Construction project software, compared on published prices

This page is written for contractors: general builders, mechanical and electrical subcontractors, infrastructure and industrial plant firms. Every price comes from the vendor's own pricing page and is linked in the sources section; where nothing is published we write "not published". No scores, no rankings — the right answer depends on how many sites you run and how you bill progress.

Comparison table

Figures are the values shown on each vendor's own pricing page at the time of checking. monday.com prices were published in euros on the regional pricing page; rates vary by country and billing term.

The options one by one

Procore — large contractors, volume-based pricing

Procore publishes no figures. Its pricing page describes the model in its own words: an upfront annual fee by product, based on your Annual Construction Volume — the aggregate dollar value of construction work across your projects — with unlimited users, unlimited data storage and 24/7 support included, and product enhancements at no additional cost. A custom quote is required.

A good fit when: you want hundreds of site users and subcontractors inside one system and your construction volume is substantial. Because headcount does not drive price, crowded projects are exactly where this model works. A poor fit when: you need a budget figure before engaging with sales, when your volume is small, or when you expect local valuation and certification formats out of the box.

Fieldwire — site execution and plan management

Fieldwire publishes per-user rates and, usefully, publishes what sits in each tier. Basic $0 covers plan viewing, task management, specifications, files, photos and checklists. Pro $39 adds reports and exports, sheet comparison, project templates and custom task statuses. Business $64 adds custom forms, app integrations, a BIM viewer and custom task fields. Business Plus $89 adds RFIs, submittals, change orders and budget management. Unlimited users, dedicated training, API access and SSO sit in custom contracts whose price is not published.

A good fit when: you want the site team taking tasks off drawings and closing them with photos, with 10-50 users. The free tier makes a genuine pilot possible before any commitment. A poor fit when: your primary need is progress billing and cost control — that is not where the product's centre of gravity is.

monday.com — fastest to configure, not construction-specific

monday.com publishes Work Management seats at Basic €9, Standard €12 and Pro €19 per seat per month billed yearly, with a Free tier for up to 2 seats and custom Enterprise pricing. One constraint is published on the same page and is easy to miss: Work Management plans have a 10-seat minimum.

A good fit when: you want task tracking digitised this week and can work from templates. It is the quickest of these options to stand up. A poor fit when: you expect construction-specific flows — timesheets, valuations, subcontractor progress — to arrive ready-made. This is a general-purpose platform and you will design that logic yourself.

Microsoft Project — planning and critical path

Microsoft publishes one-time prices for the desktop editions: Project Standard 2024 at $679.99 and Project Professional 2024 at $1,129.99, each a perpetual licence for one user on one PC. Subscription Planner and Project plans are priced separately.

A good fit when: a planning engineer is producing tender programmes and running critical path analysis. A poor fit when: you want to collect data from site — Project is a planning tool, not a field application. In most contracting firms it runs alongside a site system rather than replacing one.

Odoo — when purchasing and accounting belong in the same place

Odoo does not price its project app separately: Standard at €11.90 per user per month billed yearly and Custom at €17.90 both include all apps. Odoo Studio, multi-company and the External API are Custom-plan capabilities — relevant if you run several project companies, which many contractors do.

A good fit when: procurement, stock and accounting should sit with project tracking. A poor fit when: the site itself is the problem you are solving; breadth is Odoo's strength, site depth is not.

Custom systems (where KodDelta sits)

In contracting, custom software earns its place at two specific points. The first is progress billing. Bill-of-quantity valuations, measured work, retention, price escalation and local certification formats differ by country and are not in the published feature lists of the international products above. The second is headcount: once foremen, subcontractors, inspectors and suppliers all need access, per-seat pricing becomes the dominant annual line.

KodDelta publishes its bands: $3,000-6,000 for a single-process solution such as digital timesheets or measured-work capture (2-4 weeks); $8,000-15,000 for a multi-module system covering valuations, a subcontractor portal, procurement and cost tracking (4-8 weeks); $20,000+ for an end-to-end platform. Maintenance is optional at 12-25% per year and there is no per-user fee.

