Real Green Systems - now branded RealGreen by WorkWave after WorkWave acquired it in June 2021 - does not publish a price. Not a starting price, not a per-user rate, not a range. Its pricing page is a real page with a real URL and zero dollar figures on it.
So this article does the next best thing. It reads every source that claims to know what RealGreen costs, traces each number back to where it actually came from, and then prices year one four different ways so you can see how wide the honest range is. Everything below was read first-hand on 18 August 2026 and is quoted or linked.
The short answer: the figures in circulation put RealGreen somewhere between $125 and $600+ a month, with a one-time implementation fee reported at $995 and an annual agreement. That works out to a first-year total of $2,495 to $8,195 - a 3.28x spread on the same product. Nobody can narrow it for you, because the only party who knows will not say until you take a sales call.
Real Green has been part of WorkWave since June 22, 2021, and WorkWave has its own owners - EQT and TA Associates brought Hg in as a significant minority partner in 2022 at a $10 billion valuation across WorkWave and IFS. Your software has an owner, and that owner has investors with a return timeline. Our ownership map covers what that layering means at renewal.
What RealGreen's own pricing page actually says
The page at realgreen.com/pricing is titled "Pricing & Modules." It lists three tiers - Small Business, Professional and Enterprise - and describes the model in one sentence:
"We offer a range of packages and pricing options, both usage and user-based."
Then: "Contact us today to get a custom quote for your business." There is a phone number and a Book Demo button. There is no free trial offered and no free tier. The modules are all named - full CRM, online measuring, scheduling and work orders, dynamic routing, mobile app, customer notifications, customer portal, email marketing, digital marketing, integrated payments, sales chatbot, advanced reporting, API integration - but which tier includes which module is not stated either.
One line on that page matters more than the missing prices, and it is easy to skim past. The entry tier, the one called Small Business, is described as "Ideal for 3 crews or more."
Read that again if you run one truck. RealGreen's small-business plan starts where a lot of lawn care companies finish. That single sentence explains most of what follows, and we come back to it below.
The four numbers in circulation, and where each one really comes from
Search for RealGreen pricing and you get four different answers with four different levels of evidence behind them. Sorting them by provenance is more useful than averaging them.
| Figure | Where it is published | What it actually is |
|---|---|---|
| $199/mo, flat rate | Capterra, Software Advice, GetApp | A directory listing. Same number, same 3.9 rating, same 149 reviews on all three - because all three are one review network (see below). |
| $125/mo + $995 implementation and training | One agency blog post at Landscape Leadership | The original source. Attributed to Real Green in the article, with no publication date and no last-updated stamp. |
| $200-$500+/mo | Lawnager, a competitor comparison page | "Industry sources suggest starting costs of $200-500+/month with annual contracts." |
| $300-$600+/mo, plus $995 once | QuoteIQ, a competitor comparison page | Builds up from the $125 base it calls "industry-reported entry pricing," then adds modules. |
| $6,782 implementation; $8,000 annual | Capterra reviewers | Two individual customers describing what they paid. On the same page as the $199 chip. |
Two things fall out of that table.
First, the $199 and the $125 are not two sources agreeing. They are one directory listing and one blog post, and the blog post is where the competitor pages get their number. QuoteIQ says $125 base plus $995 setup and calls it "industry-reported." Lawnager says $200-500 and calls it "industry sources." Trace both back and you arrive at the same undated page.
Second, that undated page is checkably out of date. The same article prices Service Autopilot at "Startup: $47/month; Pro: $79.99/month." Service Autopilot's live pricing page today publishes Startup $49/mo, Pro $199/mo, Pro Plus $499/mo, all "plus sign up fee" and all "based on annual subscription rates." The Pro figure is off by $119.01 - roughly 2.5x. We are not saying the RealGreen number is wrong. We are saying you have no way to tell how old it is, and the one line on that page we can check has drifted badly.
If you want a vendor that does publish, our lawn care software cost breakdown prices the eight tools in this category that print a number, and our Aspire pricing teardown covers the other big quote-only vendor.
Three review sites, one review database - and since January, four
Here is the part that changes how you should read any software comparison, not just this one.
Capterra lists RealGreen at $199.00 flat rate, per month, rated 3.9 stars from 149 reviews. Software Advice lists RealGreen at $199.00 flat rate, per month, rated 3.9 stars from 149 reviews. GetApp lists RealGreen at "$199 flat rate / per month", rated 3.9 stars from 149 reviews.
Three sites. One number, one rating, one review count, to the decimal. That is not three sources corroborating each other - Capterra, Software Advice and GetApp were all Gartner Digital Markets properties and share a review network, so a review published to one is eligible to appear on the others. Checking all three feels like diligence and is closer to reading the same page three times. It is not a one-off, either: a day after this went up we read the same three listings for a different vendor and found Arborgold priced identically across all three — 4.3 stars, 65 reviews and the same three plan prices — with Capterra recording no free trial and GetApp recording one. Two vendors, one database, the same contradiction in the same direction.
