Clamp vs Jobber: Field-service operations or residential project control
Jobber is stronger for scheduling, routing, recurring work and in-app payments. Clamp is built around the residential project itself: estimate at cost, signed milestones, change orders, customer decisions and job cost review.
Direct answer: Jobber starts at $29 a month billed annually for one user, but its job costing starts on Grow at $149, and Grow for 10 users is $299. Clamp has job costing, change orders and mileage on every plan from $12.50 a month billed annually; 10 people are $150 on a Teams office. Choose Jobber when crew scheduling, recurring visits, routing, automated follow-ups and built-in payments run your business.
Change order, priced
Job cost against budget
Sample data. A change order shows its effect on the contract before it is signed, and the job costs card compares what the job is consuming with its budget.
What it costs
| Situation | Clamp | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| One person, entry plan | Solo, billed annually $12.50 a month $149.99 a year | Core, billed annually $29.00 a month $348.00 a year, calculated |
| A crew of 5 that needs job costing | Teams (up to 5 people), billed annually $83.33 a month $999.99 a year | Grow (5 users), billed annually $229.00 a month $2,748.00 a year, calculated |
Every Clamp feature, next to Jobber
Solo includes 28 of Clamp's 44 features. Jobber's pages show 18 of the 44 in full and 13 in part, across its plans.
Clamp plan
| Feature | Clamp | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| CRM and leads | 3 of 5 | 0 of 5 |
| Email remindersEmail reminders before appointments, follow-ups, and scheduled installs, deliveries, and inspections. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | From Connect$99 a month |
| Customer appointment remindersHomeowners get an email before an appointment, with confirm and reschedule built in. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | From Connect, $99Confirm only; the business reschedules |
| Five-factor lead scoringA clear yes, no, or maybe on a lead before driving out. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundRequest forms only |
| Lead reportingClose rate, revenue won, open pipeline, close rate by lead source, and lost leads by reason, on Home and the stats screen, with CSV and PDF export. Revenue by source does not exist; see _excluded. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Plus, or $49 add-onSales pipeline |
| Daily briefingOverdue invoices, detected trips, follow-ups, appointments, and open proposals in one morning view. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyHome: today's visits, overdue balances |
| Estimating | 7 of 7 | 2 of 7 |
| Design agreementsPaid preconstruction sits in the document chain, so planning work is paid work. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundContract text on quotes |
| Itemized estimatesAssembly-based estimates with quantities and rates the contractor can inspect line by line. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planQuotes |
| Estimate templatesSave an estimate as a template for work done often. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planQuote templates |
| Proposals with multiple package tiersGood, better, best packages in one proposal. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Grow, $149Optional line items; Quote Options in beta |
| AI estimating from a plain-language job descriptionDescribe the job in plain words and get an itemized draft: assemblies, quantities, researched baseline rates, with the contractor's own saved rates taking over once set. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyJobber AI drafts from your quote templates |
| Remodel and new-home estimatingOne estimator covers remodels and new homes and detects which one a description is. Detect is the default job type; a contractor can pick Remodel or New home per estimate, or set Kind of work to Remodeling to turn the choice off. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNo job-type detection |
| Labor hours on estimatesEstimated labor hours, shown as a range, on every labor line, with an allowance for setup, cleanup, and material runs (15% by default) the contractor can change in Settings or per estimate. A planning figure; it never appears on proposals, PDFs, or the portal. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundUnit cost and markup only |
| Contracts and invoicing | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Payment schedulesSplit a proposal into a deposit, milestone payments, and a final payment, then invoice each one from the signed contract. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planProgress invoicing |
| Sales tax on documentsAdd a sales tax rate or a flat amount to invoices and other documents, with collected tax totaled by quarter and year. The contractor enters the rate; Clamp does not look rates up. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planTax rates and Taxation report |
| Customer credits and refundsApply a customer's credit to an open invoice, record a refund, or adjust a balance, with the history kept on the job. Recorded only; Clamp moves no money. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyRefunds only, no credits |
| Change orders that update the contractScope changes get written up and tied to the original contract, so verbal changes stop costing money. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundThrough DocuSign |
| Invoices tied to the contractEvery invoice belongs to the contract or change order it bills. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan |
| Customer portal | 0 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
| Password-free customer portalThe homeowner opens a link. No account, no password, no app to install. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Client HubEvery plan |
| Unlimited documents and photos shared to the portalShare job documents and photos to the customer portal without a count cap, subject to per-item size limits. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | PartlyAttachments |
