For lawn care routing, the pricing model matters more than the routing feature. GorillaDesk charges per schedule at $99 for the first and $50 for each additional one, where a schedule is one truck's route. LawnPro charges by employee count in large steps, from free to $39 to $129 to $249. Jobber charges $29 per user on top of a $139 base. All figures were read from vendor pricing pages in August 2026 and are the lowest tier that includes online booking.

Drive time is the largest cost in lawn care that never appears on an invoice. A crew crossing town twice a day is paid for the crossing and the customer is not billed for it. That is the problem routing software addresses, and it is worth being precise about what these tools do and do not do about it.

Price by truck, not by person

Lawn care runs in crews. Three people in one truck follow one route. Software priced per user charges you three times for one route.

GorillaDesk is the only tool in this comparison whose pricing follows the route. Its own documentation describes a schedule as one technician's route, and states that where technicians work in crews, only crew leaders need schedules. So a nine person operation running three trucks needs three schedules, which is $99 for the first plus $50 each for two more, or $199 a month.

The same nine people on Jobber Connect is $299 a month, because the ten user band undercuts the $371 that eight extra seats would cost. On LawnPro nine employees requires the Plus plan at $249.

The direction reverses when everyone drives separately. Ten solo drivers on GorillaDesk is ten schedules, $99 plus nine at $50, or $549 a month, which is the most expensive cell in this table. The pricing model is not better or worse in the abstract. It is better or worse depending on whether your people ride together.

What routing software will not do

It will not eliminate drive time from a scattered round. If your customers are spread across four suburbs because you took whatever work came, no optimiser recovers that. What it does is sequence the stops you already have and make the gaps visible so you can decide which outlying customers to price differently or let go.

It will not reliably re sequence a route mid day when a job overruns. Most of these tools plan a route in advance rather than responding to what actually happened by ten in the morning.

It will not tell you what a stop costs you. That is job costing, and it sits in a different part of these products, usually a higher tier.

Be sceptical of the phrase route optimisation in this category generally. The useful question to ask on a trial is narrower: can I reorder tomorrow's stops in under a minute, and can I push a whole rained off day forward without touching each visit.

The tier trap in routing tools

GorillaDesk advertises Basic at $49 a month. The customer portal, which is the online booking component, begins on Pro at $99. So the advertised plan schedules and invoices but does not let a customer book. That is the reason the table prices GorillaDesk from $99 rather than $49.

Jobber advertises $49. Online booking is included there, and automated client reminders are not, which start on Connect at $139. In lawn care the reminder is what deals with gate access and dogs, so the useful tier is Connect.

Service Autopilot publishes Startup at $49, Pro at $199 and Pro Plus at $499, and lists the Client Portal as call for pricing. Routing is one of its genuine strengths and there is no published price for the configuration that includes customer booking.

LawnPro puts the client portal on every plan including the free one, which is the most generous structure here, and puts automation on Grow at $129.

Measure the drive time before you buy anything

Routing software is bought on a hunch that drive time is a problem. It is worth turning the hunch into a number first, because the number decides whether any of this is worth paying for.

Take one crew for one week. Record the time the truck leaves the yard, the time it arrives at each property, and the time it returns. Total the driving and divide it by the total paid hours.

Below about fifteen per cent, your round is dense and routing software will not recover much. Between fifteen and twenty five per cent there is real money in better sequencing. Above twenty five per cent, your problem is not sequencing at all. It is that your customers are too spread out, and the fix is commercial rather than technical.

That last case is the one worth being honest about. If a crew spends a third of its paid day driving because you took work in four suburbs, no optimiser will fix it. What fixes it is pricing outlying properties higher, clustering new sales into existing areas, and eventually letting the worst outliers go.

Routing software makes the problem visible, which is genuinely valuable. It does not make a scattered round dense.

The twelve month number

Annualised at the tier that includes online booking, a solo operator pays nothing on LawnPro Solo up to twenty five customers, $1,188 a year on GorillaDesk Pro and $1,668 on Jobber Connect.

A nine person operation running three trucks pays $2,388 a year on GorillaDesk with three schedules, against $3,588 on Jobber Connect. That is a difference of more than $2,000 a year for the same crew, entirely because one vendor bills routes and the other bills people.

Ten people in ten separate trucks reverses it. GorillaDesk becomes $6,588 a year and Jobber Connect $3,588.

So the question to settle before choosing is not which tool routes better. It is how many vehicles leave your yard each morning. If the answer is materially fewer than your headcount, per schedule pricing saves you thousands. If the answer is roughly equal to your headcount, it costs you thousands.

Where each tool is the wrong choice

LawnPro is wrong above seven employees, where the Plus tier at $249 makes it the second most expensive option here for a ten person operation.

GorillaDesk is wrong if your technicians drive separately, because per schedule pricing then behaves like per user pricing and reaches $549 at ten routes. It is also a pest control product first, and its chemical and device tracking is irrelevant to mowing.

Jobber is wrong for a fixed price route that never changes. You are paying for quoting depth a repeating round does not use, and at ten users on Connect that is $299 a month. Connect bands at ten users for $299, so the band is the cheaper purchase than either Grow at $344 or nine added seats at $400.

Yardbook is wrong as a researched decision, because its pricing page blocked automated access in August 2026 and no figure for it is verified on this site.

Service Autopilot is wrong for a small crew without an office. It is built around a dispatcher managing dense routes, and the customer portal has no published price.

Common questions

What is the best lawn care routing software for a small crew? GorillaDesk at $99 a month if your people ride together, because it charges per route rather than per person. LawnPro at $39 for three employees is cheaper if one truck covers the whole round.

Does routing software reduce drive time? It sequences the stops you already have and makes the gaps visible. It cannot fix a round that is geographically scattered, which is the more common cause of high drive time in small lawn care companies.

Should I pay per user or per route? Per route if crews ride together, per user if they do not. For a nine person, three truck operation GorillaDesk is $199 a month against $299 on Jobber Connect. For ten separate drivers GorillaDesk is $549 and Jobber Connect is $299.

Can I push a whole day forward when it rains? This is the operation you will perform most often and it is worth testing before you buy. None of the vendor pricing pages compared here document the behaviour, so test it on a trial rather than taking a feature list at face value.

Are these prices current? They were read from vendor pricing pages in August 2026. Pricing in this category changes several times a year.