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10 Best ServiceTitan Alternatives for Different Team Sizes and Trades

ServiceTitan will not show you a price until you have taken a demo, and that is where most searches for a ServiceTitan alternative begin. The ten worth shortlisting are Housecall Pro, Jobber, Opsler, Workiz, FieldEdge, FieldPulse, Service Fusion, BuildOps, ServiceTrade and Simpro — and the first thing that separates them is whether you can find out what they cost at all. Six of the ten publish nothing.

Of the four that do publish, Opsler is the only one with no seat minimum and a free plan that does not expire — two seats permanently, then $25 a seat with every feature on the one paid plan. Whether that is right for you still depends on how many people need to open it, which is what the rest of this page is for.

This list is not ranked. The ten are grouped by the size of business each is priced and built for, alphabetically inside each group. Every vendor gets a best-fit case and at least one real drawback, Opsler included. External pricing and packaging were read from each vendor’s own page on 2 August 2026.

Editorial disclosure: Opsler publishes this website and Opsler is one of the ten products below. Because of that, the selection criteria are published in full before the list, the list is unranked, and Opsler carries the longest drawback list on the page. Six of the ten — and ServiceTitan itself — publish no price, and this page says so rather than printing an estimate.

Jump to the comparison table See ServiceTitan pricing research

Quick recommendations by use case

Ten ServiceTitan competitors is too many to hold in your head, so start here. Find the row that describes your operation, read that vendor’s section, and ignore the other nine. If two rows describe you, price both.

Two people, minimum spend

Opsler Budding

Free forever for 2 seats — 1 admin and 1 technician — and 50 jobs a month. It is a plan, not a trial.

Growing residential team, all features now

Opsler Pro or Jobber

$25 a seat with no minimum and no tiers, against Jobber's published tiers re-priced by team-size band — $199 a month on Connect at 2-5 people. Price your actual headcount both ways.

Consumer-facing residential work

Housecall Pro

Online booking, notifications and payment collection built for the homeowner's side of the job. $59 a month annually for one user.

Inbound calls are the business

Workiz

The only product here with a phone system and AI answering inside it. Five users included per tier; no published price.

Headcount rising fast

Service Fusion

Unlimited users on every plan from $208 a month annually. The bill does not move when you hire.

Many technicians, few office staff

FieldPulse

Field-only seats are priced separately from full-access seats. Quote-led, and seats are committed upfront.

Inventory-heavy trade work

Opsler

Stock by named warehouse, truck and van locations, deducted against the job that used it, with low-stock alerts.

QuickBooks is non-negotiable

FieldEdge

FieldEdge describes its QuickBooks integration as real-time. There is no trial, so this is a demo-first purchase.

Commercial service agreements

ServiceTrade

Built around recurring commercial agreements, priced on technician count. Request pricing.

Commercial project contracting

Simpro or BuildOps

Both quote-led and commercial-first. Simpro discloses a setup fee; BuildOps excludes subcontractors from licensing.

Why businesses compare ServiceTitan alternatives

Six triggers account for most of the traffic to a page about ServiceTitan alternatives. None of them is an accusation. They are requirements that an enterprise, quote-led platform meets well for one kind of business and badly for another, and working out which ones apply to you shortens the list below faster than reading all ten sections.

You cannot get a number without a demo

ServiceTitan lists Starter, Essentials and The Works, and all three say “Request Pricing”. Its own wording is “Our per-technician pricing is designed to fit your business and goals, at any size.” For a buyer who just wants to know whether it is affordable, that is a wall — and it is the most common reason this page gets read.

Per-technician pricing punishes growth

When the meter runs on technicians, every hire is a budget conversation. Per-seat models with no minimum, and flat-rate models with unlimited users, move that cost curve in opposite directions. Both are on this page.

Implementation is a project, not a signup

Enterprise field service software is configured, not installed. Nothing about that is hidden or unfair, but a business that needs to be dispatching next week is buying the wrong category. Half the products below start with a card and a trial.

The product is bigger than the business

Buying capability you never turn on is a real cost — in licence fees, in training time and in the daily friction of a screen with too much on it. Team size is the most honest filter in this whole comparison.

Your trade is not the target

A cleaning company, a pest control route business and a commercial fire contractor need different terminology, different job shapes and different reports. General-purpose depth is not the same thing as fit.

Support and training sit outside the licence

Across this category, what you get on the plan you would actually buy differs from what is on the banner. Ask which support channel comes with your tier, and what training costs after go-live, of every vendor including this one.

How we selected and evaluated products

Nine criteria, applied to all ten products and to ServiceTitan itself. Publishing them is the only thing that makes a field service software comparison written by one of the vendors worth your time, so they come before the list rather than after it.

Trade fit

Whether the product is built for the trades it is sold to, or adapted from something else.

Scheduling and dispatch

Calendar, assignment, conflict handling and how a same-day emergency gets slotted in.

Estimates and invoices

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

Mobile and offline

How the app is installed, and exactly what the vendor documents as working with no signal.

Inventory

Whether stock is tracked by location and deducted against the job that consumed it.

Accounting

The mechanism — live integration, one-way push or a formatted file — not the logo on the page.

Pricing transparency

Whether a rate is published at all, and what is included in it before add-ons.

Support

What comes with the tier you would buy, and whether it is self-serve or a person.

Implementation

What has to happen between signing and dispatching the first job.