And in January 2026 G2 announced it was acquiring all three from Gartner, describing the result as "6 million verified reviews in one place." So the fourth site a buyer would instinctively open next is now part of the same house.
You can watch the single database contradict itself on the most basic buying question there is. Capterra: free trial not available, free version not available. Software Advice: free trial not available. GetApp: free trial and free version both available. SourceForge, outside that network, says "Free Trial available" - and shows 0.0 out of 5 from zero reviews for the same product the other three rate 3.9 from 149.
The tiebreaker is the vendor's own page, which offers a demo and a custom quote and never uses the words "free trial" at all. Treat the two "yes" listings as directory metadata nobody maintains.
One number on Software Advice is worth pulling out because it is the only one the network computes rather than copies: the Value for Money sub-score is 3.6, against an overall 3.9. It is the lowest of the sub-scores. On a product whose price is a secret, that is the closest thing to a price signal the reviews contain.
Year one, priced four ways
Take each circulating monthly figure at face value, add the $995 implementation fee that two independent-ish sources report, and hold the annual agreement constant. This is what the first twelve months cost.
| Monthly figure | 12 months | + setup | Year-one total | Effective monthly | Year two |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $125 (the original) | $1,500 | $995 | $2,495 | $207.92 | $1,500 |
| $199 (the directories) | $2,388 | $995 | $3,383 | $281.92 | $2,388 |
| $300 (low end, with modules) | $3,600 | $995 | $4,595 | $382.92 | $3,600 |
| $600 (high end, with modules) | $7,200 | $995 | $8,195 | $682.92 | $7,200 |
The setup fee is a rate increase wearing a different hat. Spread across twelve months, $995 is $82.92 a month. On a $125 base that is a 66.3% increase on the number you were quoted. On $199 it is 41.7%. Whatever figure comes out of the sales call, the number you actually pay in year one is that figure plus roughly eighty-three dollars a month, and no vendor phrases it that way.
And the range itself has a price. The gap between the cheapest and dearest year-one scenario is $5,700. That is larger than the most expensive published entry subscription anywhere in this category ($3,564 a year, from our 17 August census of eleven tools). The uncertainty about this product costs more than most of its competitors do.
What that is as a share of a real book
Percentages beat dollars when you are comparing a fixed cost against a business. This site uses one worked example throughout: 60 weekly mowing clients, a 32-week season, 1,920 visits at $52, $99,840 of revenue, 60% of it collected by card.
| Cost | Year one | Share of $99,840 | Per client | Per visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landscapey, annual | $199.99 | 0.20% | $3.33 | $0.10 |
| Jobber Core, renewal rate $29/mo | $348 | 0.35% | $5.80 | $0.18 |
| Card processing, 2.9% + 30c | $1,823.62 | 1.83% | $30.39 | $0.95 |
| RealGreen at $125 + setup | $2,495 | 2.50% | $41.58 | $1.30 |
| RealGreen at $199 + setup | $3,383 | 3.39% | $56.38 | $1.76 |
| RealGreen at $300 + setup | $4,595 | 4.60% | $76.58 | $2.39 |
| RealGreen at $600 + setup | $8,195 | 8.21% | $136.58 | $4.27 |
Our census on 17 August found that seven of the eight tools in this category that publish a price cost less than the card-processing bill on the same book - the point being that operators obsess over the subscription and ignore the larger number sitting underneath it. RealGreen breaks that pattern. At every circulating figure, year one costs more than processing: 1.37x at $125, 1.86x at $199, 2.52x at $300, 4.49x at $600.
That is not a criticism. It is a category signal. RealGreen is not competing with the tools that cost less than your merchant fees, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. If processing is where your money is actually going, our invoicing software comparison works through the rails in detail.
The entry tier is aimed at a three-crew company, and that reframes everything
Back to that one line: "Ideal for 3 crews or more." Lawnager's comparison page independently states the same constraint - "Their smallest plan requires 3+ crews" - which is a rare case of a competitor page agreeing with the vendor's own wording.
Our 60-client book is one crew. Assuming a crew handles roughly that many weekly accounts - our assumption, not RealGreen's - three crews is on the order of 180 clients and roughly $299,520 of season revenue. Run the same year-one totals against that business:
| Scenario | Year one | Share of $99,840 (1 crew) | Share of $299,520 (3 crews) |
|---|---|---|---|
| RealGreen at $199 + setup | $3,383 | 3.39% | 1.13% |
| RealGreen at $600 + setup | $8,195 | 8.21% | 2.74% |
At the size RealGreen's own page says the entry plan is for, the price is unremarkable - one to three percent of revenue for the system that runs the company. The problem is not that RealGreen is expensive. The problem is that the person searching "real green pricing" is usually not the person the entry tier was built for, and the sales call is the only place that gets sorted out.
