JobTread runs job costing, CRM, and estimating for custom builders and remodelers billing cost-plus and time-and-materials work, and it publishes its rate card in the open, which is rare in this category. Evalation runs your CRM, estimating, project tracking, and live 3D design in one system, at one flat price no matter how many people you add to your team. Both companies tell you what they cost. This page just does the math on what that actually means for your crew.
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. JobTread is closer to a single category done deep: job costing and project management built specifically around cost-plus and time-and-materials contracts for custom builders. Neither one is the wrong answer. The right one depends on how many people are on your team and how your contracts are structured.
If you're comparing more than these two, a builder running larger annual project volume should also look at Evalation vs Buildertrend, and a remodeler weighing job-costing depth against a full operating system should see Evalation for Remodelers.
The rows below are outcomes, not feature checklists. Here's what actually happens in each category.
| Outcome | Evalation | JobTread |
|---|---|---|
| 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 is documented in JobTread's public materials, and no built-in digital takeoff feature is described either (checked July 2026).1 Estimates are built from cost data and templates rather than a live visual model. |
| 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. | JobTread's estimating is built around cost-plus and time-and-materials jobs with real job-costing depth, but takeoff work happens outside the platform. Spreadsheets get edited externally, then re-uploaded.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." | JobTread's published feature set is job management, CRM, and estimating for custom builders. A dedicated marketing or lead-generation engine isn't part of that published feature set.1 |
| Payments | Invoicing and payment collection run inside the same founding $297-a-month system. Payments run on Stripe. Card processing from 3.1%, bank transfer (ACH) for less. No monthly payment fees, no hidden add-ons. | JobTread's public pricing materials don't detail payment processing terms.2 |
| Migration | Four clicks moves your data over and keeps your SEO intact. The Moving Truck Guarantee backs the move. 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. | JobTread offers a 30-day money-back guarantee and no contract, which lowers the risk of trying it. Public materials don't describe a structured data-export process for moving into or out of the platform.2 |
| Price | $297 per month flat for the first 50 founding members, locked for life. $416 per month for the next 500 members after that. No per-user fees, at any team size. | $199/month base (1 user), plus $20/month per seat for users 2 through 10, $15/month per seat for users 11 through 20, less per seat above that. About $279/month for a 5-person team, about $454/month for a 15-person team.2 |
1. JobTread focus and gaps per competitor research summary, sourced from JobTread's own site positioning, July 2026.
2. jobtread.com/pricing (official), checked July 2026. Base fee is $199/month including 1 internal user; external vendor, customer, and subcontractor portal users are free and unlimited; 20% off with annual billing; no contract; 30-day money-back guarantee.
Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees. The price you join at is the price you pay for life: once those 50 spots fill, the next 500 members lock in at $416 per month, and pricing after that moves to tiered plans.
JobTread does publish a real rate card, and it's worth crediting for that.2 The base plan is $199/month and includes 1 internal user. Every user after that adds a per-seat fee: $20/month each for users 2 through 10, $15/month each for users 11 through 20, $10/month for 21 through 30, $5/month for 31 and up. External vendor, customer, and subcontractor portal users are free and unlimited. Billing annually saves 20%, there's no contract, and JobTread backs it with a 30-day money-back guarantee.2
Run the seat math against Evalation's current price and the crossover comes early. The formula for users 2 through 10 is $199 base plus $20 per additional seat: at 5 people that's $199 + ($20 × 4) = $279/month, still under Evalation's $297 founding rate.2 Add a 6th person and the bill is $199 + ($20 × 5) = $299/month, already $2 more than Evalation's flat rate.2 Every hire past that point widens the gap in Evalation's favor.
That math holds only while the founding 50 spots are open. Once they fill and Evalation's price moves to $416/month for the next 500 members, the crossover shifts back out. At 12 people, JobTread lands near $409/month, still under $416.2 Add a 13th person and JobTread crosses to roughly $424/month, more than $416, and every hire after that widens the gap again.2
Here's the honest version of both scenarios: if your crew is small and staying small, JobTread's entry price is genuinely lower under either rate. If you're hiring past 5 or 6 people, Evalation's flat founding rate is already the cheaper option today. Once the founding 50 fill and the price moves to $416, that same crossover point shifts back out to somewhere around your 12th or 13th hire, close to where it sat before the founding rate opened.
Switching platforms usually means starting over: rebuilding your client list, re-tagging every job, watching your website fall out of search for a few weeks while everything reindexes. Evalation's migration is built to take 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 rankings you already earned.
A named migration story for a JobTread switch specifically doesn't exist yet. What backs this claim instead is the founder's own track record building and exiting a $5.3 million construction company, and the mechanics themselves: the four-click data move and the SEO-preserving migration process are built into the product, not a promise standing alone on a marketing page.
It depends on your team size and which Evalation rate you join at. Against the current $297 founding rate, JobTread only stays cheaper at 5 people or fewer, about $279/month; add a 6th person and JobTread's bill hits $299/month, already above Evalation's flat rate.2 Once the founding 50 spots fill and Evalation moves to $416/month, the crossover shifts back out to a 12- or 13-person team, the same range this comparison used to describe.2
Evalation's migration process is built to take four clicks and keep your website's SEO intact. 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.
[PLACEHOLDER: confirm exact JobTread data types and timeline covered by the guarantee]
No native 3D design tool or built-in digital takeoff feature is documented in JobTread's public materials.1 Evalation Lab designs decks, pergolas, concrete pads, and fencing live in 3D in front of the homeowner and hands over a blueprint and estimate before you leave the driveway.
Yes. JobTread charges $20/month for each user from 2 through 10, and $15/month for users 11 through 20, with lower per-seat rates above that.2 Evalation's flat rate doesn't change no matter how many people you add: $297/month for founding members locked for life, $416/month for members who join after the founding 50 fill.
[PLACEHOLDER: confirm exact contract-type support in Evalation's estimating module]
JobTread's job-costing tools are built specifically around cost-plus and time-and-materials contracts for custom builders.1
JobTread's external vendor, customer, and subcontractor portal users are free and unlimited.2 Evalation charges $297/month flat as a founding member, rising to $416/month once the founding 50 fill, with no per-user fees at all, so external and internal users both come at no added seat cost.
It's public. Unlike Buildertrend and ServiceTitan, JobTread posts a real rate card on its pricing page, base fee plus per-seat tiers, no sales call required to see a number.2 That's genuinely rare in this category. If you want to see how a larger project-management platform compares instead, read Evalation vs Buildertrend. If you're a remodeler weighing job-costing depth against a full operating system, see Evalation for Remodelers.
See how Evalation runs your estimating, your projects, and your client relationships at one flat price, then decide for yourself whether JobTread's per-seat math still works in your favor once your team grows.