Is Buildertrend more expensive than WorkHoist?

For up to 15 paid seats, yes: WorkHoist is $199 a month for 1–5 and $399 for 6–15, both below Buildertrend’s $499 starting price. For 16–40 seats both start at $499, and Buildertrend’s final price depends on your construction volume and onboarding package. Above 40 seats WorkHoist is $799, and Buildertrend, with unlimited users, can cost less if your quote stays near its starting price.

Does Buildertrend charge per user?

No. Their pricing page lists unlimited users with no per-seat fees, their FAQ says users are included in your pricing, and their own comparison table lists cost per user as no extra cost.

Can you pay Buildertrend monthly?

Their own software-pricing comparison table lists Buildertrend’s payment options as annual or quarterly. WorkHoist bills monthly, or annually for 15% off if you prefer.

Why does Buildertrend ask for my annual construction volume?

Because the final price depends on it: their pricing page says so, alongside the onboarding package. WorkHoist doesn’t ask — your volume isn’t part of our calculation.

How much does WorkHoist cost?

WorkHoist is priced by paid seat band: $199 a month for 1–5, $399 for 6–15, $499 for 16–40 and $799 for 41–75, with custom pricing above that. Annual billing saves 15%, there are no per-user fees, and every feature is on every plan. See pricing.

What happens to my data if I leave Buildertrend?

We could not verify an export mechanism either way, and we would rather say that than guess. Buildertrend’s help documentation describes six built-in reports — work-in-progress, budgeted versus projected, profitability, invoicing, labor actuals versus budgeted, and cash flow — and does not mention exporting or downloading any of them. The same documentation caps the work-in-progress report at the most recent 200 jobs sent to the budget, and only open jobs appear in it. Their help centre’s search sits behind a login, so we could not check any further. That is an absence of documentation we could read, not evidence that no export exists — ask Buildertrend directly, and ask before you commit to a date.

WorkHoist vs Buildertrend: an honest comparison

If you’re a contractor comparing Buildertrend and WorkHoist, this page is written by the team behind WorkHoist — so read it with that in mind. Every claim about Buildertrend comes from Buildertrend’s own website, linked at the bottom, and there’s a section on where Buildertrend is the better choice. For a lot of builders, it will be.

Last updated 16 October 2026

The short answer

Choose Buildertrend if you build homes or remodel them, you want the deepest residential feature set on the market, and you’re happy to get a quote shaped by how much you build, on billing its own comparison page lists as annual or quarterly.

Choose WorkHoist if you want to know the exact price before you talk to anyone, and you’d rather pay monthly than commit to a quarter or a year up front. For up to 15 paid seats, WorkHoist’s whole price is below Buildertrend’s starting price.

Both now publish a number. Only one of them is the price you pay. The rest of this page shows our working.

How each one prices

Buildertrend

Buildertrend now puts a number on its pricing page: “Starting at $499 per month” for the full platform, with unlimited users. It is where the price starts, not what you pay. The same page says:

“Your final price depends on your annual construction volume and onboarding package.”
buildertrend.com/pricing

The pricing page ends in a quote form, and their own pricing-comparison page still describes their model as a custom quote, listing its drawback themselves:

“Requires consultation to determine exact cost.”
Buildertrend construction software pricing guide

So $499 is a floor. The number you are eventually given is shaped by how much you build, and by the onboarding package you take.

One thing Buildertrend does well, and it’s worth saying plainly: they don’t charge per user. Their pricing page lists unlimited users with no per-seat fees, and their own comparison table lists cost per user as “no extra cost”. If you see a page claiming Buildertrend charges per seat, it’s wrong.

Set against WorkHoist’s bands: for 1–5 paid seats WorkHoist is $199 and for 6–15 it is $399, both below Buildertrend’s starting price. For 16–40, both are $499 before Buildertrend’s quote. For 41–75 WorkHoist is $799, and Buildertrend’s unlimited users can cost less, if your quote stays near its starting price.

WorkHoist

$199 a month for 1–5 paid seats, $399 for 6–15, $499 for 16–40 and $799 for 41–75. Custom above that. Annual billing saves 15%. No per-user fees, and every feature is on every plan.

That is the whole price, and it is on our pricing page. Your construction volume isn’t part of it, and you don’t fill in a form to read it.

When you actually pay

This is the part that doesn’t show up in feature comparisons, and it’s the one that hits a contractor’s bank account.

Buildertrend’s own software-pricing page includes a comparison table. In the row headed “Payment options”, Buildertrend is listed as annual or quarterly. The competitors in that same table are listed as monthly or annual.

So by Buildertrend’s own table, the smallest commitment is a quarter, paid ahead.

If your cash comes in on draw schedules — and most contractors’ does — paying a quarter or a year in advance is a different decision from paying monthly. It isn’t a hidden cost. It’s just a bigger cheque, earlier.

WorkHoist bills monthly. Pay annually if you’d rather, and save 15%. Either way you choose, not us.

What the extras cost

Buildertrend sells services alongside the platform: Onsite Consulting, and Buildertrend University, a two-day training conference at their Omaha headquarters.

