Jobber vs Housecall Pro vs Tallie
How do Jobber, Housecall Pro, and Tallie compare?
They optimize for three different things. Jobber is the most mature all-rounder and the safest pick if you want automation and integrations. Housecall Pro leans hardest into consumer marketing and online booking, and its Essentials tier bundles five seats, which makes it competitive at exactly that size. Tallie is the newest and narrowest: it is built around generating estimates with live material pricing, and it is cheapest for crews of one to five. We make Tallie, so weigh this accordingly — the sourced pricing below is the part you should trust most.
How we judged
- Cost at one, three, and five seats using published rates
- How estimates get created and priced
- Product maturity and integration depth
- What sits behind add-ons versus what is included
- Which business shape each one is actually designed for
At a glance
| Option | Price | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber | $49/mo → $255/mo (1→5 seats) | Teams that want the most mature product and deepest integrations | Tiers below Plus include one seat; extras are $29/mo |
| Housecall Pro | $59/mo → $149/mo (1→5 seats) | Residential service businesses that market to consumers directly | Several sought-after features are unpublished-price add-ons |
| Tallie(us) | $29/mo → $117/mo (1→5 seats) | Crews of one to five whose real bottleneck is producing estimates | Youngest product, no QuickBooks sync, no native Android app |
Competitor pricing verified August 3, 2026 from each vendor's public pricing page. Pricing may change.
Pricing, at the sizes that matter
Using published monthly rates with no annual commitment: at one seat it is $49/mo for Jobber Core, $59/mo for Housecall Pro Basic, and $29/mo for Tallie Starter.
At three seats: $197/mo for Jobber Connect plus two users, $149/mo for Housecall Pro Essentials, and $79/mo for Tallie Pro.
At five seats: $255/mo, $149/mo, and $117/mo respectively. Note how Housecall Pro closes the gap as headcount rises, because Essentials bundles five seats while Jobber Connect bundles one.
The estimating difference
This is the real distinction, not price. Jobber and Housecall Pro both give you good quoting tools built on a price book you maintain. You define your services and rates, then assemble quotes from them. For repeatable work that is an excellent model, and arguably better than ours.
Tallie generates the line items instead. You describe the job in plain language and get back an itemized estimate with materials priced against live supplier data. For custom work with no reusable template that is a large difference. For flat-rate service work it is largely irrelevant, because a good price book already solves the problem.
Where each one genuinely wins
Jobber wins on maturity. More integrations, more automation, a bigger support organization, and years of refinement. If you want the lowest-risk choice and quoting is not your bottleneck, this is it.
Housecall Pro wins on demand generation. Online booking, review management, and consumer marketing are first-class there in a way they are not in either of the others. If your problem is filling the calendar rather than processing what is on it, that focus matters more than anything on our feature list.
Tallie wins on estimate production and on price below about five seats. That is a deliberately narrow claim. We are the youngest product here and it shows in integration depth.
What Tallie is missing that these two have
Stated plainly, because you will find out anyway: no QuickBooks sync, no native Android app, no recurring service plan automation, no inventory, no GPS or fleet tracking, and a much shorter integration list. Our native iOS app is in TestFlight beta rather than on the App Store.
If any of those is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have, one of the other two is your answer and there is no point trialing us first.
How to decide in an afternoon
All three offer a 14-day trial. Take one job you have already completed and know the true cost of, and quote it in all three.
Time each one and compare the output to what the job actually cost. Whichever gets closest fastest is your answer, and it will be a better answer than any comparison page can give you — including this one, which we wrote.
What it looks like
Tallie is a good fit if
- Anyone actively comparing these three specific products
- Crews of one to five deciding where the money goes
- Businesses trying to work out whether AI estimating is worth switching for
Look elsewhere if
- Enterprise operations — none of these three is the right shortlist
- Businesses that have already standardized on one and are happy
Common questions
Which is cheapest?
Tallie at one through five seats on published monthly rates — $29/mo at one seat and $117/mo at five, against $255/mo and $149/mo for the others at five. Add-ons could change that, and Housecall Pro does not publish add-on pricing.
Which is best for a plumber or an HVAC tech?
If most of your work is flat-rate service calls, a price book product like Housecall Pro or Jobber fits well. If you do installs and custom work where every quote is different, generated estimating helps more.
Can I move between them?
Client lists export and import as CSV between all three. Job history generally does not transfer, so most people finish open jobs in the old tool and start new work in the new one.
Is Jobber or Housecall Pro better?
They are close, and the split is by need rather than quality: Jobber for automation and integration depth, Housecall Pro for consumer marketing and online booking. On seats, Housecall Pro Essentials bundling five is a real advantage at that size.
Why should we trust a comparison written by Tallie?
Partly you should not, and we would say the same about comparisons published by the other two. What you can check independently is the pricing, which is sourced and dated below, and the list of features we do not have.
Sources
Competitor pricing verified August 3, 2026 from each vendor's public pricing page. Pricing may change.
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