Best Lawn Care Software for Small Crews, With Real Costs per Crew

Looking for landscape design software? That’s a different category. This page is about software that runs a lawn care or landscaping business: customers, routes, recurring jobs, invoices and payments.

Lawn care software has one job: keep a few hundred weekly visits on the right truck, on the right day, billed the right way. The best lawn care software for you depends on how your week is built. A route business with a fixed Tuesday loop needs different things from a crew that sells one-off installs. We read the pricing pages for Jobber, GorillaDesk, Housecall Pro, ServiceM8, LMN and Service Autopilot, then worked out what a crew of 1, 3, 8 and 15 pays on the four that publish plain per-user or per-route prices.

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Lawn Care Software at a Glance

Here is how the four picks differ before we get into detail. Prices below come from each vendor’s own page on the date shown.

Three rules of thumb from that table. If you run routes, GorillaDesk’s per-route pricing is the easiest to forecast. If you are one person, the cheapest paid road is Core on Jobber, or ServiceM8’s free plan if you stay under 30 jobs a month. If you subcontract, quote design work and run crews on jobs that do not repeat, look harder at LMN.

What We Did Not Test

We read pricing and feature pages. We did not run any of these tools on live jobs for this page, so every feature claim below is what the vendor says on its own site, named in the sentence. Use each vendor’s free trial for the real test.

What Lawn and Landscaping Crews Need

Generic field service tools were built around a van, one visit and one invoice. A lawn crew does 30 to 60 visits a day for customers it sees every week. That changes what matters.

Recurring Weekly Routes

The core job is a recurring schedule that builds itself. You want a customer set up once as “every Thursday, mow and edge” and the visit to appear on the route every week without anyone retyping it. Then you want the route ordered so the truck is not zigzagging across town.

GorillaDesk’s lawn care page says its routing software will “plan and dispatch the most fuel-efficient routes in minutes” and that subscription billing lets you “put your customers on autopay for all your recurring lawn care services.” Plans differ in what they include, so check that the plan in your budget has routing on it.

Ask any vendor three things before you commit: can a customer be on a weekly, every-other-week or monthly cycle, what happens to the route when it rains, and can one tap push every skipped visit to the next day.

Seasonal Pricing and Snow Add-Ons

Lawn businesses sell in seasons. Spring cleanup, summer mowing, fall leaf removal and, in the north, snow plowing all hit the same customer list at different prices. Check that the tool lets you hold more than one service per customer, set a different price for each, and turn a service off for the winter without deleting the customer.

LMN’s pricing page links to a Snow and Ice industry page, and Service Autopilot’s links to a Snow Removal page and lists Snow Dispatch in its comparison chart, which tells you both expect seasonal work. For Jobber, GorillaDesk and ServiceM8 we did not read a snow-specific feature, so ask. The practical test is simple: set up a customer with mowing, aeration and snow, and see whether the invoice and the schedule stay readable.

Crew Time on Site

Time on site is where lawn margins leak. A crew that spends four extra minutes per property loses an hour a day over fifteen stops. Look for a clock-in tied to each visit, so you see how long a 40-minute lawn really takes. LMN’s pricing page lists real-time job costing under its Professional plan, not Starter. GorillaDesk lists chemical usage tracking on its lawn care page, which matters if you run fertilizer or weed control programs and need a record of what went on each property.

If you are paying by the hour, this is the feature that pays for the software. If your crew is you and a teenager, it matters less.

The Picks

Our order here is by how many lawn businesses each tool fits, not by who pays us. Commissions never change a verdict.

Jobber

Jobber is the all-rounder. It starts at $29/mo for one user billed yearly, and team tiers run from $99/mo to $699/mo depending on plan, users and billing. Extra users cost $29/mo each. The trial is 14 days with no card.

• Who it suits: crews of 1 to 15 who mix recurring mowing with one-off jobs and want estimates, scheduling and invoicing in one place.
• Who should skip it: a route business that wants to pay by route, or a landscape contractor who needs job costing as its main reason to buy.
• Watch for: Jobber prices by user, so the office counts. The full breakdown is in our Jobber pricing guide.

GorillaDesk

GorillaDesk is the route specialist. It charges per route, not per person: Basic is $49/mo per route, Pro is $99/mo per route and Growth is $149/mo per route. Admin, manager, sales and crew users are unlimited. The trial is 14 days with no card.

