Clamp vs Clear Estimates: A maintained cost database, or the estimate carried through the job
Clear Estimates is a maintained remodeling cost database with hundreds of templates, AI drafting, built-in e-signature and payable invoices, from $59 a month billed annually. Clamp starts with a free AI estimate at your own direct cost and markup, then carries that estimate into signed milestones, customer decisions, change orders and actual job cost.
Direct answer: Clear Estimates starts at $59 a month billed annually, or $79 monthly, for estimates, proposals and invoices; job costing was not found on its pages. Clamp Solo has estimates, change orders, invoices and job costing for $12.50 a month billed annually, and your first AI estimate is free. Choose Clear Estimates when you want a maintained local cost database and hundreds of remodeling templates to price unfamiliar work.
Estimate, cost and price
Estimate against actual
Sample data. Clamp's estimate shows the job cost, the markup applied once and where the money goes, and the job cost review compares the estimate with what the job actually consumed.
What it costs
| Situation | Clamp | Clear Estimates |
|---|---|---|
| One person, entry plan | Solo, billed annually $12.50 a month $149.99 a year | Standard, billed annually $59.00 a month $708.00 a year, calculated |
| One person who needs e-signatures and a customer portal | Assistant, billed annually $41.67 a month $499.99 a year | Standard, billed annually $59.00 a month $708.00 a year, calculated |
| A crew of 5 that needs job costing | Teams (up to 10 people), billed annually $83.33 a month $999.99 a year | Pro plus 4 additional users, billed annually $135.00 a month $1,620.00 a year, calculated |
Every Clamp feature, next to Clear Estimates
Solo includes 28 of Clamp's 44 features. Clear Estimates's pages show 9 of the 44 in full and 7 in part, across its plans.
Clamp plan
| Feature | Clamp | Clear Estimates |
|---|---|---|
| CRM and leads | 3 of 5 | 0 of 5 |
| Email remindersEmail reminders before appointments, follow-ups, and scheduled installs, deliveries, and inspections. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Customer appointment remindersHomeowners get an email before an appointment, with confirm and reschedule built in. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Five-factor lead scoringA clear yes, no, or maybe on a lead before driving out. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundBuilt for estimating; its guide says it does not do the lead generation side |
| Lead reportingClose rate, revenue won, open pipeline, close rate by lead source, and lost leads by reason, on Home and the stats screen, with CSV and PDF export. Revenue by source does not exist; see _excluded. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundPro lists custom filtering and reports; lead and close-rate reports not described |
| Daily briefingOverdue invoices, detected trips, follow-ups, appointments, and open proposals in one morning view. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Estimating | 7 of 7 | 3 of 7 |
| Design agreementsPaid preconstruction sits in the document chain, so planning work is paid work. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundBoilerplate contract language on proposals; no paid design or preconstruction agreement found |
| Itemized estimatesAssembly-based estimates with quantities and rates the contractor can inspect line by line. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan, Standard $59Itemized estimates priced from a localized cost library; unlimited estimates and customers |
| Estimate templatesSave an estimate as a template for work done often. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan, Standard $59Save any project as a template; 400+ preloaded templates (500+ on the homepage) |
| Proposals with multiple package tiersGood, better, best packages in one proposal. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartialAlternates: optional work the client approves or declines at signing; good, better, best packages in one proposal not found |
| AI estimating from a plain-language job descriptionDescribe the job in plain words and get an itemized draft: assemblies, quantities, researched baseline rates, with the contractor's own saved rates taking over once set. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan, Standard $59Start with AI from a typed description; matches library items and does not change costs. Photo and plan upload on Pro |
| Remodel and new-home estimatingOne estimator covers remodels and new homes and detects which one a description is. Detect is the default job type; a contractor can pick Remodel or New home per estimate, or set Kind of work to Remodeling to turn the choice off. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundBuilt for residential remodelers, handymen and general contractors; no remodel or new-home mode or detection found |
| Labor hours on estimatesEstimated labor hours, shown as a range, on every labor line, with an allowance for setup, cleanup, and material runs (15% by default) the contractor can change in Settings or per estimate. A planning figure; it never appears on proposals, PDFs, or the portal. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundLabor priced by rate per trade code; estimated hours as a range with a setup and cleanup allowance not described |
