Contractor Foreman Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, the Annual Math and What Reviewers Say

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Every Contractor Foreman price on this page was read on its own pricing page on November 5, 2026. Rival prices were read on each vendor's page the same day, except Buildertrend, which prints no price and refused our read. Ratings and review counts were read the same day. Where a figure is not printed, we say so rather than guess.

What each Contractor Foreman plan costs today

Contractor Foreman sells five tiers and prices them two ways. The annual tab is the default and the cheaper one. The monthly tab drops Basic entirely and marks it "Not Available." Quarterly billing, which means paying every three months, has an anchor on the page but no printed figure today.

A user seat is one named login. Office staff who need to see the schedule count toward the cap, which is why the seat numbers decide the tier more often than any feature does.

Basic deserves a plain warning. It is a real product at a real price, but one login means the owner is the only person who can post a daily log or approve a change order. A two-person shop outgrows it the week the second person asks for the app.

The local material database is the other quiet gate. Every tier ships the database of materials, but Basic and Standard leave the price column empty, so you type your own numbers. From Plus upward, the page says prices are filled in for your area, which is the feature that makes the estimating module worth using.

The feature grid is unusually flat for this category. Estimating, scheduling, job costing, change orders, daily logs and AIA-style invoicing are described for the product as a whole rather than gated by tier. The head-to-head on the estimating module is in our estimating software guide. What moves between tiers is shorter.

• Seats: 1, 3, 8, 15, then unlimited.
• Local material prices: the page states Basic and Standard do not include pricing in the material database.
• Free setup and implementation: printed on Pro and Unlimited only.
• Free training sessions: the grid runs from two up to unlimited as the tiers rise.

Trial and refund terms, as printed:

• A 30-day free trial on every plan. The FAQ says annual plans are charged at the end of the trial and monthly plans are charged immediately.
• A 100-day money-back guarantee on annual Plus, Pro and Unlimited. The monthly versions carry 30 days.
• No setup fee is printed for Standard or Plus in either direction, so ask before the trial ends.
• No "no contract" wording appears anywhere on the page.

Payment processing is published too, which most rivals bury in a quote.

• Visa, Mastercard and Discover: 2.9 percent plus $0.30 a transaction.
• American Express: 3.9 percent plus $0.30.
• ACH bank transfer: 1 percent plus $0.30, capped at $10.

Annual billing saves $391 to $804 a year

Here is the arithmetic behind the "Save" badges on the page. Monthly price times twelve, set against the annual renewal figure.

The catch is timing. Annual billing charges the whole year the day the 30-day trial ends, and the 100-day guarantee is the only exit after that. Monthly billing costs more and charges on day one, but the exposure is one month at a time.

Our September note on quarterly pricing is stale. The quarterly figures we published then, $132 to $415 a month, no longer appear anywhere on the page. If paying every three months matters to you, get the number from sales in writing.

What a six-person remodeling crew pays in year one

Take a six-person design-build shop: two in the office, four in the field. Everyone needs a login for time cards and daily logs, so six seats. On Contractor Foreman that lands on Plus. Here is the same crew priced on each platform.

The 30-day trial changes the first-year math too. On annual billing the $1,997 is charged when the trial ends, so year one covers 13 months of use. On monthly billing the first $199 is charged immediately, and the trial runs alongside it.

Two notes on that table. JobTread's per-user price steps down after ten internal users, and its vendor, sub and client logins are free, so at 25 people the gap narrows. Houzz Pro's Teams price is "starting at" with add-ons extra, so treat $5,388 as the floor.

Contractor Foreman reviews: what users say

Three review sites, read November 5, 2026. The counts move by a few reviews week to week, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a fixed number.

Capterra and Software Advice share a parent company and label some reviews as incentivized, meaning the reviewer was offered a small thank-you for writing one. That is standard on both sites and applies to the rivals too. It is one reason we weight the complaint themes more than the star average.

What reviewers like

• Value for the breadth. This is the most repeated theme on all three sites. One Capterra reviewer called it an "all-in-one package", and Software Advice tags pricing as a top pro.
• Ease of picking up the basics once setup is done. G2 counts ease of use as its most-mentioned strength, with customer support second.
• Support and the one-on-one training sessions, mentioned often on Capterra and G2.
• Estimate templates and job costing, which several reviewers credit with winning more work and knowing what each job made.

What reviewers complain about

• The learning curve. Software Advice's 4.3 for ease of use is the lowest of its four scores, and G2 reviewers describe early navigation as unintuitive.
• Bugs and lag on large projects, with mobile app crashes and slow photo uploads the specific examples. One low Capterra rating cites "constant lagging and crashing".
• QuickBooks sync problems, serious enough that one long-term Capterra reviewer named them as the reason for leaving.
• Renewals and refunds. The sharpest Capterra complaints describe a charge processed after a refund request and a painful renewal process.
• Form customization and scheduling, which Software Advice lists as its two tagged cons.

