As of October 2026, EagleView lists its Premium report for a small roof at $32.75, and Roofr charges $19 for a measurement report on its free plan. Roofr and RoofSnap both charge less per report once you pay for their software, while Hover measures the whole house, walls included, from photos taken with a phone on site. Which one costs you least comes down to how many roofs you bid a month and whether you also sell siding.
EagleView keeps its lower prices behind a sales rep
EagleView’s list prices are its Bronze tier, which is what a new account should expect. The Premium report adds facet-by-facet measurements and a waste factor. On Bronze it costs $60 for a 40-square roof and $87 above that.
Silver and Gold cost less, down to $24.25 for a small roof on Gold, but EagleView doesn’t publish what it takes to reach them. Its pricing page says you may qualify through purchase volume or by buying through “an integration partner or distributor,” and tells contractors to “Speak to your sales representative.” Before your first order, ask the rep how many reports a month earn Silver, and price the same report through any CRM or supplier you already use.
For the bid itself, EagleView sells Bid Perfect at $18 on every tier, the report that replaced its older QuickSquares. It gives total roof area and squares, the number of facets, the top four pitches, and photos from above and each side for up to two buildings. It leaves out the facet-by-facet measurements and the waste factor that Premium adds.
EagleView describes Bid Perfect as the report you upgrade “Once a contractor wins the job,” and calls it “guaranteed accuracy” without a percentage or any refund terms. Ask the rep whether the Bid Perfect price counts toward the upgrade, and what the guarantee covers.
Roofr’s report price drops on a paid plan
Roofr’s Starter plan has no monthly fee, and its paid plans cut a report to $13. For insurance work, a report with an ESX file, the file Xactimate opens, costs $31 on Starter and $23 on a paid plan. Xactimate for Roofers: Which Line Items Matter and Whether You Need It covers whether you need Xactimate yourself.
Roofr doesn’t charge per seat or list setup fees. Its Measure+ plan costs $109 to $169 a month for faster delivery, as quick as 2 hours. Time a few Starter orders yourself before you count on one for a next-day bid.
RoofSnap sells reports alone or with software priced per user
RoofSnap’s cheapest order, which it calls a Half Snap, costs $13 for a roof of any size, or $10 on a subscription. Its Full Snap for a house is listed as a price range, so ask what your usual roof size costs before you compare it with the others.
The subscription costs $105 a month per user, and annual plans start at $78 per user and drop further for bigger teams.
It includes do-it-yourself measuring tools and five high-resolution roof images a month. RoofSnap says reports are “delivered in 4 hours,” with rush reports “ready in as little as 30 minutes.”
Use the 7-day free trial, which needs no credit card, on a few roofs you’ve already measured by hand.
Hover measures walls as well as the roof, from phone photos
Hover builds its measurements from phone photos taken at the house, so you pay per property scanned, and every plan covers your whole team with no limit on users. Standard turnaround is 12 hours on the Starter plan and 4 hours on Pro.
On Starter, which has no annual fee, a simple exterior costs $59 and an average one $99.
Pro costs $999 a year and takes $20 off each of those prices, so it covers its fee once you scan about one house a week.
EagleView measures walls from the air instead, with a Walls, Windows & Doors report at $78 and a Full House report at $105 on Bronze. A roofing owner who added vinyl and Hardie siding wrote on r/GeneralContractor that they mostly use Hover and sometimes EagleView, and rely on the siding figure that already subtracts windows and doors.
A Hover user on r/Roofing praised its diagrams but said they fill in the measurements themselves, and posted two Hover reports of the same building, taken the same week, that disagreed. A new account’s first 3 projects are free, so scan a few houses you’ve already measured and compare.
Google Earth gives a first number once you add the pitch
Google’s help page for measuring in Google Earth warns that “Measurements don’t account for changes in elevation” and says that for best results you should “measure using a top-down view.” An outline traced from above gives you the roof’s footprint, so multiply each slope’s footprint by its pitch factor before you count squares.
Google Earth is also the fallback where a report won’t go. A sales rep on r/RoofingSales said in 2024 that EagleView turned down a commercial building of more than 15 stories, with a note that it was over 9. The rep took total squares from Google Earth instead. EagleView lists commercial reports at “Call for pricing,” and an aerial report needs a roof that already exists, so a new-construction takeoff comes from the plans.
An owner with twenty years in roofing wrote on r/Roofing that aerial reports save climbing every roof, “but you still walk the job for pitch verification, ventilation, deck rot tells, and flashing condition.” Use Google Earth or a cheap report for the first number, and check the pitch on the roof before the contract.
Save the full report for signed jobs and insurance claims
“Doing 10 quotes a day and eagleview becomes expensive,” one poster wrote on r/RoofingSales. You can copy EagleView’s own split with any vendor: a cheap report or Google Earth to quote, and the full report once the job is signed.
On r/RoofingSales, a rep training a new salesman asked whether to buy a premium report for every roof or measure by hand, because the new man felt skipping reports would look unprofessional. One reply said competitors hand homeowners a folder with the EagleView report, an insurance copy and shingle documents, and that the simple roofs can be done “with Google and the scale bar.” If a printed report helps you close at the kitchen table, buy it after the inspection and skip it on phone quotes.
On insurance work the report doubles as evidence. An estimator on r/Contractor sends carriers measurement reports and material quantities when a carrier folds starter and hip and ridge into a set waste percentage. If you work claims, price each vendor’s report with the ESX file included. Roof Insurance Supplements: How Roofers Get Carriers to Pay the Full Scope covers the rest of the supplement process.
Check that your CRM imports the report before you buy
An owner on r/Roofing wrote that they’re tired of jumping between EagleView for measurements and a generic CRM for leads. A poster on r/RoofingSales likes that AccuLynx takes roof measurements as an XML import into pricing and invoices. Before you pick a measurement vendor, ask your CRM which reports it imports and what it charges for each. Roofing CRM Software: What It Costs and When You Need One covers choosing the CRM itself.
Count your monthly bids before you pick a vendor
- Count the roofs you bid in a normal month and price that count on each vendor’s pricing page.
- Ask EagleView’s rep what earns Silver and whether Bid Perfect counts toward Premium.
- If you scan a house for siding most weeks, price Hover’s Pro plan against Starter.
- On insurance claims, price the report with the ESX file included.
- Check the first few reports from any vendor against roofs you’ve measured by hand.
- Confirm your CRM imports the report before you sign up.
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