Thorbis vs ServiceM8 · Handyman
ServiceM8 for handyman teams: tiers gated by job volume, or one price at any volume.
ServiceM8 publishes its tiers and gates them by job volume, so a good month moves you up a plan. For handyman teams, Thorbis is one posted price for the company at any job count, and jobs are never metered.
ServiceM8 · their model
The job cap
- Free to $349 / month · tiers gated by job volume
- Published tiers. Job caps, not seats.
- Apple-first small operations running inside the tiers.
Thorbis · posted
$99
- Per company, per month.
- Unlimited people. Jobs are never metered.
- Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
The work
The days handyman teams run, on either system.
01
Quick quotes
Estimates built from templates and stored photos, sent while the lead is still warm instead of three evenings later.
02
The day
Drag-and-drop jobs, and rescheduling the customer does online instead of by voicemail.
03
Collect
Deposits by card or ACH before the work, the invoice at the door after it.
The difference
ServiceM8 beside Thorbis, for handyman teams.
Row
ServiceM8
Thorbis
Who this is for
Apple-first small operations running inside the tiers.
handyman teams: quick quotes, the day, and collect.
The price
Free to $349 / month · tiers gated by job volume
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Published tiers. Job caps, not seats.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
Tiers gated by job volume. Growth changes your plan.
The handyman day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs handyman teams.
Jobs live in text threads
A schedule that lives in messages gets lost in messages.
Cold leads
An estimate that takes three days answers a customer who already hired someone.
The owner’s second shift
Evenings spent invoicing and reconciling are the ceiling on how big the book can get.
Straight answers
What handyman teams ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for handyman teams, next to ServiceM8?
ServiceM8: Free to $349 / month · tiers gated by job volume. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our ServiceM8 records?
CSV and Excel, Documents, The API: we map the columns and read what we can, with a dry run you inspect before anything is live. What we cannot take stays a limit you can see.
Is this comparison current?
The ServiceM8 side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If ServiceM8 changes its model, this page is wrong until it is updated, and we would rather you check than trust a stale row.
Handyman against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs ServiceM8 for other trades
Start
One board for handyman teams. One posted price.
$99 per company, unlimited people, and every usage rate posted beside it. No second conversation.
Coming from ServiceM8? We’ll extract your records.
Rather talk first? Email the team.