• Who it suits: lawn, pest and pool businesses with fixed routes and a big crew relative to the number of trucks.
• Who should skip it: a business with many trucks, because each route is billed on its own and the total climbs with route count.
• Watch for: its lawn care page lists late payment reminders, payment links and saved cards through Stripe or Square, and chemical usage tracking. Confirm on a trial which of those sit on which plan.

Because the price is per route, a 3-person crew on one truck can cost less here than on a per-user tool. See the crew section below. A sister trade with the same route logic is covered in our pest control software guide.

LMN

LMN is built for landscape contractors who want to know what a job really cost. Its pricing page, read on 10 November 2026, shows a Starter and a Professional plan with published prices, an Enterprise plan that starts at 100 users with quote-only pricing, and a one-time onboarding fee whose amount the page does not state. Starter lists 1 office or crew lead license and 5 crew member licenses; Professional lists 3 and 15. We did not see a free trial on the page.

• Who it suits: landscape and lawn companies that bid projects, care about job costing and have an owner who will live in the numbers.
• Who should skip it: a solo mower with a flat weekly route, because you pay for estimating depth you will not use.
• Watch for: the onboarding fee and extra licenses, which the page says cost more but does not price. Get both in writing before you sign.

We do not print LMN’s monthly prices here, because our price tables are built from one vetted data file and LMN is not in it yet. Open LMN’s pricing page for the current figures.

Service Autopilot

Service Autopilot targets larger recurring-service businesses. Its pricing page lists a Startup, a Pro and a Pro Plus plan with published monthly prices, plus an Elite plan marked “Contact for pricing.” Each published plan carries a sign-up fee whose amount the page does not state, and the page says all pricing is based on annual subscription rates. Startup lists 1 business user and 1 mobile license in its comparison chart.

• Who it suits: established lawn or pest operations with several crews that want automation and a clean route to QuickBooks. The page lists QuickBooks integration on Elite.
• Who should skip it: a small crew, since the sign-up fee and annual rates make it a bigger commitment than month-to-month tools.
• Watch for: the fee the page leaves blank. Ask for the all-in first-year cost.

As with LMN, we leave the monthly numbers on the vendor’s page and out of ours until they are in our data file.

Cost per Crew

Here is what four of the tools cost for your crew size, using the published prices we read on 9 and 10 November 2026. Housecall Pro and ServiceM8 are included as general field service options you will see recommended for lawn work. The calculator takes the lowest-priced plan that fits your crew, so it compares price only, not features.

For a quick read, here is the entry price by crew at Jobber and Housecall Pro, billed yearly.

GorillaDesk does not scale this way, because it charges per route and users are unlimited. One route on Basic is $49/mo per route. ServiceM8 charges by jobs a month, not users: Free is $0/mo for one user and 30 jobs, and Starter is $29/mo with unlimited users. A mowing route can burn through job counts fast, because every weekly visit may count as a job, so check how ServiceM8 counts recurring visits before you pick a tier.

What the Table Leaves Out

Card processing fees come on top of every plan, per payment. Add-ons come on top of that, and extra users or routes after that. For a lawn crew, the fee that bites is processing: customers who pay by card every week, over a season, add up. Ask each vendor what it charges to take a card and whether a bank transfer is cheaper.

How to Choose

Start with how your week is built, then pick the cheapest tool that handles it.

• Count your routes and your people. Many people on one truck favors per-route pricing. Many trucks favors per-user pricing.
• Test recurring visits. Set up one customer with a weekly mow and a monthly fertilizer visit. If the schedule is awkward on day one, it will be worse at 300 customers.
• Run the trial with real stops. A fake customer list tells you nothing about how the route looks on a Monday morning.
• Ask about leaving. Find out how you export your customer list before you import it.

Quotes still need a clean document before any software enters the picture, and our landscaping estimate template gives you one to fill in online and send as a PDF, with no account. If the software budget is tight, our guide to free field service software shows what you can get for nothing and where each free plan stops.

How We Worked Out These Numbers

Every price shown with a dollar figure on this page comes from one data file, built from each vendor’s own pricing page and read on 9 and 10 November 2026: Jobber, GorillaDesk, Housecall Pro and ServiceM8. We do not use review sites, reseller quotes or search engine summaries as a source for a price. The LMN and Service Autopilot details come from their pricing pages, read on the same trip, and we left their dollar amounts out until they are in the data file.

When We Check Again

We reread the pricing pages whenever a vendor changes one and at least every three months. The date at the top of this page only changes when we have read the sources again. If you spot a price that no longer matches, our testing method explains how to tell us.