NexHub compared with Tradify, ServiceM8, Fergus, Sortscape, Jobber and Yardbook

We used to run a table here scoring six competitors on features we had no way to verify from the outside. That was not fair to them and it was not useful to you. This version compares the one thing every buyer can check for themselves and every vendor puts in writing: how they charge. Everything below was read on 10 September 2026.

The short version

• Tradify and Fergus charge per user. Both publish a per-user monthly price on their Australian pricing pages, so the bill multiplies with headcount. Fergus publishes a cheaper rate for a field-only seat; Tradify's published model is that every user is a paid user.
• ServiceM8 charges by monthly job volume, not by user. That suits a small team doing a lot of jobs less well than it suits a bigger team doing fewer, bigger jobs.
• Sortscape publishes no price at all. You have to ask them.
• Jobber and Yardbook publish prices with no currency label and, as far as we could find, no Australian pricing page. We are not going to guess whether those figures are AUD or USD, so we quote neither.
• NexHub charges a flat plan price with a user allowance in the plan, in AUD, excluding GST — AU$19/mo at the entry paid plan. Nothing is charged at all during Early Access.

Why per-user versus flat actually matters

On a per-seat product, the third apprentice you hire in spring costs you the same again as the first one, every month, whether they are in the system for eight hours a day or twenty minutes. On a plan price with an allowance, the cost steps once when you cross the allowance and then sits still. Neither model is dishonest — but they behave very differently for a seasonal outdoor business that puts on hands in October and lets them go in May. The arithmetic, using each vendor's own published entry price, is on our pricing page.

Where the others are genuinely better

ServiceM8 has the wider accounting and add-on ecosystem, and they publish Tap to Pay on iPhone in their app — you can tap a client's card on your own phone. NexHub cannot do that and will not pretend it can: taking a card that way needs a native app and NexHub runs in the browser. NexHub sends a payment link or a QR code the client pays on their own phone instead.

Tradify and Fergus are mature, well-staffed products with long track records, aimed at trades generally — plumbing, electrical, HVAC. If your work is a job ticket rather than a recurring round, that generality is a feature, not a compromise.

Jobber is a large, established home-service platform, far more mature than NexHub, and publishes a broad feature set of its own. Sortscape is, like NexHub, aimed squarely at lawn and garden rounds. Yardbook has a genuinely free, ad-funded tier and does not limit how many employees you create.

NexHub, by contrast, is new. It is in Early Access with a small number of businesses using it. If a long track record is what you are buying, several of the products above have one and NexHub does not.

What NexHub is actually for

It is built for Australian outdoor work specifically: recurring rounds where moving one visit must not break the series, chemical application records in APVMA format captured with the weather at the time of spraying, quoting off a lawn you measured on satellite imagery, Australian tax invoices, and award-floor checking on performance pay. It runs in any phone browser and installs to the home screen; it queues job updates through patchy reception but works best online, and it does not send text messages.

Each vendor has a full page of its own, including the rows they win, on the comparisons page.