Rules we held ourselves to

Prices come from the vendor's own pricing page, read on 2 August 2026, and the source is linked on every row. Nothing here is sourced to a review site, a roundup or the previous version of this page.
Where a vendor publishes no price, this page says “not published”. It does not print a range, an estimate or a “reported” figure. Seven of the eleven products discussed here — ServiceTitan included — publish nothing.
The list is not ranked. Vendors are grouped by the size of business they are priced and built for, and ordered alphabetically inside each group, because a single ordering across a solo operator and a hundred-technician contractor would be meaningless.
Every vendor gets a best-fit case and at least one real drawback. Opsler's are the longest list on the page, which is the only honest way to publish this.
We do not score ease of use. Nobody has run the same job through all eleven products, so a usability score would be an opinion with a number attached.
“Not documented publicly” means the vendor does not say. It is not a claim that the capability is missing.

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 2 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

Source	What it was used for	Checked
ServiceTitan — official pricing	Package names, per-technician model and the absence of any published rate.	2 August 2026
Jobber — official pricing	Core, Connect, Grow and Plus rates at the Just-me, 2-5 and 6-10 team-size bands, the included-user count each band renders, and trial terms.	5 August 2026
Housecall Pro — official pricing	Plan rates, included users, extra-user rate, add-on prices, processing rates and trial length.	2 August 2026
Workiz — official pricing	Tier names, the five-user inclusion, extra-user rates, trial length and the add-on list.	2 August 2026
FieldPulse — official pricing	Package names, the seat-based model and the full-access versus field-only seat split.	2 August 2026
Service Fusion — official pricing	Annual and month-to-month rates on all three plans, unlimited users, contract terms and the add-on list.	2 August 2026
FieldEdge — official pricing and QuickBooks partner page	Plan names, mobile licence counts, the no-trial statement and the real-time QuickBooks description.	2 August 2026
Simpro — official pricing	Tailored pricing model, monthly and annual billing, and the disclosed initial setup fee.	2 August 2026
ServiceTrade — official pricing	Suite names and the technician-count pricing statement.	2 August 2026
BuildOps — official pricing	The tailored-pricing statement, the field-and-office user model and subcontractor licensing.	2 August 2026
Opsler — pricing and feature pages	Every Opsler figure, limit and capability on this page, including the drawbacks.	2 August 2026

ServiceTitan alternatives comparison table

All ten ServiceTitan competitors on one row each, with ServiceTitan at the top as the incumbent you are measuring against. Every row carries a limitation column, because a comparison table without one is an advertisement with borders.

Vendor	Best for	Pricing model	Entry price	Users	Offline	Inventory	Key strength	Key limitation
ServiceTitan (incumbent)	Large residential and commercial operations with dedicated admin staff	Per technician, quote-led	Not publishedQuote only	Per technician, quoted	Not documented publicly	Not documented on the pricing page	The deepest pricebook, reporting and platform breadth in the category	No public price on any of the three packages, and a demo before a number
Housecall Pro housecallpro.com/pricing	Residential home service up to about eight users	Tiered, published	$59/mo annual, $79 month-to-monthOfficial	1 on Basic, 5 on Essentials, 8 on MAX, then $35/user	“Offline viewing” listed on every plan; no further detail published	Not a multi-location parts system	A polished consumer-facing booking, payment and notification experience	The sixth hire moves you from Essentials to MAX, a $140 jump at month-to-month rates
Jobber getjobber.com/pricing	Small residential teams that want a mature, well-supported product	Team-size band × tier, published	$49/mo solo on Core; $199/mo at the 2-5 bandOfficial	Set by the team-size band selected before the plans render	Partial; depth not documented publicly	Products and services list rather than stock by location	A long-established product with a wide integration list and a large community	The price depends on a team-size band you set before the plans render, so no tier has one headline figure
Opsler(this site)opsler.com/pricing	Small trade teams that want every feature on one plan and offline field work	Per seat, published, no seat minimum	Free forever, then $25/seat/moOfficial	Per seat with no minimum; Budding covers 2 seats free	Published action-by-action list of what works with no signal	Stock by named warehouse, truck and van locations	One Pro plan with no tier to climb, and the most specific offline documentation here	No public developer API, CSV accounting export rather than a live sync, no phone system, and no SMS yet
Workiz workiz.com/pricing-plans	Dispatch operations that live on the phone — locksmith, garage door, towing	Quote-led, 5 users included per tier	Not publishedQuote only	First 5 users included; extra users $55/mo on Standard, $65/mo on Pro (annual)	Not documented publicly	Not documented publicly	A built-in business phone system with AI answering — nothing else here bundles telephony	No published price, and every tier bills for five users whether or not you have them
FieldEdge fieldedge.com/pricing	HVAC and plumbing companies anchored to QuickBooks	Quote-led, varies by add-ons and headcount	Not publishedQuote only	Mobile app licences: 2 on Select, 4 on Premier, 6 on Elite	Not documented publicly	Not documented on the pricing page	FieldEdge describes its QuickBooks integration as real-time, updating both systems from one entry	No published price and, in its own words, no free trial — the only way in is a demo
FieldPulse fieldpulse.com/pricing	Teams with many technicians and few office staff	Seat-based, quote-led, bought upfront for the term	Not publishedQuote only	Full-access and field-only seats priced separately	Not documented publicly	Not documented on the pricing page	Two seat types — a cheaper field-only seat for technicians who only need the mobile app	Seats are bought upfront for the contract term, which is the opposite of month-to-month
Service Fusion servicefusion.com/pricing	Growing teams that want the bill to stop moving when they hire	Flat company rate, published, unlimited users	$208/mo annual, $245 month-to-monthOfficial	Unlimited users on every plan	Not documented publicly	Not documented on the pricing page	Unlimited users on all three plans, at a price you can read without a sales call	The highest entry price here, and a three-person shop pays the same as a thirty-person one
BuildOps buildops.com/pricing	Commercial specialty contractors running subcontracted crews	Quote-led, priced on field and office users	Not publishedQuote only	Priced on field and office users; subcontractors need no licence	Not documented publicly	Not documented on the pricing page	Subcontractors do not consume a licence, and implementation is included with every plan	No published price, no trial, and it is not built for a residential two-van business
ServiceTrade servicetrade.com/pricing	Commercial mechanical and fire contractors selling service agreements	Quote-led, driven by technician count	Not publishedQuote only	Priced mainly on the number of technicians supported	Not documented publicly	Not documented on the pricing page	Built around recurring commercial service agreements rather than one-off residential calls	No published price, and the per-technician model is the same shape you are leaving
Simpro simprogroup.com/pricing	Project-based commercial contractors that expect a funded rollout	Quote-led, plus a setup fee	Not publishedQuote only	Sized to the team, with add-ons chosen per business	Not documented publicly	Not documented on the pricing page	Monthly or annual billing on a package sized to your team and chosen add-ons	An initial setup fee for onboarding, training and data migration sits on top of the subscription

External figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 2 August 2026. Rows are grouped by segment and alphabetical within it, not ranked. Confirm every figure at source before you commit — pricing in this category changes without notice.

Best alternatives for small service teams

Under about ten people, the deciding factor is rarely a feature list. It is whether you can buy the thing today and be dispatching this week. All four of these publish enough to start without a sales call, and all four are small business field service software in the literal sense — priced and shaped for a business where the owner is also the dispatcher.

Housecall ProOfficial

Best fit: Residential home service up to about eight users

Entry price: $59/mo annual, $79 month-to-month

Drawback: The sixth hire moves you from Essentials to MAX, a $140 jump at month-to-month rates

JobberOfficial

Best fit: Small residential teams that want a mature, well-supported product

Entry price: $49/mo solo on Core; $199/mo at the 2-5 band

Drawback: The price depends on a team-size band you set before the plans render, so no tier has one headline figure

OpslerOfficial

This site’s own product

Best fit: Small trade teams that want every feature on one plan and offline field work

Entry price: Free forever, then $25/seat/mo

Drawback: No public developer API, CSV accounting export rather than a live sync, no phone system, and no SMS yet

WorkizQuote only

Best fit: Dispatch operations that live on the phone — locksmith, garage door, towing

Entry price: Not published

Drawback: No published price, and every tier bills for five users whether or not you have them

All four let you start on a trial without handing over a card. Only one of them — Opsler — has a free plan that never expires rather than a countdown. If cost is the reason you are here, start with free field service management software and upgrade only when a limit actually bites.

Best alternatives for growing and mid-market teams

Somewhere between ten and forty people the question changes from “can I afford this” to “what does this cost when I double”. That is where mid-market FSM products earn their place, and the three below take three genuinely different positions on it: unlimited users for a fixed fee, seats priced by what each person needs access to, and a package built around the accounting system you refuse to leave.

FieldEdgeQuote only

Best fit: HVAC and plumbing companies anchored to QuickBooks

Entry price: Not published

Drawback: No published price and, in its own words, no free trial — the only way in is a demo

FieldPulseQuote only

Best fit: Teams with many technicians and few office staff

Entry price: Not published

Drawback: Seats are bought upfront for the contract term, which is the opposite of month-to-month

Service FusionOfficial

Best fit: Growing teams that want the bill to stop moving when they hire

Entry price: $208/mo annual, $245 month-to-month

Drawback: The highest entry price here, and a three-person shop pays the same as a thirty-person one

All three are worth pricing against a straight per-seat model before you decide. Ten seats on Opsler Pro is $250 a month with no minimum and no tier; whether that beats a flat rate or a seat-type split depends entirely on the shape of your team, not on which vendor argues harder.

Best alternatives for commercial and enterprise service

Commercial field service software is a different product category wearing the same name. The work is agreement-based, the customer is a facilities manager rather than a homeowner, assets and compliance records matter more than online booking, and a purchase order sits in front of every job. All three below are quote-led and demo-gated, exactly like the incumbent — if pricing transparency is your reason for leaving, this group will not deliver it.

BuildOpsQuote only

Best fit: Commercial specialty contractors running subcontracted crews

Entry price: Not published

Drawback: No published price, no trial, and it is not built for a residential two-van business

ServiceTradeQuote only

Best fit: Commercial mechanical and fire contractors selling service agreements

Entry price: Not published

Drawback: No published price, and the per-technician model is the same shape you are leaving

SimproQuote only

Best fit: Project-based commercial contractors that expect a funded rollout

Entry price: Not published

Drawback: An initial setup fee for onboarding, training and data migration sits on top of the subscription

Opsler is built for the other end of this list — small trade teams where the owner is also the dispatcher — and it is not a commercial enterprise product. There is no enterprise flat-rate pricebook management, no branch-level consolidated reporting, no marketing attribution and no asset register. A commercial contractor with staged materials, compliance paperwork and subcontracted crews should be reading the three products above.

Detailed vendor reviews

All ten alternatives to ServiceTitan in full: best fit, what the vendor publishes about price, what it does well, what it does not do, how it differs from ServiceTitan and the one thing to plan for if you move. Grouped by segment, alphabetical within each group.

Housecall Pro — Best for Residential Home Service With a Consumer-Grade App

Official

Pricing model: Tiered, published
Entry price: $59/mo annual, $79 month-to-month
Users: 1 on Basic, 5 on Essentials, 8 on MAX, then $35/user

Housecall Pro sits at the opposite end of the category from ServiceTitan: it is bought online, it publishes its prices, and it is built around the customer-facing side of residential work. Basic is $59 a month billed annually or $79 month-to-month for one user, Essentials is $149 annual or $189 month-to-month for five, and MAX is $299 annual or $329 month-to-month for eight, with extra users on MAX at $35 each. There is a 14-day trial with no card and no free plan.

