Landscaping Business Software: Jobber vs. Aspire vs. LMN vs. Service Autopilot vs. SingleOps

Key takeaways

• Jobber and Service Autopilot both start near $49 a month for one user; LMN and SingleOps price by crew count starting between $220 and $297 a month; Aspire publishes no dollar figure at all and quotes by annual revenue band instead.
• LMN and SingleOps are sibling products. Their parent companies merged in late 2024 and relaunched as one company, Granum, in October 2025, so comparing the two is really comparing two products built by the same team.
• The right tool tracks a company's stage more than its trade. A one or two crew operation, a growing multi-crew shop, and an established $3 million-plus company are shopping in three different price tiers.
• None of the five puts a new lead into the system. Their automation features follow up on a quote or invoice that already exists; getting a homeowner who has not called yet to find the company is a separate job entirely.

What does landscaping business software actually do?

It runs the job after you already have it, not before. The category covers five core jobs: scheduling and crew dispatch, estimating and invoicing, a CRM-style record of every client and property, GPS and time tracking in the field, and job costing, comparing what a job was budgeted to cost against what it actually cost.

Every tool in this comparison does some version of all five. What changes between them is how much of each, how it is priced, and at what company size the feature set stops being overkill or starts being not enough.

What none of them do, by design, is market the business. They manage the customer relationship once a customer already exists in the system. Getting found by someone who has not searched for the company yet, through a landscaping company's website, local search results, or paid ads, happens upstream of all five.

How do Jobber, Aspire, LMN, Service Autopilot, and SingleOps actually compare?

Here is what each vendor's own pricing page showed on October 27, 2026. Prices and tiers change, so confirm before you buy.

Two of these five are not really five separate companies anymore. LMN and SingleOps, along with the training platform Greenius, merged in late 2024 and relaunched under one parent brand, Granum, in October 2025. The products kept their separate names and pricing pages, but if you are weighing LMN against SingleOps, you are weighing two products built by one team rather than two competitors.

Which tool fits a one- or two-crew company just getting organized?

Jobber Core and Service Autopilot's Startup plan are the two realistic starting points, and both list at $49 a month. The difference is what is bundled in at that price. Jobber's Core tier includes online booking, quotes, invoices with online payment, and a basic website for a single user, with automated follow-ups and two-way texting held back for the Connect and Grow tiers above it.

Service Autopilot's Startup plan bundles one business user and one mobile license, plus a signup fee the page does not put a number on, and its marketing automations, like texting a lead the moment they fill out a quote request, are part of the product from the first tier rather than an add-on.

At this size, the honest answer is that either works, and the choice usually comes down to whether an owner wants speed-to-lead automation built into the base plan (Service Autopilot) or a lower, more predictable entry cost with automation added as the company grows (Jobber). This is also the size and stage our Growth program is built for: a company that has grown on referrals and is trying to get found online for the first time, where the software choice matters less than whether anyone is searching for the business at all.

Which tool fits a growing company running three to ten crews?

This is where job costing accuracy starts to matter more than the sticker price, and three tools separate from the pack. LMN's Professional tier, built for 10 or more employees, runs $648 a month and bundles three office licenses with 15 crew licenses, built around what LMN calls budgeted job costing, comparing an estimate's labor and material budget against the actual hours and materials a crew used.

SingleOps' Plus tier, for companies running more than one crew, lists at $385 a month and adds options-based proposals and automated follow-ups on unpaid invoices. Jobber's Grow and Plus tiers scale from $299 to $699 a month for teams of five to fifteen users, adding job costing, two-way texting, and custom workflow automations on top of the Core feature set.

Aspire also becomes realistic here. Its own demo form qualifies prospects by annual revenue band, and a company between $1M and $3M in revenue sits within the range its sales team typically quotes, even though the page publishes no named tiers or dollar figures. Get a real quote from at least two of these before committing. The feature lists overlap more than the marketing pages suggest, and the real differentiator is usually which one the office staff will actually use correctly without a six-week ramp.

Which tool fits an established $3 million-plus or multi-location company?

At this size, the software's price stops mattering and the question becomes whether one system can actually run the whole operation without a sales call for every change. Aspire's own demo form tops out at an "over $8M" revenue band, and its FAQ says pricing "varies based on company size, complexity, and what solution best fits your business" rather than naming a fixed enterprise tier. Multi-location operations are supported, but any real number still requires a sales conversation.

LMN's Enterprise tier is explicitly built for 100 or more users and multi-location companies that need one-on-one support rather than a self-service setup. SingleOps' Premier tier, for three or more crews, adds GPS and timesheet tracking as a paid add-on alongside automation and follow-up tools aimed at keeping proposals and invoices moving across a bigger team.

Companies at this stage are usually already running some combination of paid ads, SEO, and a sales process that feels stretched thin across vendors, which is the exact pain our Authority program is built around: not getting found for the first time, but owning the market with a brand and a system built to match the size of the company.

What none of these five tools do for your pipeline

Every automation feature across these five tools fires after a lead already exists in the system. Service Autopilot's own marketing page draws the line clearly: it recommends paid Google Ads, Facebook ads, and local SEO as the way to generate new leads, and describes its own automation as what happens next, texting or emailing a lead the moment they fill out a form the company already built, sending review requests after a job, and scheduling seasonal reminders to past customers. That is valuable. It is also entirely downstream of someone finding the company in the first place.

Here is what that gap can cost in practice, using the real tiers above as an illustration, not a forecast for any specific company. A two-crew operation on Jobber Core pays $49 a month. Grow to five crews and move onto LMN Professional, and the bill becomes $648 a month, a 13-fold jump, built to handle more jobs moving through the system. If the number of new leads reaching that system has not also grown over the same stretch, the company is now paying 13 times more to manage the same volume of work, with a bigger office staff and a bigger monthly bill and no more revenue to show for it.

The software did its job. It was just never built to do the other one. Capturing a lead the moment it hits the website or a phone rings, and following up fast enough that it does not go to the next landscaping company on the page, is a different layer, and it is the one most growing companies underbuild because they already feel covered by their job-management software.

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