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hello@crayon.softwareGENERAL FIELD SERVICE
Housecall Pro covers HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and landscaping in one product. Breadth is the feature and the limit.
Last checked 17 September 2026
Housecall Pro serves home service businesses from solo operators to growing teams at $59 to $299 a month on annual billing, with 1, 5 and 8 users included by tier and $35 a month per extra user on Max. Pricing is published in USD.
Crayon is narrower on purpose. One core for service operations, changed by asking until it matches how you actually run.
THE DIFFERENCE
Every product on this page is a fixed shape. Where it matches how you work, it works well. Where it does not, you change how you work, pay a developer, or bolt on another tool. Crayon is the proven core for bookings, customers and payments, and the AI changes it when you ask. Rename what things are called. Add the field every job has to carry. Change what a button says.
SIDE BY SIDE
Figures come from each vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date shown. Entry price is the cheapest published plan.
| Housecall Pro | Crayon | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Home services: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning, landscaping | Service businesses, operations first |
| Entry price | $59 a month annually, 1 user | $99 a month for the first year |
| Priced by | Users, capped per plan | Plan, with team size included |
| Cleaning specifics | Generic across trades | Recurring cleans, extras and packages as first-class |
| Change the software itself | Settings, and an open API on Max | Ask, review the change, approve it |
| Strongest at | Breadth, and the largest directory review base in the category | Fitting a business that does not run standard |
OUTGROWING IT
The usual signal is that you are configuring around the product rather than with it.
Reaching for an API is the moment a product admits it does not fit. Crayon treats that as the normal case: you ask for the change in plain words, see exactly what it will do, and approve it.
PRICING
Figures come from each vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date shown. Entry price is the cheapest published plan.
USD. Crayon is in early access, so this is founding pricing.
THE HONEST PART
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Every figure above about Housecall Pro comes from these pages, read on 17 September 2026.
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