Comparison
Fixty vs Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro is the cheapest tool in this comparison if you commit to a year, and it is home services software. Both of those are true at once, and both are sourced below.
Most comparison pages written by a software company bury the part where the competitor is cheaper. Housecall Pro is cheaper. Their entry plan, one user, billed annually, costs less per month than Fixty Starter, and the figure is quoted in the table above with the page it came from.
Their month to month rate for the same plan is higher than the annual one. Their pricing page shows both, and the honest way to compare is to look at the billing term you would actually sign, not the smallest number on the screen.
What that price buys is home services software. Their own pricing page describes the product as designed for home service businesses like HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and landscaping. Reading their industries index on August 29, 2026, there was no auto repair page and the nearest neighbour was auto detailing.
Housecall Pro in their own words
How they position themselves
All in one platform for home service professionals
“The all-in-one platform built for Home Service Professionals.”
housecallpro.com/pricing, read August 29, 2026
Who they say it is for
Home service trades: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning, landscaping
“Housecall Pro is designed for home service businesses like HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning, landscaping, and others.”
housecallpro.com/pricing, read August 29, 2026
Feature by feature
| Feature | Fixty | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Built for mobile mechanics The whole product assumes a van, not a front desk. | Yes | Yes “The Housecall Pro mobile app is available on the Apple App Store for iOS devices and the Google Play Store for Android devices.” housecallpro.com/features/mobile-app, read August 29, 2026 |
| Runs entirely from a phone Estimate, inspection, schedule and payment all work in a phone browser. | Yes | Partial “Manage jobs, take payments, and stay connected, at the office or in the field. [dash normalized]” housecallpro.com/features/mobile-app, read August 29, 2026 |
| Job pipeline board | Yes | Yes “Drag and drop jobs to update their pipeline stage in seconds.” housecallpro.com/features/pipeline, read August 29, 2026 |
| Digital estimates and quotes | Yes | Yes “Send quick, accurate quotes with clear pricing by text or email.” housecallpro.com/features/estimating-software, read August 29, 2026 |
| Customer approves the estimate by text, line by line The customer opens a link, picks the lines they want, and signs. | Yes | Yes “Create polished, detailed estimates in minutes and send them by text or email for quick customer approval.” housecallpro.com/features/estimating-software, read August 29, 2026 |
| Photo vehicle inspections Included on every plan, not an upgrade. | Yes | Partial “Structure every job with dropdowns, checkboxes, pass/fail flags, and required steps.” housecallpro.com/features/jobsite-photo-app, read August 29, 2026 |
| Two way SMS with the customer | Yes | Yes “Send “On my way” texts from a custom messaging number and let customers respond in real time.” housecallpro.com/features/customer-management, read August 29, 2026 |
| Card payments Stripe, paid from the same link as the estimate. | Yes | Yes “Accept secure credit and debit card payments with seamless options at every customer touchpoint.” housecallpro.com/features/payment, read August 29, 2026 |
| Public booking page | Yes | Yes “Let clients book directly from Google search results or your website and win jobs around the clock.” housecallpro.com/features/online-booking, read August 29, 2026 |
| Route optimization Fixty does not do this. It was advertised once by mistake and the claim was retracted. | No | Yes “Map efficient routes across your crew so techs spend less time driving and more time on jobsites.” housecallpro.com/features/route-optimization-software, read August 29, 2026 |
| Parts inventory management Fixty tracks parts on a job, not stock on a shelf. | No | We looked and could not confirm this. What we looked for: parts inventory management on Housecall Pro Searched on August 29, 2026: housecallpro.com/features/price-book, housecallpro.com/pricing, housecallpro.com/llm-info, housecallpro.com/features/estimating-software |
| Multi technician teams One mechanic, one workspace. Built solo first on purpose. | No | Yes “Yes. Housecall Pro makes it simple to assign multiple techs to one job.” housecallpro.com/features/dispatching-software, read August 29, 2026 |
| Tire and wheel shop tools | No | We looked and could not confirm this. What we looked for: tire and wheel shop tools on Housecall Pro Searched on August 29, 2026: housecallpro.com/industries, housecallpro.com, housecallpro.com/pricing, housecallpro.com/llm-info |
| Accounting sync No QuickBooks or Xero integration today. | No | Yes “Invoices, customers, line items, and payments will automatically push into QuickBooks” housecallpro.com/features/quickbooks, read August 29, 2026 |
| Free trial Starter and Growth run the same trial. A card is collected at signup and charged on day 14. | 14 days on both plans | |
| Price published without talking to sales | Yes | Yes “All prices are in USD and are exclusive of sales tax.” housecallpro.com/pricing, read August 29, 2026 |
Every cell in the Housecall Pro column was read from Housecall Pro's own site and is quoted above with the page it came from. The whole record was last re-read on August 29, 2026. Where a cell says we could not confirm something, that means exactly that: we did not find it, which is not the same as it not existing.
What each one costs
Fixty
Starter: $99/mo
14 day free trial. A card is collected at signup and charged on day 14.
Growth: $149/mo
The same 14 day trial, plus your own text number, two way texting, recurring reminders, campaigns and review requests.
