You didn't build a career of projects, client history, and referrals so you could re-enter all of it into a new login screen by hand. If you're looking at Buildertrend alternatives because the quotes have gotten expensive, the onboarding never ends, or you just want to see a real price before you get on a call, this page is for you. Below: how the move works, three honest options (including the two that aren't us), and the guarantee that backs the switch.
Most contractors who look into leaving Buildertrend stall out at the same thought: everything is already in there. Every active job, every client, every price you've quoted this year. Ripping that out and starting over sounds like it costs more than it saves.
That's the part we built around. Moving your website over takes about four clicks, and Eva, the in-app assistant, can help you get the rest set up. If you've got a public-facing site or client portal links that homeowners have bookmarked or that show up in search, those keep working. You don't lose your search rankings because you switched what runs behind them.
Move your website over in about four clicks.
Set up your books in roughly four more clicks.
Add your pricing, your team, wages, and legal documents, mostly by hand.
Your team logs into Evalation instead of Buildertrend, once you are ready.
This is also where the 32% Guarantee backs you up. More on that below.
If you're evaluating Buildertrend alternatives, you deserve a real answer, not a page that only tells you about one option. Buildertrend's own positioning is full construction project management, scheduling, client portal, budgeting, and selections, built for builders doing 6-8 figures a year across 5 or more projects. That's a specific customer. If you're not that customer anymore, or you never were, here are three real places to look, including two products that aren't ours.
If you do decks, pergolas, concrete pads, or fencing, Evalation Lab lets you design the job in 3D in front of the homeowner, generate a permit-ready blueprint, and hand over an estimate on the first visit. If you're a general contractor or remodeler outside those categories, Evalation still gets your estimate turned around in about five minutes and runs your CRM, scheduling, and invoicing in one system instead of three. Pricing is public: $297 a month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, stepping to $416 a month for the next 500 members after that (/pricing), which matters if the reason you're reading this page is that Buildertrend made you sit through a sales call just to hear a number.
A legitimate construction-focused alternative built around cost-plus and time-and-materials contracts, with a rate card you can actually read: $199 a month base (one internal user) plus per-seat pricing that steps down as your team grows (jobtread.com/pricing, official). For a 5-person team that lands around $279 a month; for 15 people, around $454 a month. External vendors, customers, and subcontractors get free portal seats, which is a real advantage if you loop a lot of outside people into a job. The honest gaps: there's no built-in digital takeoff tool, and if you're working from spreadsheets, you'll be editing them outside JobTread and re-uploading rather than working inside the platform. Full breakdown at /compare/jobtread.
Marketed as the budget option for small-to-mid contractors, covering estimating, invoicing, scheduling, and daily logs. Its pricing is published in user-count tiers, from $49 a month (Basic, 1 user) to $332 a month (Unlimited), with a 5-person team landing on the Plus tier at $166 a month, billed annually (contractorforeman.com/pricing, accessed September 2026). The honest gaps: reviewers describe the interface as unintuitive in places, there's no offline mode, no native takeoff tool (it partners with Kreo instead), no built-in 3D or BIM viewer, and the setup process runs long. See the full comparison at /compare/contractor-foreman.
Two products we left off this list on purpose: Jobber and Housecall Pro are strong tools, but both are built for home-service dispatch (HVAC, plumbing, general trade scheduling), not construction project management or design work, so they're not a fair swap for a Buildertrend workflow. If you want the full picture on either, they're covered at /compare/jobber and /compare/housecall-pro.
Evalation is a CORR platform. CORR (Company, Operations, Relations, and Revenue) is a category of business platform that runs a contractor's entire company in one system, replacing the separate CRM, estimating, project management, and accounting tools contractors traditionally stitch together.
Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees. That's a published number on /pricing, not a figure you get after a sales call. The next 500 members after that pay $416 a month, also locked for life.
About four clicks to move your website over. Search visibility on any public-facing pages stays intact.
73% close rate for Steve at VisionWorks Remodeling, selling with Evalation, and $736,000 in signed work by August 2026. Read the full story at /case-study/steve.
