We compared CurbBid to 15 of the alternatives.
Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, Workiz, Sera, QuoteIQ, Joist, Square — all the way down to a notebook on the dash. We don't pretend the other tools are bad. We tell you exactly when they're a better fit, and exactly when CurbBid is.
Most of the field-service tools you'll demo are good software. They're also priced for shops with 8 to 25 employees, sold by tier, and stack add-ons for the three things that actually move money on a residential trade truck — following up a quote, reminding on an invoice, and asking for the review. CurbBid does those three things by default, on every plan, with unlimited crew, for one flat price. That's the whole pitch. The rest of this page is the math.
Three patterns we found across all 15.
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The sticker price is almost never the real price.
Jobber's headline number is $39. The day you give a helper a login, you're at $169. Workiz Standard is $229 — for the first five seats, then $46–$55 per extra user, every month. Housecall Pro charges per extra tech and gates estimates and proposals behind upper tiers. ServiceTitan and FieldEdge won't quote you at all without a sales call and a setup fee measured in thousands. CurbBid is $399 with unlimited crew. No per-seat math.
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The three things that move money are upsells.
Two-way SMS, automated review requests, and email/text marketing automations — these are the difference between a quote that ages out and a quote that turns into a job. On Jobber they live on the Grow plan plus a $79/mo Marketing Suite. On Housecall Pro, Markate, and most of the rest, they live behind add-on toggles. CurbBid puts those three things on by default — that's what we built first.
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Setup is the silent tax.
ServiceTitan onboarding can run $5K to $50K and 6 to 12 weeks. FieldEdge typically charges $500 to $2,000 to set up. Sera, Workiz, and the all-in-ones have a real learning curve before you send your first quote. The CurbBid pitch isn't that we're more powerful — it's that you can sign up at lunch and send a quote before the end of the day. No implementation team. No setup fee. The price is on the homepage — you don't have to sit through a demo to find out what it costs.
By category — pick the alternative you're actually weighing.
Click any card for the side-by-side: real prices, what's in, what's out, and an honest take on when the other tool is the right call.
Enterprise & sales-led
These tools won't put a price on the website. You schedule a demo, share your team size, and get a custom quote — usually with a setup fee in the four or five figures and an annual contract attached. They're real software, built for shops with 20+ techs and a full-time office. If that's not you, the procurement is the product.
Mid-market field service
These are the names you see most: Jobber, Housecall Pro, Workiz. They start cheap on a single-user plan and climb fast — per-seat fees on top of the base, two-way SMS gated to a higher tier, marketing automations sold as separate add-ons. They work; they just don't stop charging you for what CurbBid does by default.
Trade-specific (HVAC / plumbing)
Purpose-built for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical with flat-rate pricebooks, equipment proposals, service agreements, and membership management. If you only run one of those trades and you live in margin pricing, this is your aisle. CurbBid is trade-agnostic and skips the trade-specific deep features in exchange.
Feature-heavy all-in-ones
Same price as CurbBid, opposite philosophy: pack 50+ features in one suite, AI estimating, satellite measurement, custom workflows, the works. Great if you'll actually use the menu. The reason to pick CurbBid here is that you don't want a menu — you want quotes followed up, invoices reminded, and reviews asked for, and the rest of the buttons left out of the way.
Lightweight quoting & invoicing
Built for sending one quote or one invoice fast — and they're great at it. What they don't do is the part that actually moves money: follow up the quote three days later, remind on the invoice when it goes overdue, ask for the review the day the job ships. That's the whole point of CurbBid.
Pen, paper, and spreadsheets
If you're running on a clipboard or a Google Sheet, you don't have a software bill — you have an attention bill. The customer waits, the invoice ages, the review never gets asked for. Both of these are real tools. They just can't text the customer back. CurbBid is built so it feels almost as light as paper, but the follow-ups handle themselves.
All 15 comparisons.
One link per alternative. Ordered roughly by how often we see contractors weigh them.
- CurbBid vs Jobber
- CurbBid vs Housecall Pro
- CurbBid vs ServiceTitan
- CurbBid vs Sera Systems
- CurbBid vs Homeworks
- CurbBid vs QuoteIQ
- CurbBid vs P3 HVAC
- CurbBid vs FieldEdge
- CurbBid vs Workiz
- CurbBid vs Markate
- CurbBid vs ServiceTrade
- CurbBid vs Joist
- CurbBid vs Square Invoices
- CurbBid vs Pen and Paper
- CurbBid vs Spreadsheets
We'll tell you straight.
If you have 20+ technicians with a full-time dispatcher and an office staff, ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, or Sera will fit you better than we will — they're built for that shape of business and we aren't.
If you live in flat-rate HVAC pricebooks and equipment proposals with multiple brand options, P3 or Sera will be a tighter fit than CurbBid's trade-agnostic quoting.
If you run commercial fire protection or commercial HVAC service agreements, ServiceTrade is the right tool — we don't do compliance inspections.
And if you're a true solo guy sending one quote a week with no follow-up needed, Jobber Core at $39, Joist for free, or Square Invoices for free will all beat CurbBid on sticker price. The moment you want the follow-ups, the reminders, and the review requests turned on, the math flips.