PlowzBox · The honest comparison

You don't rent your truck. Why do you rent your office?

The software industry rents landscapers their own front office: by the seat, by the month, by the text, by the conversation. PlowzBox is a box you own. Below is what the incumbents actually charge and actually gate, from their own pricing pages and their own customers' reviews, with every fact linked to its source.

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How this page was written: every competitor fact comes from public pricing pages, help centers, press releases, and review sites, linked in the sources at the bottom. Where only third-party estimates exist, we say "estimate." Where we couldn't verify something, we left it out. And where a competitor is genuinely better than us, we say that too. It's further down. We didn't hide it.

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Compare the tools from the seat you actually run the business in.

The receipts

What renting your office actually costs.

Six products a landscaper hears about, in their own published numbers and their own customers' words. We also list what each one is genuinely good at, because a comparison that never concedes anything isn't a comparison. It's an ad.

Jobber

The polished one, rented by the seat

$29–$399/mo · +$29/user/mo extra seats1

  • Two-way texting and job costing don't start until the Grow plan at $149+/mo.1,2
  • The AI Receptionist is $29/mo for 30 conversations, then it's metered per conversation.3 Spring rush, when your call volume spikes, is exactly when the meter spins fastest.
  • Every crew member you give a login is another $29 a month. Forever.1
  • Trustpilot reviewers report prepaid annual fees of $424 to $1,700 refused refunds.4
  • Credit where due: a genuinely polished, easy app and 100+ integrations.5 More on that honesty below.

The pattern: the features you actually want live one plan tier and several add-ons above wherever you are.

Service Autopilot

The automation engine behind a toll booth

$49 / $199 / $499/mo + unpublished sign-up fees6

  • Want two-way texting and the automations engine it's named for? That's Pro Plus. $499 a month.7
  • Card processing runs through their in-house processor. Rates unpublished. Not optional.8
  • No shipped AI as of July 2026.7,9 The word "autopilot" is in the name.
  • QuickBooks sync breakage and a post-acquisition decline in support are widely reported by their own users; G2 reviewers report year-over-year price increases above 25%.9,10
  • Credit where due: batch operations are their most-praised strength, and it's real.10

The pattern: pay $499 a month to automate your office, then pay their processor an unpublished rate to get paid.

ServiceTitan

Great software. Not for you. Their words.

Estimated $245–$500/tech/mo · prices not published11,12

  • ServiceTitan's own guidance: it is not optimized for teams of three technicians or fewer.11 If you run 1 to 10 crews, they are telling you this isn't for you.
  • Third-party estimates put it at $245 to $500 per tech per month, plus $5,000 to $50,000 in implementation, on 12-to-36-month contracts. Estimates, because they don't publish prices.11,12
  • The subscription runs at full price straight through your off-season.11
  • Credit where due: for a 50-truck HVAC company, the dashboards are elite. That company is not you, and they say so themselves.

The pattern: enterprise software that filters you out at the door, then steers landscapers toward Aspire.11

Aspire

The enterprise suite with a $1M cover charge

Entry tier gated at $1M+ annual revenue13

  • Aspire's Growth tier starts at businesses doing $1M+ a year. Below that, you are not the customer.13
  • Multi-year contracts: one Capterra reviewer reports being sued for the remainder of a three-year term.14
  • Their aerial-takeoff add-on, PropertyIntel, runs another $199 to $499/mo.15
  • Their actual offer for your size is Crew Control at $39 to $59 per crew per month: a light scheduler. It is not Aspire.16
  • Credit where due: real-time job costing is their flagship for a reason.17 It's also why costing is on the PlowzBox build plan, in the box, no revenue floor.

The pattern: the profit tools exist, behind a velvet rope you need seven figures to cross.

LMN

$297 a month, and texting is extra

Starter $297/mo (under 10 employees) · Professional $648/mo18

  • Two-way SMS is a paid add-on: $75 setup plus $30 a month per 500 messages.18,19 Texting your own customers, metered.
  • The crew app is rated 2.7 out of 5 on Google Play. Their customers' words: "buggy, slow, deletes job cards."19
  • No AI communications. The receptionist that answers at 9 PM does not exist here at any tier.19
  • Credit where due: budget-to-bid estimating and Greenius training are the best in the category.20 If estimating rigor is your whole buying reason, LMN earns a real look.

