Honest comparison

Six tools' worth of work. One login. One bill.

The big suites are built for 50-truck shops with a dispatcher. The lightweight tools stop at scheduling. Servato replaces the estimator, the scheduler, the invoicing tool, the SMS platform, the review app, and the client portal — with AI drafting estimates, change orders, and follow-ups from a voice memo or a photo.

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Why teams choose Servato

AI Takeoff turns a plan set — up to 250 sheets — into a priced estimate in minutes. Voice memos, walkthrough photos, and rough notes become ready-to-send estimates, change orders, and job tasks. Smart follow-ups read open leads, overdue invoices, and job status and tell you who to call next. When something breaks, the in-app AI support agent knows the system end-to-end and fixes most issues without a ticket queue or an outsourced call center.

It's the whole field operation in one workspace — estimates, dispatch, route optimization, en-route SMS, recurring service, change orders, invoicing, review requests, and a client portal — bilingual EN/ES on every surface. Built for the Spanish-first owner growing in America, the bilingual GM keeping office and field in sync, and the small team tired of paying for six disconnected tools that still don't talk to each other.

Side by side

All three Servato plans against the two archetypes most shops are choosing between. Generic categories so the picture stays true even as the market shifts.

What you get
ServatoStarter$149/mo1 estimator + 2 crew seats included · add up to 5 more
Most popularServatoPro$299/mo2 estimator + 4 crew seats included · add unlimited
ServatoBusiness$599/mo4 estimator + 8 crew seats included · add unlimited
Top legacy suiteEnterprise field-service
Top lightweight toolScheduling-only app
30-day trial (no card required)30 days30 days30 daysDemo only30 days
Setup timeSame daySame daySame day3–6 monthsSame day
Annual contract required
Implementation fee
One-click cancel (no sales call)
Transparent, posted pricing
Bilingual EN / ES (UI + crew)
Estimates → invoices
Crew scheduling + dispatch
Offline-ready mobile field app
Photos with GPS proof-of-work
In-app AI support agent (fixes issues without a ticket queue)
AI estimate drafts from voice memos, photos, or notes
AI change orders (describe the extra work → line items + pricing)
Smart follow-ups (AI reads jobs, leads, overdue invoices → who to contact)
Voice-to-action walkthroughs (transcribe → tasks, materials, follow-ups)
Route optimization + en-route SMS to customersAdd-on
Recurring service scheduling
Automatic review requests after job completionAdd-on
Built-in SMS appointment reminders (no separate platform)Add-onAdd-on
Built-in Stripe paymentsAdd-on
Client portal + e-signatures
Change orders + milestone billing
Crew time tracking + payroll export
Custom pricebook + labor rates
Advanced reporting + dashboards
API access + webhooks
Custom roles + permissions
Stripe → QuickBooks Online help
Dedicated onboarding
AI takeoffs from PDF plansAdd creditsAdd creditsAdd credits
AI estimating suite (takeoffs + AI estimates + bilingual plan translator)Add creditsAdd creditsAdd credits
On-PDF source overlay (click a line → highlight on the sheet)Add-on
"Count this symbol everywhere" across a plan setAdd-on
Trade auto-detect from cover sheet
Auto-scale detection at ingest
Spec-book Q&A (chat grounded in your specs)
Photo Takeoff — count/measure from a phone photo (beta)
One-screen takeoff setup (trade + units + scale + pages)
Excel/CSV export with live formulas
Multi-trade out of the box
Starting price$149/mo$299/mo$599/mo~$400+/user/mo$49/mo
Seats included310251 per seatVaries
Add unlimited extra seats$39/seat/mo, estimator or crew$39/seat/mo, estimator or crew$39/seat/mo, estimator or crewForced upgradeTier jump

Project Unlock

One project, one price — $399

No takeoff subscription, no per-credit math. Pay $399 once and unlock the Plan Translator, AI Takeoff, and AI Estimate for a single project end-to-end. View and edit that project's output forever after — free. Buy as many as you want, whenever you want. First-paid-takeoff guarantee: if the miss is on us, support replaces the credit.

  • Anyone can buy

    No platform plan required.

  • Credits live forever

    Unused credits never expire.

  • First paid takeoff guaranteed

    If our system fails to deliver the job sold, support replaces the credit after review — not automatic, not for usable takeoffs.

Vs. contractor software

How we beat the competition

Built to outperform the tools you're using today — modern UX, built-in payments, bilingual crews, and service workflows that fit the way your team actually works.