| Contracts and invoicing | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Payment schedulesSplit a proposal into a deposit, milestone payments, and a final payment, then invoice each one from the signed contract. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ No plan limit statedDeposit, percentage or balance lines with due dates on the proposal; invoices created from the schedule |
| Sales tax on documentsAdd a sales tax rate or a flat amount to invoices and other documents, with collected tax totaled by quarter and year. The contractor enters the rate; Clamp does not look rates up. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartialLibrary costs are pre-tax and the QuickBooks export leaves taxes out, so tax exists on estimates; a tax setup article and collected-tax totals by quarter or year not found |
| Customer credits and refundsApply a customer's credit to an open invoice, record a refund, or adjust a balance, with the history kept on the job. Recorded only; Clamp moves no money. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundPayment records and receipts on invoices; the Refunds article is Clear Estimates' own subscription policy, not customer credits |
| Change orders that update the contractScope changes get written up and tied to the original contract, so verbal changes stop costing money. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ No plan limit statedA signed proposal cannot be edited without a change order; a signed change order locks |
| Invoices tied to the contractEvery invoice belongs to the contract or change order it bills. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan, Standard $59Payable invoices, from the approved estimate or a payment schedule |
| Customer portal | 0 of 6 | 1 of 6 |
| Password-free customer portalThe homeowner opens a link. No account, no password, no app to install. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | PartialProposals and invoices open from an emailed link with no account; a persistent customer portal was not found |
| Unlimited documents and photos shared to the portalShare job documents and photos to the customer portal without a count cap, subject to per-item size limits. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundNo customer portal for shared documents and photos found |
| E-signing on the homeowner's phoneDocuments get signed on the homeowner's own phone, no account required. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan, Standard $59Client signs on any device from an emailed link, no account needed; signed PDF saved to the project |
| Several signers on one documentSend one document to up to five people, each signing their own line, see who has signed, and remind anyone who has not. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundSigner count, signing status and reminders not described |
| Project updates and decisions in the portalPost project updates to the customer's portal and ask the customer to make a decision, which they answer from their phone. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundAlternates are approved at signing; project updates and decision requests after signing not found |
| Not delivered email handlingWhen a customer email Clamp sends bounces, the document is marked Not delivered so the contractor can fix the address and resend, or copy the link to text it. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Expense tracking | 5 of 5 | 0 of 5 |
| Automatic GPS mileage trackingBackground trip detection, route maps, IRS rates, trips linked to the job that caused the drive. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Automatic time on siteGPS geofence tracking of hours at the jobsite. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Receipts and expenses on the jobReceipts logged against the job they belong to. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundReceipts exist only as payment records on customer invoices; no expense receipts against a job found |
| Purchase ordersCommitted costs captured between the estimate and the receipt. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Accounts payable and vendor billsVendor bills tracked and surfaced in the attention flows, with first-class vendor records. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Job costing and reports | 3 of 3 | 0 of 3 |
| Job costingWhat the job actually cost, with a variance and catalog learning loop. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundCost Status Report covers estimate costs and customer payments; actual costs against the estimate not found |
| Accountant export packageA package of the business's records prepared for an accountant. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartialQuickBooks Online export of estimate summary totals; taxes and discounts not exported; plan not stated |
| Time reporting with CSV exportReported labor time with a time-tracking CSV export for payroll preparation and per-person rate decomposition. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Jobsites and teams | 2 of 8 | 0 of 8 |
