Evalation is a $297-a-month founding-rate platform built for residential contractors, with live 3D design, estimating, and CRM in one system. Buildertrend is a full-scale construction project management platform built for larger builders running multiple projects a year, priced only after you sit through a sales call. Both are real tools built for real construction businesses. They're just not built for the same size of business, or the same moment in the sales process.
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. Read more about what that means on What Is CORR. Buildertrend is a construction project management platform. It's a different category, built for a different stage of company. Here's how to tell which one is actually yours.
Builders who fit that second list should also look at For General Contractors to see how Evalation handles the same job for a leaner operation.
The rows below are outcomes, not feature checklists. Here's what actually happens in each category.
| Outcome | Evalation | Buildertrend |
|---|---|---|
| Design & blueprints | Evalation Lab designs decks, pergolas, concrete pads, and fencing live on the iPad in front of the homeowner, builds a 3D model in real time, and auto-generates the blueprint packet before you leave the driveway. | No native 3D design tool or blueprint auto-generation is documented in Buildertrend's public materials (checked July 2026).2 Buildertrend manages budgeting, selections, and client-portal communication around plans brought in from elsewhere. |
| Estimating speed | Every trade outside Evalation Lab's four (deck, pergola, concrete, fence) runs on a 5-minute AI estimate, inside the same flat-fee system as design and CRM. | Native estimating is described as a weak point relative to Buildertrend's deeper budgeting tools, per contractor reviews on G2 (cited in vendor research, July 2026).1 |
| Marketing engine | The Relations side of Evalation runs your CRM and pipeline, so a lead who raised their hand doesn't get lost between "quoted" and "signed." | Buildertrend is built to manage a project after it's sold, scheduling, client portal, selections, not to fill the pipeline that gets you the project in the first place.1 |
| Payments | Invoicing is native to Evalation, no third-party invoicing tool needed. Payments run on Stripe. Card processing from 3.1%, bank transfer (ACH) for less. No monthly payment fees, no hidden add-ons. | Payment and billing terms aren't broken out on Buildertrend's public pricing page. They're set as part of your custom quote.2 |
| Migration | Four clicks moves your data over and keeps your SEO intact. | No self-serve migration path is published. Onboarding runs through Buildertrend's sales and implementation process.2 |
| Price | $297 a month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life. $416 a month for the next 500, also locked for life. No per-user fees. Posted publicly. | Gated. Quote-only. No number published anywhere, for any size company.2 |
1 Buildertrend focus and gaps per competitor research summary, sourced from G2 reviews and Buildertrend's own site positioning, July 2026.
2 buildertrend.com/pricing (official), checked July 2026. Buildertrend publishes no rate figures; pricing is set via intake form and sales call based on builder type, annual project volume, and location.
Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees.
Buildertrend does not publish a price. Getting a number requires filling out an intake form (builder type, annual project volume, location) and completing a sales call.3 Once quoted, users and projects are unlimited with no additional per-seat charges. That's a real advantage for a builder at scale. It's also a real cost in time before you even know what you're signing up for.
3 buildertrend.com/pricing (official), checked July 2026.
Most contractors treat switching software like moving apartments with a truck full of furniture and no help carrying it. That's not how this works. Moving to Evalation takes four clicks, and it preserves your SEO in the process, so the years you've spent ranking for your name and your service area don't reset to zero the week you switch.
The Moving Truck Guarantee exists for exactly this reason: it removes the risk and cost of switching software. 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.
Switching your software shouldn't cost you the years you already put into your website.
There's no named case study for this comparison yet. What backs the guarantee instead is the founder's own track record building and running a real contractor business, and the mechanics you can verify yourself: a live 3D model on the iPad in front of the homeowner, an auto-generated blueprint packet, and a migration that keeps your SEO intact.
Yes. The Moving Truck Guarantee covers migrating your existing project and client data so you're not starting from a blank account: 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. Exact data types and timeline are confirmed during onboarding.
Because its pricing is fully custom-quoted. You fill out an intake form covering your builder type, annual project volume, and location, then get on a sales call to find out a number.3 Evalation's price is $297 a month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, and it's posted on our pricing page with nothing to fill out first.
Evalation's Revenue side handles invoicing natively, and payments run on Stripe: card processing from 3.1%, bank transfer (ACH) for less, no monthly payment fees, no hidden add-ons, inside the same flat-rate system, starting at $297 a month for founding members. If your business runs at the scale Buildertrend is built for, large annual project volume with dedicated budgeting and selections workflows, it's worth comparing both directly rather than assuming one replaces the other feature for feature.
Buildertrend's own focus is builders running 5 or more projects a year at six-to-eight-figure annual revenue.1 If you're a deck, pergola, concrete, or fence contractor selling on-site with a homeowner in front of you, Evalation Lab was built for that exact moment. See For Deck Builders for the specifics.
No. Evalation's migration process is built to preserve your existing SEO while moving your data over in four clicks.
No. Evalation is priced flat, $297 a month for the first 50 founding members and $416 a month for the next 500 after that, regardless of how many projects or users you run. There's no volume threshold to hit before the platform makes sense.
If you want to see how Evalation stacks up against another tool built around project management and per-seat pricing for custom builders, read Evalation vs JobTread.
No intake form. No sales call. $297 a month for founding members, everything included. Start building your first design in Evalation Lab and see the number for yourself.