Projects vs Procore
Procore is built for the GC with an IT department. You're not them.
Procore is powerful, enterprise construction software — priced, implemented, and trained for it. If you're an owner-run or midsize builder who just wants to run the job, that weight works against you. Projects is the one app you use instead.
Switch to Projects if…
- You run 1–30 people and feel like you're managing the software as much as the job.
- You want a price on the page, not a sales call and an annual contract.
- Your team lives on their phones — and you want a real iPhone app, not a portal.
- You're stitching tasks, schedule, money, and a spreadsheet together yourself.
Stay on Procore if…
- You're a large GC running massive commercial projects with heavy RFI/submittal volume.
- You need a deep integration ecosystem and a dedicated admin to run it.
- Owner/architect/engineer collaboration at enterprise scale is your daily reality.
We'd rather you pick the right tool than churn in a month. The honest answer is above; the detail is below.
Procore earned its place on big commercial jobs. The permission matrices, the module catalog, the implementation timeline — that's what a 200-person GC with a software admin needs, and Procore does it well.
But that same machinery is dead weight for a custom-home builder or a 12-person remodeling shop. You pay enterprise prices, sit through onboarding, and still end up in a spreadsheet because the answer to “am I making money on this job?” is buried six clicks deep.
Projects is built for the other end of the market: the builder who wants to open the app, see the job, and get back to work. Same core — tasks, schedule, money, plans, photos, your sub book — without the parts that only exist to justify an enterprise invoice.
Procore is software you're trained on. Projects is software you just use.
Comparison reflects our reading of each product for small-to-midsize builders, as of writing. Procore is a capable product — see where it wins below.
Where Procore is the better call.
No tool is right for everyone. Here's where they have us.
Enterprise scale
Hundreds of users, huge commercial jobs, and the org structure to match — Procore is built for it and we're not pretending otherwise.
RFIs & submittals at volume
If formal RFI/submittal workflows are the center of your day, Procore's depth there is real. Projects keeps it lean on purpose.
Integration ecosystem
A large marketplace of integrations and a platform to manage them — valuable if you have someone whose job is to manage them.
Owner/architect collaboration
Large multi-party project teams with formal processes are squarely Procore's home turf.
Where Projects wins.
You can read the price
$39 per office seat (the whole crew is free), or free to start — on the pricing page, no call required. No implementation fee, no annual lock-in.
One app, not a module catalog
Tasks, schedule, budgets, plans, photos, vendors, clients — included on every plan. Nothing gated, nothing to buy à la carte.
The five-second money answer
Open a job and see contract, spent, and margin immediately. No export, no spreadsheet, no training to find it.
A phone that works on the job
Native iPhone app that keeps working with no signal and syncs when you're back — built for the truck and the framing stage.
Switching is the easy part.
You don't have to rip the bandage. Start free, set up one live job in five minutes, and run it alongside Procore until you trust it. Export your money data to CSV any time — your data is yours. When you're ready, bring the rest over; we'll help.
Run your next job on it — free.
Start in five minutes. Keep your old tool running until you don't need it.