Roofing estimating software bills you twice: once for the plan, which runs from free on Roofr’s Starter to several hundred dollars a month, and again for a measurement report on every roof, about $10 to $139 each as of October 2026. Which tool fits depends on the jobs you sell. If you write insurance estimates in Xactimate, buy reports that import into it, and if you sell repairs or flat roofs, build one in the trial before you pay.
The report on every roof is the cost that grows with each quote
JobNimbus and AccuLynx publish no prices and quote on request. The others list theirs:
| Tool | Plan | Report per roof |
|---|---|---|
| Roofr | Starter $0, Essentials $249 a month, Scale $349 a month | $19 on Starter, $13 on a paid plan |
| Hover | Starter has no subscription, Pro $999 a year | $59 to $139 on Starter by complexity, $39 to $119 on Pro |
| RoofSnap | From $105 per user a month, estimating and material ordering included | Half Snap $13 ($10 for subscribers), residential Full Snap $35 to $55 |
| EagleView | Priced per report | $24.25 to $87, by roof size and loyalty tier |
EagleView’s page says you “may qualify for reduced pricing” through an integration partner, a distributor or purchase volume, so ask your supplier before you pay list price. RoofSnap delivers a standard report in 2 to 4 hours, or in as little as 30 minutes on rush.
One poster on r/RoofingSales doing 10 quotes a day found EagleView expensive. Another, on r/Roofing, paired Roofr with Zapier because they would “rather not pay the extra $38 per roof to get the full eagleview report.”
Roofr’s Essentials plan costs $249 a month and cuts each report by $6 against Starter, so on report savings alone it pays for itself at about 42 roofs a month.
Hover’s Pro plan costs $999 a year and takes $20 off every project, so it pays for itself at 50 roofs a year. RoofSnap charges per user, while Roofr says it “does not charge per seat,” so count everyone who will measure roofs before you compare.
The reports themselves are compared side by side in Roof Measurement Reports Compared: EagleView, Hover, RoofSnap and Roofr. To pick a plan, take last month’s quote count, price it on each plan with report fees and users included, and compare the totals.
A new roofer can start on a free plan and a per-square spreadsheet
Roofr’s Starter is the only free plan among the roofing tools here, and you still pay for every report on it. Hover’s first 3 projects are free with no credit card, and RoofSnap offers a 7-day free trial, but both run out.
A sales rep on r/RoofingSales told a new rep he does not need paid reports, because simple roofs can be measured from Google imagery and the scale bar. An owner on r/Roofing who says he has run his company for 20 years told a new owner that aerial reports save climbing every roof, but you still walk it to check pitch, ventilation, deck rot and flashing.
The same owner said to build one cost per square that covers starter, ice and water, drip edge, ridge vent, pipe boots, tear-off labor and dump fees. The overhead and margin behind that number are in How to Price a Roof: Price per Square, Overhead and Target Margin. Put the number in a spreadsheet, measure simple roofs from imagery, and buy reports only for the roofs you can’t measure that way.
If you estimate insurance work in Xactimate, check how each tool connects to it
An owner on r/Roofing who was leaving Leap, because he found it clunky and short on integrations, said he writes every estimate in Xactimate. He wanted a CRM that connects to QuickBooks and Xactware. If you also estimate in Xactimate, check that your measurement tool sells an ESX file, the format Xactimate imports. Roofr sells a report with one for $31 on Starter or $23 on a paid plan.
Verisk, which owns Xactimate, agreed in 2025 to buy AccuLynx and later terminated the deal while the FTC was still reviewing it. A Delaware court held the termination invalid in August 2026, Verisk appealed, and the deal had not closed as of October 2026.
The FTC’s concern was that Verisk might build a pricing integration for AccuLynx and not offer it to AccuLynx’s competitors. The court’s opinion shows what Verisk’s pricing data inside an estimate could cost: in May 2025 Verisk proposed that ServiceTitan users pay about $20 per estimate for it, and ServiceTitan countered with $4. Neither offer became a live price.
Whether you need your own Xactimate license is covered in Xactimate for Roofers: Which Line Items Matter and Whether You Need It. If you write insurance work and are choosing a CRM or estimating tool, ask each vendor how its estimates get Verisk’s pricing data and what that costs per estimate.
One roofer lost a $30k job when the homeowner preferred a rival’s presentation
The roofer is a residential company in the Pacific Northwest, about 30 years in business. After the homeowner said a competitor’s sales presentation was better, its only estimator went to r/RoofingSales looking for proposal software. A sales rep on the same forum says he has sold against companies that hand the homeowner a folder holding the EagleView report, a copy of the insurance paperwork and shingle documents.
Leap sells SalesPro, its in-home estimating and proposal product, from $750 a month with 6 users. Hover’s Pro plan adds Design, Estimates, Agreements and CRM integrations to its measurements, with unlimited users.
Before you pay for either, ask the vendor to build a proposal from one of last month’s lost bids, and read it the way the homeowner would.
Build a repair or a flat roof in the trial before you pay
A sales rep on r/RoofingSales said his company’s estimating software is hard to use and handles only replacements: “Repairs take roughly a week for a manager to build the estimate.”
Flat-roof work raises the same problem. An owner on r/Roofing who does only EPDM and TPO work found that “most roofing softwares seem built around pitched shingle roofs.” Another commercial owner there had estimated on Excel and paper for decades and was weighing The EDGE.
In any trial, build your hardest common job first: a repair if you do many, a flat roof if you sell commercial work. If that job takes longer in the tool than in your spreadsheet, keep it on the spreadsheet.
One roofer’s CRM held an estimate for 1 of 38 quoted jobs
When we read the pipeline of a roofing company we work with in September 2026, only 1 of its 38 quoted jobs had an estimate built in the CRM it was paying for.
The owner of a small metal and tile company on r/Roofing had JobNimbus for a CRM and Roofr for measurements, and still had no estimating tool. An office worker at a company already on Salesforce wanted an estimator sold without a CRM, and said SumoQuote now comes paired with JobNimbus.
Before you add a tool, count how many quoted jobs in your CRM have an estimate attached, and ask whoever writes your estimates what they use instead.
Your estimates can disappear when you cancel, so export them first
Leap sells every plan as a one-year contract paid monthly, and the term renews on its own. Its license agreement says you “may not reduce the number of Seat Licenses during the Term,” and notice to cancel or cut seats is due 60 days before the term ends. After termination, Leap gives you 10 days to export the data.
Roofr’s FAQ promises help to “export your data no questions asked,” though its Terms say termination “may result in destruction of any Content.” JobNimbus backs up data one contact or job at a time and “does not guarantee to hold data for canceled accounts.” AccuLynx may delete your data unless you ask for it in writing before termination, and may charge for that request.
The IRS says to keep business records for 3 years in general, and longer in some cases. When you sign, put the notice date on your calendar. Before you give notice, export your estimates and payment history, and on AccuLynx send the written request first.
Price a month of your own jobs before you sign
- Price last month’s quotes on each plan, with report fees and every user counted.
- If you estimate in Xactimate, buy reports that come with the ESX file, and ask each vendor what Verisk’s pricing data costs per estimate.
- Build your hardest common job, or a bid you lost, in the trial before you pay.
- Count the quoted jobs in your CRM that have an estimate attached.
- Put the notice date of any yearly contract on your calendar, and export your estimates before you cancel.
- Walk the roof even when you have the report.
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