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 to Evalation takes four clicks, not a multi-week onboarding project. Your project history and client records come with you. 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.
Point Evalation at your existing account.
Review what's importing before anything moves.
Project history, clients, and search visibility carry over. No data loss.
Your team logs into Evalation instead of Buildertrend. That's the switch.
[PLACEHOLDER: confirm the exact product flow behind these four steps with the engineering team before this goes live, so the copy matches the real click count and sequence.]
This is also where the Moving Truck 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 before you leave the driveway. 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 official pricing page is JS-gated and third-party figures conflict with each other, so treat any number as directional, not final: one set of figures puts a 5-person team somewhere between roughly $125 and $166 a month [SOURCE NEEDED: confirm the current live figure directly with Contractor Foreman before you budget around it]. 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.
Four clicks to move your project history and client data over. Search visibility on any public-facing pages stays intact.
73% close rate at double the market price, achieved through live 3D visual selling (David Bassett's documented result from his own construction company, before he built Evalation). Read the full story at /founder.
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: the migration is four clicks, your project history and client data move with you, and the Moving Truck Guarantee backs the switch. Judge it on the mechanics, not on somebody else's story.
The Moving Truck 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 it doesn't win you more jobs in 90 days, you get every dollar back and we'll move you anywhere you want to go. Free.
| 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. | Four clicks. Project history and client data come with you. 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.
Evalation's migration is built to take four clicks, not a multi-week onboarding. Your project history and client data move with you, and any public-facing pages you've built up keep their search visibility, because they aren't rebuilt from scratch.
No. That's the point of the four-click migration and the Moving Truck Guarantee. Your existing project and client records come over with you rather than starting from a blank account.
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 before you leave the driveway. 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 around switching software: the goal is to remove the risk and cost of moving your business over, so leaving your current platform isn't a bigger gamble than staying put. If it doesn't win you more jobs in 90 days, you get every dollar back and we'll move you anywhere you want to go. Free.
You don't have to choose between staying somewhere that's outgrown you and starting over from nothing. Four clicks, and your history comes with you.