| Teams: up to 10 linked accountsUp to 10 accounts, including the owner, sharing one business. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Pro, $99Additional users at $9 a month on Pro; included user count not stated |
| Role-based permissionsFive roles: owner, admin, staff, contributor, viewer. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Not foundNot stated in the text of the add-user article |
| Unlimited subcontractor linkingSubs share jobsite photos and notes into the business account without consuming a seat. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Not foundSubcontractor cost and markup are estimate categories; no sub access or sharing found |
| Jobsites tab: jobs and schedule in one placeA Jobsites tab with Jobs and Schedule views. With Assistant each job has its own screen with its schedule, photos, and updates, and the Schedule view holds every install, delivery, inspection, appointment, and follow-up; Teams adds the crew and subs on each job, shaped by role. Subs invited to a job use it free and see their own jobs grouped by builder. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundClear Estimates focuses on estimating; project management is through a Buildertrend integration |
| Job scheduleSchedule installs, deliveries, and inspections on each job, with the contractor, a supplier, or nobody yet on each item, and see them all in the Jobsites tab. Putting crew or subs on an item is the Teams shared schedule. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundScheduling is through the Buildertrend integration; a payment schedule exists but no job schedule |
| Shared job scheduleOne schedule for the business: installs, deliveries, and inspections visible to the team, with clash notes when dates collide. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Not foundNo job schedule found |
| Punch listsThe small final items that close a job out, tracked per job and shareable as a text message or a PDF. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot mentioned on the pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Job site photosPhotos saved to the project with full-screen viewing. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Pro, $99Pro accounts upload project photos, plans or drawings to the AI; a job photo library not found |
| Backup and offline | 3 of 5 | 2 of 5 |
| Full job workflow, offlineLeads, design agreements, estimates, proposals, change orders, and invoices on the phone, working without a connection. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundIts guide says it works on any device with an internet connection; offline use not described |
| Cloud backupBusiness data backed up to the cloud and restorable on a new device. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan, Standard $59Cloud software, data held in the account and used from any device; no separate backup or restore article |
| Business portal: read-only web viewA read-only view of the business in a browser. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Every plan, Standard $59The whole product is a web app run in a browser; works best on desktop |
| Device backup, restore, CSV export, bulk importLocal backup and restore with CSV export and bulk import. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartialPart list import from Excel and estimate export to PDF, Buildertrend and QuickBooks; no backup or restore found |
| No account required to startThe app opens to local use; an account is needed only for server features or subscribing. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundCloud account with a 30-day trial; local use without an account not described |
| Only in Clear Estimates | Where Clear Estimates is ahead | |
| Maintained local cost database | Not in Clamp: your numbers are your own | ✓ Locally adjusted costs for 400 U.S. areas, 13,000+ line items on the pricing page (15,000+ on the homepage), updated quarterly |
| Hundreds of remodeling templates | Not in Clamp: saved estimates only | ✓ 400+ preloaded project templates on the pricing page (500+ on the homepage) plus pre-written contract language |
| Estimates from plans and photos | Not in Clamp: the AI works from a written description | ✓ Pro: upload plans, blueprints or job site photos into the AI |
| Separate material, labor and subcontractor markup | Clamp applies one company markup once | ✓ Three markup percentages per project, with per-part overrides |
| Card and ACH payments on invoices | Not in Clamp: add your own payment link and record what was paid | ✓ Clients pay by card or ACH, paid to your bank account |
| Buildertrend, Zapier and QuickBooks Online connections | Not in Clamp: accountant export package only | ✓ Pro: Buildertrend export and CRM connections through Zapier; QuickBooks Online export of estimate totals |
Nothing here matches. Pick All or another filter.
Clear Estimates column from its pricing page, feature pages and help center, checked October 14, 2026. Not found means not on those pages, not that Clear Estimates can't do it another way. Partly means something narrower than the Clamp feature. No product was tested against another.
