What a solo operator actually gets, feature by feature, at every price. Every competitor cell below comes from their own public pricing page.
Competitor prices and features verified from public pricing pages on August 12, 2026. They may change — always check their sites for current details.
The headline
Feature by feature
| Feature | GleamBid$79/mono setup fee | ResponsiBid StartupFree+ setup fee* | ResponsiBid Scaling$179/mo+ setup fee* | ResponsiBid Pro$229/mo+ setup fee* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your website | ||||
| A website, built for you, included | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| You own the site, domain & data — even if you cancel | ✓ | no website to keep | no website to keep | no website to keep |
| Search-engine setup + Google Business Profile & local-listings tune-up | ✓ included | ✗ not listed | ✗ not listed | ✗ not listed |
| Quoting | ||||
| Instant quotes ON your website | ✓ | ✗ internal calculator only | ✓ | ✓ |
| Conversational AI — quotes in a chat, like texting | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ form / pop-up | ✗ form / pop-up |
| Price computed from your own rates, never exposed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Good/Better/Best tiers & auto-upsell | ✗ one best-fit quote | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Answers customer questions from YOUR site's content, with sources | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Booking | ||||
| Customer books a real open slot, themselves | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ operator schedules it | ✓ |
| Works with Google Calendar | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works with Apple / iCloud Calendar | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ not listed | ✗ not listed |
| Leads & customers | ||||
| Every quote captures the lead's email | ✓ | internal use only | ✓ | ✓ |
| Client list & customer profiles | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recurring service plans with next-due dates | ✓ | not listed | not listed | not listed |
| Automated email follow-up | one auto reminder | ✗ | ✓ sequences | ✓ sequences |
| Text (SMS) follow-up | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| The bill | ||||
| Setup fee | $0 | *their FAQ confirms a setup fee; amount not published on the pricing page | ||
| Cost to pause for the season | cancel free, site keeps working, come back anytime | $50/month seasonal pause (up to 4 months/year), per their pricing page | ||
| First-year cost (12 months) | $948 | $0 + setup — no widget on your site | $2,148 + setup | $2,748 + setup |
Their follow-up automation is deeper (multi-step email sequences, and SMS on Pro), and their quoting engine offers tiered packages with auto-upsell that we don't. If you're running crews with an office manager and a Jobber subscription, they're built for you. GleamBid is built for the operator who IS the office.
The other names you'll hear
Real online booking, but prices come from a predefined price book — pick a package, see its price. It can't compute a property-specific price from your windows, stories and gutter feet. No website included.
CRM, scheduling and invoicing for running jobs you already won. It's what ResponsiBid plugs into. It doesn't put an instant quote on your website, and no website is included.
Their $29.99 Essentials tier is estimates/invoicing only — the self-serve instant-quote widget (InstaQuote) first appears on their Elite plan at $299/month, per their public pricing page.
No setup fee. No contract. The site is yours to keep, whatever happens.