What it does well

Online booking, automated customer notifications and integrated payment collection
Recurring service plans and memberships, sold as a $40-a-month add-on
A Sales Proposal Tool, also $40 a month, for presenting priced options
Card processing advertised at rates as low as 2.59%, and bank payments at 1%
A large user community and a lot of third-party training material

Real drawbacks

Plans are blocks of users, so a two-person shop on Essentials pays for three empty seats
Two of the capabilities buyers most often want — service plans and proposals — are priced on top of the plan fee
Offline behaviour is described in two words on the pricing page and nowhere expanded
Job costing and multi-location parts tracking are thinner than the trade-specific products further down this page

Compared with ServiceTitan

Housecall Pro is the fastest thing on this list to buy — a card, a trial and no demo. What you give up against ServiceTitan is depth: pricebook management, branch-level reporting and marketing attribution are not comparable.

Migration note

Customers, jobs and invoices come out of ServiceTitan as standard exports and go in as CSV. The pricebook is the slow part; rebuild the live items rather than importing an archive.

Figures read from housecallpro.com/pricing on 2 August 2026 Housecall Pro pricing

Jobber — Best for a Mature Small-Team Product With Published Prices

Official

Pricing model: Team-size band × tier, published
Entry price: $49/mo solo on Core; $199/mo at the 2-5 band
Users: Set by the team-size band selected before the plans render

Jobber is the product most ServiceTitan evaluators end up comparing against, because it is the credible small-business answer with a price on the page — though 'the price' needs a caveat. Jobber's pricing page asks how big your team is first, and every plan re-prices with that many users included; the tier sets the features, the band sets the seats. At the “Just me” band on monthly billing, Core is $49 a month, Connect $139 and Grow $199, each for one user. Select 2-5 people and Core disappears entirely: Connect becomes $199, Grow $299 and Plus $499, each covering five users. At 6-10 the same three are $299, $399 and $599 covering ten. So the first employee is the expensive one — the bill goes from $49 to $199 — and after that it is a step rather than a slope, so a six-person business pays exactly what a ten-person one does. There is no published per-seat top-up; you move a band instead. Annual billing is advertised as saving up to 25%. Even so, that is a published number you can check in a browser — the opposite of ServiceTitan, where nothing is published and every seat is quoted.

What it does well

Quoting, scheduling, invoicing and payment collection in one workflow
A client hub and a request form for inbound booking
One of the larger integration lists in the category
A 14-day trial on the Grow plan with no credit card
Up to 25% off for annual billing, stated on the pricing page

Real drawbacks

Capabilities buyers expect at entry — routing, GPS, two-way texting — sit on higher tiers
The whole plan re-prices when headcount crosses a band, and the first employee is the worst of them — Core at $49 is withdrawn at 2-5 people, taking the cheapest option to $199
Offline support is partial and the depth is not documented publicly
Parts stock across vans and a warehouse is not what Jobber is built for

Compared with ServiceTitan

Jobber is a genuine downshift: published prices, no demo, no implementation project. It is also a genuine downshift in reporting and pricebook depth, and nobody at Jobber will build you a branch-level dashboard.

Migration note

Jobber imports clients from CSV. Recurring visits do not carry across from any platform automatically — rebuild those schedules before cutover, not after.

Figures read from getjobber.com/pricing on 5 August 2026 Jobber pricing

Opsler — Best for Small Trade Teams Wanting Every Feature on One Plan

Official

Publisher disclosure: Opsler operates this website. Read this section as the vendor talking, and check it against the pricing page linked below.

Pricing model: Per seat, published, no seat minimum
Entry price: Free forever, then $25/seat/mo
Users: Per seat with no minimum; Budding covers 2 seats free

Opsler publishes this page, so treat this section as the vendor talking and check it against the two links underneath. Opsler is field service software for small trade businesses. 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, which means a two-person shop pays for two people and the sixth hire costs $25 rather than moving you onto a different plan. Pro carries all 42 features across 33 feature pages; there is no higher tier holding the useful ones. The trial is 14 days with no credit card, and a lifetime option is $499 for 5 seats.

What it does well

Offline field work with a published action list: open assigned jobs, change status, record work performed, build flat or Good/Better/Best estimates from the cached parts catalog, check stock on your own vehicle, create and send invoices, record payments and capture photos
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 consumed them, with low-stock alerts at two severity levels
Parts, labor and full warranty records attached to the customer, visible to the technician before they knock
A no-login customer portal delivered as an emailed link, and a free branded website with online booking
0% platform fee — Opsler is not a payment processor, so no percentage of what you collect passes through it
11 trade presets that load your trade's service types and terminology on first login, so the account is not empty on day one
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 your role

Real drawbacks

There is no public developer API. A business that builds its own integrations should buy elsewhere on this list
Accounting is a QuickBooks-formatted and Xero-formatted CSV export for manual import rather than a live two-way sync. That is the design — no accounting password handed over, no connector to reauthorise, nothing posting itself wrong overnight — but if a real-time connection is the requirement, FieldEdge is the better answer
There is no SMS today. Customer contact is email and the portal link, with a bring-your-own-provider integration to follow. If text is how your customers expect to hear from you, that is a real gap
There is no built-in phone system or call tracking, which is the whole reason Workiz exists
The app installs from a supported browser on desktop, Android and iPhone. A fix ships the day it is ready with no store review in the way, but if procurement requires an app-store listing, Opsler will not tick that box
Budding caps at 50 jobs a month, 2 seats, 100 inventory items and 1 inventory location — a busy shop outgrows it
The integration marketplace, community and volume of third-party training are all smaller than ServiceTitan's or Jobber's. That is a real trade-off, not a rounding error
There is no enterprise flat-rate pricebook management, no marketing attribution and no branch-level consolidated reporting

Compared with ServiceTitan

The comparison is honest only at one end of the range. Below roughly twenty technicians Opsler covers the same daily workflow with a price on the page and no implementation project. Above that, with a call centre and multi-branch reporting, ServiceTitan is doing things Opsler does not do at all.

