What it really costs
Tradify, over five years.
Tradify publishes clear per-user pricing in Australian dollars, which puts it ahead of half this industry on honesty alone. Lite is $48 a user, Pro is $52 and Plus is $62, all excluding GST.
Per user is the whole story. Every person you hire raises the bill permanently, for software that does not do anything new. Eight people on Pro is $416 a month before GST, which is $24,960 over five years. Twenty people is $62,400. The product did not change. You just grew.
Their published price
Tradify, as Tradify prints it.
The other meters
Source: www.tradifyhq.com/au/pricing, read 17 August 2026. Published in Australian dollars. GST excluded, so add ten per cent to compare against a GST-inclusive price.
The sum
Multiply it out. That is the whole trick.
Today’s published price, held flat for sixty months, in AUD. Held flat is generous: it assumes Tradify never raises a price for five years, which nobody has ever done. The break-even column compares against Premium at $9,000, paid once.
Do it on your own number
Set the dial to what you actually pay Tradify, including the meters most people forget: SMS, card processing, the extra seats, the add-ons.
Honestly
What Tradify is good at, and where it stops fitting.
Genuinely good
- Clear published per-user pricing in Australian dollars, which is more than most of this list manages
- Strong quoting and invoicing, and the accounting sync to Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks is solid
- Low commitment. Month to month, and you can leave
Where it stops
- Per user is the whole problem. Every hire raises the bill permanently, so growth is taxed
- Prices exclude GST, so the figure you compare against a GST-inclusive competitor is not the figure you pay
- It is a trades product. If your business runs a process that is not a job on a calendar, it will not bend that far
If Tradify fits, stay on it. A build is worth doing when the software is fighting the business, or when the meter has grown past what the software is worth to you. Neither of those is true for everyone reading this, and we would rather say so here than on the invoice.
The alternative
What we would build instead.
Per-seat pricing is a tax on hiring, and it lands hardest on exactly the businesses that are doing well. A build removes the meter entirely: the tenth user and the fiftieth cost the same as the first, which is nothing.
The line worth checking
Three people on Lite is $144 a month, and a build does not pay for itself quickly at that size. Eight people on Pro is $416 a month, and a $9,000 build pays for itself in about twenty-two months. Twenty people on Pro is $1,040 a month, and it pays for itself in under nine.
What we would build
The same jobs, quotes and invoices, plus the parts of your business Tradify has no shape for. Your compliance forms rather than generic ones. Your job stages. The reporting your accountant asks for rather than the reporting the product ships with. Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks sync stays, because rebuilding accounting would be daft.
See what we build for trades, or compare against ServiceM8, which meters jobs instead of people.
Common questions
Tradify, answered plainly.
How much does Tradify cost per user?
Tradify publishes three plans: Lite at $48 per user per month, Pro at $52 and Plus at $62. All figures are Australian dollars excluding GST, taken from tradifyhq.com/au/pricing on 17 August 2026. A Custom plan is quote only.
Does Tradify include GST in its prices?
No. The published figures exclude GST, so add ten per cent when you compare them against a GST-inclusive competitor like ServiceM8. Eight people on Pro is $416 a month before GST and $457.60 after.
What does Tradify cost over five years?
At Pro pricing held flat: three people is $9,360, eight people is $24,960 and twenty people is $62,400 over sixty months, all excluding GST. Held flat assumes Tradify never raises a price for five years, which no vendor has ever done.
Is a custom build cheaper than Tradify?
It depends entirely on headcount, which is the point. At three people, no. At eight people on Pro a $9,000 build pays for itself in about twenty-two months. At twenty people it pays for itself in under nine, and every hire after that is free instead of $52 a month forever.
What is the difference between Tradify and a custom system?
Tradify is a good trades product built around jobs on a calendar. A custom build is drawn around how your business actually works, which matters when part of your process is not job-shaped: prefabrication, staged projects, service contracts, hire equipment, anything you currently keep in a spreadsheet beside Tradify.
Do you charge a monthly fee after the build?
No. You pay once, you own the code and the data, and it runs on your own hosting account. Changes after handover are collected and done in a batch rather than billed monthly, because charging you every month for software you already own would make us the thing we are arguing against.
Where to next
Bring the invoice, not the brochure.
The free cost check takes twenty minutes. We add up what you actually pay across every meter, run it out five years, and tell you honestly whether a build is worth it for a business your size. You keep the numbers either way.