COMPARE · CHECKED OCTOBER 19, 2026
Housecall Pro vs Peak
Housecall Pro is a mature all-in-one field service app with app store apps and an AI phone agent you pay extra for. Peak gives you the core tools free, on your own accounts, with an assistant that works across all of them.
TL;DR
Pick Housecall Pro if you want a mature, all-in-one field service app with phone booking built in, and the monthly price fits. Pick Peak if you want the core tools free, with an assistant that handles the paperwork, and you're fine with an app that installs from your phone's browser.
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SIDE BY SIDE
Housecall Pro and Peak, row by row.
What Housecall Pro's own pages said on October 19, 2026, next to what Peak does today.
| Housecall Pro | Peak |
|---|---|
| What it covers | |
| Scheduling, dispatch, estimates, invoices, payments, price book, online booking, reviews and marketing, in one app. | 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 | |
| Three plans by number of users, from $59 a month billed yearly. Extra users are $35 each on Max. | The software is free. No per-user fee and no contract. You pay your own texting, email, AI and payment providers directly. |
| AI | |
| AI helpers for reports, marketing copy and coaching come with every plan. CSR AI, which answers calls, is a paid add-on. | 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. | 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, jobs and the price book export as spreadsheets by email. Its terms say customer data you enter stays yours. The API needs the Max plan. | 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 free trial on your own. Max comes with an onboarding specialist. | 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.
Housecall Pro
- Basic: $59/mo billed yearly, $79 month to month (1 user)
- Essentials: $149/mo billed yearly, $189 month to month (up to 5 users)
- Max: $299/mo billed yearly, $329 month to month (up to 8 users, $35 per extra user)
- CSR AI (AI phone answering) is a paid add-on; no price is listed on its pricing page
14-day free trial with no card. The API and Zapier are on the Max plan only. Max includes a dedicated onboarding specialist.
From housecallpro.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 HOUSECALL PRO IS STRONG
Credit where it's due.
- Online booking that runs off your price book, with service areas and arrival windows
- An AI phone agent with separate switches for booking, rescheduling and canceling, plus a test mode
- A price book you can import, export and reprice in bulk
- Good, better, best options on one estimate
- A documented API with webhooks for connecting other tools (Max plan)
WHERE HOUSECALL PRO IS AHEAD
What Peak doesn't do yet.
If one of these is a must-have, take it seriously.
- iPhone and Android apps in the app stores
- Online booking and an AI phone agent that are further along than anything in Peak
- Payroll, financing and expense cards that Peak doesn't have
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 Housecall Pro doesn't do.
- The Peak tools are free. Housecall Pro starts at $59 a month billed yearly ($79 month to month), with more for extra users and add-ons.
- Sherpa looks things up and makes changes in your records, under rules you can see. Housecall Pro's AI helpers, as far as we could see, build reports, write marketing drafts and coach.
- Your own AI assistant can connect to Peak at no cost. Housecall Pro's API is on the Max plan, and we didn't find an AI connector.
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 Housecall Pro to Peak.
Most of it is two spreadsheets. Run both side by side for a week if you like.
Step 1
Export from Housecall Pro
In Housecall Pro, open Customers, then Actions, then Export, and it emails you a spreadsheet. Your price book exports the same way from Settings, then Price Book.
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 Housecall Pro if
You want a mature, all-in-one field service app with phone booking built in, and the monthly price fits.
Pick Peak if
You want the core tools free, with an assistant that handles the paperwork, and you're fine with an app that installs from your phone's browser.
HOUSECALL PRO VS PEAK
Common questions.
The Peak tools are free when sign-up opens: leads, texting, estimates, invoices, jobs and photos. You pay your own texting, email, AI and payment providers directly. Housecall Pro's plans started at $59 a month billed yearly when we checked on October 19, 2026.
Not in the free tools. Peak has missed-call text-back, which works once you connect your own texting number. AI phone answering is a service our team can set up for you.
Yes. Housecall Pro emails you a spreadsheet of customers and one of your price book. Import the customers in Peak's Contacts and the price book in the Estimator.
Not in the App Store yet. Peak installs from your phone's browser to your home screen, and the crew app works offline. Housecall Pro has iPhone and Android apps in the stores.
MORE FIELD SERVICE SOFTWARE
Sources for this page (11)
- Plans, prices, users, trial, Max onboarding: www.housecallpro.com/pricing/ (read October 19, 2026)
- AI team and CSR AI add-on: help.housecallpro.com/en/articles/9311875-ai-team-overview (read October 19, 2026)
- API on Max only: help.housecallpro.com/en/articles/8505035-api-overview (read October 19, 2026)
- Zapier on Max: help.housecallpro.com/en/articles/5452973-zapier-integration-overview (read October 19, 2026)
- Customer and job export: help.housecallpro.com/en/articles/6797101-how-to-import-export-jobs-and-customers (read October 19, 2026)
- Price book export: help.housecallpro.com/en/articles/7173129-price-book-import-or-export-services-and-materials (read October 19, 2026)
- Price book features: www.housecallpro.com/features/price-book/ (read October 19, 2026)
- Customer data stays the business's: www.housecallpro.com/terms/ (read October 19, 2026)
- iPhone app: apps.apple.com/us/app/housecall-pro-field-service/id692833651 (read October 19, 2026)
- Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=housecall.pros (read October 19, 2026)
- Online booking settings, CSR AI switches and test mode, estimate options (help center articles): help.housecallpro.com/llms.txt (read October 16, 2026)
How we checked: we read Housecall Pro's public pages, pricing and help center on October 19, 2026, without signing up or logging in. Housecall Pro is a trademark of its owner, used here only to identify the product. Peak Engine isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Housecall Pro. Spot a mistake? Email hello@peak-engine.com and we'll fix it.
Try Peak next to Housecall Pro.
Leads, estimates, invoices, jobs and photos, with Sherpa doing the office work.
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