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A ServiceM8 alternative when the job count stops fitting.
ServiceM8 prices by job volume rather than headcount, which is unusually fair. Here is what happens when your company needs more than it is shaped for.
Book a conversationWhat ServiceM8 is good at
Starting here because it is true, and because a comparison page that pretends otherwise is not worth reading.
Worth knowing
Priced by job volume, not per person, so the whole team logs in for one fee.
Worth knowing
Excellent on a phone, and quick for a small team to adopt.
Worth knowing
The free tier is genuinely usable, which almost nobody else offers.
When you should stay where you are
If the job volume pricing suits you and the workflow fits, stay. It is the fairest pricing model in this market and we tell people so.
Where people run into the edges
- It is built around a job, and only a job. Rounds, contracts, crews across sites and anything cyclical sit awkwardly on that model.
- Reporting is thin. Fine for a small team. Less so once you want to know what the business is actually doing.
- The tiers step. Cheap until you cross a threshold, then it is not.
What it costs
ServiceM8 is free up to 30 jobs a month, then tiers to about £269 a month for the whole team. That is genuinely fair for what it is, and unusual in this market.
Prices as published in August 2026. Check them yourself before deciding anything: they change, and we would rather you found that out from them than from us.
Want your own figure rather than these three? Work out what it costs you over three years, including the people you are about to hire.
What we do differently
We take the thing you liked about it, one fee for the whole company, and build the system around your work instead of around a job ticket.
One monthly fee covers building it, hosting it, supporting it and improving it. There is no upfront cost: we build the opening screens in your branding first, and you only start paying if you want the real thing. Most systems take three to six months.
The honest summary
Off-the-shelf wins when your company fits the shape it assumes. It is cheaper, it is available today, and somebody else has already tested it. Bespoke wins when the fit is the problem: when the spreadsheet beside the software is doing the real work, when the same thing gets typed twice, and when the answer to "can it do this" has been no for two years.
If you are not sure which of those you are, that is exactly what the conversation is for, and we will tell you if the answer is to stay put.
Worth twenty minutes to work out which one you are?
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