Landscaping Estimating Software Built for Subbies
ContractorCounter is landscaping estimating software for landscapers and landscape contractors who price their own work: take off quantities from the drawings, let the AI suggest rates you review, and send a priced quote — one browser workspace, on site or in the office.
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Verdict
Choose ContractorCounter if you are landscapers pricing your own jobs and you want takeoff, rates, and the quote in one place at US$14/month (or a US$249 one-time one-time license). Stay with a specialist estimating suite like LMN if your estimating depends on deep pre-loaded landscaping databases maintained for you — that depth is real, and we do not pretend to replace it.
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What a landscaping estimate is made of here
The quantities come off the drawing, not a spreadsheet. Softscape areas — turf, garden beds, mulch — measured as calibrated polygons off the landscape plan; Hardscape — paving, decking, concrete paths — as areas with edge restraints measured as lengths; Retaining walls measured as lengths with heights noted, so face area and footings both derive; Planting counted per item from the schedule, by species and pot size; Irrigation runs measured as lengths with heads and valves counted per zone — each one measured or counted on the calibrated sheet, each one a line in a live Bill of Quantities that stays tied to the markup that produced it.
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A worked example
A display-home front and rear yard: one landscape plan, calibrated against the site boundary dimensions. Polygons give 240 m² of turf, 85 m² of garden beds, and 96 m² of paving with 64 m of edge restraint; the retaining wall runs 18 m at a noted 600 mm; the AI counts 74 plants across six species off the schedule symbols — all visible marks you verify. The BoQ prices turf and mulch per m², paving per m² with edging per metre, the wall per face-m², plants per item by size — and the variation when the client doubles the paving is a polygon edit, not a re-estimate. Every number traces back to a markup on the sheet, so when the scope changes the estimate follows.
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AI takes the first pass — you keep the judgement
The AI assistant can count the repetitive items, measure runs, and set the drawing scale, with every result reviewed before it commits. Then the rate side: ask for a rate on "supply and lay instant turf, prepared base, per m²" and it proposes one with reasoning — interpretation, labour-and-material basis, your market — anchored to the rates already in your bill. Never a bare number — a proposal you accept, revise, or dismiss.
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Honest about LMN, SingleOps, Aspire
**LMN** — landscape business management — crews, timesheets, budgets — wrapped around estimating for established companies. **SingleOps** — green-industry operations with CRM and routing where estimating is one module of many. **Aspire** — enterprise landscape operations platforms for large multi-crew businesses. ContractorCounter wins on the other side of that trade-off: speed to a priced quote, working anywhere, and a price a landscapers outfit can carry (US$14/month) instead of an enterprise licence.
Common questions
Questions about Landscaping estimating
Is this full landscaping estimating software or just takeoff?
Both halves, in one flow: measure and count on the calibrated drawings (the [landscaping takeoff](/construction-takeoff-software) side), then price the resulting Bill of Quantities with your own rates or AI-suggested ones, and issue the quote. What it is not: a pre-loaded landscaping cost database — your rates are yours.
Do the AI suggestions replace my landscaping rates?
No. Every AI count, measurement, and rate is a proposal you accept, revise, or dismiss — with the reasoning shown. Your landscaping rates stay yours; the AI removes the repetitive clicking, not the judgement about what a landscaping item is worth in your market.
What does landscaping estimating software cost compared to LMN?
US$14/month, or a US$249 one-time one-time license, with a free trial (card required). Specialist landscaping estimating suites like LMN, SingleOps, Aspire typically run to thousands per seat per year — worth it for their maintained databases if you use them, hard to justify for a small landscaping team pricing from its own rates.
Does it work on site plans, not just buildings?
Yes — any PDF plan calibrates the same way: set the scale against a known site dimension and every polygon, length, and count reads true. Landscape plans, civil sheets, and architectural sites all work; the drawing does not care what trade you are.
