QuoteIQ vs Housecall Pro: Same Price. No Sales Call.

It depends entirely on your headcount, and anyone giving you a single percentage is selling you something. Using Housecall Pro’s annual pricing, which is their best case: solo — Housecall Pro Basic is $59/month and QuoteIQ Essentials is $29.99, so QuoteIQ is 49% cheaper. Four people — Housecall Pro Essentials is $149 and QuoteIQ Pro is $149.99, which is parity and we are not going to dress it up. Five or six — Housecall Pro is still $149 while QuoteIQ pushes you to Elite at $299, so Housecall Pro is genuinely cheaper at that band. Eight — both are $299, except Housecall Pro gives you eight seats and QuoteIQ Elite gives you ten. Ten — Housecall Pro is $369 because of the $35-per-user fee above eight; QuoteIQ is still $299. Fifteen — Housecall Pro is $544 and QuoteIQ Max is $699, so Housecall Pro wins on sticker again. From twenty upward the user fee takes over permanently: $719 at twenty, $1,069 at thirty, $1,769 at fifty, against a flat $699 for unlimited users on QuoteIQ Max — $12,840 a year at fifty people. But the sticker is only half the question, because Housecall Pro’s business phone, mass campaigns, lead pipeline and 24/7 AI call answering are all add-ons with no published price, and all four are inside QuoteIQ Elite at that same $299.

Housecall Pro publishes three plans. Basic is $59/month on annual billing or $79 month-to-month for one user, and includes online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoicing, payments and consumer financing, a price book, job costing and review management. Essentials is $149/month annual or $189 monthly and includes five users, adding route sequencing, flat-rate pricing with margins, checklist automations, photo reports and annotations, employee GPS tracking, commissions and QuickBooks Online sync. MAX is $299/month annual or $329 monthly and includes eight users, adding the sales proposal tool, recurring service plans, one-click route optimization with live traffic, open API access and a dedicated onboarding specialist — and critically, $35/month for every additional user beyond the eighth. Those figures come straight off Housecall Pro’s pricing page as of July 14, 2026. What that page does not tell you is what Voice, CSR AI call answering, Campaigns, Pipeline, HCP Assist, Websites, Payroll, Accounting or Business Coaching cost. Nine products, no published prices.

Housecall Pro does not publish a price for any of them. That is the complete answer, and it is worth stating plainly because it is remarkably hard to find out otherwise. As of July 14, 2026, nine Housecall Pro products carry no price anywhere on their website: Voice (business phone), CSR AI 24/7 call answering, Campaigns (mass text, email and postcard), Pipeline (lead and deal CRM), HCP Assist (human call answering), Websites, Payroll, Accounting and Business Coaching. You find out what they cost by booking a demo and talking to a salesperson. To be fair to them, Housecall Pro does describe the Sales Proposal Tool and Recurring Service Plans as a “$40/mo value” on the lower tiers and bundles both into MAX — those two are the only add-on figures they publish. Four of the unpriced nine are simply included in QuoteIQ Elite at $299/month, the same price as Housecall Pro MAX: a real business line with two-way calling and texting (ClientHub), Mass Campaigns, Pipelines & Deals, and 24/7 AI call answering that also makes outbound calls (Virtual Call Team, which is actually on every plan from $29.99).

Yes. Housecall Pro MAX ($299/month) includes Route optimization, which in their own words reorders jobs in one click based on real drive time and live traffic. Housecall Pro Essentials ($149/month) includes Routes, which groups and sequences the day’s jobs to cut drive time. Both are on their live pricing page, and if you read a comparison claiming otherwise, that page is out of date. The honest comparison: QuoteIQ Route Optimization sits on Elite at the same $299, so the two platforms are at parity on price for it. Where QuoteIQ goes further is Route Density Zones, which cluster jobs geographically so you sell into the streets you already drive, and Housecall Pro has no equivalent. Elite also bundles Dispatching, EmployeeHub GPS and Time Tracker Pro — though it is only fair to note Housecall Pro puts dispatching and time tracking on every plan and basic route sequencing at $149, all cheaper than we do.

