Stairkey vs ServiceTitan
These two barely compete, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. ServiceTitan is enterprise software for multi-truck home-service companies — quote-only, reportedly ~$245–$500 per technician per month plus five-figure implementation. Stairkey is a $20/mo capped tool for owner-operators and small crews. Pick by head-count, not by feature table.
ServiceTitan is the reference platform for large residential and commercial service companies: dispatch at scale, call booking and phone integration, technician performance dashboards, memberships, marketing attribution, and an implementation project measured in months. It's sold per technician by quote — reported figures run roughly $245–$500/tech/mo, with implementation commonly $5k–$50k+. Stairkey is at the opposite end of the market: an owner-operator tool with published capped pricing and the accounting built in.
Bias declared: this page is written by the Stairkey team — and the most useful thing we can tell you is that if you're genuinely evaluating ServiceTitan, you're probably not our customer. This page exists for the smaller shop that lands on a ServiceTitan demo and discovers the price; here's what each end of the market actually looks like.
At a glance
| ServiceTitan | Stairkey | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Quote-only — reportedly ~$245–$500/tech/mo | $20/mo, capped at $100 |
| Implementation | Reported $5k–$50k+, weeks-to-months onboarding | Self-serve, first month free |
| Target customer | Multi-truck home-service companies (10+ techs) | Owner-operators and small crews |
| Built-in accounting | No — accounting integrations | Yes — native double-entry GL (+$20/mo add-on) |
| Dispatch & call booking | Deep — phones, capacity planning, scorecards | Scheduling, tasks, crew portal |
| Marketing & memberships | Yes — attribution, memberships, financing | No |
| Estimating & takeoff | Estimates, pricebooks | Line items OR measured takeoff + approvals |
| AI capture (photo/voice → tasks) | AI features at enterprise tiers | Yes — included |
| Real estate / deal module | No | Yes — buying, listing, deal P&L |
| Best for | Scaling service enterprises | Small crews wanting one tool, books included |
Who each one is for
you run (or are building) a multi-truck service company with office staff, a call center, and technician scorecards on the wall — at that scale its dispatch, phones, and reporting machinery earns the per-tech price and the implementation project.
you're an owner-operator or small crew that saw a ServiceTitan quote and laughed — you want estimates, scheduling, invoicing, and real books with HST/GST in one tool you can set up yourself this afternoon, at $20–$40/mo capped.
Pricing
Prices verified July 2, 2026. Quote-gated vendors change pricing without notice — confirm before you buy.
Reported ~$245–$500 per technician per month, sold by quote, plus implementation reportedly $5k–$50k+ and optional Pro add-ons. Accounting is via integrations, billed separately.
Accounting add-on +$20/mo (=$40/mo); usage capped at $100/mo. First month free, no credit card, no implementation project.
Where the others win
At its target scale, ServiceTitan has no real answer in this comparison — and Stairkey isn't one either. Its dispatch board, phone system, capacity planning, memberships, financing, and marketing attribution are enterprise machinery we don't attempt; its implementation and support organization exists precisely because companies at that size need it. Nothing about Stairkey competes for a 25-truck HVAC company. Our concession runs the other way too: Stairkey has no telephony, no dispatch board, no marketing stack, no payroll — if you're scaling past a handful of trucks and those gaps are starting to hurt, you're growing out of our market and into theirs (or mid-market tools like Housecall Pro).
Common questions
Is Stairkey a ServiceTitan alternative?
Only in the sense that a small shop priced out of ServiceTitan needs something. For multi-truck companies, no — the honest alternatives at that scale are Housecall Pro, Jobber's upper tiers, or staying on ServiceTitan. For an owner-operator or 2–5 person crew, Stairkey covers the actual workflow (estimate → schedule → invoice → books) without per-tech pricing or an implementation project.
What does ServiceTitan actually cost?
It's quote-only. Reported figures run roughly $245–$500 per technician per month, plus implementation commonly cited at $5k–$50k+ depending on company size, plus optional Pro add-ons. Treat those as reported ranges, not published prices — confirm your own quote.
When would a crew outgrow Stairkey?
Roughly when dispatch becomes a full-time job: multiple trucks needing live routing, inbound call volume worth a phone system, technician scorecards, membership programs. Stairkey's scheduling, tasks, and crew portal serve small teams well, but we don't build enterprise dispatch — that's the point where ServiceTitan-class tools start making sense.