Best CRM for construction companies
Five CRMs ranked on how they run your bids, what each extra login costs and who owns the data. SalesCrew starts at $299 a month.
- Unlimited seats
- Your own database
- Every bid in one pipeline
SalesCrew ranks first here for construction companies that win work by bidding: every estimator, project manager and office admin shares one deal pipeline, and the price never climbs with headcount.
The short answer
- SalesCrew puts every bid in a deals kanban with stages, probability and a weighted forecast, from $299 a month with unlimited seats.
- JobTread starts at $199 a month plus $20 per extra internal user, and lists CRM, lead management and estimating as included, checked on jobtread.com/pricing in September 2026.
- monday CRM starts at $12 a seat a month billed annually, with a 3-seat minimum and 1,000 active contacts and deals on Basic, checked September 2026.
- HubSpot's free CRM covers up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts; Zoho CRM's free edition covers up to 3 users, both checked September 2026.
How we ranked construction CRMs
You're buying a CRM to win more bids, so the bid pipeline carries 35% of the score. That means stages you can rename, a forecast weighted by probability, and follow-ups that don't depend on someone's memory.
Cost as the office grows counts for 30%. A construction company adds estimators and project managers in bursts, and a per-seat bill punishes every one of them.
Work after the contract counts for 20%: estimates, schedules and files tied to the job. The last 15% goes to ownership of your data and whether an AI assistant like ChatGPT or Claude can work in the CRM through a documented connection.
We read each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product, and we set the weights before scoring anyone.
Construction CRMs at a glance
Ranked order. Prices and limits read on each vendor's own pricing page.
| CRM | Starting price | Extra users | Bid pipeline | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SalesCrew (our product) | $299/mo, or $2,990/yr | Unlimited seats on every tier | Deals kanban with stages, probability and weighted forecast; cadences from your mailboxes | A contractor that bids against others and wants the whole office in one pipeline |
| JobTread | $199/mo, 1 internal user included | $20 each for users 2 to 10, lower per user above that | Construction CRM and lead management in the base plan | A builder who wants estimates and jobs in the same tool as leads |
| monday CRM | $12/seat/mo on Basic, billed annually | Per seat, 3-seat minimum | 1,000 active contacts and deals on Basic, 10,000 on Standard ($17/seat) | A company that already plans projects on monday.com |
| HubSpot | Free for up to 2 users | Per seat on paid plans | Free CRM capped at 1,000 contacts | A small team starting with free contact records |
| Zoho CRM | Free edition for up to 3 users | Per user on paid editions | Pipeline and forecasting on paid editions | A very small office testing a CRM before it pays |
Figures checked on jobtread.com/pricing, monday.com/crm/pricing, hubspot.com/pricing/crm and zoho.com/crm/zohocrm-pricing.html, September 2026. SalesCrew facts from the SalesCrew pricing page.
Each CRM, and where it fits
SalesCrew
Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product. Each bid is a deal with its own stage, probability, tasks, meetings, notes and plan files. Replies from general contractors land in a shared inbox, and follow-up cadences send from your own mailboxes with per-mailbox caps. You get your own database with full export, and $299 a month covers unlimited seats.
Read moreJobTread
JobTread charges $199 a month with one internal user, then $20 per user for users 2 to 10, as of September 2026. Its pricing page lists Construction CRM, Lead Management and Sales & Estimating as included, and annual billing saves 20%.
Read moremonday CRM
monday CRM's Basic plan is $12 a seat a month billed annually, with a 3-seat minimum and a cap of 1,000 active contacts and deals, as of September 2026. Standard is $17 a seat and raises the cap to 10,000.
Read moreHubSpot
HubSpot's free CRM covers up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts, as of September 2026. Paid plans are priced per seat, so each estimator you add raises the bill.
Read moreZoho CRM
Zoho CRM's free edition covers up to 3 users, as of September 2026. Paid editions are priced per user, billed annually.
Read moreHow to choose a CRM for a construction company
Count the people who touch a bid. On a commercial job that's often the owner, two estimators, a project manager and whoever answers the phone. JobTread adds $20 a month for each internal user from the second to the tenth (checked September 2026). SalesCrew includes every one of them in $299.
Decide where job work lives. JobTread lists estimating in its base plan. In SalesCrew each deal carries the tasks, meetings, notes and plan files your team needs to win the job, and your scheduling tool takes over after the contract is signed.
Check the contact ceiling before you import. monday CRM Basic stops at 1,000 active contacts and deals, and HubSpot's free CRM at 1,000 contacts (both checked September 2026). A general contractor list plus past clients passes that fast. SalesCrew's data bank takes a CSV of your whole list and never overwrites a field your team already filled.
Think about who else will work in the CRM. SalesCrew exposes 140+ actions as MCP tools, so ChatGPT or Claude can log a bid or draft a follow-up, and every outside send waits in one approval queue you control.
Questions
- What is the best CRM for a construction company?
- On this page's criteria, SalesCrew ranks first. Every bid sits in one deal pipeline with stages, probability and a weighted forecast. Follow-ups run as cadences from your own mailboxes, and Core is $299 a month with unlimited seats.
- Do we pay more when estimators and project managers need a login?
- Not with SalesCrew. Every tier includes unlimited seats, so the office manager, estimators, project managers and owners all work in the same records for $299 a month, or $2,990 a year.
- Can we bring our bid history over from spreadsheets or another CRM?
- Yes. Export a CSV, map the columns in the SalesCrew data bank and tag the batch. Existing contacts are matched on email and only empty fields get filled. Migration help is included on every tier, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.
- Why is JobTread ranked second and not first?
- JobTread lists Construction CRM, Lead Management and Sales & Estimating in its base plan, checked September 2026, so it scores well on work after the contract. It charges per internal user after the first, so it scores lower on cost as your office grows.
- Why did you leave out Buildertrend?
- Every vendor on this page has a price or plan fact we read on its own site in September 2026. Buildertrend's pricing page returned an error to our check that month, so it has no row here.