A poor fit when: you run a single site with a small team on short contracts. At that size, starting with Fieldwire's free tier or a monday.com template is faster and cheaper. We also do not recommend building scheduling software — critical path tools already do that job well at a published price.

Which one, in which situation

The hidden cost of paper timesheets

Paper costs nothing in licences, which is exactly why it survives. Its real price shows up in three places. Billing delay: when site data reaches head office late, the valuation goes out late, and that is cash flow. Weak evidence: in a quantity dispute with a subcontractor, dated and photographed records are the difference between negotiating and conceding. Cost blindness: a firm that learns its actual cost per work item at month end only discovers a loss once the job is finished.

Put the licence figure beside those three lines rather than beside zero. On most contracting jobs, a single delayed valuation cycle costs more than a year of software.

Test your own situation in three questions

1. How many days does site data take to reach head office? If it is more than a week, the thing to fix is data flow, not product choice — a mobile capture app alone will produce the largest single gain, whichever platform it runs on.
2. How many people will have logins, and how many are subcontractors? Under twenty and per-seat products are comfortable. Over fifty with external parties included, convert the seat rate into an annual figure and set it beside the models that do not price on headcount.
3. How do you calculate a valuation? Simple percentage complete is handled by packaged products. Measured quantities, bill-of-quantity rates, retention and escalation are outside the published scope of every international product here, and that is where configuration or a custom build becomes the honest answer.

With those three answers, the first conversation is short: we can usually say in half an hour which layer to buy and which, if any, to build.

Sources

• Procore Pricing (procore.com)
• Fieldwire Pricing (fieldwire.com)
• monday.com Pricing (monday.com)
• Microsoft Project edition and price comparison (microsoft.com)
• Odoo Pricing (odoo.com)
• KodDelta project tracking scope
• KodDelta pricing and delivery bands

Sources checked in August 2026. Vendors change prices without notice; verify the linked page before deciding. Product names belong to their respective owners; KodDelta is not a partner or reseller of any vendor listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does construction project management software cost?

Published rates: Fieldwire Basic $0, Pro $39, Business $64 and Business Plus $89 per user per month billed annually. monday.com Work Management publishes Basic €9, Standard €12 and Pro €19 per seat per month billed yearly, with a 10-seat minimum. Microsoft publishes Project Standard 2024 at $679.99 and Project Professional 2024 at $1,129.99 as one-time perpetual licences. Procore publishes no prices.

How does Procore price its platform?

Procore does not publish figures. Its pricing page states the charge is an upfront annual fee by product, based on your Annual Construction Volume — the aggregate value of construction work across your projects — and that users, data storage and 24/7 support are unlimited. A custom quote is required.

Why does per-user pricing hurt on construction projects?

Because the people who need access are not only your employees. Foremen, subcontractors, inspectors and suppliers all touch the same project data. Under per-seat pricing, every one of them is a recurring line. Procore addresses this by charging on volume with unlimited users; a custom system addresses it by having no per-user fee at all.

Which product handles RFIs, submittals and change orders?

Fieldwire publishes RFIs, submittals, change orders and budget management in its Business Plus tier at $89 per user per month; Business adds custom forms, integrations and a BIM viewer at $64. Procore includes this class of function in the platform but does not publish a price. monday.com can be configured to do it with templates rather than shipping it as a construction feature.

When is a custom construction system worth building?

When headcount on site is large and includes subcontractors, and when your progress billing follows local rules that international products do not ship. Bill-of-quantity valuations, retention, price escalation and local certification formats vary by country and rarely appear in published feature lists. KodDelta publishes $3,000-6,000 and $8,000-15,000 bands for this work.

Should scheduling also be custom-built?

Almost never. Critical path scheduling is a mature, well-solved problem and Microsoft Project and comparable tools do it well at a published one-time price. The value of a custom build in construction sits in site data capture and progress billing, not in the Gantt chart.