Jobber vs Housecall Pro for a cleaning business
/ prices read the same day
Jobber and Housecall Pro are the two general field-service platforms cleaning companies shortlist most often. Neither was built for cleaning alone, so the choice comes down to three things you can check: what each plan costs, how many people it lets on, and which tier carries the feature your round depends on. Every figure below was read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 18 October 2026.
Our picks
Jobber Core
Cheapest way in for one person
The lowest published single-user price of the two, with quotes, invoices, online booking and a basic website.
Housecall Pro Essentials
Best for two to five cleaners
Five users, routes, checklist automations and employee GPS tracking in one published tier.
Jobber
Best for adding people one at a time
A published extra-user price on every plan, so the bill rises by one seat rather than one tier.
Plan prices, tier by tier
Both vendors discount annual billing. Jobber also sells a one-year commitment billed monthly, which sits between the two prices shown here.
| Tier | Jobber | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | Core: $29 a month billed annually ($49 month to month) | Basic: $59 a month billed annually ($79 monthly) |
| Second | Connect: $99 a month billed annually ($139 month to month) | Essentials: $149 a month billed annually ($189 monthly) |
| Third | Grow: $149 a month billed annually ($199 month to month) | MAX: $299 a month billed annually ($329 monthly) |
| Top | Plus: $399 a month billed annually ($499 month to month) | — |
Jobber pricing page, read 2026-10-18 · Housecall Pro pricing page, read 2026-10-18
Card processing is billed separately on both platforms and is usually a larger monthly number than the subscription once clients pay online. Ask each vendor for its rate on your own volume before you compare plans.
What a growing crew pays
The seat model decides the answer more than the headline price. Housecall Pro includes one user on Basic, five on Essentials and eight on MAX, with $35 a month for each user past eight. Jobber publishes 1, 5, 10 and 15-user versions of its Connect and Grow plans and charges $29 a month per added user on any plan.
In practice: an owner-operator pays less on Jobber Core. A business with four cleaners plus the owner lands on a five-user plan on either side — Housecall Pro Essentials or Jobber Connect or Grow at the five-user tier — and should compare those three lines directly. Past eight people, Housecall Pro MAX plus extra seats against Jobber’s 10-user tiers is the comparison to run.
Housecall Pro pricing page, read 2026-10-18 · Jobber pricing page, read 2026-10-18
Not every cleaner needs a login. If your teams work from a printed cleaning schedule and a team lead carries the phone, you can run a ten-person business on a five-user plan.
Where the features land
This is the tier where each pricing page first lists a feature. “Not listed by tier” means the headline plan lists did not name it; it may sit in the full feature grid.
| Feature | Jobber | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Online booking | Core | Basic |
| Quotes and invoices with online payment | Core | Basic |
| Automated client reminders | Connect | not listed by tier |
| Job checklists | Connect (checklists) | Essentials (checklist automations) |
| QuickBooks Online sync | Connect | Essentials |
| Job costing | Grow | Basic |
| Two-way SMS | Grow | not listed by tier |
| Routes | not listed by tier | Essentials (routes); MAX (route optimization) |
| Employee GPS tracking | not listed by tier | Essentials |
| Recurring service plans | not listed by tier | MAX |
| Crew scheduling | Plus | Basic (scheduling and dispatch) |
Jobber and Housecall Pro pricing pages, read 2026-10-18
What a cleaning company actually needs
A cleaning round is recurring work at fixed addresses, so the features that pay for themselves are different from a plumber’s. In order of value: recurring visits that do not need rebuilding every month, a checklist the cleaner ticks on the job, automatic reminders the day before, and invoicing that runs itself after each visit.
- Checklists: Jobber lists them from Connect, Housecall Pro lists checklist automations from Essentials. Load your own room sheet, such as the house cleaning checklist or the office cleaning checklist, before you judge either.
- Quotes: both send quotes from the entry tier. The price inside them is still your job — work it out with the house cleaning price calculator first.
- Routes: Housecall Pro lists routes from Essentials and route optimization on MAX. If drive time is eating your margin, that is worth a trial on its own.
If you only clean homes and never quote one-off trade work, the maid-specific platforms are cheaper for the same job. See ZenMaid vs Launch27 and the four-platform comparison.
Running both trials in one fortnight
Both vendors advertised a 14-day free trial with no card on the date we read them. Run them back to back with the same real week, not a demo: the platform that makes your Tuesday easier is the one to pay for.
Week one on each platform
- Load ten real clients, including two with keys and one with pets
- Book one recurring weekly visit and one fortnightly visit
- Send a quote, convert it, and invoice it after the visit
- Give one cleaner a login and run a day from their phone
- Attach your room checklist to a job and see what the cleaner sees
- Export the client list and open it in a spreadsheet
Before you pay
- Price the plan at next year's headcount, not today's
- Ask for the card-processing rate in writing
- Check which tier your must-have feature sits in