Housecall Pro is designed for home service professionals booking and scheduling residential calls. MEPSub is designed for commercial MEP subcontractors managing complex construction projects with GCs. Different workflows, different problems — and MEPSub starts free.
What each platform actually delivers for MEP contractors.
| Feature | MEPSub | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| 🏗️ Commercial Project Features | ||
| Submittal management (CSI MasterFormat) | ✓ 145 CSI sections | ✗ Not available |
| RFIs (Requests for Information) | ✓ AI-drafted | ✗ |
| Change orders (commercial contract) | ✓ | ✗ |
| GC Review Portal | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI spec book parsing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Transmittals & O&M closeout | ✓ | ✗ |
| SOV / AIA progress billing | ✓ | ✗ |
| 💰 Cost Management | ||
| MEP cost book (13K+ items) | ✓ Included free | Flat rate pricebook ($149/mo add-on) |
| BLS & FRED market rate integration | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI cost verification | ✓ | ✗ |
| Estimate assemblies (MEP systems) | ✓ | Basic templates |
| 📱 Shared Features | ||
| Scheduling / job management | Project-level scheduling | ✓ Excellent dispatch |
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crew / employee timesheets | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mobile app | ✓ PWA, no install needed | ✓ iOS/Android |
| Customer / contact management | ✓ Contacts module | ✓ Full CRM |
| AI assistant | ✓ MEP-focused AI chat | ✗ |
| 💲 Pricing (Real Cost) | ||
| Starting price | Free | $79/mo (1 user only) |
| Pricebook / cost data | Included | $149/mo extra |
| GPS tracking | N/A | $20/vehicle/mo extra |
| Free plan | ✓ | ✗ |
| No add-on fees | ✓ | ✗ Many add-ons |
Housecall Pro is built for a tech scheduling a residential HVAC tune-up. MEPSub is built for an MEP sub coordinating submittals, tracking RFIs, managing change orders, and invoicing a GC for a commercial project. Completely different workflows.
Housecall Pro's base plan is deliberately limited — you pay extra for the flat rate pricebook, GPS tracking, proposals, and more. MEPSub bundles cost book access, AI features, and all core workflows into flat per-company pricing with a free plan that actually works.
MEPSub's AI reads spec books and generates submittal registers, drafts RFIs in construction language, verifies pricing against the BLS and cost book, and builds O&M packages automatically. Housecall Pro has no comparable AI features for construction workflows.
Submittals, RFIs, estimates, change orders, invoices — everything a commercial MEP sub needs. No add-on fees. No demo call. Start today.