The pattern: $3,564 a year to start, before the first text message, at their own published prices.18

Yardbook

Free, the expensive way

$0 · $34.99 · $49.99/mo21

  • The free tier is monetized with an extra 1% on your card processing, about 3.9% + 30¢ effective.22 Run $100,000 of card payments through it and "free" cost you an extra $1,000 that year.
  • Documented, discussed-by-name problem: invoice emails landing in customers' spam folders.23 An invoice that isn't seen is an invoice that isn't paid.
  • iOS app still in beta. No AI anywhere.21
  • Credit where due: free is free, the feature depth is real, and for a brand-new solo operator that genuinely matters.21

The pattern: you don't pay for the software. You pay a percentage of your business.

Side by side

What a 1-to-10-crew landscaper actually needs.

Not a feature checklist written by a vendor. The short list of things that decide whether your evenings belong to you, priced at what each product publishes today. Where PlowzBox isn't there yet, the cell says "coming," because a table that never concedes anything is marketing garbage.

Competitor cells reflect published pricing and plans as of July 2026; sources are linked in the receipts above and the source list below. ServiceTitan and Aspire are not columns here because, by their own positioning, they exclude this segment (see their cards above).
What you need PlowzBox Jobber Service Autopilot LMN Yardbook
Every missed call and text answered, 24/7 Text-back in seconds, AI-drafted replies, around the clock AI Receptionist: $29/mo for 30 conversations, metered after No shipped AI No AI comms None
Unlimited AI conversations, flat cost Local AI on the box, no meter Metered past 30/mo No AI No AI No AI
Two-way SMS with customers Included Grow plan, $149+/mo Pro Plus, $499/mo Add-on: $75 setup + $30/mo per 500 msgs Not published†
Online booking and scheduling Booking, recurring jobs, weather reflow Polished Deep recurring engine Basic; no auto-scheduling Basic
Quotes that follow up by themselves Included; day 2, 7, and 10 nudges you approve Pipeline add-on, $49/mo Automations at Pro Plus, $499/mo Not published† Not published†
Invoices and payment reminders With AR aging; you approve every reminder Mature Strong batch invoicing   But documented spam-folder delivery problem
Job costing Coming On the build plan; we won't sell it until it ships Grow plan, $149+/mo Pro plan, $199+/mo Professional, $648/mo Weak here too
Review requests Included, drafted for your approval Add-on, $39/mo Not published† "Completely lacks marketing features," per reviewers Not published†
Crew app Coming Crew run-sheets by text today; crew web app on the build plan Full app; each login is $29/user/mo Metered licenses Rated 2.7/5 on Google Play iOS app in beta
Your own payment processor Bring your own; the box never touches the money Jobber Payments (theirs) Forced in-house processor, rates unpublished Not published† Free tier adds 1% to processing
Where your customer data lives On your box, encrypted; CSV export any day Their cloud Their cloud Their cloud Their cloud
Price per extra seat $0. Add your whole crew. $29/user/mo Unpublished Tiered by headcount (Starter caps at 10 employees) Flat tiers, $0–$49.99/mo
Works when the internet is out Schedule, notes, and the AI keep working Cloud app Cloud app Cloud app Cloud app
The off-season bill You own the box. No seats, no meters. Pricing in plain numbers at the demo. Subscription, 12 months a year Subscription, 12 months a year Subscription, 12 months a year $0 tier all year; they take 1% of card payments

† "Not published" means we could not find the feature or its price on the vendor's public pricing and feature pages as of July 2026. If they ship it, good for their customers; we'll update the cell.

"Coming" means exactly that: on the build plan, not shipped, and we won't charge you for it or demo it until it's real. That rule is why you can trust the checkmarks.

What they're right about

Three things the incumbents genuinely do better.

If we'd hide their strengths, you'd be right to assume we'd hide our weaknesses. So here are both, in the same breath.

Concession 01

Their ecosystems are bigger. Much bigger.

Jobber has 100+ integrations and a public API. PlowzBox connects to the Plowz & Mowz marketplace and exports your data to CSV, and today that's the honest list.

Why the box exists anyway: every app in that stack is another subscription with your customer data in it. The box's job is to shrink your stack, not decorate it. We'll add the few connections that matter and honestly cede the long tail.

Concession 02

Jobber's app is polished, and getting started is genuinely easy.

Ease of onboarding is their customers' number-one praise, and it's earned. If you want the smoothest first week in field software, that's them.

Why the box exists anyway: the polish is rented. It's $29 per user per month, plan tiers between you and your own features, and a meter on the AI. We compete on what a subscription structurally can't offer: local, flat, unmetered, and yours.

Concession 03

We're the new one.