Prices for these aren’t published either. Their own FAQ:

“Some services require a meeting to provide an accurate quote.”
Buildertrend additional services

WorkHoist: onboarding is free for our first 25 customers, and after that it becomes a paid engagement. We’ll move your live work in for you — up to 25 open jobs with their subs, POs and contacts — from spreadsheets or any system we can export from.

Side by side

WorkHoist compared with Buildertrend
Feature	Buildertrend	WorkHoist
Starting price published	Yes — from $499/month	Yes — from $199/month
Final price published	No — quoted	Yes, on the pricing page
Final price shaped by	Annual construction volume and onboarding package	Paid seats only
Per-user fees	No	No
Unlimited users	Yes	Up to your plan’s band
Billing cadence	Annual or quarterly, as listed on its own comparison page	Monthly or annual
Annual prepay discount	10%	15%
Services pricing published	No	Onboarding free for first 25 customers
In market since	2006	Newer
Best fit	Home builders, remodelers and specialty contractors wanting the deepest residential toolset	Contractors running crews of roughly 5 to 50 who want a published price and monthly billing

Where Buildertrend is the better choice

We’d rather tell you this than have you find out three months in.

Track record.

Buildertrend has been in this market since 2006. Their site says more than a million users across more than a hundred countries, and over 20,000 contractors. That is a depth of real-world use WorkHoist does not have and cannot claim.

Residential depth.

Client portal, sub portal, selections, warranties, takeoff — Buildertrend has spent nearly twenty years building for home builders and remodelers specifically. If your work is custom homes or renovations and you want the most thoroughly worked-out toolset for exactly that, they have it.

Training as a product.

Onsite Consulting, Buildertrend University, a learning academy. If your team needs structured training to adopt software — and plenty of teams do — that ecosystem is real and we don’t have an equivalent.

Payments.

Buildertrend runs payments inside the platform, in the US. If collecting client payments in the same place you run the job matters to you, that’s a point in their favour.

If two or more of those describe you, talk to Buildertrend. We mean that.

Where WorkHoist fits

WorkHoist dashboard showing pipeline, active projects and revenue — Everything in one place — pipeline, projects, financials, equipment. Not four tools with your data split across them.

WorkHoist financials view showing budget against actual cost — Budget against actual cost per job, without exporting anything to a spreadsheet first.

WorkHoist project view showing phases and progress — Where a job actually stands, without calling three people to find out.

What we don’t do yet.

We’re a smaller team and a younger product. Our integration list is shorter. We don’t run a training conference, we don’t do onsite consulting, and we don’t process payments. If you need any of those, we’re not the right answer today.

Questions contractors ask

Does Buildertrend publish its prices?: It publishes a starting price: $499 a month for the full platform, with unlimited users. The price you pay is a quote. Its pricing page says the final price depends on your annual construction volume and onboarding package, and its own pricing-comparison page lists the drawback of its custom pricing as “Requires consultation to determine exact cost.”
Is Buildertrend more expensive than WorkHoist?: For up to 15 paid seats, yes: WorkHoist is $199 a month for 1–5 and $399 for 6–15, both below Buildertrend’s $499 starting price. For 16–40 seats both start at $499, and Buildertrend’s final price depends on your construction volume and onboarding package. Above 40 seats WorkHoist is $799, and Buildertrend, with unlimited users, can cost less if your quote stays near its starting price.
Does Buildertrend charge per user?: No. Their pricing page lists unlimited users with no per-seat fees, their FAQ says users are included in your pricing, and their own comparison table lists cost per user as no extra cost.
Can you pay Buildertrend monthly?: Their own software-pricing comparison table lists Buildertrend’s payment options as annual or quarterly. WorkHoist bills monthly, or annually for 15% off if you prefer.
Why does Buildertrend ask for my annual construction volume?: Because the final price depends on it: their pricing page says so, alongside the onboarding package. WorkHoist doesn’t ask — your volume isn’t part of our calculation.
How much does WorkHoist cost?: WorkHoist is priced by paid seat band: $199 a month for 1–5, $399 for 6–15, $499 for 16–40 and $799 for 41–75, with custom pricing above that. Annual billing saves 15%, there are no per-user fees, and every feature is on every plan. See pricing.
Can you move our data across?: Yes. WorkHoist migrates up to 25 open jobs with their subcontractors, POs and contacts, from spreadsheets or any system we can export from — including Buildertrend, provided you can export your data from it.
What happens to my data if I leave Buildertrend?: We could not verify an export mechanism either way, and we would rather say that than guess. Buildertrend’s help documentation describes six built-in reports — work-in-progress, budgeted versus projected, profitability, invoicing, labor actuals versus budgeted, and cash flow — and does not mention exporting or downloading any of them. The same documentation caps the work-in-progress report at the most recent 200 jobs sent to the budget, and only open jobs appear in it. Their help centre’s search sits behind a login, so we could not check any further. That is an absence of documentation we could read, not evidence that no export exists — ask Buildertrend directly, and ask before you commit to a date.

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