COMPARE · CHECKED OCTOBER 19, 2026
Ascora vs Peak
Ascora is strong on maintenance contracts, equipment records and offline phone apps, priced per user. Peak is free with no per-user fee, and Sherpa can chase the follow-up for you.
TL;DR
Pick Ascora if Your business lives on maintenance contracts and equipment records, and you want store apps that work offline. Pick Peak if you want the core tools free with no per-user fee, and an assistant that does the follow-up.
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SIDE BY SIDE
Ascora and Peak, row by row.
What Ascora's own pages said on October 19, 2026, next to what Peak does today.
| Ascora | Peak |
|---|---|
| What it covers | |
| Quotes, jobs, invoices, drag-and-drop dispatch, recurring and equipment maintenance, progress claims and purchase orders. | Leads and customers, estimates with e-sign and change orders, invoices, projects, crews, a dispatch board, a time clock, job photos and daily logs, plus Sherpa. |
| Pricing model | |
| Per user per month: Essentials $45, Elite $59, Enterprise custom. The page doesn't state the currency. | The software is free. No per-user fee and no contract. You pay your own texting, email, AI and payment providers directly. |
| AI | |
| Elite includes AI bill processing, which pulls the details out of supplier bills without templates, at no extra cost. | Sherpa looks things up and makes changes in every Peak tool, from chat or from your own AI assistant. Anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for your OK. It runs on your own AI key. |
| Phone app | |
| iPhone and Android apps in the app stores that work offline and sync when back online. | Installs from your phone's browser to your home screen. The crew app works offline. No App Store or Google Play app yet. |
| Your data | |
| Customers have an Import/Export area with an Excel template, and some reports export to Excel. We didn't find a customer export guide, a public API or an AI connector. | When sign-up opens, your customer data lives in a database you own, not ours. Export contacts as a spreadsheet or download the whole database any time. |
| Getting started | |
| Start a 14-day trial on your own, or book a free demo. Enterprise goes through sales and lists a one-time implementation fee. | Sign in and start. Bring contacts and your price book over from spreadsheets. Texting, email, AI and payments start when you connect your own accounts, or we connect them for you (Get set up, $997 one-time). |
WHAT IT COSTS
Their published price, and ours.
Ascora
- Essentials: $45 per user per month
- Elite: $59 per user per month (includes AI bill processing)
- Enterprise: custom pricing
From Ascora's pricing page, which doesn't state the currency. A one-time implementation fee is listed under Enterprise; the amount isn't stated. 14-day free trial, no card. (Note: ascora.com is a different company.)
From ascora.com.au, checked October 19, 2026. Prices change, so confirm on their site.
Peak tools
$0
Free when sign-up opens (soon). You bring your own accounts for AI, texting, email and payments. Today the tools come with every Peak service plan.
Want our team to run your marketing or lead follow-up? That's a paid service, and the tools come with it. See service pricing.
WHERE ASCORA IS STRONG
Credit where it's due.
- Recurring and equipment maintenance jobs, booked automatically or left as suggestions
- A planner to look at next month's maintenance before creating jobs
- AI that reads supplier bills without setting up templates (Elite plan)
- Progress claims with retentions
- iPhone and Android apps that work offline
WHERE ASCORA IS AHEAD
What Peak doesn't do yet.
If one of these is a must-have, take it seriously.
- Recurring maintenance and equipment tracking
- iPhone and Android apps in the app stores
- Accounting sync with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks
- Progress claims with retentions
Everything not in the Peak tools yet
- iPhone and Android apps in the app stores (the tools install from your phone's browser today)
- QuickBooks and Xero sync
- Full job costing, estimate vs actual on every line
- Payroll
- A built-in AI phone receptionist
- AI takeoff from plans
WHERE PEAK IS DIFFERENT
What you get with Peak that Ascora doesn't do.
- The Peak tools are free with no per-user fee. Ascora is $45 or $59 per user per month.
- Sherpa looks things up and makes changes in every Peak tool, from chat or from your own AI assistant. Ascora's AI, on Elite, reads supplier bills.
- You can undo a Sherpa change within 10 minutes, and anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for your OK.
The software is free
No per-user fee and no contract for the tools. You bring your own accounts for AI, texting, email and payments, and pay those companies directly at their prices. We don't mark them up.
Your data, your accounts
When sign-up opens, your customer data lives in a database you own, not ours. Export it any time. If you leave, you take everything with you.
