Pricing
Every other platform charges a full seat for someone who works once a month, so operators keep their subcontractors out of the software and text them instead. Every broadcast, compliance check, and photo on those work orders is lost. Ground Ops prices the sporadic worker at what the sporadic worker costs.
Move the sliders. Nothing here is a quote and nothing is hidden.
This sets your base. Everything below is people.
Not counting you. Anyone working steadily reaches the $15 maximum.
Leave out anyone who ran no work orders. They cost nothing.
That is $6 each.
Also not counting you. Your owner seat comes with the base.
If every one of those people worked flat out, you would pay $99 a month. That is the base plus fifteen dollars for every person on the account.
Two tables. The base moves with the work you run. People cost what they work, and no person ever costs more than fifteen dollars.
| Work orders per month | Base |
|---|---|
| Up to 150 | $39 |
| 151 to 300 | $69 |
| 301 to 600 | $99 |
| 601 to 1,200 | $139 |
| 1,201 and up | $189 |
| Person | Cost |
|---|---|
| Owner | Free |
| Office staff, dispatcher, supervisor, admin | $15/mo |
| Field technician or subcontractor | $3 per work order, $15 max |
| Your accountant | Free |
| Additional trade | $19/mo |
Power washing on top of cleaning, handyman on top of turnover. Same account, same crew, same invoice. You get that trade's skill tags, checklists, and compliance rules, not just a new line on a quote. Jobber's own help center tells operators running a second business to open a second account with a second subscription.
One free login per account. They can read your books, reconcile, and export. They cannot touch your schedule, your clients, or your crew. Nobody else in this segment offers it.
Every module we build ships to every account on day one. There is no plan above yours.
Your base rises when you run more work orders. It never rises because you needed a feature. Those are different things, and only one of them punishes you for growing.
One who runs thirty costs fifteen. One who runs none costs nothing at all. Send a work order to twenty subcontractors and only the one who accepts and starts it appears on your invoice. Broadcasts are free and cancelled work orders are free.
When a subcontractor becomes an employee they were already billed on the work they did, so they simply start reaching the fifteen dollar maximum every month instead of some months. What changes is the paperwork: the required documents flip from W-9 and certificate of insurance to I-9, W-4, and workers compensation, and Ground Ops blocks dispatch until those land.
Your base, plus fifteen dollars for every person on your account. Nothing else. Ground Ops shows your running work order count and your per-person totals all month, so you never learn anything from an invoice.
Actual configurations, including one no competitor can price: an owner with a virtual assistant and a twenty-person subcontractor bench where twelve worked that month.
| Operation | Work orders | Base | People | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo cleaner | 50 | $39 | $0 | $39 |
| Two-person shop | 100 | $39 | $15 | $54 |
| Three-person crew | 150 | $39 | $30 | $69 |
| Five-person HVAC shop | 110 | $39 | $60 | $99 |
| Five-person cleaning crew | 250 | $69 | $60 | $129 |
| Owner, VA, and three technicians | 250 | $69 | $60 | $129 |
| Ten-person cleaning company | 500 | $99 | $135 | $234 |
| Fifteen-person company | 750 | $139 | $210 | $349 |
| Five-person pool route | 1,600 | $189 | $60 | $249 |
| Owner, VA, 20-sub bench, 12 ran 3 jobs each | 36 | $39 | $123 | $162 |
Eight idle subcontractors cost nothing. The twelve who worked cost what they worked.
What the same operation costs elsewhere. Competitor figures are monthly list rates read from their published pricing pages in September 2026.
| Ground Ops | QuoteIQ | Jobber | Housecall Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $39/mo | $29.99/mo | $49/mo | $79/mo |
| Second person on the account | $0 to $15 | $45 | Plan change | Plan change |
| Subcontractor who runs one job a month | $3 | Full seat | $29 seat | $35 seat |
| Subcontractor who runs no jobs this month | $0 | Full seat | $29 seat | $35 seat |
| Sales pipeline | Included | Elite, $299/mo | $49/mo add-on | — |
| Flat rate price book | Included | Included | Included | $149/mo add-on |
| Vehicle GPS | Included | Elite, $299/mo | Included | $20/vehicle/mo |
| Dispatching | Included | Elite, $299/mo | Included | Included |
| Crew management | Included | Max, $699/mo | Included | Included |
| Compliance hard stop on dispatch | Included | — | — | — |
| Accountant login | Free | — | — | — |
| Second business or trade | $19/mo | Max, $699/mo | Second subscription | Call sales |
Annual billing reduces Jobber by up to 25%, Housecall Pro by about 20%, and QuoteIQ by two months. Payment processing is charged separately by every platform in this table, including Ground Ops, and is excluded from every figure.
The questions operators actually ask before they switch.
One scheduled piece of work at one service address. It counts toward your monthly total when the assigned person starts it. Cancelled work orders never count, and a work order that stops and restarts counts once.
Your base moves to the next band and stays there while your volume does. Ground Ops shows your running count all month, so you will never learn about it from an invoice. The base stops rising at $189, no matter how much work you run.
No. A person who runs zero work orders in a billing cycle costs nothing. Keep your entire bench in Ground Ops year round at no cost, and only the people who actually start work orders appear on your invoice. Every other platform in this segment charges a full seat whether the person works once a month or thirty times.
No. Send a work order to twenty subcontractors and only the one who accepts and starts it costs you anything. Charging for a broadcast would tax the thing this pricing exists to encourage.
Your bill goes up while they work and comes back down when they stop. There is no plan to upgrade and no plan to downgrade, so a seasonal operation is never paying winter rates for a summer roster.
Nothing changes on your invoice. That person was already billed on the work they did, and they simply start reaching the fifteen dollar monthly maximum every month instead of some months. What does change is the paperwork: the required document set flips from W-9 and certificate of insurance to I-9, W-4, and workers compensation, and Ground Ops blocks dispatch until those documents are on file.
No. There is no higher plan. Every module ships to every account on day one, including scheduling, dispatch, the compliance gate, subcontractor broadcasts, checklists, estimates, invoicing, expenses, mileage, payouts, reconciliation, and taxes. When lead capture, the sales pipeline, and analytics ship, they ship to every account too.
Because work orders are what a field person does, and that gives us something fair to measure. A dispatcher or an office manager has no work orders to count, so they sit at the same fifteen dollar ceiling every person on the account shares. Nobody ever costs more than fifteen dollars, and field people can cost less.
Your base, plus fifteen dollars for every person on your account. Nothing else, ever.
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