No named customer story on this page yet for someone who switched over from Buildertrend specifically. Rather than borrow one, here's what you can verify yourself: a founder who ran a contracting business the same way you're running yours, and a migration process you can test before you commit to anything. Read the founder story at /founder.
You spent years building a client list and a reputation, job by job. The software you use next shouldn't ask you to rebuild either one.
Evalation doesn't have a Buildertrend-switcher's quote to put on this page yet, matched to your exact situation. Rather than manufacture one, here's what's verifiable instead: moving your website is about four clicks with your search rankings intact, and the 32% Guarantee backs the switch. Judge it on the mechanics, not on somebody else's story.
The 32% Guarantee: this is Evalation's migration guarantee. Its purpose is simple: it removes the risk and cost of switching software, so the decision to leave Buildertrend isn't a bigger gamble than staying. If your gross profit in your first 30 days isn't at least 32% higher than your average month over the 60 days before you joined, your first month is refunded. Full terms on the pricing page.
| Buildertrend | Evalation | |
|---|---|---|
| Design & blueprints | No native 3D design tool, per public materials.1 | 3D design and auto-generated blueprints for decks, pergolas, concrete, and fencing. Other trades get 5-minute AI estimates instead of 3D, since Lab doesn't cover every trade yet. |
| Estimating speed | Native estimating is described as a weak point in user reviews (G2). | About 5 minutes with AI-assisted estimating. |
| Marketing engine | Not detailed in Buildertrend's public materials. | Built-in customer follow-up as part of the Relations layer of CORR, in the same system as your CRM. |
| Payments | Not detailed in Buildertrend's public materials. | Invoicing is native to Evalation, no separate accounting tool needed. Payments run on Stripe. Card processing from 3.1%, bank transfer (ACH) for less. No monthly payment fees, no hidden add-ons. |
| Migration | No published off-ramp process. Typically, leaving any quote-gated platform means re-entering price books and project history by hand. | Website in about four clicks. Search visibility stays intact. |
| Price | Unpublished. Custom-quoted after an intake form and a sales call (buildertrend.com/pricing).2 | $297 a month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life. $416 a month for the next 500 members after that. No per-seat pricing, no matter how many people are on your team. |
1 No public evidence that Buildertrend offers a native 3D design or auto-blueprint tool. This is an absence-of-evidence observation based on public materials, not a confirmed denial from Buildertrend.
2 Third-party estimates of Buildertrend's actual pricing conflict by a wide margin ($339 to over $1,000/month depending on the source) and are unverifiable, so no specific figure is stated here.
Moving your website over takes about four clicks, and your search rankings stay intact. Most contractors are set up and sending their first estimate in about 20 minutes, and Eva can walk you through it.
Your website moves over in about four clicks with its search visibility intact. The 32% Guarantee backs the switch.
No. The migration is built specifically so your public-facing pages and search rankings stay intact instead of resetting to zero.
Buildertrend doesn't publish pricing. It's fully custom-quoted through an intake form and a sales call, based on your builder type, annual volume, and location (buildertrend.com/pricing, official). Evalation is the opposite: $297 a month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, posted on /pricing, no call required to find out what it costs. The next 500 members after that pay $416 a month, also locked for life. Tiered plans follow once those 550 spots are filled.
Buildertrend positions itself for builders doing 6-8 figures a year across 5 or more projects, and third-party reviews note it gets expensive for smaller teams. Evalation's $297-a-month founding rate, locked for life, doesn't change based on team size, so it doesn't penalize you for being a smaller crew the way per-seat and volume-scaled pricing can.
That's exactly what Evalation Lab is built for. You design the job in 3D in front of the homeowner, generate the blueprint, and hand over the estimate on the first visit. If you also take on other trade work outside those categories, that work runs through Evalation's 5-minute AI estimating and CRM instead of the 3D tool.
It's Evalation's guarantee on results, measured in your own gross profit. If your gross profit in your first 30 days isn't at least 32% higher than your average month over the 60 days before you joined, your first month is refunded. Full terms on the pricing page.
You don't have to choose between staying somewhere that's outgrown you and starting over from nothing. Your website moves in about four clicks, and Eva can help with the rest.
Free 14-day trial, then the Founding Member rate.