GorillaDesk pricing (2026): what it costs by route

What counts as one route?

GorillaDesk gives you the test, and it has nothing to do with headcount. Ask whether your technicians ride together or solo.

Riding solo means each technician needs their own schedule. That is one route per person. Riding together means you only assign schedules to supervisors or crew leaders. That is one route per truck.

So a six-person crew running three two-man trucks needs three routes. Not six. Count the schedules you would build on a Monday morning. That number is what you are buying.

Office staff never count. Admin users are unlimited on every plan, so you, your office manager and your bookkeeper all log in free. Mobile devices are unlimited too, so a tech carrying a phone and a tablet does not cost twice. Support is unlimited on every tier, including the cheapest one.

Most field-service tools price the other way round. Jobber Core is $29 a month billed annually and each extra user adds $29 a month, as of August 2026. Housecall Pro charges $35 a month for users past a plan's count, on the same date. On those tools, hiring an office admin raises your bill. Here it does not.

The price at 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 routes

The pricing page carries a slider that runs from 1 route up to 76. These are the published monthly rates as of September 2026.

One route: Basic $49, Pro $99, Growth $149.

Two routes: Basic $99, Pro $149, Growth $249.

Three routes: Basic $149, Pro $199, Growth $299.

Five routes: Basic $209, Pro $299, Growth $499.

Ten routes: Basic $359, Pro $549, Growth $749.

Two patterns are worth pulling out. Basic hardly moves per route until you pass three, then it drops hard, and ten routes on Basic works out near $36 a route. Growth does the opposite and stays costly early: the second route adds $100 to a Growth bill and only $50 to a Basic one.

The step from Basic to Pro also widens as you grow. At one route Pro costs $50 more a month. At ten routes it costs $190 more. Per route, though, that same step falls from $50 to $19. The bigger you get, the less the better plan costs you per truck.

Now a correction, because comparison sites keep repeating it. Several of them list GorillaDesk Growth at $299 a month as the starting price. That figure is Growth at three routes. Growth starts at $149 for one route, which is the same number Basic reaches at three routes. Anyone pricing a one-truck business off $299 was quoted more than double.

Past ten routes the slider keeps going to 76 and we have not confirmed those figures, so ask for yours in writing. The page also has a monthly and yearly toggle. We have not confirmed the yearly rates either, so get the annual number and the annual terms from GorillaDesk before you sign.

Why the 25-stop cap breaks Basic

Basic is not a stripped demo. You get invoices, estimates and work orders, plus advanced invoice frequencies for customers you bill on a cycle. You also get job and customer mapping, Square and Stripe card payments, broadcast messaging, material tracking, triggered automations, automated emails and texts, and dashboards. At $49 a month for one route, that is a lot of software.

Then you hit the routing limit. Basic routing is capped at 25 stops. A pest tech running quarterlies can pass 25 stops before lunch, and a lawn applicator on a spring route will pass it every day. Once your day is longer than the cap, the routing stops helping and you are ordering stops by hand.

The second wall is QuickBooks Online. That sync sits on Pro. If your bookkeeper wants invoices and payments landing in QuickBooks without re-keying, Basic is out at any route count.

Pro brings a longer list than most owners expect. Routing with a drive matrix, so the software measures real drive times between stops. A customer online portal and online booking. Subscriptions through Stripe and Square, which is how a monthly pest or pool account bills itself. Review generation, the automatic ask for a Google review. Then document and e-signatures, device tracking and barcoding, multi-dwelling units, production and sales commission tracking, GPS device tracking, email inbox sync, Zapier, an open API and time clocking.

Growth is a sales layer on top of all that. It adds map estimation tools, drive time, best available time, job magnet, dynamic estimates and estimate packages. Then smart views, sales opportunity creation, a sales pipeline with reporting, custom fields, custom job statuses and multi-branch support. If you are not running a sales team or a second branch, Growth is money you do not need to spend.

Riding together is worth real money

Put numbers on it. Take six technicians in a pest or lawn business.

Run them as three two-man crews and you buy three routes. That is $149 a month on Basic and $199 on Pro, as of September 2026. Put the same six people in six trucks and you buy six routes. We do not have the six-route figure, but it sits between the five-route price of $209 and the ten-route price of $359 on Basic. On Pro it sits between $299 and $549.

So the same payroll can cost you a couple of hundred dollars a month more or less, depending on how you crew your trucks. No per-seat tool behaves that way. On a per-seat tool, six techs cost the same whichever truck they ride in.

Now add the office. Say you run three routes plus four people who never leave the building: you, an office manager, a bookkeeper and a dispatcher. GorillaDesk Pro at three routes is $199 a month and covers all seven of you. Jobber Core is $29 a month billed annually and includes one user. Every extra user is $29 a month, so seven logins works out at $203 a month, using August 2026 figures. Housecall Pro runs $59, $149 and $299 a month billed annually, with extra users at $35 a month on top.

There is the trade, in one line. Route pricing rewards a shop with a busy office and shared trucks. It punishes a shop where every technician drives alone and the office is one person.

Our GorillaDesk review covers what the software does on a job day. If route pricing is the wrong shape for your crew, GorillaDesk alternatives lines up the per-seat and per-job options.

Five things to settle before you pay

Count your routes first, with the ride-together test rather than your payroll. Getting that wrong by two routes is the difference between $149 and $209 a month on Basic.

Count the stops on your busiest route next. If one day passes 25 stops, Basic routing will not carry it and you are buying Pro.

Check the books after that. QuickBooks Online sync is a Pro feature, so ask your bookkeeper before you pick a tier instead of after.

Ask for the yearly price in writing. The pricing page has a monthly and yearly toggle, and we have not confirmed those rates. Get the annual figure, the term and what happens at renewal on paper.

Then use the free trial on a real week. Load your actual stops, not a sample, and see whether the route the software builds beats the one your foreman builds in his head.

Two things work in your favor going in. There are no setup fees and no contracts, and data migration and training cost nothing. So trying it costs you time, not money.

One note on the numbers. The table above is the vendor's own published pricing, checked in September 2026, and that is the source for every figure here. Owners rarely post a current multi-route invoice, so we did not lean on their dollar amounts.\n\nWhat they do agree on is where the model stops fitting. One operator frames the spend as a part-time employee for a couple of hundred a month rather than a couple of thousand. A shop that grew to three routes still rates it easy to use, and names the friction that came with growth: card processing it thinks could be cheaper, and a graphing tool it now works around. The clearest line comes from a pest operator on where to stop: stay on GorillaDesk at a few hundred accounts, and start looking at FieldRoutes or PestPac once you are into the thousands. That is the same boundary the route table draws in dollars.

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