LMN is built for large commercial landscaping operations (20+ employees) with crews on multi-day projects. LMN is excellent at job costing, time tracking, and budget management at scale — built for the commercial landscape industry, not residential mowing.
Grassr is built specifically for small lawn care crews (1-10 people). It focuses on instant payments, simple scheduling, and crew management — free forever with no per-seat fees. You can run the whole business from your phone.
Quick version: If you run a commercial landscaping company with 20+ employees and project-based work, LMN is the right tool. If you're a residential lawn care operator with a 1-10 person crew, LMN is wildly overkill and Grassr is your play.
| Grassr | LMN | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | ~$500/month ($6,000+/yr) |
| Built for | Residential lawn care (1-10) | Commercial landscape (20+) |
| Per-seat fees | None — unlimited crew | Yes |
| Run from your phone | Yes — full feature parity on mobile | |
| Instant payment (card on file) | ✓ | |
| Auto-invoicing on completion | ✓ | |
| Smart routes | ✓ | |
| Built for | Lawn care (1-10 people) | |
| Setup time | Minutes | |
| Job costing & estimating at scale | ✗ | ✓ |
| Multi-day project workflows | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time tracking & budgeting | ✗ | ✓ |
| Onboarding complexity | None | High (weeks of training) |
LMN's pricing is enterprise-tier — typically $500+/month for the platform plus per-user fees as your team grows. A 20-person commercial crew lands well over $10,000/year. For 20+ employee commercial landscaping shops with project work, that price reflects real value. For a residential mowing crew, it doesn't. Grassr is $0/year.
LMN is built for commercial landscaping — multi-day projects, crews on a single job site, job costing at scale, budgeting against bids. Grassr is built for residential lawn care — recurring weekly visits, route optimization across many small jobs, auto-charge on completion. These are different businesses with different software needs.
LMN's $500+/month price reflects what 20+ employee commercial shops need: enterprise reliability, deep reporting, customer success teams. For a residential mowing crew doing 50 yards a week, that's spending five figures a year on software you'll use 10% of. Grassr is free with every feature included.
LMN onboarding is measured in weeks — implementation specialists, team training, custom workflows. Grassr is set up in minutes. The tradeoff: LMN can model almost any commercial landscaping workflow, Grassr commits to the 5-10 things residential lawn crews do every day.
Yes — LMN is built for 20+ employee commercial landscaping operations. For residential mowing, you'll use less than 20% of what you're paying for. Most residential operators on LMN either inherited it from a larger acquisition or scaled out of it.
Not really — Grassr is purpose-built for residential lawn care with recurring weekly visits. Commercial landscaping needs job costing, bidding, multi-day crew scheduling, and project workflows that Grassr intentionally doesn't build. If you're commercial, stick with LMN or Aspire.
Grassr is free at every crew size up to 10 people. We are intentionally capped at the small-crew segment — beyond 10, you likely need enterprise features Grassr does not build. The standard payment processing fee on online card transactions applies (cash and check are always free).
Free forever. Unlimited crew. Run your whole business from your phone.
Free forever. Run your whole business from your phone.