Migration note

Customers import from an Excel template and duplicate phone numbers are skipped automatically; the pricebook, inventory items and locations import from spreadsheets. Historical job records are the part to plan for — export them from ServiceTitan and keep the files.

Figures read from opsler.com/pricing on 2 August 2026 Opsler pricing

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Workiz — Best for Phone-Led Dispatch Operations

Quote only

Pricing model: Quote-led, 5 users included per tier
Entry price: Not published
Users: First 5 users included; extra users $55/mo on Standard, $65/mo on Pro (annual)

Workiz is the answer for a business where the phone is the product. Standard, Pro and Ultimate all show “Request pricing” rather than a rate, and each tier includes the first five users. Additional users are $55 a month on Standard and $65 a month on Pro when paid annually; Ultimate's per-user cost is not disclosed. There is a 7-day free trial with no credit card, and annual billing is advertised as saving $400 or more.

What it does well

An integrated phone system with AI Answering, sold as an add-on
Genius Leads and Genius Scheduling, available on Pro and above
Field payment collection through Workiz Pay
Five users included on every tier, which suits a fixed office-plus-crew shape
A 7-day trial with no credit card

Real drawbacks

No published price on any tier, so you cannot budget without a sales conversation
A two-person shop still buys a five-user block
The phone system, lead tools and scheduling intelligence are separately sold add-ons, not plan inclusions
Offline behaviour is not documented publicly — test it in a real dead zone during the 7 days

Compared with ServiceTitan

Both are quote-led, which removes the pricing-transparency argument entirely. Workiz is the smaller, faster purchase and the stronger answer for inbound call volume; ServiceTitan is the stronger answer for everything downstream of the call.

Migration note

Ask specifically what the trial account can import before the 7 days start. A week is not long enough to both load data and evaluate the product.

Figures read from workiz.com/pricing-plans on 2 August 2026 Workiz pricing

FieldEdge — Best for HVAC and Plumbing Companies Anchored to QuickBooks

Quote only

Pricing model: Quote-led, varies by add-ons and headcount
Entry price: Not published
Users: Mobile app licences: 2 on Select, 4 on Premier, 6 on Elite

FieldEdge is the mid-market option for a trade business whose accounting is the immovable object. Three plans are published — Select, Premier and Elite — with two, four and six mobile app licences respectively, but 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!” The pricing FAQ says the figure moves with technician and employee headcount and the add-ons you pick. FieldEdge states plainly that it does not offer a free trial, because it prefers to walk new customers through onboarding and data transfer itself.

What it does well

A QuickBooks integration that FieldEdge's own partner page describes as real-time, with an entry in one system updating the other
Three published plans with mobile app licences included at 2, 4 and 6
Guided onboarding with data-transfer help rather than a self-serve signup
A trade focus on HVAC and plumbing rather than general field service

Real drawbacks

No price anywhere on the page — this is a demo-first purchase
No free trial at all, so you cannot evaluate it against your own jobs before committing
Mobile licences are capped per plan, so growing the field crew can force a plan change
Offline behaviour and inventory depth are not documented publicly
The trade focus that helps an HVAC company works against a multi-trade or non-mechanical business

Compared with ServiceTitan

The same sales-led buying process at a smaller scale. If the reason you are leaving ServiceTitan is the demo-and-quote model itself, FieldEdge does not solve it — but if the reason is scale and cost, it may.

Migration note

Because there is no trial, negotiate the data migration into the contract. Ask what happens to your ServiceTitan pricebook and who rebuilds it.

Figures read from fieldedge.com/pricing on 2 August 2026 FieldEdge pricing

FieldPulse — Best for Teams With Many Technicians and Few Office Staff

Quote only

Pricing model: Seat-based, quote-led, bought upfront for the term
Entry price: Not published
Users: Full-access and field-only seats priced separately

FieldPulse publishes Essentials, Professional and Enterprise but no rates, and it is unusually clear about why: “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.” That produces the most interesting structural idea in this group. Full-access seats and field-only seats are priced separately, so a business with fourteen technicians and two people in the office is not paying office rates fourteen times. No minimum user count, contract term or trial is published.

What it does well

Full-access and field-only seat types, so field headcount and office headcount cost different amounts
Three published packages — Essentials, Professional and Enterprise
Configurable customer and job records for teams whose process does not fit a template
Pricing framed around team shape: “Pricing built around your team — not a flat rate that fits someone else's business.”

Real drawbacks

No published price on any package
Seats are committed upfront for the contract term — you cannot drop one in a slow month
No trial is advertised on the pricing page
No minimum user count or contract length is published either, so the whole shape of the deal comes from the sales call
Offline behaviour and inventory depth are not documented publicly

Compared with ServiceTitan

FieldPulse trades one opaque quote for another, but the seat structure is genuinely different: ServiceTitan prices per technician, FieldPulse prices per level of access. A crew-heavy business should get both quotes before assuming either.

Migration note

Get the seat split agreed in writing before signing. Reclassifying ten field-only seats as full-access mid-term is a renegotiation, not a settings change.

Figures read from fieldpulse.com/pricing on 2 August 2026 FieldPulse pricing

Service Fusion — Best for Growing Teams That Want a Headcount-Independent Bill

Official

Pricing model: Flat company rate, published, unlimited users
Entry price: $208/mo annual, $245 month-to-month
Users: Unlimited users on every plan

Service Fusion is the one product in this group that solves the seat-maths problem by deleting it. Starter is $208 a month billed annually or $245 month-to-month, Plus is $325 annual or $382 month-to-month, and Pro is $533 annual or $627 month-to-month. Every plan carries unlimited users. All plans are month-to-month with no contract requirement, and onboarding plus unlimited email, phone and live chat support are included rather than sold.

