Thorbis vs Workiz · Electrical
Workiz for electrical contractors: the add-on stack, or every rate posted.
Workiz publishes its tiers and sells the phone and AI answering as separate add-ons. For electrical contractors, Thorbis is one posted price for the company with every usage rate posted beside it, the shop number Next on the roadmap included.
Workiz · their model
The add-on stack
- Published tiers · phone and AI answering sold separately
- Published tiers. Communications budgeted on top.
- Service teams that came for the call tracking.
Thorbis · posted
$99
- Per company, per month.
- Unlimited people. Jobs are never metered.
- Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
The work
The days electrical contractors run, on either system.
01
Residential service
Panel and service upgrades, EV chargers, whole-home surge, quoted from the assembly book in the driveway.
02
Commercial TI
Rough-in, trim, and final on one job with progress billing today. Phases with their own labor and material budgets, billed on AIA G702/G703 draws, when Projects ships (Next).
03
New construction
Estimate to final inspection on one record: permits, inspections, and phase billing coordinated.
04
The safety record
Lockout/tagout, arc-flash assessment, PPE photo, signature. The job does not close without them.
The difference
Workiz beside Thorbis, for electrical contractors.
Row
Workiz
Thorbis
Who this is for
Service teams that came for the call tracking.
electrical contractors: residential service, commercial ti, new construction, and the safety record.
The price
Published tiers · phone and AI answering sold separately
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Published tiers. Communications budgeted on top.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
The platform is published. The phone is an add-on.
The electrical day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs electrical contractors.
Safety lives in binders
Checklists on paper cannot stop a job from closing without them. A record can.
Costing lands after the overrun
Budget versus actual that arrives at month end is a report, not a decision.
The aging panel is flagged and forgotten
Techs see the upgrade on site; without a record it never becomes a proposal.
Straight answers
What electrical contractors ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for electrical contractors, next to Workiz?
Workiz: Published tiers · phone and AI answering sold separately. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our Workiz 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 Workiz side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If Workiz changes its model, this page is wrong until it is updated, and we would rather you check than trust a stale row.
Electrical against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs Workiz for other trades
Start
One board for electrical contractors. One posted price.
$99 per company, unlimited people, and every usage rate posted beside it. No second conversation.
Coming from Workiz? We’ll extract your records.
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