Feature
Servato
Legacy construction suiteBudget contractor app
AI plan takeoffs → priced estimates
Visual measuring (live satellite map, layers, PDF export)
Construction plan translation (EN ↔ ES)
Bilingual (English + Spanish, full platform)
Built-in Stripe paymentsAdd-on fee
Client portal + e-signatureLimited
Modern UI (built 2024+)
Mobile-first field app
Free trial (no card games)
Setup timeSame day2–4 weeks1 week
All-in-one price (from)$149/mo$499/mo$49/mo

Category pricing reflects publicly listed prices of leading tools in each category as of 2026. Re-audited quarterly. Servato feature availability varies by plan.

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Why teams choose Servato

Built for the way modern field teams actually work.

Servato connects sales, field work, estimates, invoices, and follow-up in one bilingual system of record — while most CRMs only digitize the paperwork you already had.

Built for the way American job sites actually sound

Whether you're a Spanish-first owner running a business in America or an English-speaking GM whose crews, foremen, or customers work in Spanish — Servato puts both languages on equal footing. Everyone gets the app in the language they think in: the owner reads the dashboard in English, a bilingual office manager toggles between both, the foreman gets the dispatch and punch list in Spanish on his phone, and the customer opens a PDF in whatever language they checked on the form. Same job, same record, same click. That gap between management and the truck — the missed instructions, the wrong address relayed over a noisy group text, the change order that never made it past the language barrier — is where money leaks and customers get angry. Servato closes it by default, not as a setting buried three menus deep.

One record from the first call to the paid invoice

Lead comes in → estimate goes out → job lands on the schedule → crew updates from the truck → invoice sends itself → payment hits Stripe → next visit auto-books. Nothing retyped, nothing lost in a group text, nothing sitting in someone's email waiting to fall through. The thread of every customer is one click away — not stitched together from four apps.

Stop paying for four tools that don't talk

One workspace connects estimates, scheduling, reminders, and invoices so nothing falls through the cracks.

ROI calculator

Plug in your real numbers. We don't hardcode anyone else's pricing — this is your math, not a sales pitch.

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Estimated impact

Hours saved per month

50 hrs

Labor savings

$3,000/mo

Replaced-tool savings

$151/mo

Total potential savings

$37,812/yr

$3,151/mo · assumes ~30 min per estimate on Servato (AI takeoff + your review) and Pro plan at $299/mo

Estimates only. Your actual results depend on plan complexity, your pricebook accuracy, and how much you adjust each AI takeoff. We don't guarantee savings — but most shops recover the subscription on one mid-sized job.

Coming from a legacy tool?

Migration in three weekends, not three months.

Switching shouldn't be a project. Servato's importers handle the data, our team helps map your pricebook, and you can run both in parallel until you trust the move.

1

Bring your data in your format

Export customers, leads, jobs, estimates, invoices, and your price book as CSV from your current tool — Servato has guided importers for each, with AI column mapping. No re-typing, no spreadsheets-on-spreadsheets. Most teams finish import day one.

2

We migrate your pricebook

Upload your existing labor, equipment, subcontractor, and material rate sheets. Our import maps them to Servato's pricebook so your first AI takeoff prices the way you actually price — not at generic defaults.

3

Run shadow week, then cut over

Use Servato alongside your old tool for one week. Send a couple estimates, dispatch a couple jobs, generate one invoice. Once you've proved it out, cancel the old subscription — most shops cut over inside 14 days.

Or don't lift a finger — we'll do the switch for you.

Send your exports to onboarding@servato.app and our team imports your customers, price book, jobs, estimates, and invoices for you — free with every new workspace.

See exactly what comes over

Need help? Email onboarding@servato.app — we'll walk your data import with you for free.

The honest answers

What people actually ask us.

The objections we hear most — answered straight, including the tradeoffs.

Servato is built for shops like yours.

The owner is still on the tools

You bid the work, you run the work, and you sign the checks. You don't need a dispatcher seat or a training week — you need one system that carries a job from the first call to the deposit hitting the bank.

Your business runs in two languages

Maybe you're a Spanish-first owner building something real in America. Maybe your GM speaks English and your foremen don't. Either way, every estimate, work order, and customer message lives on the same record in both languages — no group chat translation, no second spreadsheet, no information lost on the way to the field.

You want the plans doing the work

Drop in a PDF set and Servato measures it, prices it, and writes the field notes in the language the crew reads. Less time hunched over a plan table on Sunday night, more time on the jobs that actually pay.

See it on your own jobs. Free for 30 days.

Sign up without a credit card and test Servato on a real bid, crew, and invoice. Start a paid plan whenever you're ready — your trial runs through day 30.

Sign up for a 30-day trial. No credit card required. Start a paid plan anytime.