What it does well

Unlimited users on Starter, Plus and Pro — headcount never changes the invoice
Published prices for both annual and month-to-month, a 15% discount for annual
No contract requirement on any plan
Personalised onboarding and unlimited email, phone and chat support included
Add-ons available including ServiceCall.ai, GPS fleet tracking, custom documents and eSign

Real drawbacks

$208 a month is the highest entry price on this page, and the maths only turns in your favour above roughly five people
No free trial is offered on the pricing page
Add-on prices are not published, so the real monthly figure needs a conversation anyway
Offline behaviour is not documented publicly

Compared with ServiceTitan

The clearest contrast on this page for a business that is scaling headcount. ServiceTitan's cost rises with every technician you hire; Service Fusion's does not move at all. What you give up is depth of reporting and pricebook control.

Migration note

Because there is no trial, ask for a sandbox loaded with a sample of your own data before the first invoice.

Figures read from servicefusion.com/pricing on 2 August 2026 Service Fusion pricing

BuildOps — Best for Commercial Contractors Running Subcontracted Crews

Quote only

Pricing model: Quote-led, priced on field and office users
Entry price: Not published
Users: Priced on field and office users; subcontractors need no licence

BuildOps is a commercial-first platform and says so without hedging: “BuildOps pricing is tailored to each contractor's operation. There's no one-size-fits-all number.” Pricing runs on the number of field and office users on the account, and the page states that subcontractors do not require separate licences — a meaningful detail for a commercial contractor who runs a small core team and scales with subs. Implementation and onboarding support are described as included with every plan. There is no published rate and no trial; the route in is a demo.

What it does well

Priced on field and office users, with subcontractors excluded from licensing
Implementation and onboarding support included with every plan rather than quoted separately
Core platform covers dispatching, scheduling, quoting, invoicing, reporting and mobile access, with more by tier
Built for commercial specialty trades rather than adapted from residential software

Real drawbacks

No price published anywhere, and no trial
Contract terms are not stated on the pricing page
Feature availability varies by tier and the tiers are not named publicly
Wrong shape entirely for a residential business under about twenty technicians

Compared with ServiceTitan

The most like-for-like swap on this page. Both are enterprise, quote-led and demo-gated. The subcontractor licensing rule is the concrete difference worth pricing out if a chunk of your field capacity is subbed.

Migration note

Implementation is bundled, so make the scope explicit: which records are migrated, by whom, and what the cutover date depends on.

Figures read from buildops.com/pricing on 2 August 2026

ServiceTrade — Best for Commercial Contractors Selling Service Agreements

Quote only

Pricing model: Quote-led, driven by technician count
Entry price: Not published
Users: Priced mainly on the number of technicians supported

ServiceTrade publishes three suites — Select, Premium and Enterprise — and no prices. Its own wording is direct: “ServiceTrade pricing is based on the size of your team. Pricing is driven mainly by the number of technicians you support, plus the suite that fits your operational needs.” Every plan routes to a request-pricing form, and an ROI calculator is offered in place of a rate. No trial is mentioned. The product is aimed squarely at commercial mechanical and fire-protection contractors whose revenue is agreement-based rather than call-by-call.

What it does well

Three named suites aimed at efficiency, growth and multi-location control
A commercial service-agreement orientation rather than a residential job orientation
Pricing tied to technician count, which is at least a number you already know
An ROI calculator offered on the pricing page for building an internal case

Real drawbacks

No price, no trial and no contract terms published
Per-technician pricing is structurally identical to ServiceTitan's, so it does not fix that complaint
Residential-only businesses are not the target and will feel it
Offline behaviour and inventory depth are not documented publicly

Compared with ServiceTitan

Narrower and more opinionated. ServiceTitan spans residential and commercial; ServiceTrade picks commercial and builds around the agreement. If more than half your revenue is contracted maintenance, that focus is worth a call.

Migration note

Agreements are the migration. Export every active contract with its coverage dates and visit schedule before you touch anything else.

Figures read from servicetrade.com/pricing on 2 August 2026

Simpro — Best for Project-Based Commercial Contractors

Quote only

Pricing model: Quote-led, plus a setup fee
Entry price: Not published
Users: Sized to the team, with add-ons chosen per business

Simpro publishes no rate. Its pricing page describes a package tailored to team size with the add-ons a business selects, billed monthly or annually, and routes to a request-pricing form. It is one of the few vendors in this group that says out loud that there is an initial setup fee covering onboarding, training and data migration, with the amount depending on business complexity and customisation. That honesty is useful: it is a first-year cost you can put in the model rather than discover.

What it does well

Packages sized to team size with selectable add-ons
Monthly or annual billing options stated on the pricing page
An initial setup fee that is disclosed 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 money on top of year one and its size is not published
No trial is advertised
Offline behaviour and inventory depth are not documented publicly
Heavier than a residential service business needs

Compared with ServiceTitan

A comparable class of purchase with a comparable rollout. If you are leaving ServiceTitan because the implementation was hard, Simpro is not the escape route — it is the same kind of project aimed at project-based contracting.

Migration note

The setup fee covers data migration, so make the scope contractual: which record types, how many years of history, and who signs it off.

