LawnLedger vs Lawn Buddy

A Lawn Buddy alternative: what $39 a month does not include.

Lawn Buddy and LawnLedger make the same promise about seats: none of them cost extra. Lawn Buddy makes it for $39 a month, or $30 on annual billing, and if scheduling, routing and invoicing are all you need, it is a fair deal. LawnLedger costs more because it runs the rest of the business too. Here is exactly what that means.

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Where Lawn Buddy is ahead, and we will say so

Price, plainly. A free tier that never expires, Standard at $12, Pro at $39 with unlimited crew (month to month; $140 and $360 a year on annual billing), no contract, and a card rate that improves as you move up. A robotic-mower integration. If you run a one- or two-person mowing route and QuickBooks is fine by you, Lawn Buddy Pro is the cheaper tool and we will not pretend otherwise.

What the extra money buys

Both prices are monthly on annual billing for a shop with 75 customers and an eight-person crew: Lawn Buddy Pro at $30 ($360 a year) with unlimited users, LawnLedger Growth at $127 for up to 75 customers and 150 locations, however many people you put on the crew. The difference is about $97 a month. QuickBooks Online Plus alone is $140 a month since August 2026.

CapabilityLawnLedger GrowthLawn Buddy Pro
Scheduling, routing, GPS, time trackingScheduling and time tracking; routing and GPS on ProfessionalYes (GPS on Exclusive, $60)
Double-entry books, bank feeds, month-end closeBuilt inNo. QuickBooks sync only
Contracts with e-sign and payment plansYesNone
Customer portal: pay, sign, request servicePay and sign, bilingual; service requests on ProfessionalNone
Job costing, budgets, margin by crew and serviceOn ProfessionalNone
Purchase orders, vendors, billsYesNone (equipment tracking only)
Good / Better / Best estimates with depositYesSingle-option estimates
SpanishOffice, crew app, customer portal, documentsEnglish only
Workflow automationOn ProfessionalNone
Winter routes and snow contractsSnow contracts; winter routes on ProfessionalSnow as a job type
Reviews on Capterra and G2New listing, ask us for referencesNot listed on either
Card processingStripe rates + 1%2.9% + 30¢ on Pro, 4.8% on the free tier
Seat feesNoneNone

Lawn Buddy figures from lawnbuddy.com/features-pricing: monthly billing on 5 October 2026, annual billing on 10 October 2026. LawnLedger plans are sized by customers and locations, never by seats; the pricing page lists all three.

Pick Lawn Buddy if

  • You are solo or a two-person crew and your customers fit on one page.
  • You are happy in QuickBooks and do not want contracts, a portal or job costing.
  • $39 is the number that matters most this year.

Pick LawnLedger if

  • You pay for QuickBooks and a CRM and re-key between them.
  • Your crew lead, your office and your customers do not all read the same language.
  • You sell contracts, plow snow, or want to know which jobs actually make money (job costing is on Professional).

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Prices on this page were read from each vendor's live pricing page on 5 October 2026. They change; if one is wrong, email support@lawnledgercrm.com and we will fix it the same day.