No demo required to see a price.
Ours is on the pricing page. Tell us what you need and we will show you the core.
hello@crayon.softwareTRADES AND FIELD SERVICE
Simpro is a serious platform for commercial and project work. It is also the only product in this comparison set that will not tell you what it costs.
Last checked 17 September 2026
Simpro is trade software for businesses from five to 200 staff, covering quoting and estimating, scheduling, real-time inventory and purchasing, invoicing, accounting and business intelligence, with add-ons bought separately. It publishes no prices. Its pricing page offers Request Pricing and Get Demo, and its own pricing FAQ answers the cost question by inviting you to contact them for a personalised quote.
Crayon publishes its price on its pricing page. That is not a small difference when you are trying to compare options without booking four sales calls.
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.
| Simpro | Crayon | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Trades, commercial and project work, five to 200 staff | Service businesses, operations first |
| Pricing | Not published, quoted per business | Published on the pricing page |
| Add-ons | Bought separately on top of the base plan | Included in the plan |
| To get a number | Request pricing or book a demo | Read the pricing page |
| Change the software itself | Configuration and add-ons | Ask, review the change, approve it |
| Strongest at | Complex commercial jobs, inventory, projects, multi-company | Fitting a business that does not run standard |
OUTGROWING IT
The depth is real. So is the weight that comes with it.
If you need commercial project management, Simpro is a real answer. If you need cleaning operations that fit how you run, the answer should not start with a scoping call. Crayon publishes a price, and the fitting happens by asking.
PRICING
Figures come from each vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date shown. Entry price is the cheapest published plan.
Third-party sites publish estimates for Simpro. None are used here, because they are not Simpro’s own figures and this cluster only states what a vendor publishes itself.
USD. Crayon is in early access, so this is founding pricing.
THE HONEST PART
KEEP COMPARING
Strong local trades product with unlimited users. Priced by jobs per month, which is the wrong meter for recurring cleaning.
Compare →Auckland built, 25,000+ trades businesses. Excellent at trade jobs, generic at cleaning.
Compare →Auckland built and well liked, priced per user. A cleaning team is the most expensive kind of team to buy seats for.
Compare →The biggest name in the trades. Does not list cleaning among the industries it serves, and does not publish a price.
Compare →Or see every comparison, what Crayon costs on pricing, and how changing it works on the AI.
Every figure above about Simpro comes from these pages, read on 17 September 2026.
Ours is on the pricing page. Tell us what you need and we will show you the core.
hello@crayon.software