Tradework Labs vs FieldRoutes
Both run pest shops. One is built for the 50-truck enterprise. One is built for the owner on the truck.
FieldRoutes is a serious, mature pest platform — now a ServiceTitan company — tuned for shops with their own ops and dispatch team. Tradework Labs is the under-the-FieldRoutes alternative for the 1–15-tech shop they outgrew: $187/mo flat with the AI front desk, CRM, and marketing already wired up and tuned for you each month.
Pricing and feature claims on this page were verified against fieldroutes.com on May 1, 2026. FieldRoutes doesn't publish prices and changes packaging from time to time — if anything looks off, the live site (or your sales rep) is the source of truth.
At a glance
The honest side-by-side
Where each one wins, in plain language. No asterisks, no marketing math.
FieldRoutes pricing is quote-only and scales with active-customer count; the $187/mo Tradework Labs plan is the same flat price regardless of customer count or call volume.
Where FieldRoutes wins
Built for the shop with a dispatch desk
FieldRoutes is a serious pest platform with real strengths. If you're past the owner-on-the-truck stage, these are worth weighing.
Enterprise-grade route optimization
Years of polish on routing for pest density. Drag-and-drop scheduler with map view, drive-time and fuel-cost weighting, bulk re-routing across thousands of stops. If you run 20+ trucks across a metro, this is what you actually need.
Built for fleet scale
Dashboards, technician specialty matching, commercial trend reporting, premium API. Designed for shops with a dedicated ops or dispatch person. The deeper the team, the more FieldRoutes earns its keep.
Mature pest-specific reporting
WDO inspection reporting (California Branch 3 compliant), Sentricon integration, the pest-industry reports auditors and franchisors expect. They've been the spreadsheet-of-record for pest for a long time.
ServiceTitan-backed
Acquired by ServiceTitan in 2022. If you're already on a ServiceTitan stack — or planning to grow into one — staying inside that ecosystem is a real argument.
Where Tradework Labs wins
For the shop FieldRoutes outgrew
We're not trying to be enterprise. We're the back office, set up and tuned for the 1–15-tech owner-operator pest shop.
Transparent flat pricing
Tradework Labs is $187/mo flat — listed on the homepage. FieldRoutes makes you book a sales call to find out what you'll pay, then meters you on active customers. Predictable beats configurable when you're running the books on a phone in the truck.
Owner stays on the truck
No 4–6 week implementation, no dispatch hire, no software to learn. We set it up, train the AI on your services, and tune it with you each month. The whole point is that it runs without you babysitting it.
AI voice + chat receptionist included
FieldRoutes doesn't bundle an AI receptionist or web chat — those are still a missed-call problem you solve with a separate vendor. Tradework Labs answers every inbound call and chat 24/7 and books straight into your calendar, on the same flat $187.
Marketing & follow-ups in the box
No Marketing Pro add-on, no separate review tool. Automated review requests, missed-call text-back, recurring campaign blasts, and quarterly follow-ups are built in and tuned for pest — termite swarm season, WDO closing dates, rodent fall surge.
Month-to-month, no long contract
Enterprise pest software typically lives on annual contracts. Tradework Labs is month-to-month with no minimum term. If we stop earning the seat, you walk.
A real person, not a ticket queue
FieldRoutes has solid in-house support, but it's ticket-based: open one, wait for a reply. Tradework Labs gives you a 30-minute monthly call to review the calls the bot took, the bookings it missed, and what to fix before next month.
Best for…
Pick the one that fits how you actually run
FieldRoutes is right if
- You're running 10+ techs with a dedicated ops or dispatch person
- Route density across a metro is the thing that actually moves margin
- You need WDO/Sentricon/commercial reporting tied to the route system
- You're already on or growing into the ServiceTitan ecosystem
Tradework Labs is right if
- You're an owner-operator pest shop with 1–15 techs
- You'd rather pay one flat price than book a sales call to find out what you'll pay
- You're losing jobs to missed calls and need an AI receptionist that books, not a routing upgrade
- You want CRM + AI + marketing handled and tuned for you, not a platform to staff
Coming off FieldRoutes?
We'll move your customers, jobs, and history over for free
Send us your export and we handle the migration in your first week — customers, recurring contracts, treatment history, and warranty dates included. You don't lift a finger and nothing gets left behind.
- Customer records & contact info
- Recurring service contracts (quarterly, bi-monthly, annual)
- Treatment history & service notes
- WDO reports & warranty dates
- Outstanding balances
Ready when you are
See it tuned for your shop. 15 minutes. No pressure.
Tell us about your services, route, and what you're using now — we'll show you what flat-price, done-for-you looks like for your exact operation. If FieldRoutes is the better fit, we'll say so.
Questions? Email support@tradeworklabs.com