LawnPro vs Jobber

Lawn care specialist vs general field service. Pick your monthly payment.

Quick Answer: LawnPro: about $39/month ($468/year). Jobber: about $49/month ($588/year). Jobber is the more expensive of the two. Which one is right depends on the work you do, and the section below picks between them. We also make a one-time-purchase alternative, Nexa; it is disclosed at the foot of this page rather than folded into the comparison.

LawnPro

$39/mo

Lawn care businesses wanting industry-specific features

Jobber

$49/mo

Lawn care businesses wanting cleaner UX and broader features

Nexa (ours)

$279 once

Lawn care businesses tired of monthly payments

Bottom Line

LawnPro ($39/mo) and Jobber ($49/mo) are both established tools with real user bases, and for most people the honest answer is that either will do the job — the difference shows up in fit, not quality. Over three years the running totals are roughly $1,572 for LawnPro and $1,976 for Jobber, because subscription pricing compounds. Read the section below on which one suits your work; the cost table further down shows where the bill actually differs.

Can it pay for itself?

Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year.

It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.

Feature Comparison

FeatureLawnProJobberNexa
Pricing$0–$249/mo (typically $39)$49–$499/mo (typically $49)$279 once
Lawn specificYes — route optimization, property notesGeneral field serviceJobs + Notes handle property details
Route optimizationBuilt-inConnect tierMap view

LawnPro or Jobber: which one

If you are choosing between these two, this is the part that matters. Both are established products and neither is a mistake — the question is which fits how you actually work. We have left ourselves out of this section entirely.

Choose LawnPro if…

  • You want to start without paying. LawnPro has a free tier and Jobber does not.
  • Your budget is the binding constraint. LawnPro starts at $0/month against Jobber’s $49.
  • You work in Field Service, Scheduling. That is a segment LawnPro is built around and Jobber is not.

Choose Jobber if…

  • You expect to grow into heavier requirements. Jobber’s ladder runs up to $499/month, so there is more product above you before you have to migrate again.
  • Built for home services is something you actually use. It is one of the capabilities Jobber leads with.
  • Mobile app for field teams is something you actually use. It is one of the capabilities Jobber leads with.

What each one actually costs

Headline prices rarely survive contact with a real invoice. These are the parts of the bill that move: where the ladder starts and ends, what an extra seat adds, and what comes off the top of money you take through the tool. A dash means we do not have that figure recorded — not that the fee is zero.

 LawnProJobber
How it is pricedMonthly subscriptionMonthly subscription
Entry price$0/mo$49/mo
Top published tier$249/mo$499/mo
Plan people typically land on$39/mo$49/mo
Per extra user$0 — employees bundled into the tier (3/7/15)$29/mo per additional user (all plans)
Payment processing—Jobber Payments: 2.9% + 30¢ card; 2.7% + 30¢ Tap to Pay; 1% ACH; instant payouts +1%
Free tierYesNo
Three-year total—$1,764
Five-year total, with increases—$2,940

LawnPro

Solo tier is genuinely free for 1 user and up to 25 customers. Paid tiers are Startup $39/mo (3 employees), Grow $129 (7) and Plus $249 (15), each about 20% cheaper billed annually. The free tier is a real starting point for a one-person round, not a trial.

Jobber

Core — one user; the solo plan (Connect $139 is the 1-5 crew tier)

Pricing checked . Vendors change prices without notice — check the vendor before deciding.

Where LawnPro and Jobber genuinely win

Both of these are real products that a lot of businesses run on happily. If a comparison page only tells you what is wrong with the tools it is comparing, it is selling you something. Here is the honest case for each.

What LawnPro does well

  • Genuinely free tier for a solo operator up to 25 customers
  • Built specifically for lawn care and landscaping
  • Route and job scheduling
  • Invoicing and recurring billing
  • Employees bundled into the tier

What Jobber does well

  • Built for home services
  • Mobile app for field teams
  • Route optimization
  • Client hub for self-service
  • QuickBooks Online integration

Why People Compare LawnPro and Jobber

LawnPro is the more affordable of the two at $39/mo, though you may meet its limits as you grow. Jobber costs more at $49/mo but brings a broader feature set. Recurring pricing compounds, so the multi-year figure is the one that decides it.

There is a third shape to consider, and we should say plainly that it is ours: Nexa is a one-time purchase at $279 covering scheduling, invoicing, CRM, time tracking and job management. It suits people who want to stop paying monthly and can do without staffed support and a large integration ecosystem. If those matter to you, one of the two tools above is the better answer, and we would rather you bought the right thing.

The Real Question

5 years of LawnPro: $1,740-4,740. 5 years of Jobber: $5,940-10,140. Nexa forever: $279.

For reference, since we are one of the three options named on this page: Nexa is $279 once, with no monthly fee and no per-seat charge. Whether that beats a subscription depends entirely on how long you would keep paying one.

What you actually get for a monthly fee

Comparing "$X per month forever" against "$279 once" is not a fair fight unless we say what the monthly fee is buying. It buys real things:

Where we think the trade goes the other way: those benefits are priced as rent, they compound every year you keep paying, and you stop having them the month you stop. Which side of that is worth more depends on your business, not on our opinion — run the numbers below on your own tool list rather than taking ours.

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Pricing verified March 2026.

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