| E-signing on the homeowner's phoneDocuments get signed on the homeowner's own phone, no account required. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Quote approvalsTyped or drawn |
| Several signers on one documentSend one document to up to five people, each signing their own line, see who has signed, and remind anyone who has not. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundOne client signs |
| Project updates and decisions in the portalPost project updates to the customer's portal and ask the customer to make a decision, which they answer from their phone. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundChoices at quote time only |
| Not delivered email handlingWhen a customer email Clamp sends bounces, the document is marked Not delivered so the contractor can fix the address and resend, or copy the link to text it. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not found |
| Expense tracking | 5 of 5 | 2 of 5 |
| Automatic GPS mileage trackingBackground trip detection, route maps, IRS rates, trips linked to the job that caused the drive. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundGPS waypoints only |
| Automatic time on siteGPS geofence tracking of hours at the jobsite. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Grow, $149Location timers by geofence; need a connection |
| Receipts and expenses on the jobReceipts logged against the job they belong to. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ From Connect, $99Expenses with receipt photo |
| Purchase ordersCommitted costs captured between the estimate and the receipt. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not found |
| Accounts payable and vendor billsVendor bills tracked and surfaced in the attention flows, with first-class vendor records. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not found |
| Job costing and reports | 3 of 3 | 1 of 3 |
| Job costingWhat the job actually cost, with a variance and catalog learning loop. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Grow, $149Not on Core or Connect |
| Accountant export packageA package of the business's records prepared for an accountant. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | QuickBooks, XeroIntegrations |
| Time reporting with CSV exportReported labor time with a time-tracking CSV export for payroll preparation and per-person rate decomposition. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ From Connect, $99Timesheet report, Excel export |
| Jobsites and teams | 2 of 8 | 6 of 8 |
| Teams: up to 5 linked accountsUp to 5 accounts, including the owner, sharing one business. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | ✓ Priced per user$29 each extra |
| Role-based permissionsFive roles: owner, admin, staff, contributor, viewer. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan |
| Unlimited subcontractor linkingSubs share jobsite photos and notes into the business account without consuming a seat. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Not foundSubs need a paid seat |
| Jobsites tab: jobs and schedule in one placeA Jobsites tab with Jobs and Schedule views. With Assistant each job has its own screen with its schedule, photos, and updates, and the Schedule view holds every install, delivery, inspection, appointment, and follow-up; Teams adds the crew and subs on each job, shaped by role. Subs invited to a job use it free and see their own jobs grouped by builder. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planJobs |
| Job scheduleSchedule installs, deliveries, and inspections on each job, with the contractor, a supplier, or nobody yet on each item, and see them all in the Jobsites tab. Putting crew or subs on an item is the Teams shared schedule. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planScheduling |
| Shared job scheduleOne schedule for the business: installs, deliveries, and inspections visible to the team, with clash notes when dates collide. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan |
| Punch listsThe small final items that close a job out, tracked per job and shareable as a text message or a PDF. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | From Connect, $99Checklists, emailed as PDF |
| Job site photosPhotos saved to the project with full-screen viewing. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planAttachments |
| Backup and offline | 3 of 5 | 2 of 5 |
| Full job workflow, offlineLeads, design agreements, estimates, proposals, change orders, and invoices on the phone, working without a connection. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyForms, visit details and time only |
| Cloud backupBusiness data backed up to the cloud and restorable on a new device. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Cloud software |
| Business portal: read-only web viewA read-only view of the business in a browser. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Web app |
| Device backup, restore, CSV export, bulk importLocal backup and restore with CSV export and bulk import. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyClient CSV import and export only |
| No account required to startThe app opens to local use; an account is needed only for server features or subscribing. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundStarts from a Jobber subscription |
| Only in Jobber | Where Jobber is ahead | |
| Route optimization | Not in Clamp | ✓ From Connect |
| Recurring jobs and online booking | Not in Clamp | ✓ Every plan |
| Built-in payments | Your own payment link | ✓ Cards 2.9% + 30¢, ACH 1% |
| Automated quote and invoice follow-ups | Email reminders (Assistant) | ✓ From Connect |
Nothing here matches. Pick All or another filter.
Jobber column from its pricing page, feature pages and help center, checked October 14, 2026. Not found means not on those pages, not that Jobber can't do it another way. Partly means something narrower than the Clamp feature. No product was tested against another.
