JobTread organizes your costs.
MAGE learns from them.
JobTread is a genuinely good job-costing and budgeting tool — and yes, it has scheduling with critical path. But it does two things every contractor needs that JobTread doesn’t: it gives every bid a Bid Confidence score — priced off your own finished jobs (not the numbers you guess into a form), and it warns you while a live job is losing margin — not after the final invoice. And it’s a flat price for your whole company, with no per-seat math.
MAGE ID vs. JobTread, line by line.
| MAGE ID | JobTread | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat $29–$79/mo, whole company — subs free | Lower entry, but scales with seats & features1 |
| Prices bids off your real costs | Yes — cost-learning loop calibrates to your history | No — budgets are what you enter |
| Live margin-erosion alerts | Yes — a Margin Risk score flags jobs early | No |
| Job costing & budgeting | Yes | Yes — this is JobTread's strength |
| WIP financial schedule (work-in-progress reporting) | Yes — WIP reporting on the Business tier | — |
| Scheduling | CPM + critical path, plus Last Planner (weather-aware reflow on the roadmap) | Gantt + critical path (since 2022); no pull planning |
| AI estimate from a sentence or plan | Yes | No |
| Mobile-first field use | iOS-first, offline, voice everywhere | Web-first with a mobile app |
| Free tier | First project free; subs always free | Trial only |
Keep the costing. Add the intelligence.
JobTread tells you what a job cost. MAGE tells you what to bid next time — and warns you before the live one slips. Start free on your first project and see the difference on a real bid.
On-screen takeoff, then it learns.
Drop a plan and take off quantities right on the screen — or describe the job in a sentence and let the AI draft it. JobTread organizes the costs you enter. MAGE calibrates the next bid to what your own finished jobs actually cost.
Ask it what to bid next time.
The MAGE copilot reads your history and your live jobs — what a job cost, where margin is slipping, what to charge on the next one. That's the layer JobTread doesn't have: not just a record of your costs, but a read on what to do about them.
Who should still pick JobTread.
If deep job-costing and budgeting workflows are your whole world and you don’t need predictive pricing or live margin defense, JobTread is a capable, affordable choice. MAGE is for the GC who wants the costing and the intelligence that turns it into a sharper bid and a protected margin.
Questions contractors ask.
How is MAGE ID different from JobTread?
JobTread is strong at job costing, but it prices bids off the numbers you type in. MAGE learns your real costs from finished jobs and prices the next bid off your own history — and flags margin erosion live. JobTread does neither.
Is MAGE ID cheaper than JobTread?
MAGE is a flat $29–$79/mo for your whole company, no per-seat fees, subs free. JobTread starts low but adds cost as you add users and features — compare your real seat count.
Does JobTread have scheduling?
Yes — with critical path since 2022. MAGE adds Last Planner pull planning and ties the schedule to margin, with weather-aware reflow on the roadmap.
Is there a free version of MAGE ID?
Yes — free for your first project, and subs are always free.
Keep your costs. Add the part that protects your profit.
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