Prices read off the vendor's own page
Housecall Pro pricing: what the three plans actually cost
Housecall Pro publishes its prices, which already puts it ahead of most of this market. What it does not do is add them up for you. We have.
On annual billing the three plans are $59, $149 and $299 a month, including one, five and eight users. Paid month to month they are $79, $189 and $329.
Two things follow from those numbers that the page does not say. From the seventh user onward, Max — the dearer plan — costs less than Essentials. At seven users Essentials is $349 a month and Max is $299, and the gap widens with every hire. Separately, once a business runs more than about $139,000 a year through card payments, the processing fee costs more than the software subscription does.
The published plans, August 28, 2026
| Plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly | Users included | Each extra user |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $59/mo | $79/mo | 1 | not published |
| Essentials | $149/mo | $189/mo | 5 | $100/mo |
| Max | $299/mo | $329/mo | 8 | $75/mo |
Every figure on this page is quoted from housecallpro.com/pricing as it read on August 28, 2026. Where the page publishes no number, the cell says so. We do not estimate.
From the seventh user on, the dearer plan costs less
Essentials charges $100 a month for each user past five. Max charges $75 a month for each user past eight. Because the extra-user price on the cheaper plan is higher, the two lines cross — and they cross early.
| Users | Essentials | Max | Cheaper | Difference per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | $149 | $299 | Essentials | $1,800 |
| 6 | $249 | $299 | Essentials | $600 |
| 7 | $349 | $299 | Max | $600 |
| 8 | $449 | $299 | Max | $1,800 |
| 10 | $649 | $449 | Max | $2,400 |
| 15 | $1,149 | $824 | Max | $3,900 |
| 20 | $1,649 | $1,199 | Max | $5,400 |
Monthly figures on annual billing. Essentials = $149 + $100 per user over five. Max = $299 + $75 per user over eight. The last column is the yearly gap between the two.
A crew of eight on Essentials pays $449 a month. The same crew on Max pays $299 and gets the larger feature set. That is $1,800 a year to be on the smaller plan. Nothing on the pricing page points this out, because the page presents the three plans side by side as a ladder rather than as three lines that cross.
What the annual discount is actually worth
The discount is advertised in dollars — “Save $20/mo”, “Save $40/mo”, “Save $30/mo”. In dollars the biggest saving looks like the middle plan. As a percentage the order reverses.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Saved per month | Discount | Paid per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $79 | $59 | $20 | 25.3% | $708 |
| Essentials | $189 | $149 | $40 | 21.2% | $1,788 |
| Max | $329 | $299 | $30 | 9.1% | $3,588 |
Committing to a year is worth a quarter off on Basic and less than a tenth off on Max. If you are buying the top plan, the annual commitment buys you comparatively little, which is worth knowing before you agree to twelve months instead of one.
The subscription is not the biggest number on the bill
The pricing page states card processing rates as low as 2.59% and that a 1% fee is applied to bank payments. Those percentages are charged on money moving through the system, not on the software, and for most contractors they are the larger figure by a wide margin.
| Card revenue per year | At 2.59% | Max subscription | Processing vs software |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | $2,590 | $3,588 | 0.7× |
| $250,000 | $6,475 | $3,588 | 1.8× |
| $500,000 | $12,950 | $3,588 | 3.6× |
| $1,000,000 | $25,900 | $3,588 | 7.2× |
Subscription column is Max on annual billing with eight users, $299 × 12. Processing column applies the published floor rate of 2.59% to card revenue. It is a floor, not a quote.
The crossover points, using the published floor rate: processing overtakes the subscription at about $27,000 of card revenue on Basic, $69,000 on Essentials and $139,000 on Max. Bank payments at 1% are cheaper per dollar, so steering customers towards bank transfer is worth real money — on $500,000 the difference between 2.59% and 1% is $7,950 a year, more than twice the cost of the software.
Read “as low as” carefully. 2.59% is the best published rate, not the rate every account is given. Card-present, card-not-present and keyed transactions are commonly priced differently, and the page does not break them out. If you have a Housecall Pro statement showing the rate you were actually charged, send it to us and we will publish the range with the dates.
What Housecall Pro does not publish
These are gaps in the vendor's page, not in our reading of it. We list them because a price you cannot see is still a price you pay.
- The cost of a second user on Basic. Essentials and Max both print an extra-user price. Basic includes one user and says nothing about adding a second.
- Onboarding or setup charges. Not mentioned either way.
- Add-on prices. The Sales Proposal Tool is described as a “$40/mo value”, which is a claim about worth rather than a price. What the other add-ons cost is not shown.
- The processing rate an individual account receives, and how it varies by transaction type.
- Instant payout fees. Instapay appears as a feature. No fee for it appears on the pricing page.
The terms, as stated
The page says the trial is 14 days, free, with no credit card required, and that “Housecall Pro does not require long-term contracts. Cancelling is simple and hassle-free.” That is the vendor's description, not ours. We have not tested it, and we cannot: Housecall Pro restricts its service to residents of the United States and Canada, so we are unable to open an account. This page is a reading of the published prices, not a review.
Where we have been able to sign up we say what we found — the software pricing page records what actually happened when we opened a ServiceM8 account and cancelled it. We would rather leave a gap here than write as if we had done the same thing twice.
One figure we changed
Our software pricing table recorded the Max extra-user price as $35 a month when we checked on August 13, 2026. Reading the same page on August 28 it says $75. We cannot prove whether the price moved or whether we misread it two weeks ago, so we are recording both and correcting the table to today's figure rather than quietly overwriting it.
How we got these numbers
We opened housecallpro.com/pricing on August 28, 2026 and wrote down what it said. Every plan price, seat count, extra-user price and percentage on this page is quoted from that page. Everything else here — the crossover table, the discount percentages, the processing comparison — is arithmetic on those quoted figures, and the formula is printed under each table so you can redo it.
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