The mobile complaints deserve a closer look before you buy, because the field is where this software is supposed to live. The web app carries the full feature set. The phone app, by the reviews, carries less of it and crashes more. If your foremen will only ever touch the phone, run the trial on their phones and nothing else.

Read those complaints against the price. Reviewers are grading a $166 product next to $400 rivals, and the pattern is forgiveness for rough edges in exchange for the bill. The renewal complaints are the ones to act on, because annual billing charges the whole year up front. Put the renewal date in your calendar on day one.

Contractor Foreman vs Buildertrend, JobTread, Procore and Houzz Pro

JobTread sells one plan with every feature and no trial, because every client gets a named customer success manager from day one. At $199 plus $20 a seat it costs more than Contractor Foreman at every team size under 30, and the page prints no contract and no setup fee.

On G2, JobTread rates 4.9 across 118 reviews, the highest of the five platforms.

Buildertrend sits at 4.3 across 231 on the same site, and Contractor Foreman's 4.5 lands between them. Hold those two next to it when the demos start.

Buildertrend took its printed tiers down this year. Its pricing page refused our read today, and our November 4 read printed no figure. Third parties say the price now scales with construction volume. The full history, including the old $339 to $1,099 tiers, is in our Buildertrend pricing guide.

Procore's page says the fee is an upfront annual charge per product, sized to your annual construction volume, with users never charged. That model makes sense at eight figures of revenue and no sense at one. Our Procore pricing guide works through what the quotes come back at.

Houzz Pro is the one rival that bundles marketing with the software. The $199 Pro plan covers one user and Teams starts at $399 for five. The 30-day trial converts to an annual subscription. The design-build comparison is in our remodeling estimating software guide.

Who Contractor Foreman fits, and who should pass

It fits a specific shape of business.

• General contractors and remodelers running two to ten jobs at a time who need change orders (a signed mid-job change to scope and price), schedules and daily logs in one system.
• Specialty subs that bill through progress invoices and answer RFIs (a request for information, the formal question back to the architect or owner).
• Owners who keep their own books in QuickBooks Online and want job costing, which is tracking real labor and material spend against the estimate, without hiring a controller.
• Anyone who has been quoted Buildertrend or Procore and flinched.

Four kinds of company should pass.

• Same-day service trades. A plumber or HVAC company dispatching trucks wants Jobber or Housecall Pro, and our contractor software guide prices both.
• Crews that run the business from the phone app. Mobile is the weak side in the reviews.
• Custom home builders selling finishes through a client selections portal, which is Buildertrend's home turf.
• Commercial GCs whose owners and architects already work inside Procore.

Three things to check before you buy

1. Which billing tab you are on. The default is annual. Switching to monthly adds 16 to 24 percent and removes Basic. Decide before the trial ends, because the annual charge lands that day.
2. Whether setup is free on your tier. The page prints free setup on Pro and Unlimited only. Ask what Standard and Plus pay for implementation, and how many training sessions come with it.
3. The renewal date and the refund window. 100 days on annual and 30 on monthly. The renewal complaints are the sharpest in the reviews. Put the date in the calendar before the trial does it for you.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Contractor Foreman cost per month?

On annual billing, $49 for Basic, $105 for Standard, $166 for Plus, $221 for Pro and $332 for Unlimited, read on the pricing page November 5, 2026. Billed monthly, Standard is $139, Plus $199, Pro $279 and Unlimited $399. Basic is not offered monthly. The 30-day trial is free on every plan.

Is Contractor Foreman cheaper than Buildertrend?

Yes, by every account we can find. Contractor Foreman prints $49 to $332 a month on annual billing. Buildertrend prints no price at all in 2026 and quotes on construction volume, and the tiers it used to publish ran $339 to $1,099 a month. For a crew under 25 people the gap is several thousand dollars a year.

Does Contractor Foreman have a free trial?

Yes, 30 days on every plan with no charge up front. Annual plans are charged at the end of the trial and monthly plans are charged immediately, per the FAQ on the pricing page. After that, annual Plus, Pro and Unlimited carry a 100-day money-back guarantee and the monthly versions carry 30 days.

What do Contractor Foreman reviews say?

Capterra shows 4.5 out of 5 across 839 reviews, G2 4.5 across 386 and Software Advice 4.5 across 841, all read November 5, 2026. Reviewers praise the value, the breadth of features and the support. They complain about the learning curve, lag on large projects, QuickBooks sync and the renewal and refund process.

Contractor Foreman vs JobTread: which is cheaper?

Contractor Foreman, at every team size under 30. A six-person crew pays $166 a month on Contractor Foreman Plus with annual billing, or $199 monthly. The same crew on JobTread pays $299 a month, the $199 base plus five users at $20, with a 20 percent annual discount whose base figure the page does not print.

Does Contractor Foreman charge a setup fee?

The pricing page prints "FREE Setup and Implementation" on the Pro and Unlimited plans only. It prints no setup fee for Basic, Standard or Plus in either direction, so ask sales for the implementation cost on those tiers in writing before the 30-day trial ends and the annual charge lands.