Where each Clear Estimates answer comes from
- Clear Estimates Pricing Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Clear Estimates homepage Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- AI Project Builder Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- How Markup Works Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Customize your labor rates Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Can It Do? Clear Estimates Feature Guide Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- New: Send & E-Sign Proposals Overview Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Alternates Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Payment Schedules Overview Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Cost Status & Invoicing Overview Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Clear Estimates invoicing and payments Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Exporting to Quickbooks Online Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Saving Projects as Templates Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- How to Add an Additional User Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Refund Policy Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
- Clear Estimates Knowledge Base Clear Estimates, accessed October 14, 2026
Verdict
Clamp may fit when
- You price from your own material costs, labor rates and one company markup, not a published database
- You want the first AI estimate free, before you commit to a plan
- You want the estimate to become the signed proposal, the payment milestones and the change orders on the same job
- You want actual job cost, receipts, vendor bills and time on site compared with the estimate at close
- You run the job from your phone, with a crew or subs who need the job and schedule without seeing your prices
- You want customer decisions tracked after signing, with what each one blocks
Clear Estimates may fit when
- You take on work you have not priced before and want a cost library adjusted to your zip code and updated every quarter
- You want hundreds of remodeling templates as a starting point
- You bid from plans, blueprints or photos and want the AI to read them (Pro)
- You want separate markup percentages for material, labor and subcontractor cost, with per-part overrides
- You want card and ACH payments taken on the invoice itself and estimate totals pushed to QuickBooks Online
- You run projects in Buildertrend and want the estimate exported there (Pro)
Before you compare them
- Clear Estimates and Clamp both produce an itemized estimate from a typed description, both put a payment schedule on a signed proposal, both lock a signed proposal behind a change order, and both invoice. The overlap is real.
- Clear Estimates' documented advantages are its cost data and templates: locally adjusted costs for 400 U.S. areas, updated every quarter, and hundreds of preloaded project templates, built over 20 years. Its pages disagree on the counts (13,000+ line items on the pricing page, 15,000+ and 'over 12,000 parts' on the homepage; 400+ templates against 500+). Clamp does not publish a maintained third-party cost database; its numbers are your numbers.
- Clamp's advantage is what happens after the estimate: milestones tied to job events with evidence, a decisions list, change orders that show their effect on the contract, and a job cost review of estimate against actual. No job costing, time tracking or mileage article was found in Clear Estimates' Knowledge Base.
- Clear Estimates' AI matches your description to priced items in its library and, in its own words, does not calculate or change costs. Clamp's AI drafts at direct cost from your description, then your markup goes on once.
- Clear Estimates is cloud software run in a browser that, in its own words, works best on desktop; its clients sign from any device. Clamp is an iOS and Android app with a web portal.
- Clear Estimates takes card and ACH payments on its invoices; its fees and processor are not stated on the invoicing page. Clamp does not process payments; you add your own payment link and record what was paid.
- Clear Estimates' QuickBooks Online export sends estimate summary totals for material, labor and subcontractor cost, not taxes or discounts. Clamp has an accountant export package and no QuickBooks integration. Neither is accounting software.
- Clamp does no plan takeoff and its AI works from a written description. Clear Estimates Pro reads plans, blueprints and photos; Clear Estimates offers nothing for sketches or drawings.
- "Not found" on this page means not found on Clear Estimates' current pricing page, homepage, invoicing page or Knowledge Base. It does not mean Clear Estimates cannot do it another way.
- Neither product was tested against the other. No speed or accuracy claim is made about either AI.
