If you have priced landscaping software recently, you have probably noticed that LMN is the number nobody quite agrees on. Search for it and you will be told it starts at $99 a month, or $297, or $598, or somewhere in a $297–$697 range. Those cannot all be true, and three of the four are wrong.
This is a plain breakdown of what LMN by Granum actually charges in 2026, read off Granum's own pricing page rather than a directory listing. It covers what each plan includes, the two costs the pricing page deliberately does not publish, the seat math that makes $297 mean two completely different things depending on the size of your crew, and an honest read on who LMN is genuinely built for. We build landscaping CRM software ourselves, so treat this as a competitor writing about a competitor — the numbers below are all quoted from LMN's own pages so you can check every one of them.
LMN pricing in 2026: the plans as published
Granum lists three LMN plans. These figures were read directly from granum.com/lmn/pricing on 5 August 2026.
| Plan | Price | Licenses included | Positioned for |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMN Starter | $297/mo, billed monthly* | 1 office/crew-lead license + 5 crew member licenses (6 total) | Companies with fewer than 10 employees |
| LMN Professional | $648/mo, billed monthly* | 3 office/crew-lead licenses + 15 crew member licenses (18 total) | Companies with 10+ employees |
| LMN Enterprise | Contact sales for pricing | Starts at 100 users | Multi-location operations |
Two things stand out immediately. The first is the jump: Professional is 2.18 times the price of Starter, which is a wide step for a category where most vendors move in increments of $50 to $100. The second is that asterisk. It appears next to every price on the page, and at the bottom of the plan comparison it resolves to five words:
*After a one-time onboarding fee
The amount of that fee does not appear anywhere on the page.
The three numbers, and why you can only see one
Running LMN has three cost components. Only one of them has a published figure.
| Cost | What LMN publishes | Can you compute it before signing up? |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | $297/mo or $648/mo | Yes |
| One-time onboarding fee | "*After a one-time onboarding fee" | No — no amount is published |
| Payment processing (LMN Pay) | "Exact rates are available when you connect your account or speak with our team" | No |
| Licenses beyond the bundle | "Additional licenses are available for a fee" | No — no per-license price is published |
That third row is worth sitting with. LMN Pay relaunched on Stripe in March 2026, and its FAQ answers the processing-fee question like this: "LMN Pay charges a transparent processing fee per transaction — no monthly minimums, no hidden costs. Exact rates are available when you connect your account or speak with our team."
It is not our place to say whether that rate is good. It may well be competitive. The observation is narrower and it is factual: the word transparent and the sentence declining to publish the number are in the same answer.
Scale matters here, because processing is usually the largest of the three costs and it is the one you cannot see. Jobber publishes 2.9% + $0.30 per card transaction on its own site (we verified that first-hand on 31 July 2026). If LMN Pay landed in the same neighbourhood, a two-crew operation running $16,640 a month in card payments across 60 invoices would pay roughly $501 a month — about $6,000 a year, or 1.7 times the Starter subscription. LMN's real rate could be lower than that or higher. The point is that the biggest line item is the one you can only learn after you are in the funnel.
What the internet says LMN costs (and why it is wrong)
Here is the part that made this article worth writing. On 5 August 2026 we pulled the live Google results for "lmn pricing" and compared every non-vendor page's stated price against Granum's own page.
| Source | Price it publishes | Versus LMN's own page |
|---|---|---|
| granum.com/lmn/pricing (the vendor) | $297 Starter / $648 Professional | — |
| A field-service review site, "last reviewed April 2026" | "Starter: $99/month. Pro: $199/month" | 3.0x too low on entry; tier names LMN does not use |
| A second field-service directory, dated 27 April 2026 | "$297–697/mo" | Entry correct; the $697 ceiling appears nowhere on LMN's page |
| Capterra (per Google's own result snippet) | "$598. Pricing Model: Per User" | Neither figure nor model matches the page* |
*Capterra blocked our request, so we could not confirm that on-page and are citing what Google's result snippet displays. We are flagging that rather than presenting it as verified.
Three independent pages, three different prices, none of them right. But the number is not actually the worst error. This is:
"Flat pricing with unlimited users — cost-effective for larger crews"
That claim, from one of the two directories above, is the exact opposite of what LMN's page says. The phrase "unlimited user" appears zero times on Granum's pricing page. What the page says is "Includes 1 office/crew lead license & 5 crew member licenses. Additional licenses are available for a fee." An operator who read "unlimited users" and budgeted for a 12-person crew on the $297 plan would be wrong by an amount nobody can calculate, because the per-license price is not published either.