Housecall Pro has a real AI suite and it is free on every plan — anyone telling you they have no AI is out of date. Their AI Team includes Analyst AI for natural-language business reporting, Coach AI for growth and hiring advice, Marketing AI for copy and review responses, Help AI for product support, Accountant AI for questions against your books, and CSR AI chat for your website. Analyst AI, Coach AI and Accountant AI have no QuoteIQ equivalent and we will say so plainly. The difference is what the AI is for. Housecall Pro’s AI mostly reports on the business. QuoteIQ’s AI does the work: AI Autopilot operates the CRM through 35 tools by natural language, AI Estimator builds a priced estimate from a photo, Before/After AI generates the finished-job image, AI CoPilot edits estimates conversationally, and AI roof-and-pitch measurement sizes a roof from imagery. Housecall Pro has none of those four. And on the phone: their CSR AI answers inbound calls but does not place outbound ones, and the call-answering tier is a paid add-on with no published price — while Virtual Call Team does both and is on the $29.99 plan.

QuoteIQ, on the numbers — and this is a reversal from what this page used to say, so it is worth explaining. Until April 2026 QuoteIQ had no consumer financing and Housecall Pro did, and older versions of this comparison correctly listed that as a Housecall Pro advantage. That changed. QuoteIQ Consumer Financing now ships on every plan, including the free trial, running three lenders — Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay — on job values from $1 to $30,000. You switch it on from the Stripe dashboard the same day, with no dealer application and no underwriting queue, and you are paid in full up front while the customer pays over time. QuoteIQ takes nothing out of it. Housecall Pro offers consumer financing on every plan too, through a single provider, which means one set of approval criteria and one set of terms. Three lenders means a customer declined by one may be approved by another, and it means pay-in-four is available for the smaller repair tickets a traditional loan product does not serve well. To be fair to Housecall Pro, they do something QuoteIQ does not do at all: business financing — working capital for you, plus expense cards for your techs. If you need to borrow rather than to lend, that is theirs and we have nothing to offer you.

Quite a lot, and pretending otherwise would make everything else on this page worthless. Online booking on the $59 Basic plan — QuoteIQ gates InstaSchedule to Elite at $299, and this is their best structural advantage. Job costing on Basic — QuoteIQ puts Job Costing on Pro. Employee GPS on Essentials at $149 — QuoteIQ makes you reach Elite. Dispatching, two-way SMS, on-the-way texts and time tracking on every plan. Flat-rate pricing with margins on Essentials. A Spanish app and Spanish-speaking support, which QuoteIQ does not offer in any form and which decides the question outright for a great many crews. QuickBooks Desktop, where QuoteIQ syncs to QuickBooks Online only. Analyst AI, Coach AI and Accountant AI, free, with no QuoteIQ equivalent. Payroll, bookkeeping, business financing and expense cards. HCP Assist, which puts real humans rather than AI on your phone. Hardware vehicle GPS and dashcams. And 200,000+ contractors with a thirteen-year track record. One thing that used to be on this list and is not any more: consumer financing. QuoteIQ shipped it in April 2026 with three lenders instead of one.

QuoteIQ is the strongest alternative for contractors whose objection to Housecall Pro is the add-on model — the business phone, the mass campaigns, the lead pipeline and the AI that answers your calls all cost extra, and none of the four has a published price. QuoteIQ Elite includes all four at $299/month, the same price as Housecall Pro MAX, with ten users instead of eight and no per-user fee above that. It starts at $29.99/month and adds things Housecall Pro cannot sell you at any tier: satellite property measurement, photo-to-estimate AI, real inventory management and outbound AI calling — across 50+ trades rather than about sixteen. But be honest about the shape of your problem. If what you actually need is online booking on a cheap plan, a Spanish-speaking crew app, or payroll and bookkeeping from the same vendor, no alternative beats Housecall Pro and you should stay. Other options worth a look: Jobber for a comparable all-round platform, ServiceTitan if you are above roughly $5M in revenue with dedicated office staff, and PaintScout if you are a painting-only shop needing production-rate estimating depth. The full comparison hub has side-by-side breakdowns of each.