KeyBoltKeyBolt vs Housecall Pro, for a locksmith shop.
Housecall Pro is a mature home services platform with a deep feature set and a lot of add-ons. KeyBolt covers less ground on purpose and puts the phone line in the base price.
What KeyBolt costs
KeyBolt is $99 a month for Basic (up to 5 team members) and $189 for KeyBolt Pro (up to 10). Both are month to month, both include a 14-day free trial that charges you nothing until it ends, and neither charges per extra user inside those limits. On Pro, voice and SMS are billed directly by Telnyx at carrier rates with no markup from KeyBolt, which runs a typical small shop $80 to $130 a month on top.
What Housecall Pro publishes
- Basic: $59/mo billed annually, $79/mo month-to-month. 1 user.
- Essentials: $149/mo billed annually, $189/mo month-to-month. 5 users, then $100/mo per additional user.
- Max: $299/mo billed annually, $329/mo month-to-month. 8 users, then $75/mo per additional user.
- Voice, CSR AI, Tap to Pay, Payroll, Accounting and others are listed as add-ons. Housecall Pro does not publish prices for most of them on its pricing page.
Read from Housecall Pro’s pricing page on August 28, 2026. Prices change, so check theirs before you decide.
What you would actually pay.
Built from Housecall Pro’s own published prices above. The arithmetic is shown so you can check it.
A 3-person shop, month to month
KeyBolt
$99
KeyBolt Basic covers up to 5 people, so a third tech changes nothing.
Housecall Pro
$189
Basic is a single user, so three people means Essentials at $189 month to month.
Adding your 6th person
KeyBolt
$0 more
KeyBolt Pro covers up to 10 at one price. The bill does not move.
Housecall Pro
$100 more, every month
Essentials includes 5 users, then $100 a month for each one after that.
A 6-person shop that wants its calls answered
KeyBolt
$189
KeyBolt Pro, with your own business line and the AI receptionist in the price.
Housecall Pro
$289 plus add-ons
Essentials at $189 month to month, plus one user at $100. Voice and CSR AI are separate add-ons, and Housecall Pro does not publish what they cost.
Side by side.
| KeyBolt | Housecall Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Locksmiths only | Home service trades generally |
| Users included | Better on KeyBolt:5 on Basic, 10 on Pro, at the same price | 1 on Basic, 5 on Essentials, 8 on Max. Extra users $75 to $100/mo |
| Key codes and bitting | Better on KeyBolt:Stored per customer, encrypted at rest, readable offline | No dedicated field. Custom fields or notes |
| Business phone line | Better on KeyBolt:Included on Pro. Carrier minutes billed by Telnyx at cost | Voice is a paid add-on. Price not published |
| AI answering | Better on KeyBolt:Included on Pro at $189 | CSR AI is a paid add-on. Price not published |
| Card at the job | Better on KeyBolt:Tap to Pay on iPhone, included | Tap to Pay is listed as an add-on |
| Google LSA lead tools | Better on KeyBolt:Lead outcomes marked automatically, refund candidates surfaced | Not a published feature |
| Offline in a basement | Better on KeyBolt:Jobs, photos, notes, and stock counts keep working. Key codes too, on iPhone | Mobile app with limited offline support |
| Pricing transparency | Better on KeyBolt:Two prices, published, no per-user fees inside the limits | Plan prices published. Most add-on prices are not |
So which one?
Pick KeyBolt if
A locksmith shop that wants the phone line, the after-hours answering, and the locksmith-specific records included rather than assembled from add-ons.
Pick Housecall Pro if
A shop that wants the widest platform under one vendor, or that needs payroll and marketing tooling in the same place as dispatch.
Questions.
- Which is cheaper?
- It depends on team size and on whether you want a phone line. KeyBolt Pro is $189 a month for up to 10 people with the phone line, two-way texting, and the AI receptionist included; the Housecall Pro equivalent is Essentials plus add-ons whose prices they do not publish. A single operator who needs none of that will pay less on Housecall Pro Basic, so ask them for a written quote and compare it against $189.
- Why can’t you tell me the add-on prices?
- Because Housecall Pro does not publish them on its pricing page, and repeating a number from a review site would be a claim we could not stand behind. Ask them directly.
- Does Housecall Pro handle key codes?
- Not as a dedicated field. You would keep them in custom fields or notes.
- Does KeyBolt do payroll?
- No. There is a time clock with regular, overtime, and holiday totals and a weekly CSV you hand to your payroll provider. KeyBolt does not run payroll itself.
Housecall Pro is a trademark of its owner. KeyBolt is not affiliated with them. The figures above come from Housecall Pro’s own published pricing page on the date shown, and we have no control over when they change. Tell us if something here is wrong and we will fix it.