The same review page also promises a "30-day free trial." The words "trial" and "free trial" appear zero times on LMN's pricing page. Every call to action on it is Book a Demo.
The practical lesson is one we keep relearning while writing these breakdowns: read the vendor's own page. Directory listings age badly, get copied between sites, and are frequently assembled from older data even when they carry a recent review date.
The seat math: $297 is not a price, it is a bundle
Because LMN sells license bundles rather than per-seat access, the headline price tells you almost nothing until you divide it by the number of people who will actually log in.
| Plan | Monthly | Seats included | Cost per seat/month | Annual (subscription only) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMN Starter | $297 | 6 | $49.50 | $3,564 |
| LMN Professional | $648 | 18 | $36.00 | $7,776 |
Per seat, Professional is 27% cheaper than Starter despite costing 2.18 times as much. That is the shape of the product: LMN gets better value the more people you put in it, which is entirely consistent with a company that positions Starter at "fewer than 10 employees" and Professional at "10+."
Now run it the other way, which is the number no directory listing will ever show you. A solo operator on Starter uses one of the six licenses. The effective price of the seat they actually use is $297 a month. Same plan, same invoice — and a six-times difference in what it is worth depending on how many people are in your truck.
For comparison, Jobber's entry Core plan is $29/month on annual billing for one user, with additional users at $29/month each (read from Jobber's own pricing page on 5 August 2026). Six seats assembled that way is $174/month, or $29 per seat — though Core is Jobber's entry tier and does not include QuickBooks sync, which starts at Connect. We have broken Jobber's full band structure down separately in how much Jobber costs; it is genuinely more complicated than the headline suggests too.
What Starter does not include
Reading a comparison chart accurately matters, so a note on method: the gating below is taken from the plan cards' own "Everything in Starter, plus:" lists and from the comparison rows that carry actual text, not from interpreting checkmark icons. We got burned by an icon-versus-tooltip mismatch on a competitor's chart earlier this year and now only publish what is written in words.
| Capability | Starter ($297) | Professional ($648) |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time job costing | Not included | Included |
| Equipment & material costing | Not included | Included |
| Files & photos on documents | Not included | Included |
| Zapier integrations | Not included | Included |
| QuickBooks | Online only | Online and Desktop |
| Interactive dashboards | Basic | Advanced |
| SMS customer messaging | Add-on: $75 one-time + $30/mo | 500 SMS/mo included, $0.06 each after |
The first row is the one that should shape your decision. Real-time job costing is the capability LMN is best known for — it is the reason a lot of landscapers look at the product at all — and it is not on the entry plan. If job costing is why you are shopping, your real LMN price is $648, not $297.
What two years of LMN costs (as far as anyone can tell)
Software decisions are two-to-three-year decisions, because migrating a book of clients, recurring jobs and invoice history is genuinely painful. So the number that matters is not the monthly rate.
| Component | Starter, 24 months | Professional, 24 months | Published? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription | $7,128 | $15,552 | Yes |
| SMS messaging | $795 ($75 + $30 x 24) | Included to 500/mo | Yes |
| One-time onboarding fee | Unknown | Unknown | No |
| Licenses past the bundle | Unknown | Unknown | No |
| Payment processing | Unknown (potentially $12,000+ at $16.6k/mo card volume) | Unknown | No |
| Computable floor | $7,923 | $15,552 | — |
Call it what it is: the two-year cost of LMN cannot be calculated from LMN's pricing page. Neither can Service Autopilot's — every SA plan carries a "+ sign up fee" whose amount is also unpublished, which we documented in our Service Autopilot review. Two of the largest platforms in this category both put a mandatory setup cost behind a sales call. That is a pattern, not a coincidence, and it is worth knowing before you build a shortlist on published prices.
None of which makes either product bad. It makes the comparison harder than the pricing pages suggest, and it means one question belongs at the top of every demo call: what is the onboarding fee, in dollars, and what is my processing rate? Ask it first. A vendor that answers plainly on the call has told you something useful about how the rest of the relationship will go.
Who LMN is genuinely right for
We compete with LMN, so read this section skeptically — but we are not going to pretend it is a weak product, because it is not.
- Budgeting and overhead recovery. LMN's estimating methodology — build a company budget, derive your true hourly cost, price from that — is close to a teaching standard in the green industry. Plenty of operators learned to price properly from LMN's material before they ever bought the software.