Figures read from simprogroup.com/pricing on 2 August 2026 Simpro pricing

Where ServiceTitan still wins

Having read the ten, here is the honest counterweight. ServiceTitan features are aimed at a specific operation: large, multi-trade or multi-branch, with staff whose job is to run the system. For that business it is doing things nothing else on this page attempts. What it publishes is limited to three packages — Starter, Essentials and The Works — and a per-technician model described on its own page as pricing “designed to fit your business and goals, at any size”. No dollar rate, contract length, implementation fee or trial appears anywhere on it.

You run a call centre

Inbound call volume large enough to need booking agents, call recording tied to job records and attribution back to the campaign that generated the call is not something a $25-a-seat product does. ServiceTitan does.

Your pricebook is the business

Flat-rate books with thousands of tasks, option-based selling built into the technician's flow and margin control at the task level are ServiceTitan features. Rebuilding that in a smaller product is months of work, not an import.

You report across branches

Consolidated reporting across multiple locations, with each branch's numbers separable and comparable, is a genuine reason to stay. Most of the ten below report on one business, not a group of them.

You have staff whose job is the software

A dedicated operations or systems person makes a complex platform pay. Without one, complexity is cost. This is the single best predictor of whether a ServiceTitan account thrives or gets abandoned.

The switching cost exceeds the saving

A trained crew, a built pricebook and years of job history have a value. If the annual saving from moving is smaller than the disruption, the correct answer is to renegotiate the renewal, not to migrate.

You need the marketplace

If a specific third-party tool is load-bearing for your operation, check that it exists on the other side before you go. Integration breadth is the quiet reason plenty of teams stay put.

If three or more of those describe you, the honest answer is to renegotiate your renewal rather than migrate — and the questions worth asking on that call are on our ServiceTitan pricing research page. If fewer than three do, the shortlist above is where to spend the next hour, and the two questions that shorten it fastest are headcount and whether your technicians work where there is signal.

ServiceTitan package structure read from its own pricing page on 2 August 2026. Verify at servicetitan.com

How to choose the right replacement

Eight questions, in the order that shortens the list fastest. Answer them on paper before you book a single demo — a vendor call is a bad place to work out what you need, and every salesperson on this list is better at their job than you are at buying software. Nobody can choose FSM software for you, but the order of the questions matters more than most buyers expect.

Ask yourself	What the answer tells you	Points toward
How many people need to open the software?	Count office staff separately from field staff. Per-seat with no minimum wins at two or three people. Field-only seats win when the ratio is lopsided. Flat-rate wins somewhere above five, and the crossover is arithmetic, not opinion.	Opsler, FieldPulse, Service Fusion
Residential, commercial, or both?	Residential work is a stream of small jobs and homeowner communication. Commercial work is agreements, assets, compliance paperwork and a purchase order. The products that do both well are the expensive ones.	Housecall Pro, Jobber, Opsler for residential; ServiceTrade, Simpro, BuildOps for commercial
How complicated is a typical job?	One technician, two hours, one invoice is a different product requirement from a three-day multi-crew install with staged materials. Be honest about the median job, not the hardest one you ever did.	Simpro and BuildOps for project work
What is your accounting stack, and how fixed is it?	This is the requirement people discover last and regret most. A live two-way connection, a scheduled push and a formatted CSV your bookkeeper imports are three different products. Ask which one you are being sold.	FieldEdge for a real-time QuickBooks connection
Do your technicians work where there is no signal?	Basements, plant rooms, rural properties and metal-clad buildings. Only two vendors on this page document offline behaviour in any detail; for the rest, test it in your own worst dead zone during the trial.	Opsler
Do parts move between a warehouse, a truck and a van?	If stock is only ever a line on an invoice, most products will do. If a part physically travels and its cost has to land on the right job, that is a specific requirement worth naming on every demo call.	Opsler, and ask Simpro and BuildOps for the commercial equivalent
How do customers hear from you?	Text-first, phone-first and email-first businesses need different products. Check what is live today rather than on a roadmap — including here: Opsler reaches customers by email and a portal link, and has no SMS yet.	Workiz for phone, Housecall Pro for consumer notifications
Who is going to set this up?	If the answer is “me, at the weekend”, buy something that starts with a trial. If it is a funded project with an internal owner, the quote-led platforms become reasonable. Mismatching this is how software gets abandoned.	Trial-first: Opsler, Jobber, Housecall Pro, Workiz

Once you have a shortlist of two or three, our best field service software guide covers the wider market, and Opsler pricing has the full plan detail if Opsler is one of them.

ServiceTitan migration checklist

Twelve steps, in order. Most of the pain of switching from ServiceTitan is not the customer list — that is a CSV and an afternoon. It is the pricebook, the memberships and the equipment records, which is exactly why they sit near the top of this list rather than the bottom. Do not cancel anything until step eleven has closed cleanly.

1
Export customers and every service address
One customer with four properties is four addresses, and an export that flattens them costs you a day of retyping. Check the file before you trust it.
2
Export job history, and decide how far back you need it
Most shops need two to three years for warranty and repeat-visit context, not everything since inception. Keep the full export as a file regardless — it is your archive.
3
Export the pricebook and cut it down
A ServiceTitan flat-rate book is the single largest thing you own and a large part of it is dead. Rebuild the tasks you actually sell in the new system rather than importing the archive.
4
List every active membership or service agreement
Coverage dates, visit frequency, billing schedule and what is included. These do not migrate cleanly anywhere and they are the records customers notice immediately if you lose them.
5
Record installed equipment and open warranties
Make, model, serial, install date and who covers what. A technician arriving at a warranty call without this looks worse than any software problem the switch might cause.
6
Pull attachments, forms and checklists
Photos, signed documents, permit paperwork and job forms usually export separately from the records they belong to. Confirm the format before you assume they came with the CSV.
7
Export invoices, payments and open balances
Freeze a statement of who owes what on cutover day. Reconciling receivables across two systems afterwards is the worst part of a badly planned migration.
8
Test the accounting path end to end before cutover
Push or export one real invoice into your accounting software and check the tax, the account codes and the customer match. Do this on the new platform's trial, not in week one of production.
9
Rebuild permissions and roles deliberately
Do not recreate ten years of accumulated exceptions. Decide what a technician, a dispatcher and an admin should each see, and set it up once.
10
Check your contract end date and notice period
Annual terms have notice windows. Find yours before you plan the cutover, not after you have already paid for the overlap.
11
Run both systems in parallel on live jobs for at least a week
New jobs go into the new platform; existing jobs finish where they started. This is the step everyone skips and everyone regrets.
12
Train the crew before the first customer sees the new app
Fifteen minutes on the phone app, with a real job, before go-live. Technicians who feel ambushed by a software change will route around it for months.

