Jobber vs ServiceM8: Pricing Compared

Jobber and ServiceM8 both publish their prices, which already separates them from most of this category. They also price on completely different axes: Jobber bills per user, ServiceM8 bills per job and gives you unlimited users. Which one is cheaper depends entirely on whether your business grows by adding people or by adding jobs.

Every figure below comes from the two vendors’ own pricing pages on the date at the top of this page. We have not used either product.

The published numbers

Jobber lists three billing options per plan: month-to-month with no commitment, monthly with a one-year commitment, and paid annually. The gap between the first and last is significant — on Core it is $49 against $29, a 41% difference for the same plan.

Jobber plan	Monthly, no commitment	Monthly, 1-yr commitment	Billed annually	Users included
Core	$49/mo	$39/mo	$29/mo	1
Connect	$139/mo	$119/mo	$99/mo	1
Grow	$199/mo	$169/mo	$149/mo	1
Plus	$499/mo	$439/mo	$399/mo	1

Additional users are $29/mo each on every Jobber plan. Jobber’s page notes that higher user-count tiers (5, 10, 15+) are available at increased monthly rates.

ServiceM8 has no per-user charge at all. Its plans are bounded by how many jobs you run in a month.

ServiceM8 plan	Monthly price	Jobs per month	Users
Free	$0	30	1
Starter	$29/mo	50	Unlimited
Growing	$79/mo	150	Unlimited
Premium	$149/mo	500	Unlimited
Premium Plus	$349/mo	1500+	Unlimited

ServiceM8 also lists an add-on, ServiceM8 Phone, at “From $19/mo” across all plans.

Where the two curves cross

Because the pricing axes are different, the comparison is not a single number — it is a break-even point that moves with your crew size.

A solo operator running 40 jobs a month pays $29/mo on either Jobber Core (billed annually) or ServiceM8 Starter. At that point the decision is about features, not money.

Add three field techs and the picture changes. Jobber Core billed annually becomes $29 + (3 x $29) = $116/mo. ServiceM8 Starter is still $29/mo, provided you stay under 50 jobs. If those four people are running 120 jobs a month you move to ServiceM8 Growing at $79/mo — still below Jobber, and now with room to hire without the bill moving.

Run it the other way and Jobber wins. A two-person business doing 400 jobs a month needs ServiceM8 Premium at $149/mo. The same business on Jobber Core billed annually pays $29 + $29 = $58/mo, with no job ceiling to hit.

The rule of thumb: more people than jobs favours ServiceM8; more jobs than people favours Jobber.

Monthly cost by crew size

The table below applies the published rates above. Jobber figures use Core billed annually ($29/mo, one user included, $29/mo per additional user). ServiceM8 figures assume the cheapest plan whose job ceiling covers the stated volume.

Crew size	Jobber Core (annual)	ServiceM8 @ 40 jobs	ServiceM8 @ 120 jobs	ServiceM8 @ 400 jobs
1 user	$29/mo	$29/mo	$79/mo	$149/mo
3 users	$87/mo	$29/mo	$79/mo	$149/mo
5 users	$145/mo	$29/mo	$79/mo	$149/mo
8 users	$232/mo	$29/mo	$79/mo	$149/mo
12 users	$348/mo	$29/mo	$79/mo	$149/mo

Two things stand out. First, the ServiceM8 columns are flat — crew size does not move the number at all, because users are unlimited on every paid plan. Second, the Jobber column is the only one that grows, and it grows in a straight line at $29 per head.

Note that Jobber’s page mentions higher user-count tiers (5, 10, 15+ users) available at increased monthly rates, so the straight-line arithmetic above is the list-rate calculation rather than necessarily the best available quote at those sizes. Confirm with Jobber before budgeting on it.

The fee most comparisons leave out

Subscription price is rarely the largest line item. Jobber’s pricing page states card processing at 2.9% + 30¢ and ACH at 1%.

For a business collecting $40,000 a month on cards, 2.9% plus 30¢ on, say, 120 transactions is roughly $1,196 a month — around ten times the cost of the Core plan billed annually. Moving even half that volume to ACH at 1% would save on the order of $380 a month, which dwarfs any difference between the two subscriptions discussed above.

ServiceM8’s pricing page does not state a processing rate, so we do not list one. That is not the same as saying payments are free — it means the figure is not published where we can verify it, and you should ask before you assume.

The commitment discount is a real decision

Jobber’s three-tier billing structure is worth reading carefully, because the headline “$29” is the annual-prepay rate, not what you pay if you want to stay flexible.

• Core, no commitment: $49/mo — $588/yr
• Core, 1-year commitment billed monthly: $39/mo — $468/yr
• Core, billed annually: $29/mo — $348/yr

The spread between the most and least flexible option is $240 a year on the cheapest plan, and $1,200 a year on Plus. For a new business unsure whether the software will stick, the no-commitment rate is the honest cost of finding out.

What we could not verify

Three of the platforms usually named alongside these two do not publish prices:

• ServiceTitan — no public pricing page; sold through a sales process.
• Workiz — no accessible published price list at the time of checking.
• FieldPulse — the pricing page names three plans (Essentials, Professional, Enterprise) and describes seat-based pricing with full-access and field-only seat types, but states “Pricing is customized to your team size and setup. Contact us for a quote.”

You will find specific dollar figures for all three on other comparison sites. We have left them out because we cannot trace those figures to the vendors themselves, and a number you cannot source is a number you cannot rely on when you are budgeting.

Which one fits

ServiceM8 suits a crew-heavy operation with predictable job volume — a team where several people need access but the monthly job count is stable. Unlimited users on a $29 plan is unusual in this category, and it means hiring does not change your software bill.

Jobber suits a high-volume operation with a small back office, or anyone who wants no ceiling on job count. It also suits businesses willing to prepay a year for the 41% discount.

Neither publishes enough to decide on price alone. Both offer trials; the pricing pages are the right place to start, not to finish.

Before you commit, check these

Published prices answer part of the question. These are the items that most often change the real number after signup, and none of them are visible on a pricing page:

1. What counts as a job. ServiceM8’s plans are bounded by monthly job count, so the definition matters. A job that is quoted, rescheduled and then completed — is that one job or three? Ask, because it decides which tier you land on.
2. What happens when you exceed the tier. Some vendors upgrade you automatically, some block new records until you upgrade manually. Those are very different experiences on a Friday afternoon.
3. Whether processing rates are negotiable at volume. Jobber’s published 2.9% + 30¢ is a list rate. On six-figure annual card volume, it is worth asking whether it moves.
4. What the exit looks like. Confirm you can export customers, job history and invoices in a usable format before you have two years of data inside the system.
5. Whether the commitment discount auto-renews. A one-year commitment taken at the discounted rate is a decision you make once and live with for twelve months.

How to read this page

Prices here were read from the two vendors’ own pricing pages on the date shown at the top, and nowhere else. If a figure has changed since then, this page is wrong until it is re-checked — which is why the date is printed rather than hidden.

If you spot a discrepancy, the fastest fix is to send the vendor page showing the current figure. Pricing corrections are treated as urgent here, because a stale number is the specific failure this site exists to avoid.