Workflow
| Feature | Clamp | Clear Estimates |
|---|---|---|
| Where the estimate's numbers come from | Your direct costs: your saved labor rates, the materials you price, allowances for what is not chosen yet | A library of locally adjusted costs for 400 U.S. areas, updated every quarter (13,000+ line items on the pricing page, 15,000+ on the homepage) |
| Your own labor rates and parts | Rates saved once per role and used on every estimate | Suggested labor rates by trade code you adjust, flowing to every part that uses them; parts you cannot find can be added and the library customized to your pricing |
| Estimate at cost, then markup | Every line at direct cost; the markup from your overhead and profit goal goes on once | Library costs are your cost before markup and tax; separate material, labor and subcontractor markup percentages per project, with per-part overrides |
| AI estimates | A draft at direct cost from a project description, then your markup; 1 free estimate on the website, 3 free credits in the app, then 25 or 50 a month by plan | Start with AI from a detailed typed description, matched to library items without calculating or changing costs; unlimited on paid plans, five requests on the trial |
| Estimates from plans or photos | Not offered; the AI works from your written description and Clamp does no plan takeoff | Pro: upload plans, blueprints or job site photos (jpg, png, webp, pdf) into the AI Estimate Builder |
| Templates and reuse | Saved rates and saved estimate descriptions | Preloaded project templates (400+ on the pricing page, 500+ on the homepage) plus pre-written contract language and your boilerplate |
| Quote or proposal e-signature | Proposals signed in the customer portal (Assistant and Teams) | Built-in e-signature from Standard: the client signs from an emailed link on any device, no account needed, and the signed PDF is saved to the project |
| Progress billing | Milestones tied to job events, each with a checklist of evidence; billed as the stage starts | A payment schedule of fixed amounts, percentages and a balance due at the bottom of the proposal, with due dates; invoices created from it |
| Customer decisions after signing | A Decisions needed list: needed by, what it blocks, who owes the answer, the resolution | Alternates: optional work the client approves or declines on the proposal at signing; a decision list after signing was not found on Clear Estimates' pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Change orders | A change order on every plan: priced and billed, e-signed in the portal on Assistant and Teams, showing its effect on the contract total and schedule | A signed proposal locks and cannot be edited without creating a change order; a signed change order locks completely |
| Job costing | Every plan: receipts, vendor bills, time at the loaded rate, returns; reviewed against the estimate at close | A Cost Status Report of invoices and customer payments per project; actual costs against the estimate were not found on Clear Estimates' pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Time on site | Logged by role, or detected automatically when you leave a job site; not a GPS time clock with geofencing | Not found on Clear Estimates' pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Business mileage log | Automatic trip detection, confirmed per trip, at the IRS rate for its date | Not found on Clear Estimates' pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Customer portal | Sign proposals and change orders, see milestones, invoices and photos, answer decisions (Assistant and Teams) | Proposals and invoices go out as links or PDFs and the Cost Status Report can be emailed; a persistent customer portal was not found on Clear Estimates' pages |
| Payments | Not processed by Clamp: add your own payment link and record what was paid | Card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover) and ACH payments on the invoice, paid to your bank account; fees and the processor are not stated on the invoicing page |
| Accounting | An accountant export package; Clamp is not accounting software | QuickBooks Online export of estimate summary totals (material, labor, subcontractor) as a QuickBooks estimate; taxes and discounts not exported |
| Mobile | iOS and Android app plus a web portal | Cloud software run in a browser that works best on desktop; a native mobile app was not found on Clear Estimates' pricing page or Knowledge Base |
| Team, subs and hand-off | Up to 10 accounts on Teams, plus unlimited free sub invites who never see your prices; the job stays in Clamp through closeout | Additional users $9 a month on Pro, included user count not stated; estimate export to Buildertrend and CRM connections through Zapier on Pro |
What was and was not tested
What was compared: Hands-on testing of either product. Neither was tested against the other, and no speed or accuracy claim is made. Documented, not tested.
| Statement | Basis |
|---|---|
| Published by Clamp, using each product's own pricing pages and documentation. | Clamp's own statement |
| One person, entry plan, billed annually: Clear Estimates Standard is $708 a year (calculated) and Clamp Solo is $149.99. Standard includes the cost database, templates, unlimited AI estimates, e-signature and payable invoices; Solo includes the job workflow without the customer portal. | Calculated from published prices |
| Five people with job costing, billed annually: Clear Estimates Pro with four additional users is $1,620 a year (calculated, assuming one included user) and buys estimating seats; job costing was not found. Clamp Teams is $999.99 for up to 10 accounts with job costing on every plan. The plans are not equivalent: Pro includes a cost database, plan and photo AI and a Buildertrend export that Clamp does not offer. | Calculated from published prices |
| Both vendors describe their AI the same way: it drafts, you review. Clear Estimates states that its AI does not calculate or change costs; the price is the library's for your area. Clamp's draft is at your direct cost with your markup applied after. | Verified against a published source |
Switching
- Export or print your estimates, signed proposals, Cost Status Reports and customer list from Clear Estimates before you cancel; the Knowledge Base has a cancellation article.