We do not publish a timeline for this, because it depends on how much history you carry and how large your pricebook is. Ask each vendor what they will migrate, who does the work, and what it costs — and get the answer in the contract.

FAQs

ServiceTitan alternative FAQs, answered with dated figures from each vendor’s own page rather than a ranking.

Opsler is the cheapest full-featured option on this page. Budding is free forever with 2 seats — 1 admin and 1 technician — and 50 jobs a month, and Pro is $25 per seat per month with no seat minimum, so a two-person shop pays $50 and a five-person shop pays $125. Among the other vendors that publish a price, Housecall Pro's Basic is $59 a month annually for one user and adds per-user fees on top of the tier, while Jobber prices from a team-size band rather than a plan list — Core is $49 a month for a single user, but Core is not offered once you select 2-5 people, where the cheapest becomes Connect at $199. Service Fusion's $208 a month annually buys unlimited users, so it becomes the cheapest option somewhere above eight or nine people and never moves again. Workiz, FieldPulse, FieldEdge, Simpro, ServiceTrade, BuildOps and ServiceTitan itself publish no price at all, so no honest comparison can rank them on cost. (External figures checked 2 August 2026.)

There is no single winner, and any page that names one is selling you something. Answer three questions instead. If nobody is going to configure software at the weekend, buy a product that starts with a trial rather than a demo — Opsler, Jobber, Housecall Pro and Workiz all do. If your technicians work in basements or rural properties, shortlist only vendors that document offline behaviour in detail. If your team will double this year, price per-seat and flat-rate models side by side at the headcount you expect, not the one you have. Opsler is the wrong answer if you need a live accounting sync, a public API or a built-in phone system. If none of those three is a hard requirement, it fits the small-team case as directly as anything here: every feature on one plan at $25 a seat with no minimum, a free plan for two people that does not expire, and a published account of what still works when the signal drops.

BuildOps, Simpro and ServiceTrade are the three commercial and enterprise options on this page, and all three are quote-led like ServiceTitan itself. BuildOps prices on field and office users and excludes subcontractors from licensing, which matters if a chunk of your capacity is subbed. Simpro sizes a package to your team with selectable add-ons and discloses an initial setup fee for onboarding, training and data migration. ServiceTrade prices mainly on technician count and is built around recurring commercial service agreements. None of them publishes a rate, so budget for a demo cycle on all three rather than assuming one is cheaper.

Only one vendor on this page publishes enough detail to answer that properly. Opsler documents an action-by-action list: once the day has synced, a technician can open assigned jobs, change status, record work performed, build flat or Good/Better/Best estimates from the cached parts catalog, see stock on their own vehicle, create and send invoices, record payments and capture photos. Receiving newly assigned jobs, checking other vehicles' stock, delivering the customer's one-time code and portal link, and route optimisation all need a connection. Housecall Pro lists offline viewing on every plan without expanding on it. Jobber's offline support is partial and its depth is not documented publicly. For Workiz, FieldPulse, Service Fusion, FieldEdge, Simpro, ServiceTrade, BuildOps and ServiceTitan, offline behaviour is not documented publicly — take a phone into your own worst dead zone during a trial and find out.

Ask a specific question on every demo: when a technician fits a part from the van, does the stock count on that van drop and does the part's cost land on that job? A lot of products track a catalog of items without tracking where the physical stock is. 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 — the free Budding plan is capped at 100 items and 1 location, so a real parts operation needs Pro. Simpro and BuildOps are the commercial answers and both are quote-led. Housecall Pro, Jobber, Workiz, FieldPulse, Service Fusion, FieldEdge, ServiceTrade and ServiceTitan do not document multi-location parts behaviour on their public pricing pages, so get it demonstrated rather than described.

ServiceTitan exports data in standard formats and every product on this page imports customers. The records that need planning are the ones that do not travel as a single file: the flat-rate pricebook, membership and service agreements with their coverage dates, installed equipment and warranty records, and attachments such as photos, signed forms and permits. Work through the checklist above in order, keep every export file as your archive, and run both systems in parallel on live jobs for at least a week before you cancel. We do not publish a migration timeline, because it depends entirely on how much history you carry and how large your pricebook is — ask each vendor what they will do and who does it.

No, and it says so at the top. Opsler publishes this website and Opsler is one of the ten products compared. What we can offer instead of independence is a published method: the criteria are listed above, every competitor figure links to the vendor's own page with the date we read it, the list is grouped by business size rather than ranked, and every vendor including Opsler carries a stated drawback. Opsler's drawback list is the longest one here. Where a competitor is the better answer — Workiz for telephony, FieldEdge for a real-time QuickBooks connection, Service Fusion above five or six users, BuildOps and Simpro for commercial project work — this page says so.

If a two-person shop paying for two seats is the shape of the problem, Opsler Budding is free forever for 2 seats and 50 jobs a month, and Pro is $25 a seat with no minimum and a 14-day trial that does not ask for a card.

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