your accounting software and check the tax, the account codes and the customer match. Do it on the trial, not in week one of production.

  10. 10

    Check your Jobber billing cycle and cancellation terms

    Annual commitments have notice windows. Find yours before you plan the switch, not after you have paid for an overlap you did not budget.

  11. 11

    Run both systems in parallel for one full billing cycle

    New jobs go into the new platform; open jobs finish in Jobber. This is the step people skip and regret.

  12. 12

    Put the crew on the new app before a customer does

    Fifteen minutes on a real job. Technicians who feel ambushed by a software change will work around it for months, and that is what actually sinks a migration.

No timeline is published here, because it depends on how much history you carry and how complex your recurring schedules are. Ask each vendor what they will migrate, who does the work, and what it costs — then get it in writing. If you are still narrowing the field, our best field service software guide covers the wider market.

FAQs

Jobber alternative FAQs, answered from each vendor’s own pricing page with the date it was read.

Yes, but fewer than the roundups claim. Opsler's Budding plan is free forever and covers 2 seats — 1 admin and 1 technician — with 50 jobs a month, unlimited customers, 100 inventory items and 1 inventory location. It is a plan, not a trial, and no card is required. ServiceM8's free plan covers 1 user and 30 jobs a month with no time limit, which makes it a solo tool rather than a two-person one. Everything else on this page is trial-or-demo only: Jobber itself has no free plan, and neither do Housecall Pro, Kickserv, Service Fusion, Workiz, FieldPulse, FieldEdge, Simpro or ServiceTitan. Kickserv in particular is frequently listed as having a free tier and does not — its page offers three 30-day trials. (Checked 6 August 2026.)

Housecall Pro, by some distance. Both publish prices, both sell online without a demo, both are built for residential home service, and both bundle quoting, scheduling, invoicing and payment collection into one workflow. They even share the awkward part: each asks how many people you have before it shows you a price. Housecall Pro's Essentials covers five users at $299 a month in the Teams view; Jobber's Connect covers five at $199 once you select the 2-5 band. Worth doing the same sum on Opsler before you decide, because five seats there is $125 a month with every feature on it and no view to switch or band to select.

Opsler, for most small teams, and the reason is arithmetic rather than opinion. It is $25 a seat with every one of the 42 features on the one plan and no tier above it, so five people is $125 a month — against Jobber's Connect at $199 once five people puts you in the 2-5 band, and Housecall Pro's Essentials at $299 in the Teams view. The free Budding plan covers 2 seats and 50 jobs a month indefinitely, so a two-person shop can test the whole thing on real work before paying anything. If your problem is job volume rather than headcount, ServiceM8 meters differently and is worth pricing; if it is telephony, that is Workiz's specialism.

Ask one specific question on every demo: when a technician fits a part from the van, does that van's stock count drop and does the part's cost land on that job? Plenty of products track a catalog of items without tracking where the physical stock is, and Jobber's products-and-services list is one of them. Opsler tracks stock by named warehouse, truck and van locations, deducts it against the job that consumed it and fires low-stock alerts at two severity levels — note that the free Budding plan is capped at 100 items and 1 location, so a real parts operation needs Pro. Simpro and ServiceTitan are the heavyweight answers for commercial work and neither publishes the detail on its pricing page. Housecall Pro, Kickserv, ServiceM8, Service Fusion, Workiz, FieldPulse and FieldEdge do not document multi-location parts behaviour publicly.

Two of the ten publish enough detail to answer honestly. Opsler documents an action-by-action list: once the day has synced, a technician can open assigned jobs, change status, record work performed, tick the checklist, check stock on their own vehicle, capture before-and-after photos and the customer's signature, create and send invoices and record payments — arrival to money collected, with no signal at all. Receiving newly assigned jobs, checking other vehicles' stock and delivering the customer's one-time code and portal link need a connection. ServiceM8 documents offline access to job details, notes, photos, videos and signatures, and names producing templates and sending emails or texts as the exceptions. Jobber's own offline support is partial and its depth is not documented publicly, and the same is true of Housecall Pro, Kickserv, Service Fusion, Workiz, FieldPulse, FieldEdge, Simpro and ServiceTitan. Take a phone into your own worst dead zone during a trial rather than trusting anyone's marketing, ours included.

Jobber exports clients, quotes, jobs and invoices as CSV, and every product on this page imports customers. The records that need planning are the ones that do not travel as a single file: recurring visit schedules, attachments and custom forms, payment history, and whatever your integrations were doing quietly in the background. Work through the twelve-step checklist above in order, keep every export file as your archive, and run both systems in parallel for one full billing cycle before you cancel. We do not publish a switching timeline, because it depends on how much history you carry and how complex your recurring schedules are — ask each vendor what they will migrate and who does the work.

No, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to waste your time. This site belongs to Opsler, and Opsler is one of the ten. What is offered instead of independence is a published method: fifteen criteria listed before the list, every competitor figure linked to the vendor's own page with the date it was read, an order set by pricing transparency rather than by preference, and the same criteria applied to this site's own product as to the other nine. Where another product genuinely specialises — telephony, commercial project contracting, a real-time accounting connection — the relevant section says so in plain terms rather than pretending otherwise. The claim being made is narrower and easier to check than a claim of neutrality: for a small field service team that wants every feature on one published price, Opsler is $25 a seat and you can verify that in about four seconds.

If the seat maths is what brought you here: Opsler Budding is free forever for 2 seats — 1 admin and 1 technician — and 50 jobs a month, and Pro is $25 a seat with no minimum, every feature included and a 14-day trial that does not ask for a card.

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