Honest comparison · updated August 2026

FieldEdge vs Contractor Autopilot

FieldEdge is custom quote — no published pricing — and it is one piece of your business. Contractor Autopilot is $149–$499/mo flat for the whole company, unlimited users: one source of truth, 60+ features from the missed call to the paid invoice. No integrations to build, nothing to keep in sync.

What FieldEdge does well

Deep QuickBooks sync and mature service agreement handling. If you run maintenance contracts, FieldEdge understands them.

Best for: Established HVAC and plumbing companies with QuickBooks Desktop and a service agreement book.

Where it leaves you exposed

  • No public pricing. You book a demo before you learn what it costs.
  • Built for the office. The marketing side — website, Google, reviews, social — is not in the product.
  • Nothing answers the phone after hours.

One app for the whole business — finally

A back-office system. Everything customer-facing before the job is bought elsewhere.

1
source of truth, unlimited users

The call, the lead, the quote, the job, the invoice, the review and the website all live on the same customer record. Your whole crew and your office get their own login — we never charge per seat.

60+
features, five stages

Get found, capture leads, quote & close, run jobs, get paid — the whole business, not one slice of it.

0
integrations to build

No Zapier, no CSV exports, no paying a consultant to wire your tools together every time something changes.

The time it gives you back

One record from the missed call to the paid invoice, instead of a dispatch system on one side and a marketing agency on the other.

What it really costs to run FieldEdge

Until now, nobody ran a contracting business on one app. Here is the rest of the bill you are still paying.

FieldEdgequoted, typically $200–$500+/mo
Answering service$300+/mo
Website + hosting$50–$300/mo
SEO / Google Business help$300–$1,500/mo
Typical all-in$850–$2,600/mo across 4 vendors
Contractor Autopilot — all of it, one bill$149–$499/mo

Stack costs are typical published US market rates for each category, August 2026. Your numbers will vary — run our free business review and we will price your actual stack.

What it costs at 1, 5 and 10 people

Their price grows with your crew. Ours does not — every plan is unlimited users, so the tenth hire costs you nothing in software.

Crew sizeFieldEdge+ what it doesn't includeTheir all-inContractor Autopilot
Just you$300/mo$850/mo$1,150/mo$499/mo
5 people$300/mo$850/mo$1,150/mo$499/mo
10 people$600/mo$850/mo$1,450/mo$499/mo

At five people that is $1,150 a month — more than Autopilot Pro — and it still does not answer your phone, build your website, or ask your customers for reviews.

Same money buys the whole business instead of one slice of it: 60+ features across all five stages, unlimited users, one bill.

FieldEdge does not publish pricing, so their column uses the rates customers report — ask them for a written quote and hold it against this. "What it doesn't include" is the same basket every time: answering service ~$300, website and hosting ~$150, reviews and social ~$100, local SEO help ~$300. Our column is Autopilot Pro at $499/mo — everything, unlimited users. Starter is $149 and Autopilot is $399.

Side by side

FeatureContractor AutopilotFieldEdge
Published price you can checkYesNo
AI receptionist answering 24/7Included on Autopilot ProNo
Website + custom domain built for youYesNo
Service agreements and dispatchRecurring billing + dispatchBest in class
QuickBooksQuickBooks Online push, rolling outDeep two-way sync
AI estimating with a price book that learnsYesNo
Flat price for the whole companyYesPer user, quoted
Price$149–$499/mo, whole companycustom quote — no published pricing

FieldEdge pricing and features from their published information, read August 2026. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

The honest verdict

If your business is service agreements and QuickBooks Desktop, FieldEdge is strong. For everyone else it is a quoted-price back office that leaves the entire front of the business to other vendors.

Questions contractors ask

What does FieldEdge cost?

They do not publish pricing — you book a demo and get a quote. Ours is on the pricing page: $149, $399 or $499 a month for the whole company.

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