Sherpa does the work, inside rules
Tell Sherpa "add a note to Susan Park: gate goes on the north side." It finds her and adds it, or asks you to reply YES first when the rules say so. Anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for your approval. You can see every rule, and you can only make them stricter.
A team if you want one
You can run the tools on your own. If you'd rather have help, our team runs the marketing, lead follow-up and AI setup for you on a paid plan.
Read every Sherpa rule on what Sherpa will and won't do.
SWITCHING
Moving from Ascora to Peak.
Most of it is two spreadsheets. Run both side by side for a week if you like.
Step 1
Export from Ascora
Ascora's Customers screen has an Import/Export area, but we didn't find a help article on exporting customers. Ask Ascora support for a spreadsheet of your customers and equipment.
Step 2
Import your customers
In Peak, open Contacts and choose Import. Upload the spreadsheet and match the columns. Rows with the same email or phone merge instead of making duplicates.
Step 3
Bring your price book
The Estimator imports your items and prices from a spreadsheet. There's a template to fill in if your old export doesn't line up.
Step 4
Connect your own accounts
Hook up your texting number, email, AI key and Stripe when you're ready to send and get paid. Nothing goes out until you do.
Step 5
Finish open jobs, then switch
Let jobs already in progress finish where they are, and start new ones in Peak. Rather not do the move yourself? Our team can help.
WHAT YOU SET UP
What works the day you sign in.
The tools are free. Texting, email, AI and payments run on accounts you own, so you pay those companies directly.
Works when you sign in
- Customers, deals, notes and tasks
- Estimates with options, change orders and invoices, shared by link
- Projects, phases, crew schedules, photos and daily logs
- A customer page for each job
Needs your own account
- Texting
- Two-way texts, missed-call text-back, text review requests and texting Sherpa. Connect your own texting account (such as Twilio), with your number registered with the carriers. Nothing sends or charges until you do.
- Sending estimates, invoices and messages by email. Connect your own email sending account. Nothing sends or charges until you do.
- AI
- Sherpa and AI drafts. Connect your own AI key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or a compatible provider). Nothing sends or charges until you do.
- Payments
- Card and bank payments on invoices. Connect your own Stripe account. Nothing sends or charges until you do.
Rather not do it yourself? Get set up: we connect all four and import your contacts and price book, $997 one-time.
Pick Ascora if
Your business lives on maintenance contracts and equipment records, and you want store apps that work offline.
Pick Peak if
You want the core tools free with no per-user fee, and an assistant that does the follow-up.
ASCORA VS PEAK
Common questions.
The Peak tools are free when sign-up opens, with no per-user fee. You pay your own texting, email, AI and payment providers directly. Ascora was $45 or $59 per user per month when we checked on October 19, 2026, and its page doesn't state the currency.
No. Peak has projects with phases, schedules and crews, but no equipment register or automatic recurring maintenance jobs. Ascora is built around both.
Peak's crew app works offline. It installs from your phone's browser, and there's no App Store or Google Play app yet. Ascora has iPhone and Android apps that work offline.
We didn't find a customer export guide in Ascora's help pages, so ask Ascora support for a spreadsheet. Then import it in Peak's Contacts, and bring your price book into the Estimator.
MORE FIELD SERVICE SOFTWARE
Sources for this page (7)
- Plans, per-user prices, AI bill processing on Elite, implementation fee, trial, demo: www.ascora.com.au/price (read October 19, 2026)
- iPhone and Android apps, offline, used in several countries: www.ascora.com.au (read October 19, 2026)
- iPhone app: itunes.apple.com/app/ascora/id533747571?mt=8 (read October 19, 2026)
- Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ascsoftware.ascora (read October 19, 2026)
- Customers Import/Export area, report exports: support.ascora.com.au/display/AS/Equipment+Overview (read October 19, 2026)
- Recurring jobs, maintenance planner, auto-book or suggest: www.ascora.com.au/Blog/equipment-maintenance-in-ascora (read October 16, 2026)
- Progress claims, retentions, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks sync: www.ascora.com.au (read October 16, 2026)
How we checked: we read Ascora's public pages, pricing and help center on October 19, 2026, without signing up or logging in. Ascora is a trademark of its owner, used here only to identify the product. Peak Engine isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Ascora. Spot a mistake? Email hello@peak-engine.com and we'll fix it.
Try Peak next to Ascora.
Leads, estimates, invoices, jobs and photos, with Sherpa doing the office work.
Sign-up opens soon. The demo is open now, with made-up data, no sign-up needed.