Where each Jobber answer comes from
- Jobber Pricing Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Create a one-off job Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Progress invoicing Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Job costing Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Markups on quotes Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Quote approvals Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Optional line items on quotes Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Quote Options (Beta) Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Jobber and DocuSign integration Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Client Hub settings Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Notes and attachments Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- GPS waypoint tracking Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Create a recurring job Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Online booking Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Route optimization Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Sales pipeline Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Manage your team Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Quote templates Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Jobber AI Voice and Chat (Beta) Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Jobber AI Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Tax settings Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- First Steps: Just for Core Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Jobber Payments refunds Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Assessment and visit reminders Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Timesheets Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Location timers in the Jobber app Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Expenses Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Checklists Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Home Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Keep working in Jobber, even without internet Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Export client information Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
- Import clients Jobber, accessed October 14, 2026
Verdict
Clamp may fit when
- You run residential projects where the signed scope keeps changing as the work develops
- You estimate at job cost, apply your company markup, and review actual cost against the estimate
- You want each scope change priced and signed as its own change order before the changed work starts
- You want milestones, customer decisions and closeout records on the same job
- You work with subs who need job access without seeing your customer prices
Jobber may fit when
- You schedule many appointments, visits or recurring jobs across a field team
- Route optimization and dispatch are part of your day
- You want clients to book work or assessments online
- You want card, ACH and Tap to Pay processing in the same system
- You want automated quote and invoice follow-up
- You want native QuickBooks Online or Xero integrations on supported plans
Before you compare them
- Jobber and Clamp overlap more than a "service against projects" label suggests. Both handle quotes, scheduling, invoicing, progress payments, a customer portal and job cost information.
- Jobber's strongest documented advantages are field-service scheduling, route optimization, recurring work, online booking, automated follow-up and integrated payments.
- Clamp's advantage is the connected residential project: qualification, an estimate at cost, proposal milestones, customer decisions, signed change orders and the estimate-against-actual review.
- Jobber job costing is on Grow and Plus. Clamp job costing is on every plan.
- Jobber processes cards and ACH through Jobber Payments. Clamp records payments and can show your own payment link in the customer portal.
- No native Jobber change order workflow was found on its pricing page or Help Center; Jobber documents using its DocuSign integration for signed change orders.
- "Not found" on this page means not found on Jobber's current pricing page or Help Center. It does not mean Jobber cannot do it another way.
- Neither product was tested against the other. No speed or accuracy claim is made.
Workflow
| Feature | Clamp | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Estimate at cost, then markup | Every line at direct cost; the markup from your overhead and profit goal goes on once | Markup per line as a percentage of unit cost, on select plans |
| Paid design agreement | A design agreement document on every plan | Quotes can carry contract text and signatures; a dedicated paid design agreement was not found on Jobber's pricing page or Help Center |
| Quote or proposal e-signature | Proposals signed in the customer portal (Assistant and Teams) | Clients approve quotes in Client Hub with a typed or drawn signature |
| Allowances | Allowance lines on the estimate for selections not yet made, priced like every other line | Quotes support costs, prices, text and optional items; a dedicated allowance workflow was not found on Jobber's pricing page or Help Center |
| Customer decisions after signing | A Decisions needed list: needed by, what it blocks, who owes the answer, the resolution | Optional items let clients choose at quote time; a decision list after the quote was not found on Jobber's pricing page or Help Center |
| Signed change orders | A change order on every plan: priced, signed and billed | A native change order workflow was not found on Jobber's pricing page or Help Center; Jobber documents its DocuSign integration for signed change orders |
| Progress billing | Milestones tied to job events, each with a checklist of evidence; billed as the stage starts | All plans; a payment schedule on a quote or one-off job, by percentage or fixed amount |
| Job costing | Every plan: receipts, bills, time at the loaded rate, returns; reviewed against the estimate at close | Grow and Plus: line-item costs, timesheet labor and expenses, with job profitability |
| Photos and files | Job photos shared with crew and subs or kept private; attachments on documents | Notes and attachments on jobs, quotes, requests and invoices |
| Business mileage log | Automatic trip detection, confirmed per trip, at the IRS rate for its date | GPS waypoints from field actions, and fleet GPS through third-party integrations; an IRS-style mileage log was not found on Jobber's pricing page or Help Center |
| Customer portal | Sign proposals and change orders, see milestones and invoices, answer decisions (Assistant and Teams) | Client Hub: approve and sign quotes, pay invoices and deposits, check appointments, request work |
| Payments | Not processed by Clamp: add your own payment link and record what was paid | Jobber Payments: cards 2.9% + 30¢, Tap to Pay 2.7% + 30¢, ACH 1% |
| Automated quote and invoice follow-up | Not automated; you send a payment reminder from the invoice | From Connect |
| Scheduling and routing | A shared job schedule your crew and subs confirm (Teams); no route optimization | Scheduling on every plan; route optimization from Connect |
| Recurring jobs and online booking | Not offered | Recurring jobs, request forms and online booking |
| External subcontractor access | Unlimited free sub invites on Teams; subs see the job and schedule, never your prices | Team members with roles and permissions; a free external subcontractor access was not found on Jobber's pricing page or Help Center |
| Lead qualification | A five-question score on the first call | Request forms; a sales pipeline on Plus or as a $49 add-on; a lead-scoring workflow was not found on Jobber's pricing page or Help Center |
| Accounting | An accountant export package | QuickBooks Online and Xero integrations on supported plans |
What was and was not tested
What was compared: Hands-on testing of either product. Neither was tested against the other, and no speed or accuracy claim is made. Documented, not tested.
