BRCKS vs Buildertrend: Transparent Pricing for UK Construction
Sometime between late September 2025 and February 2026, Buildertrend quietly removed its prices from the internet.
By BRCKS Team ·
Sometime between late September 2025 and February 2026, Buildertrend quietly removed its prices from the internet.
If you visit buildertrend.com/pricing today you won't find a number — you'll find a quote form that asks for your annual construction volume before anyone will tell you what the software costs. The last published tiers, captured in web archives from September 2025, were $499, $799 and $1,099 per month. Before that, the entry price was roughly $99–199 a month in 2018–19. It rose steadily — contractors on review sites report individual increases of 50% and more — and then it disappeared altogether.
We think that story matters if you're choosing construction software, so here's the honest comparison. The table version lives at BRCKS vs Buildertrend.
First, credit where it's due
Buildertrend is a mature, capable platform. It turned twenty this year, has over a million users, and holds a 4.5/5 across two and a half thousand Capterra reviews. Three things it does genuinely well:
- Estimating, takeoffs and job financials. QuickBooks and Xero sync on every tier, budgets, invoicing, homeowner payments. This is a real, complete residential money stack. BRCKS doesn't do estimating or accounting — if that's your bottleneck, this is a genuine point for Buildertrend.
- Client selections. After absorbing CoConstruct, Buildertrend has the best selections management in the market — allowances, choices, approvals for custom-home clients.
- Twenty years of residential templates, community and workflow maturity. That ecosystem is worth something.
It also includes unlimited users in its per-company price — same as its pricing peer group, and worth stating plainly since BRCKS charges per staff seat (subs and clients free).
The problem, if you're a UK builder
Buildertrend's UK page returns a 404. That's not a metaphor — buildertrend.com/uk/ literally doesn't resolve, while Australia and New Zealand get dedicated pages and support hours (priced in USD, mind).
Concretely, that means: no GBP billing, no CIS handling, no VAT or domestic reverse charge workflows, no retentions or valuation certificates. The Xero integration is the one UK-friendly hook. You'd be paying — reportedly upwards of £370 a month at the old entry tier, before the recent quote-based era — for software with a US tax system baked into its financials, which are the very thing it's best at.
And the learning curve is real. The advice that circulates in builder communities is to make Buildertrend someone's entire job for the first year. Reviewers describe it as cumbersome and slow, with duplicate data entry between proposals and estimates a recurring complaint. There's no free trial — a demo, then a contract.
What BRCKS does instead
BRCKS starts from a different place: your trades are already on WhatsApp, and no rollout programme will change that. So instead of moving them into an app, BRCKS works where they already are.
- Site updates via WhatsApp — photos, progress, time on and off site, captured into a proper project record. An automated 7:30am check-in and a 9pm AI digest bookend the day, and the site diary writes itself from what actually happened.
- The paperwork layer — tasks, snagging, RFIs and variations with an external sign-off portal, a drawing register with revision stacking, RAMS and incident reporting.
- The client side — a free, read-only client portal, plus 360° site tours so the client can walk the site from their sofa.
- AI where it's useful — Ask BRCKS answers questions about your own projects, and the AI Receptionist answers your phone 24/7 and sends you a WhatsApp summary of every call.
Price: £40 per seat per month (annual; £50 monthly), unlimited free subcontractor seats, free client portal, 14-day trial, cancel anytime. Three staff and fifteen subs is £120 a month, and you knew that before talking to anyone.
What we don't do
Estimating, takeoffs, accounting. If those drive your business, either Buildertrend is a fair choice despite the pricing opacity, or — for UK builders — look at pairing a dedicated estimating tool like Buildxact with BRCKS for the site. Plenty of firms quote in one tool and run the job in another; the two jobs don't overlap as much as suite vendors suggest.
The CoConstruct footnote that's really a warning
In 2021, Buildertrend acquired CoConstruct — at the time probably the best-loved software in US residential construction. Development stopped within a year. Prices rose. And CoConstruct users are now being migrated onto Buildertrend's quote-based pricing before the platform closes to new projects in March 2027.
We're not suggesting Buildertrend is about to do that to its own customers. But when a vendor stops publishing prices, you lose the ability to check what the market pays — and one G2 reviewer's line is hard to shake: after four years, "they know you have too much time invested to switch."
Buy from whoever you like. Just ask them how their pricing works before you move your data in.
Which should you choose?
- US custom-home builder with an office team and $2M+ volume: Buildertrend, honestly. It's built around your workflows and your tax system.
- UK builder up to ~20 staff, drowning in WhatsApp groups: BRCKS. You'll know the price, your subs ride free, and your trades won't need training.
- UK firm whose real bottleneck is estimating: neither alone — Buildxact for the quote, BRCKS for the site.
Try BRCKS free for 14 days, or see the full comparison.
FAQ
How much does Buildertrend cost? Buildertrend no longer publishes pricing; you get a quote based on your annual construction volume. The last published tiers (September 2025) were $499, $799 and $1,099 per month, per company with unlimited users. Reviewers report renewal increases are common. BRCKS is £40/seat/month, published on our pricing page.
Does Buildertrend work for UK builders? It runs in a browser anywhere, but there's no GBP billing, no CIS handling, no VAT or domestic-reverse-charge workflows, and its UK web page returns a 404. The Xero integration is the main UK-friendly hook.
Is Buildertrend better than BRCKS for estimating? Yes. Buildertrend has real estimating and takeoffs; BRCKS doesn't do estimating at all. BRCKS runs the project and the site, alongside whatever you quote with.
Can I import my data from Buildertrend? There's no automated migration. Most builders start BRCKS on their next project and let existing Buildertrend contracts run down — the two can run side by side in the meantime.
Does BRCKS have a free trial? Yes — 14 days, no card required. Buildertrend offers a demo instead of a trial.
What happened to CoConstruct? Buildertrend bought it in 2021 and is closing it down — no new projects after 31 March 2027. Its users are being moved onto Buildertrend's quote-based pricing. We wrote a full migration guide.
How BRCKS can help
BRCKS is a UK-built construction platform that captures site activity through the tools your trades already use. Photos, updates and time on site flow in from WhatsApp, the site diary writes itself, and the office side — RFIs, variations, snagging, drawings and a free client portal — sits in one place. See what's inside on the BRCKS home page, or read the full breakdown of how it helps across your week.