LMN vs Contractor Autopilot
LMN is $297/mo Starter (1 office + 5 crew licences), $648/mo Professional (3 office + 15 crew) — extra licences priced on request — and it is one piece of your business. Contractor Autopilot is $149–$499/mo flat for the whole company, unlimited users: one source of truth, 60+ features from the missed call to the paid invoice. No integrations to build, nothing to keep in sync.
What LMN does well
Best-in-class landscape estimating built on budgeted hourly rates, plus solid time tracking and crew management.
Best for: Landscape companies that budget by the hour and want estimating tied to real labor rates.
Where it leaves you exposed
- →Estimating and time tracking are the core; sales and marketing are not.
- →No AI receptionist, website or review automation.
- →Snow and seasonal contract work needs add-on modules.
One app for the whole business — finally
LMN is one piece of the business. The phone, the website, the reviews and the follow-up live in other systems that you keep in sync by hand.
The call, the lead, the quote, the job, the invoice, the review and the website all live on the same customer record. Your whole crew and your office get their own login — we never charge per seat.
Get found, capture leads, quote & close, run jobs, get paid — the whole business, not one slice of it.
No Zapier, no CSV exports, no paying a consultant to wire your tools together every time something changes.
The time it gives you back
One connected source: the call becomes the lead, the lead becomes the quote, the quote becomes the job, the job becomes the invoice and the review request — with nothing re-typed and no integration to maintain.
What it really costs to run LMN
Until now, nobody ran a contracting business on one app. Here is the rest of the bill you are still paying.
| LMN | $99–$399/mo |
| Answering service | $300+/mo |
| Website + hosting + edits | $50–$300/mo |
| SEO / reviews / social | $350–$1,600/mo |
| Typical all-in | LMN plus $700–$2,200/mo of other vendors |
| Contractor Autopilot — all of it, one bill | $149–$499/mo |
Stack costs are typical published US market rates for each category, August 2026. Your numbers will vary — run our free business review and we will price your actual stack.
What it costs at 1, 5 and 10 people
Their price grows with your crew. Ours does not — every plan is unlimited users, so the tenth hire costs you nothing in software.
| Crew size | LMN | + what it doesn't include | Their all-in | Contractor Autopilot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Just you | $297/mo (Starter) | $850/mo | $1,147/mo | $499/mo |
| 5 people | $297/mo (Starter) | $850/mo | $1,147/mo | $499/mo |
| 10 people | $648/mo (Professional) | $850/mo | $1,498/mo | $499/mo |
At five people that is $1,147+ a month — more than Autopilot Pro — and it still does not answer your phone, build your website, or ask your customers for reviews.
Same money buys the whole business instead of one slice of it: 60+ features across all five stages, unlimited users, one bill.
LMN column uses their published list price, read 20 August 2026. LMN publishes no per-user rate, so every seat after the first is a number you have to ask for — the totals here are the floor, not the price. "What it doesn't include" is the same basket every time: answering service ~$300, website and hosting ~$150, reviews and social ~$100, local SEO help ~$300. Our column is Autopilot Pro at $499/mo — everything, unlimited users. Starter is $149 and Autopilot is $399.
Side by side
| Feature | Contractor Autopilot | LMN |
|---|---|---|
| Answers your calls 24/7 (real AI receptionist) | Included on Autopilot Pro | No |
| Builds and hosts your website + custom domain | Yes | No |
| Automatic review requests and social posting | Yes | No |
| Budget-based landscape estimating | Estimating, crew time tracking, GPS and the whole customer-facing front end | Their strength |
| Quotes, invoices, card payments | Yes | Yes |
| AI estimating with a price book that learns | Yes | No |
| Works across every trade you sell | Yes | No |
| One flat price for the whole company | Yes | No |
| Price | $149–$499/mo, whole company | $297/mo Starter (1 office + 5 crew licences), $648/mo Professional (3 office + 15 crew) — extra licences priced on request |
LMN pricing and features from their published information, read 20 August 2026. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
The honest verdict
LMN is good at the part it was built for. It is not the business — and the four vendors you add around it cost more than one system that covers all five stages, from getting found to getting paid.
We aren't for everyone
Stay on LMN if any of this is you. We would rather lose the sale than take money from a contractor we make worse off.
- —Your estimating already runs on LMN's budgeted hourly rates and your foremen use its time app daily.
- —Your books live in QuickBooks Desktop. Our QuickBooks connection is not live in production yet, and there is no two-way Desktop sync coming. Do not break month-end for a website.
- —You run 10 or more techs with memberships, commission plans and a real dispatch board. That is ServiceTitan's job. We would be a downgrade and we will say so.
- —You are mid-contract. What you still owe on a term deal is real money, not sunk cost — put us on your renewal date instead of paying two bills.
- —You already have more leads than you can work and only need to send invoices. A bundle you do not use is not a saving.
None of that you? Then the rest of this page is worth your ten minutes.
Questions contractors ask
Is Contractor Autopilot a LMN alternative?
Yes. You get the job side LMN covers plus the parts it leaves out — a 24/7 AI receptionist, your website and domain, automatic reviews and social — for $149–$499 a month for the whole company.
How many integrations do I have to set up?
None. It is one system with one customer record, so there is nothing to connect and nothing to keep in sync.
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