Brilla vs Housecall Pro for Detailers: Features, Prices and Who Each Suits

Housecall Pro is a big, well-known platform for home-service businesses, and it has a page aimed squarely at auto detailers. If you're weighing Housecall Pro for detailers against Brilla, the honest answer depends on what kind of detailing business you run and how big your team is. Here's a fair side-by-side.

Prices and features as listed on each company's website in October 2026; check their sites for the latest.

The short version

Housecall Pro is a broad home-service platform with a deep set of add-ons: payroll, marketing campaigns with postcards, an AI call answering service, consumer financing. It serves plumbers and HVAC companies as much as detailers. Brilla is built only for detailing and ceramic coating businesses, with fewer features overall, one price, and unlimited team members.

Price

Brilla is $49 a month or $490 a year, everything included, unlimited team members.

As listed on Housecall Pro's pricing page in October 2026, Housecall Pro has three plans, shown with annual billing by default:

Some features detailers ask about sit on specific plans: QuickBooks Online sync and commissions start at Essentials, and recurring service plans and route optimization are on Max. So a five-person detail shop that wants commission tracking would be looking at Essentials, from $149/month billed annually.

Feature by feature

What Housecall Pro does well

• Depth of add-ons. Payroll with time tracking, postcard campaigns and financing are things Brilla doesn't offer at all.
• Accounting and routing. QuickBooks Online sync and route optimization on the higher plans.
• Phones. A business phone system with a missed-call text automation, plus an AI answering add-on.
• Scale. It's built for companies with dispatchers, several crews and an office.

If you're running detailing alongside other home services, or you've got a team big enough to need payroll processing inside the same app, Housecall Pro is built for that.

Where Brilla is different

• Detailing-specific. Coating warranty tracking, per-vehicle pricing on multi-car bookings, and a Rain check email for mobile jobs.
• No plan ladder. Commission tracking, maintenance plans and online booking are all in the one $49 plan.
• Team size doesn't change the price. Hiring your sixth detailer costs nothing extra.
• Missed calls from anyone. Brilla's missed-call text-back will text any valid caller, including new leads, once in 12 hours. It comes with Brilla's texting add-on, which is coming soon.

What Brilla doesn't have

No QuickBooks sync, no payroll processing (Brilla tracks what each detailer is owed; you pay them), no route optimization, no postcards, no consumer financing, no Android app, and one location per account. If you need several locations or franchise tools, Housecall Pro is the better choice today. Our plans are on the roadmap.

What a growing team pays

Team size is where the two diverge most. Using the prices each company lists, here's what the software itself costs as a detailing business grows, before card fees. Housecall Pro's figures use annual billing; Brilla's monthly price is the same whatever the team size.

• Just you: Brilla $49/month. Housecall Pro Basic $59/month billed annually ($79 monthly).
• You plus up to four detailers: Brilla $49/month. Housecall Pro Essentials $149/month billed annually ($189 monthly), which is also the first plan with commissions and QuickBooks.
• Eight people: Brilla $49/month. Housecall Pro Max $299/month billed annually ($329 monthly), which adds recurring service plans and route optimization.

Those Housecall Pro plans include a lot that Brilla doesn't, so this isn't a like-for-like price comparison. It's a way to see what you'd pay for the features you'd actually use.

Who should pick which

• Pick Housecall Pro if you need payroll processing, QuickBooks, postcards or financing in one place, you run several service trades, or you need multi-location support.
• Pick Brilla if you're a mobile detailer or a detail shop that wants detailing-specific tools and commission tracking without moving up a plan, at one price for the whole team.

Also comparing others? Read Brilla vs Jobber and our roundup of auto detailing software for 2026.