- Real-time job costing. On Professional, knowing whether a job is underwater before the final invoice is a genuine capability, and it is the thing most small-business tools do worst.
- A serious crew app. Offline access, GPS location verification, punch-ins, efficiency scores, live crew maps, job photos. If your crews work where cell service dies, offline access alone is a real differentiator.
- Route optimization is on the crew app, not held back for an enterprise tier. That is a more honest structure than some competitors use.
- Training depth. LMN Online Academy, live group training and dedicated launch programs on every tier, plus Greenius as a companion employee-development platform. For a 20-person company, structured training is worth real money.
- A full customer portal where clients approve estimates, view schedules and pay invoices.
| If you are... | Look at |
|---|---|
| A design-build or commercial operation over roughly $1M, 10+ employees, pricing from a real budget | LMN Professional — this is its sweet spot, and the per-seat math genuinely works |
| Multi-location, 100+ users | LMN Enterprise or Aspire |
| Chemical-heavy lawn care needing application tracking | Service Autopilot or Yardbook |
| A 6–15 person crew wanting the widest ecosystem | Jobber |
| Solo through three or four people, running maintenance routes and wanting to be found locally | Something priced for your size — including us |
Where we fit, and where we do not
Landscapey is $19.99 a month, or $199.99 a year, with no setup fee and no onboarding fee. Card payments run through Stripe Connect directly into your own Stripe account, and we take no platform fee on top — so your processing cost is whatever Stripe charges you, published on Stripe's own site, computable before you sign up. That is the specific thing we are claiming: not that we are cheaper, but that you can do the arithmetic in advance.
Now the gaps, plainly, because a comparison that only lists our wins is not worth reading:
- No multi-user crew accounts yet. Landscapey is a single-operator login today. If you need six people in the system, LMN Starter's bundle is built for that and we are not.
- No GPS verification, no offline crew app, no punch-in time tracking.
- No budgeting or overhead-recovery module. We will not pretend a pricing calculator is the same thing.
- No equipment or material costing.
- No design or takeoff tools.
- We are much younger. LMN has been at this since 2010.
What we do cover is the operating spine a small maintenance business actually runs on: clients, recurring jobs, scheduling, route optimization, invoicing with online card payments, expenses, financials, QuickBooks Online sync, and a public profile page that brings you quote requests. If that list is your whole problem, the seat math above is the strongest argument we can make. If it is not, LMN is a real answer and we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing. We wrote about the wider category in our guide to landscaping business management software, and compared six tools honestly in our roundup of landscape management software.
Frequently asked questions
How much does LMN cost per month?
LMN Starter is $297 per month and LMN Professional is $648 per month, both billed monthly, as published on Granum's pricing page in August 2026. LMN Enterprise is quote-based and starts at 100 users. Every one of those prices carries an asterisk resolving to "after a one-time onboarding fee," and the fee amount is not published.
Does LMN cost $99 a month?
No. Several directory and review sites publish $99 as LMN's starting price, including one that carries an April 2026 review date. LMN's own page says $297. Where a directory disagrees with the vendor's live pricing page, trust the vendor's page.
Does LMN have unlimited users?
No. Starter includes one office/crew-lead license and five crew member licenses; Professional includes three and fifteen. Beyond that, LMN's page says "additional licenses are available for a fee" without publishing the per-license price. At least one review site describes LMN as "flat pricing with unlimited users," which contradicts LMN's own page.
Does LMN offer a free trial?
Not according to its pricing page, which contains no mention of a trial — every call to action is "Book a Demo." One review site advertises a 30-day free trial. If a trial matters to your evaluation, ask directly on the demo call rather than relying on a third-party listing.
Is job costing included in the $297 LMN plan?
No. Real-time job costing appears in LMN Professional's "Everything in Starter, plus" list, alongside equipment and material costing, Zapier integrations, and files and photos on documents. If job costing is the reason you are evaluating LMN, budget $648 a month rather than $297.
Is LMN worth it for a small landscaping business?
It depends almost entirely on headcount. At six people the effective cost is $49.50 per seat per month for a deep, mature product, which is defensible. At one or two people you are paying $297 for a bundle sized for six, and the same money buys a lot of software elsewhere. The honest dividing line is roughly the point where you have crews rather than a truck — and where you actually intend to use job costing and budgeting, which is what you are really paying LMN for.
All LMN and Granum figures in this article were read from granum.com on 5 August 2026, and Jobber's from getjobber.com on the same day. Software pricing changes; verify before you buy.