Thorbis vs Housecall Pro · Plumbing
Housecall Pro for plumbing shops: seats on the plan, or the whole crew.
Housecall Pro publishes its plans and caps the users on each one, so the next hire is a line item. For plumbing shops, Thorbis is one posted price for the company, unlimited people, and the plumbing day on one board.
Housecall Pro · their model
The seat
- From $79 / month · user caps on the plans
- Published plans. Basic, Essentials, Max. Seats.
- Small crews billed by the name on the roster.
Thorbis · posted
$99
- Per company, per month.
- Unlimited people. Jobs are never metered.
- Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
The work
The days plumbing shops run, on either system.
01
Emergency call-outs
Any hour. The call becomes a job with the address, the history, and whoever is on call, not a voicemail to decode at 6 a.m.
02
Service routes
Drains, fixtures, repairs. The day’s route lives on the board, not on a whiteboard photographed at 7 a.m.
03
Install jobs
Water heaters and repipes, quoted from the book, scheduled around the service day instead of against it.
The difference
Housecall Pro beside Thorbis, for plumbing shops.
Row
Housecall Pro
Thorbis
Who this is for
Small crews billed by the name on the roster.
plumbing shops: emergency call-outs, service routes, and install jobs.
The price
From $79 / month · user caps on the plans
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Published plans. Basic, Essentials, Max. Seats.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
Mike should not be a line item.
The plumbing day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs plumbing shops.
The 2 a.m. call goes to a competitor
An emergency without a clear answer and an ETA calls the next name in the search results.
The quote takes the evening
Techs rebuild the same water-heater quote by hand instead of pulling it from a book.
The invoice waits for the office
Work finished Tuesday gets billed Friday and paid whenever. Collect in the driveway instead.
Straight answers
What plumbing shops ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for plumbing shops, next to Housecall Pro?
Housecall Pro: From $79 / month · user caps on the plans. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our Housecall Pro records?
CSV or API. What comes over: customers, jobs, invoices, payments. Seat history does not come. Mike is a tech here.
Is this comparison current?
The Housecall Pro side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If Housecall Pro changes its model, this page is wrong until it is updated, and we would rather you check than trust a stale row.
The whole migration, step by step: switching from Housecall Pro →
Plumbing against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs Housecall Pro for other trades
Start
One board for plumbing shops. One posted price.
$99 per company, unlimited people, and every usage rate posted beside it. No second conversation.
Coming from Housecall Pro? We’ll extract your records.
Rather talk first? Email the team.