COMPARE · CHECKED OCTOBER 19, 2026
Bolster vs Peak
Bolster is built around big remodel proposals homeowners can shop, with options, upgrades and regional pricing. Peak gives you good, better, best estimates, e-sign and invoices free, tied to your leads and jobs.
TL;DR
Pick Bolster if Big, choice-heavy remodel proposals are the center of your sales process. Pick Peak if you want good, better, best estimates, e-sign and invoices free, tied to your leads and jobs.
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SIDE BY SIDE
Bolster and Peak, row by row.
What Bolster's own pages said on October 19, 2026, next to what Peak does today.
| Bolster | Peak |
|---|---|
| What it covers | |
| Estimates and proposals with options, upgrades and selections, assemblies, change orders, payment schedules, a pipeline and payments. | 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 | |
| Four plans, from $155 a month billed yearly ($189 monthly). Extra users and payment fees are added on top. | The software is free. No per-user fee and no contract. You pay your own texting, email, AI and payment providers directly. |
| AI | |
| AI estimating tools on every plan. AI renderings and AI-guided takeoff on Pro and Premium. No separate AI price. | 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 | |
| An iPhone app in the App Store. We didn't find a Google Play listing. | 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 | |
| API access on Enterprise; Zapier through webhooks on other plans. We didn't find an AI connector or a help article on exporting customers. | 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 | |
| Sign up for Core on your own. Pro, Premium and Enterprise start with a demo. Pro includes 3 coaching sessions. | 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.
Bolster
- Core: $155/mo billed yearly, $189 monthly (USD)
- Pro: $399/mo yearly, $499 monthly
- Premium: $583/mo, billed yearly only
- Enterprise: custom
- Extra users: $16/mo billed yearly, $20 monthly
- Payments: 2.99% to 3.99% by card, 1% by bank (ACH), per its pricing page
USD prices from its pricing page, which also lists Canadian prices. AI estimating tools are on every plan; AI renderings and AI-guided takeoff are on Pro and Premium. API access is on Enterprise.
From bolsterbuilt.com, 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 BOLSTER IS STRONG
Credit where it's due.
- Proposals homeowners can shop: optional items, upgrades and style choices, each with its own price
- Locking a choice so the customer can't change it
- Change orders that recalculate the payment schedule without touching requests already sent
- Assemblies (bundles of items) and regional material and labor pricing
- Version history on every estimate change
WHERE BOLSTER IS AHEAD
What Peak doesn't do yet.
If one of these is a must-have, take it seriously.
- A deeper option and selection system on proposals
- Regional cost data and AI renderings
- Payment schedules that recalculate on change orders
- An iPhone app in the App Store
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 Bolster doesn't do.
- The Peak tools are free. Bolster starts at $155 a month billed yearly, plus payment fees. Peak payments run on your own Stripe account at Stripe's prices.
- Peak also covers leads, texting, scheduling and photos, next to the proposal.
- Every Sherpa action follows a rule you can see, and nothing that reaches a customer goes out without your approval.
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 Bolster to Peak.
Most of it is two spreadsheets. Run both side by side for a week if you like.
Step 1
Export from Bolster
We didn't find a Bolster help article on exporting your customers. Ask Bolster support for a spreadsheet of your customers and your item catalog before you cancel.
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 Bolster if
Big, choice-heavy remodel proposals are the center of your sales process.
Pick Peak if
You want good, better, best estimates, e-sign and invoices free, tied to your leads and jobs.
BOLSTER VS PEAK
Common questions.
Yes. Peak estimates support good, better, best options and add-ons, e-signature and change orders. Bolster has more ways to set up selections and upgrades.
When we checked on October 19, 2026, Bolster's Core plan was $155 a month billed yearly ($189 monthly), plus payment fees. The Peak tools are free when sign-up opens, and payments run on your own Stripe account at Stripe's prices.
Not today. You build estimates from your own items and prices, and you can import your price book from a spreadsheet. Bolster includes AI estimating tools on every plan.
Yes. Get a spreadsheet of your customers from Bolster, then import it in Peak's Contacts and bring your items into the Estimator. Let jobs already in progress finish in Bolster.
MORE BUILDER AND REMODELER SOFTWARE
Sources for this page (5)
- Plans, USD and CAD prices, extra users, payment fees, AI by plan, API on Enterprise, demo vs sign-up, coaching: www.bolsterbuilt.com/pricing (read October 19, 2026)
- Zapier through API webhooks; no AI connector listed: www.bolsterbuilt.com/integrations (read October 19, 2026)
- iPhone app: apps.apple.com/us/app/-/id6502292781 (read October 19, 2026)
- Help center (no export article found): learn.bolsterbuilt.com (read October 19, 2026)
- Options, upgrades, selections and locking, change orders and payment schedules, assemblies, regional pricing, version history (feature and Academy pages): bolsterbuilt.com (read October 16, 2026)
How we checked: we read Bolster's public pages, pricing and help center on October 19, 2026, without signing up or logging in. Bolster is a trademark of its owner, used here only to identify the product. Peak Engine isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Bolster. Spot a mistake? Email hello@peak-engine.com and we'll fix it.
Try Peak next to Bolster.
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.