- Do not assume Clear Estimates projects or its parts library can be imported into Clamp; confirm formats first.
- Write down the labor rates and markup percentages you tuned in Clear Estimates so you can set your rates and one markup in Clamp on day one.
- If you take card or ACH payments on Clear Estimates invoices, set up your own payment link before you switch.
- If you bid from plans or photos, keep in mind Clamp's AI works from a written description and does no takeoff.
- Finish signed jobs where they started; start new ones in Clamp.
Questions
Can I use my own labor rates, material costs and markup in Clear Estimates?
Yes. Clear Estimates lets you adjust labor rates by trade, add your own parts and set separate material, labor and subcontractor markups, with overrides on individual parts. Its AI matches descriptions to the standard library rather than your custom parts. Clamp prices lines at direct cost and applies your company markup once at the end, so compare how each stores rates and applies markup.
How much does Clear Estimates cost for a solo remodeler?
Clear Estimates Standard is $79 a month billed monthly or $59 a month billed annually ($708 a year, calculated). Pro is $119 a month or $99 billed annually, with additional users at $9 a month. Every plan has a 30-day free trial and no contract, but the pricing page does not state how many users each plan includes. Clamp Solo is $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year.
Does Clear Estimates handle change orders and actual job costs?
Clear Estimates handles change orders: a signed proposal locks and can only change through a change order, and a signed change order locks completely. Actual job costing was not found on the pages checked; its Cost Status Report summarizes invoices and customer payments, not receipts, bills and crew hours against the estimate. Confirm with Clear Estimates if you need estimate-versus-actual tracking.
Can Clear Estimates price a bathroom remodel from a written description?
Yes. Clear Estimates' Start with AI matches a detailed description and measurements to priced items in its localized library, and Pro can also read plans or photos. Clamp drafts a direct-cost estimate from a plain description and shows markup separately. Clear Estimates says its AI does not calculate or change database costs, and either draft needs your review before it reaches a customer.
Can I run Clear Estimates from my phone instead of a desktop?
Clear Estimates runs in a web browser and describes a desktop as the best place to work, though customers can sign from any device. A native phone app was not found on its official pages. Its localized library suits office estimating; Clamp's iOS and Android apps keep estimates, change orders, receipts, time on site and mileage in the job record on the phone.
Does Clear Estimates work offline?
Clear Estimates says it works on any device with an internet connection, and offline use is not described on its official pages. Clamp's leads, estimates, proposals, change orders and invoices work with no signal on every plan; AI drafts, e-signing and the customer portal need a connection when you use them. If you estimate on site in basements or rural lots, test offline use first.
Sources & provenance
- Clear Estimates Pricing Clear Estimates (official source)
- Clear Estimates homepage Clear Estimates (official source)
- AI Project Builder Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- How Markup Works Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Customize your labor rates Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Can It Do? Clear Estimates Feature Guide Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- New: Send & E-Sign Proposals Overview Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Alternates Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Payment Schedules Overview Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Cost Status & Invoicing Overview Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Clear Estimates invoicing and payments Clear Estimates (official source)
- Exporting to Quickbooks Online Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Clear Estimates Knowledge Base Clear Estimates Knowledge Base (official source)
- Clamp Pricing Clamp Research
- The Clamp Method Clamp Research
Changes: Oct 14, 2026: Initial draft. Verified against Clear Estimates' pricing page, homepage, invoicing landing page and Knowledge Base on 2026-10-14: plan prices, 30-day trial, unlimited AI estimates on paid plans and five on the trial, built-in e-signature, the signed-proposal lock and change orders, payment schedules, payable invoices, QuickBooks Online summary export and the Buildertrend integration are credited; line item and template counts that differ between pages are reported as published; job costing, time tracking, mileage, a customer portal, a native mobile app and included user counts are stated as not found on those pages. Direct answer rewritten price first (owner ruling 2026-10-14).; Oct 14, 2026: Published after owner approval; FAQ structured data on.