QuoteIQ bills named plans with wash tools gated above a $29.99 Essentials floor. Housecall Pro is a horizontal FSM with a pressure-washing industry page. Live floors as of 2026-09-10. No winner.
Updated 2026-09-10. No ranked winner.
QuoteIQ sells named plans with wash-adjacent tools gated above a $29.99 Essentials floor. Housecall Pro is a horizontal FSM with a pressure-washing industry page and Basic at $59/$79. Those are not two equal wash CRMs, so this page does not name a winner. Figures are from vendor pages checked 2026-09-10. We have not tested either app.
This is a PW and soft-wash-heavy CRM with aggressive plan gates versus a horizontal field-service platform that publishes a pressure-washing industry page. A PW URL is not a wash-native spec sheet. The products do not sell the same units.
See the QuoteIQ and Housecall Pro profiles for documented functions, still without a field test. This page is a two-product comparison only.
Context only, not a third column: Opervo Solo publishes $24.99/month (Team $54.99/month). CrewNest Pro publishes $29/month or $290/year. Those cheaper PW-native floors stay on QuoteIQ vs Opervo and the solo operator guide.
How you pay
QuoteIQ sells flat named plans with a fixed user count and a feature gate on each tier. Housecall Pro sells named plans with a fixed included-user count and extra-user add-ons on Essentials and MAX. You cannot subtract one published dollar from the other and get a breakeven.
Plan
Users included
Monthly
Yearly (as published)
Essentials
1
$29.99
$299.99/year
Beginner
2
$74.99
$749.99/year
Pro
4
$149.99
$1,499.99/year
Elite
10
$299
$2,990/year
Max
Unlimited
$699
$6,990/year
The 1-user floor is Essentials at $29.99/month or $299.99/year. Yearly cards also show an equivalent monthly figure. Unused IQ credits do not roll over.
Plan
Users included
Extra users
Annual (per mo)
Monthly
Basic
1
n/a
$59
$79
Essentials
5
$100/mo each
$149
$189
MAX
8
$75/mo each
$299
$329
The 1-user floor is Basic at $59/month billed annually or $79/month monthly.
Soft-wash needs and plan gates
A soft-wash week often needs satellite takeoffs, SH / surfactant inventory, per-job chemical costing, routing, and a books connector. Those needs do not sit on both entry floors.
QuoteIQ (matrix first)
Prefer help and the pricing matrix. Do not price Elite tools from the $29.99 SEO hero.
Housecall Pro
This is a horizontal FSM. The PW page is marketing, not a chem or satellite spec.
Payments
Do not treat either vendor’s card math as a single settled rate. Confirm on a real invoice.
PressureWashStack does not earn commissions or affiliate revenue. Links on this page are ordinary vendor URLs, not tracking links. See the affiliate disclosure.
QuickBooks
Direction, objects, unpaid invoices, and Desktop stay on the QuickBooks guide. This page locks the published gates.
Trials
Those offers are not interchangeable refund guarantees. A card-required trial with a 250-credit meter is not the same as a no-card MAX preview.
Who each product is for
These are fit notes against published units and documented claims. They are not awards.
QuoteIQ is for a shop that wants a published sub-$30 Essentials floor, accepts an IQ-credit meter, and can move to Beginner, Pro, or Elite when MapMeasure, QuickBooks, inventory, routing, or InstaSchedule appear on the matrix. Options Estimates are documented on every plan. Soft-wash chemistry and SH inventory are not documented on Essentials. Offline field use is a GAP.
Housecall Pro is for a shop that sells wash work as one line among other home-service trades, can enter on Basic at $59/$79, and can pay Essentials for Routes, GPS, and the listed QBO row, or MAX for route optimization. Offline viewing of previously opened jobs is documented. Editing offline is not. Soft-wash chemistry and satellite measure are NOT CLAIMED on the PW page. Job costing is listed on the Basic card on this fetch; confirm in a trial.
We did not treat Housecall Pro’s PW industry page as a satellite or SH-chem spec. We did not treat QuoteIQ’s soft-wash SEO page as the plan matrix. We did not import QuoteIQ competitor “true monthly cost” tables as our facts. We did not invent a Housecall Pro add-on stack. We did not invent a breakeven. We did not pick a side on the QuoteIQ Stripe fee conflict. We did not reuse older third-party $35/user Housecall Pro figures. We did not invent a QuoteIQ offline mode. We did not treat vendor hours-saved or revenue-growth stats as independent proof. We did not wire affiliate CTAs or tracking URLs.
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