Cancel any time. Access runs to the end of the cycle you already paid for.
Housecall Pro
Price published without talking to sales
Yes
“All prices are in USD and are exclusive of sales tax. Sales tax may apply depending on your state of residence.”
housecallpro.com/pricing, read August 29, 2026
Cheapest published plan
Basic
“Basic covers the essentials, Essentials adds tools for growing teams, and MAX is built to scale.”
housecallpro.com/pricing, read August 29, 2026
Cheapest published monthly price
$59 per month
“Basic, 1 user: $59/month, saving $20 per month [dash normalized]”
housecallpro.com/llm-info, read August 29, 2026
What you get to try before you buy
14 day free trial with full access to the MAX plan
“Enjoy full access to all Housecall Pro features on our MAX plan for 14 days”
housecallpro.com/pricing, read August 29, 2026
When Housecall Pro is the better choice
- You dispatch a crew rather than working alone. They publish assigning multiple techs to one job and mapping routes across the whole crew; Fixty is built around one mechanic.
- You want customers booking themselves from Google search and your own website around the clock, and you want that booking page to be part of the same product.
- Your books already live in QuickBooks and you want invoices, customers, line items and payments pushed into it without re-keying.
- Price matters more than fit and you will commit to a year: their entry plan billed annually costs less per month than Fixty Starter at $99/mo.
What Fixty does not do
Fixty answers no on 5 of the 16 rows above: route optimization, parts inventory management, multi technician teams, tire and wheel shop tools and accounting sync. They are collected here rather than left scattered through the table, because a row you have to hunt for is a row that was hidden.
Route optimization is the one worth saying out loud. Fixty does not plan the driving order of your day. It was advertised once by mistake and the claim was retracted, and 5 of the 12 products compared across this cluster publish a route optimization feature on their own sites: Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Trackara Pro and Deelo.
Housecall Pro publishes one, quoted in the table above with the page it came from. On that row Housecall Pro wins outright.
The cheapest option here, if you commit to a year
Fixty does not have an answer to the price. Starter at $99/mo is more per month than their annually billed entry plan, and no feature argument changes the arithmetic.
What is worth knowing is what the two prices are buying. Their entry plan is one user on home services software with routing, dispatch and a booking page. Fixty Starter is one mechanic with line by line estimate approval, photo vehicle inspections and card payments from the same link, on a product where the vehicle is the object everything hangs off.
Fixty Starter at $99/mo and Growth at $149/mo both run a 14 day free trial: a card is collected at signup and charged on day 14, and you can cancel before then.
If the money is the deciding factor and the trade fit is close enough for you, take the cheaper tool. That is a reasonable decision and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
Routing and dispatch, another row Fixty loses
Housecall Pro publishes a route optimization product and describes mapping efficient routes across a crew so techs spend less time driving. That is quoted in the table with the page it came from. They also publish assigning multiple technicians to one job.
Fixty does neither. Route optimization is recorded as a no in Fixty’s own feature registry, because it was advertised once by mistake and the claim was retracted, and multi technician work is a no because Fixty is one mechanic in one workspace by design.
The rows Fixty loses to Housecall Pro on published evidence are routing, assigning several technicians to one job, and the QuickBooks sync. Each of those cells carries their own sentence and the page it came from. That is not a rhetorical concession, it is the table.
Nobody on their site says inspection
We read their features index, their jobsite photo page, their price book and their pricing page looking for a vehicle inspection product. What their pages describe is job structure: dropdowns, checkboxes, pass and fail flags and required steps. That sentence is quoted in the table, and it is why the inspection row reads Partial rather than Yes.
For a home services job that is the right tool. For a repair business it is not the same thing as a photo inspection. The inspection is how you show a customer the torn boot or the leaking cooler and get the extra work approved without a phone call, and the photographs are the part that does the selling.
Fixty includes photo vehicle inspections on every plan rather than as an upgrade. That is a claim about Fixty’s own product, so it carries no external source, but it is checkable in about a minute inside a trial.
Questions people ask about Housecall Pro
- Is Housecall Pro cheaper than Fixty?
- Yes, on an annual commitment. Their entry plan for one user, billed annually, costs less per month than Fixty Starter, and the number is quoted in the comparison table with the page it was read from. Their month to month rate for the same plan is higher, so compare on the billing term you would actually sign. Fixty Starter at $99/mo and Growth at $149/mo both run a 14 day free trial: a card is collected at signup and charged on day 14, and you can cancel before then.
- Is Housecall Pro good for mobile mechanics?
- It is good software aimed at a different trade. Their pricing page says the product is designed for home service businesses like HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and landscaping, and reading their industries index on August 29, 2026 there was no auto repair page. The mobile app is real and the routing is real. What is missing is anything shaped around a vehicle, and what their pages describe instead of a vehicle inspection is a job checklist with pass and fail steps.
- Does Housecall Pro do vehicle inspections?
- We did not find a vehicle inspection product on their site. The closest capability their pages publish is job structure with dropdowns, checkboxes, pass and fail flags and required steps, which is why that row is recorded as partial rather than yes or no. Fixty includes photo vehicle inspections on every plan, which for a repair business is the tool that sells the work you found.
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