Turbo Link vs Housecall Pro for Contractors

Turbo Link costs one flat $74 a month for a contractor business. Housecall Pro starts at $59 a month for one user on its Basic plan and climbs to $149 a month for five users on Essentials, its most commonly recommended tier. The right pick depends on whether you need dispatch and routing tools or a simpler system built around a website, booking, and paperwork.

Price side by side

	Turbo Link	Housecall Pro Basic	Housecall Pro Essentials	Housecall Pro Max
Monthly, billed annually	$74	$59	$149	$299
Users included	Unlimited on the account	1	5	8
Extra user	Not applicable	Not applicable	$100/mo each	$75/mo each
Website	Built for you, from $349 one-time	Add-on, priced separately	Add-on, priced separately	Add-on, priced separately
Online booking	Included	Included	Included	Included
Route optimization	Not offered	Not offered	Included	Included

Prices for Housecall Pro read from housecallpro.com/pricing on September 2, 2026. Turbo Link prices are billed annually; month to month is $6 more.

What Housecall Pro does that Turbo Link does not

Housecall Pro is built for field service crews who are dispatching and driving between jobs all day. A few real advantages:

• Route optimization and employee GPS tracking, starting on the Essentials plan. Useful for a crew running multiple trucks and multiple jobs a day.
• A recommended add-on marketplace, including CSR AI, payroll, accounting, a dedicated business phone line, and dashcam integration. This is a much bigger ecosystem than Turbo Link offers.
• A 14-day free trial with no credit card, so you can try the full Max plan before paying anything. Turbo Link has no free tier; see /help/no-free-tier.
• Open API access on Max, for a business that wants to build custom integrations.

If your business is dispatch-heavy, with a crew driving between several jobs a day and a dispatcher coordinating in real time, Housecall Pro’s tools are built for that workflow in a way Turbo Link is not.

What Turbo Link does that Housecall Pro’s core plans do not

• A designed, built-for-you website included in the relationship, not a separate add-on you price out later. See /for-contractors.
• One flat price at any headcount, so a two- or three-person crew is not paying $100 or $75 a month per extra seat on top of the base plan.
• Documents signed by token link with a full audit trail, no client login required. Covered in detail at /help/send-document-for-signature.
• An after-hours emergency request form wired into the client experience so overnight jobs get captured without a call. See /contractor-client-experience.

Where each one wins

Housecall Pro wins for a business with multiple trucks on the road that needs routing, GPS, dispatching, and a large add-on ecosystem. If those are already how your operation runs, that depth is worth the higher price at scale.

Turbo Link wins for a smaller crew that wants a real website, clean booking, and signed paperwork with an audit trail, all under one flat bill that does not grow as you add people. It is not trying to replace a dispatch board.

The honest tradeoff

A solo contractor comparing Housecall Pro Basic at $59 to Turbo Link at $74 is paying $15 more a month with Turbo Link but gets a built website included rather than priced separately, plus signed document workflows out of the box. A three-person crew on Housecall Pro Essentials is paying $149 a month before any add-ons; the same crew on Turbo Link still pays $74.

Neither system imports data from the other automatically. Review /help/import-clients-csv and /help/export-your-data, and see the dashboard yourself at /get-a-demo before deciding.