Thorbis vs ServiceM8 · Pool service
ServiceM8 for pool and spa companies: 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 pool and spa companies, 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 pool and spa companies run, on either system.
01
The route
Balanced weekly routes with drag-and-drop scheduling. Skips log their reason (locked gate, weather, vacation hold), and billing adjusts by your rules.
02
The water
Readings, photos, and dosing timestamped on the visit record: the proof for the customer, and for the health inspector.
03
The revenue
Equipment age tracked per pool. A pump past year eight becomes a proposal, not a note nobody reads again.
The difference
ServiceM8 beside Thorbis, for pool and spa companies.
Row
ServiceM8
Thorbis
Who this is for
Apple-first small operations running inside the tiers.
pool and spa companies: the route, the water, and the revenue.
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 pool-service day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs pool and spa companies.
Paper logs leak money
A memorized route and a wet clipboard cannot prove a visit or defend an invoice.
“Did you come today?”
Without a visit record the customer can see, every skipped-looking week is a phone call.
The upsell drives past
Aging pumps and heaters at every stop, and no system that turns them into quotes.
Straight answers
What pool and spa companies ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for pool and spa companies, 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.
Pool service against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs ServiceM8 for other trades
Start
One board for pool and spa companies. 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.