| Statement | Basis |
|---|---|
| Published by Clamp, using each product's own pricing pages and documentation. | Clamp's own statement |
| Solo contractor, entry plan, billed annually: Jobber Core is $348 a year (calculated) and Clamp Solo is $149.99. | Calculated from published prices |
| Five people with job costing, billed annually: Jobber Grow is $2,748 a year (calculated); Clamp Teams is $999.99 for up to 5 accounts. The plans are not equivalent: Grow includes field-service tools Clamp does not offer, and Teams includes project records Jobber does not document natively. | Calculated from published prices |
Switching
- Export your clients, quotes and invoices from Jobber before you cancel.
- Do not assume Jobber history can be imported into Clamp; confirm formats first.
- If you depend on in-app card payments, set up a payment link before you switch.
- If you route several crews a day or run recurring visits, check that a shared job schedule is enough.
- Finish open jobs where they started; start new ones in Clamp.
Questions
How much is Jobber for a one-person contracting business?
Jobber Core is $29 a month billed annually or $49 month to month for one user, and Clamp Solo is $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year. The entry plans don't buy the same features: Jobber's job costing starts on Grow at $149 a month billed annually. Jobber is worth it when recurring visits, routing, follow-ups and built-in payments are central to your business.
How much do Jobber and Clamp cost for a 10-person crew?
Jobber Grow for 10 users is $299 a month billed annually, and it is the lowest Jobber plan with job costing. Ten people on Clamp are a Teams office at $15 a seat: $150 a month, billed yearly by invoice ($1,800 a year), and subcontractor invites are free. Jobber's price also buys crew scheduling, routing and built-in payments that Clamp doesn't have.
Which Jobber plan includes job costing?
Jobber's job costing starts on Grow, $149 a month billed annually for one user or from $199 month to month, and is also on Plus. It tracks line-item costs, timesheet labor at each person's cost, and expenses. Core and Connect don't include it. Clamp has job costing on every plan, including Solo at $12.50 a month billed annually.
Can Jobber handle a remodel that takes several weeks?
Yes. A Jobber one-off job can span several days or weeks, and payment schedules on every plan split it into installments by percentage or fixed amount, tied to milestones. Its scheduling, recurring visits and routing suit contractors who also run service work. Clamp adds an estimate at direct cost, customer decisions after signing, change orders on every plan and a job cost review.
Do Jobber and Clamp take customer payments?
Jobber takes payments inside the app: clients pay invoices in its Client Hub, where they also approve quotes and check appointments. Clamp does not process payments; you use your own payment link and Clamp records the payment against the invoice. If collecting payment inside the software matters to you, Jobber is the stronger fit.
Does Jobber work offline?
Partly. Jobber's help center says job forms, visit details, notes and time tracking work offline and sync later; creating quotes and invoices offline is not stated. Clamp's leads, estimates, proposals, change orders and invoices work with no signal on every plan; AI drafts, e-signing and the customer portal need a connection when you use them.
Sources & provenance
- Jobber Pricing Jobber (official source)
- Create a one-off job Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Progress invoicing Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Job costing Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Markups on quotes Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Quote approvals Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Optional line items on quotes Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Jobber and DocuSign integration Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Client Hub settings Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Notes and attachments Jobber Help Center (official source)
- GPS waypoint tracking Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Create a recurring job Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Online booking Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Route optimization Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Sales pipeline Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Manage your team Jobber Help Center (official source)
- Clamp Pricing Clamp Research
- The Clamp Method Clamp Research
- Keep working in Jobber, even without internet Jobber Product Updates (official source)
Changes: Oct 10, 2026: Initial publication. Reviewed against Jobber's official pages: Jobber's multi-day jobs, progress invoicing on quotes and jobs, quote signatures and DocuSign change orders are credited, and every 'not found' is limited to its pricing page and Help Center.; Oct 14, 2026: Direct answer rewritten price first (owner, 2026-10-14). Jobber's pricing page re-checked: Core $29, Grow $149 for one user and $299 for 10, billed annually; job costing on Grow and Plus only.; Oct 14, 2026: Questions added: one-person and 10-person prices, which plan has job costing, multi-week remodels, payments, and offline use (Jobber help center, checked 2026-10-14).; Oct 14, 2026: FAQ structured data on.; Oct 25, 2026: Teams now covers up to 5 people, including the owner; 6 or more is a Teams office at $15 a seat a month billed yearly. Clamp's 10-person price is now $150 a month (Teams office, by invoice).