Estimark and Price A Job, compared for UK builders

UK builders, with estimating at the centre and accounting, project management, Building Regulations and structural engineering sold alongside it as separate modules.

• It is UK-specific: the accounting module advertises a UK VAT return, and there is a Building Regulations module beside the estimator.
• The modules are priced per user, so the bill moves with how many people need each part.

NoteEstimark describes its own product here. For the other product’s current price and what it covers, read that vendor’s own site.

A price book of 25,000+ merchant products with labour rates and assemblies over it, take-off both parametric and on-PDF, and a quote that turns into the job.

• The price book holds 25,000+ products scraped from UK merchants, with more than one supplier against an item and the price history behind it.
• Assemblies store the recipe and never the cost. Components are read from the price book and the labour rates at the moment of use, so a supplier price change reaches the next quote without anybody re-editing an assembly.
• Where a cost came from is ranked. A figure you typed beats one learned from your own merchant invoice, that beats an uploaded price list, and that beats a scraped list price. A margin resting on the last one is flagged as unearned.
• Take-off is parametric. Change a wall height from 2.4m to 2.7m and the quantities and the price follow, with nothing redrawn. Quantities can also be measured on a PDF drawing and pushed onto the quote.
• The accepted quote is the job. Costs land against it, the invoice carries the CIS deduction and the reverse charge wording, and applications run on Construction Act dates.

NoteThe price book is merchant products and what they cost. It is not a measured-work rate library coded to NRM or SMM, and Estimark produces no standard-form bill of quantities.

Price A Job prices its Estimating module at £35.95 a month per user, ex VAT, or £299.95 a year per user, read on its own pricing page on 15 September 2026. Solo is £39 a month +VAT, and the estimating is in it.

• Building Regulations is £38.97 a month per user and Engineering £23.60 a month per user, both ex VAT. Estimark replaces neither.
• Every module together is £89.75 a month per user, or £670.90 a year per user, ex VAT.
• Its pricing page is a configurator rather than a table, so the figures appear once you pick the modules and the number of people.
• Estimating is commonly sold as a separate licence or a tier up. Estimark puts no plan gate on the price book, the labour rates, the assemblies or the take-offs.

NoteEstimark describes its own product here. For the other product’s current price and what it covers, read that vendor’s own site.

No, and the two are priced apart. The price book, the labour rates, the assemblies and the take-offs are not metered. Estimark AI is.

• Drafting a bill of quantities from a description or an uploaded document draws on a monthly allowance. Past the allowance, AI runs on credit you top up.
• Automatic top-up is off until you turn it on, and you can set a monthly spend limit. With top-up off, AI stops and you get an email rather than a charge.
• The scope check, which reads a finished quote and lists what jobs like it priced that yours does not, is the one AI feature with a plan floor under it. Pro is £299 a month +VAT.

It handles the four obligations a UK contractor is judged on: CIS deduction, the VAT domestic reverse charge, Construction Act payment timing, and the safety records that go with them.

• CIS deducted on labour only, excluding materials, VAT and plant hire, on 6th-to-5th tax months, with HMRC verification when connected and the CIS300 recorded with both statutory declarations.
• VAT domestic reverse charge under section 55A: the statutory wording on the invoice, nil VAT, controlled per client.
• Payment applications with Construction Act dates, the pay less deadline calculated, and retention tracked to release.
• RAMS with operative sign-off, inductions, permits and a live muster roll, plus EIC, EICR, Minor Works, PAT and CP12 certificates with typed test results.

NoteEstimark records the CIS300 and locks it to its tax period. It does not file the return to HMRC on your behalf.

The structural half, the standard-method bill, and the certification. The gaps are there to weigh before a trial rather than after one.

• There is no Building Regulations module and no structural engineering. No beam, no span, no load and no lintel sizing.
• Estimark produces no standard-form bill of quantities coded to NRM or SMM, so a formal tender priced to a standard method still needs a rate book.
• Estimark holds no security certification: no ISO 27001, no SOC 2, no Cyber Essentials.
• It does not file a CIS300 to HMRC on your behalf, and it does not take card payments from your customer on your behalf.

When you need the Building Regulations or structural engineering modules, or when estimating is the only thing you want to buy.

• Structural calculations are something Estimark refers to an engineer rather than produces.
• A firm with job management settled elsewhere is buying one module, not a platform.

NoteEstimark describes its own product here. For the other product’s current price and what it covers, read that vendor’s own site.