No 5,000-review track record, no decade of case studies. Jobber's AI receptionist had handled 200,000+ conversations before our box took its first call. That head start is real.

Why the box exists anyway: new has to earn it, which is why the demo runs on real hardware in front of you, every number on this page links to its source, and the fine print promises pricing in plain numbers. We can't buy a track record. We can be the only one showing you receipts.

The rule behind this page: nothing here is invented, rounded up, or stripped of context. The burn is that their own pricing pages read like this. We just put them side by side.

Early access

Stop paying rent on your own front office.

See the box answer a missed call, book the job, and wait for your approval, live, on real hardware. Then compare that to the pricing pages above.

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You own the box. Your data stays on it. Pricing in plain numbers at the demo.

Sources

Every claim, checkable.

All competitor facts on this page were verified against these public sources in July 2026. Vendors change pricing; if a number above no longer matches its source, tell us at hello@plowzbox.com and we'll fix it.

Jobber

  1. Jobber pricing page (plan tiers $29–$399/mo; $29/user/mo additional users; Pipeline, Reviews, and Marketing add-on pricing): getjobber.com/pricing
  2. Jobber Help Center, "The Grow Plan" (two-way texting and job costing availability): help.getjobber.com · The Grow Plan
  3. Jobber AI Receptionist feature page ($29/mo, 30-conversation allowance, metered beyond) and launch announcement (PR Newswire, Aug 2025): getjobber.com/features/ai-receptionist · prnewswire.com
  4. Trustpilot reviews of Jobber (reported non-refunded prepaid fees, $424–$1,700): trustpilot.com/review/getjobber.com
  5. Jobber reaches 100 app integrations (Yahoo Finance, May 2026): finance.yahoo.com

Service Autopilot

  1. Service Autopilot pricing page (Startup $49 / Pro $199 / Pro Plus $499/mo; sign-up fees referenced, amounts unpublished): serviceautopilot.com/pricing
  2. Service Autopilot plan comparison chart (two-way texting and automations gated to Pro Plus; no AI features listed): serviceautopilot.com/pricing/comparison-chart
  3. Service Autopilot credit card processing page (in-house processing requirement; rates not published): serviceautopilot.com/credit-card-processing
  4. G2 reviews of Service Autopilot (support decline, reported price increases above 25%/yr): g2.com/products/service-autopilot/reviews
  5. Capterra reviews of Service Autopilot (QuickBooks sync breakage reports; batch operations praise): capterra.com · Service Autopilot reviews

ServiceTitan

  1. "Does ServiceTitan work for landscaping?" (Field Service Guide, 2026 review: ServiceTitan's not-optimized-for-≤3-technicians guidance; steering landscape buyers to Aspire; year-round pricing; cost estimates): fieldserviceguide.com
  2. FieldCamp review of ServiceTitan (third-party cost estimates: $245–$500/tech/mo, $5K–$50K implementation, 12–36-month contracts): fieldcamp.ai/reviews/servicetitan

Aspire

  1. Capterra listing for Aspire (Growth tier gated at $1M+ annual revenue): capterra.com · Aspire
  2. Capterra reviews of Aspire (multi-year contract terms; reviewer report of being sued for remainder of a 3-year term): capterra.com · Aspire reviews
  3. Capterra listing for PropertyIntel (add-on pricing $199–$499/mo): capterra.com · PropertyIntel
  4. Capterra pricing for Crew Control ($39–$59/crew/mo): capterra.com · Crew Control
  5. Aspire job costing product page (flagship real-time job costing): youraspire.com · job costing

LMN

  1. LMN pricing page (Starter $297/mo for under 10 employees; Professional $648/mo; SMS add-on $75 setup + $30/mo per 500 messages): granum.com/lmn/pricing
  2. Connecteam review of LMN (crew app rated 2.7/5 on Google Play; "buggy, slow, deletes job cards"; no AI communications; marketing gaps): connecteam.com/reviews/lmn
  3. LMN estimating product page (budget-to-bid methodology): granum.com/lmn/estimating

Yardbook

  1. Connecteam review of Yardbook (free tier depth; Business $34.99 / Enterprise $49.99/mo; iOS app in beta; no native AI): connecteam.com/reviews/yardbook
  2. Yardbook support: credit card payments (+1% platform fee on free accounts; effective rate about 3.9% + 30¢): support.yardbook.com · credit card payments
  3. LawnSite forum thread: Yardbook invoices flagged as spam (documented deliverability problem): lawnsite.com

All sources retrieved and verified July 2026. Links go to third-party sites we don't control.