How much does Housecall Pro cost in 2026, including add-ons and card fees?

Housecall Pro costs $79 a month for one user on Basic, $189 for five on Essentials and $329 for eight on MAX, month to month, or $59, $149 and $299 billed annually. Card fees run 2.59% to 3.49%. A three-person crew pays $2,268 a year. Swivl Starter is $0 with unlimited users.

On November 2, 2026, Housecall Pro's pricing page listed Basic at $79 a month for one user, Essentials at $189 for five users and MAX at $329 for eight, all month to month. Billed annually, those drop to $59, $149 and $299. MAX adds $35 a month for each user past eight.

I already wrote about a free Housecall Pro alternative. This post is the full bill: plans, users, add-ons and card fees, added up for a year, plus who should pay it anyway. If you'd rather skip the math, Swivl is free to start with unlimited users.

How much does each Housecall Pro plan cost?

These are the prices housecallpro.com/pricing showed today. They are per month, and the plan sets how many people can log in.

Basic covers online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoicing, payments, a price book, job costing and review requests. Essentials adds routes, flat-rate pricing, checklists, photo reports, employee GPS from the tech's phone, commissions and QuickBooks Online sync. MAX adds the sales proposal tool, recurring service plans, route optimization, open API access and a dedicated onboarding rep.

The page also showed an intro offer when I checked: $26 for the first month on Basic or Essentials, and $99 a month for three months on MAX. Budget on the regular price, since that's what you pay from then on.

What does Housecall Pro cost a 1, 3 or 10-person crew in a year?

Users are where the plan choice gets made for you. Basic includes one user, and the pricing page only lists an extra-user price on MAX. So a crew of two to five lands on Essentials, and anything past five lands on MAX.

A year at month-to-month prices comes to:

• One person on Basic: $948.
• Three to five people on Essentials: $2,268.
• Eight people on MAX: $3,948.
• Ten people on MAX plus two extra users: $4,788.

Paying annually saves real money. Three to five people on Essentials comes to $1,788 a year billed annually instead of $2,268. The trade is that you pay up front. Housecall Pro lets you downgrade any time, and the change takes effect at the end of the billing period you already paid for.

The jump from one person to two is the one to watch. A solo owner on Basic pays $79 a month. The pricing page doesn't show a way to add a second user to Basic, so when you hire a tech who needs the app, the next price on the page is Essentials at $189.

What do add-ons add to a Housecall Pro bill?

Vehicle GPS is the add-on with a published price. Housecall Pro's GPS page lists $20 per vehicle per month with no contract, or $49 per device for the dashcam package. Three trucks on vehicle GPS adds $720 a year.

The pricing page values the sales proposal tool at $40 a month and includes it on MAX. It also lists CSR AI, an assistant that answers calls and chats, plus Pipeline, Payroll, Accounting, Business Coaching, Voice, Campaigns and Websites as separate products. It doesn't show prices for those, so ask for the number in writing before you count on one.

Then there's card processing. Housecall Pro's help center, updated July 20, 2026, lists these rates:

• 2.59% for cards swiped, tapped or chipped on a card reader.
• 2.99% for cards the customer enters online from an invoice.
• 3.49% for cards your staff key in, cards on file, American Express, and business or corporate cards.
• 1% for ACH bank payments, and another 1% for instant payouts through Instapay.
• Free mobile check deposit.

On $20,000 a month of invoices paid online, 2.99% comes to $598 a month, or $7,176 a year. If half your customers pay with a business card, that half runs at 3.49%.

Housecall Pro didn't invent card fees. Every processor charges them, and Swivl's card payments carry the processor's fee too. Count them anyway when you compare tools. If you want to test with your own numbers, open a free Swivl account and run a week of real jobs through it next to what you use now. No card, no contract.

What does a 3-person crew really pay for Housecall Pro?

This is the full year for a three-person shop with three trucks, at month-to-month prices, checked November 2, 2026:

• Essentials for three users: $2,268.
• Vehicle GPS on three trucks: $720.
• Software total: $2,988 a year, before card fees and any add-on with an unlisted price.

Roman Guerra runs Roman's Pressure Wash. On Swivl Sessions he described how he prices his own work by adding up every cost before he sets a number:

Software belongs on that list. Put the yearly number on it, with users, add-ons and card fees included, and check it against what you want to walk away with.

Who is Housecall Pro worth it for?

Housecall Pro is a mature product with a big user base. It says more than 200,000 pros use it. Its pricing page says there are no long-term contracts and you can cancel any time, which I respect. I'd pay for it if:

• You want consumer financing, Klarna and PayPal on your invoices from one vendor.
• Your office wants live phone and chat support on every plan, and your crew needs the app in Spanish.
• You run recurring maintenance plans and want MAX's route optimization and proposal tool in the same place.
• You'd rather pay for a long-established platform with a large community of other owners.

If that's your shop and the money is there, it's a fair tool. If you mostly need a schedule, estimates, invoices and an app your guys will open, you're paying $948 to $4,788 a year for a lot you won't touch. More side-by-sides are in Housecall Pro alternatives.

What does the same shop pay on Swivl?

Swivl's Starter plan is $0 a month, free forever, with no card required. It includes unlimited users, customers, estimates (non-AI) and invoices, plus scheduling and dispatch, the iOS and Android app, the price book, inventory, reports and time tracking. No plan has a per-seat charge, so the three-person shop pays the same $0 as a solo owner.

A short Swivl clip set on the first freezing night of the season, when every furnace call comes in at once. It makes one point: adding another tech to Swivl costs $0, because every plan, the free one included, has unlimited users, and the free plan is free forever with AI as an option.

Paid plans add the AI Receptionist (Growth, $49/month, and above) and GPS tracking on the map (Scale Pro, $149/month). The receptionist bills 10 credits a minute while it's on a call, and GPS bills 5 credits an hour per tech while they're clocked in. A three-person crew that wants techs on the map pays $1,788 a year on Scale Pro, and its 4,800 monthly credits cover that GPS with room left for AI estimates and calls. AI estimates, texts and the website builder draw on credits on any plan. The full list is on our pricing page.

You should ask how a free plan pays the bills. We charge for what costs us money to run: AI minutes, AI estimates, texts, hosting and GPS. The office software costs us little per user, so we don't meter it. And to be fair about the trade-off, Housecall Pro has a longer track record, built-in consumer financing and more payment options. If you rely on one of those, check that Swivl covers it before you move. If you run HVAC, this post on dispatch software for a small company walks through the schedule side.

An 18-second Swivl short on what the free plan covers for an HVAC business: unlimited users, creating the job from the truck, estimates (non-AI) built line by line, e-signatures on the customer's phone, unlimited invoices, scheduling, inventory and time tracking with clock in and out from the app. AI features use credits, and the AI Receptionist comes with Growth ($49/month) and above.

Should I pay for Housecall Pro or start free?

Do the math for your own crew. A solo owner on Basic at $79 is paying a fair price for a mature tool. Once you have two to five people, you're on Essentials at $2,268 a year, and every truck on vehicle GPS adds $240. Before you spend that, run a couple of weeks on a free plan and see what you actually miss.

Free to run your business. AI to grow it. Start free on Swivl and keep your Housecall Pro trial open next to it while you decide.