That is also the honest defence of quote-based pricing. When one customer has three trucks and another has thirty, a published price either scares off the small one or leaves money on the table with the large one. It is a segmentation choice, not a trick. It just transfers the cost of finding out onto you, and that cost is real: weeks of sales process, per Lawnager, before you have a number you can put in a budget.
Not every result on this search is about the software
Worth knowing before you click around. The results page for "real green pricing" mixes two completely different businesses that happen to share a name.
- realgreen.com is RealGreen by WorkWave - the software you are researching.
- realgreenservices.com is Real Green, a lawn care service company in Austin, Texas that treats homeowners' lawns. Its "Green Perks" page ranks for the same query and sells membership tiers - Bronze at "5-10% discount off standard pricing," Silver 15%, Gold 20%, Platinum 25%, plus "50% OFF First Application." Those are homeowner discounts on lawn treatments. They have nothing to do with software licensing.
Two of the fifteen results we pulled belong to the Texas company. If you have been comparing "Real Green pricing" and the numbers refused to line up, that may be why.
The one price chart RealGreen does publish
RealGreen will not tell you what its software costs. It will tell you, in considerable detail and with a clear July 2026 date on it, what your customers should be paying you. Its 2026 lawn care pricing chart is a genuinely useful document, and there is no reason not to use it.
| Service | Published range | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Basic mowing | $30 - $65 | per session |
| Edging | $5 - $15 | per session |
| Aeration | $75 - $225 | per job |
| Dethatching | $160 - $225 | per job |
| Leaf removal | $155 - $460 | per job |
| Fertilization | $120 - $480 | per job |
| Weed control | $65 - $170 | per treatment |
| Mulching | $17 - $68 | per cubic yard |
| Hedge trimming | $50 - $75 | per hour |
| Yard cleanup | $170 - $375 | per job |
Its regional table is better still: a quarter-acre mow runs $59-$189 in New York over a 28-32 week season and $24-$61 in Phoenix over 36-44 weeks, which is most of what you need to know about why national pricing advice is useless. Its Houston worked example puts the minimum viable price at $39.22 and recommends listing at $45-$55.
The irony is worth stating plainly rather than scoring points with: a company that will not publish its own price publishes a fifteen-service, eleven-metro chart of everybody else's. If you are setting rates, our guide to bidding landscaping jobs covers the cost side that a price chart cannot.
How to run the sales call so you leave with a number
You cannot skip the call. You can make it produce something you can budget. Ask these, in this order, and write the answers down:
- "What is the base module, monthly, at my size - and what is not in it?" RealGreen's model is modular. Routing, measurement, mobile licences, the customer website and the marketing automation are all described elsewhere as separate line items. A base price with four add-ons is not a base price.
- "What is the implementation and training fee, exactly?" $995 is the figure in circulation. Capterra reviewers report $6,782. Ask for yours in writing.
- "Is this usage-based or user-based, and which usage?" The vendor's own page says both. Usage-based means your bill grows with your customer count, your texts, or your emails - so ask what happens at 1.5x your current size.
- "How long is the agreement, and what is the price at renewal?" This is the one operators forget. Jobber's own pricing page currently advertises "$21/mo For 12 months, then $29/mo" - the introductory price and the real price, printed side by side. When a vendor prints "X for 12 months, then Y," Y is your price. X is a marketing calendar.
- "Which of these features are gated to a higher tier?" Get the tier mapping the pricing page does not publish.
- "What does it cost to leave, and can I export my customer list and job history?" Ask before you sign, not in month fourteen.
Do the same call with two competitors and you will have a comparison the internet cannot give you. For the head-to-head operators most often make, see our Service Autopilot review; for the wider field, our landscape management software roundup.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We build Landscapey, so read this section with that in mind. Our price is on our pricing page: one plan at $19.99/mo (listed at $29.99 - launch pricing, and yes, that is the same species of promotional price we just told you to interrogate, with the renewal risk pointed the other way) or $199.99/yr, with a 14-day trial and no implementation fee. Payments run through Stripe Connect directly to your account at the standard 2.9% + 30c, with no platform cut - the same rate Jobber charges, not a discount.
What we do not have, and RealGreen does: chemical and pesticide application tracking, a franchise and multi-location layer, printed direct-mail and marketing automation, a customer-facing portal and website product, payroll, and multi-user crew logins. RealGreen has been building for lawn treatment companies for forty years and it shows in exactly those places. If you spray, if you franchise, or if you are running three or more crews, the tools in this article are the ones to call. If you run one or two trucks and mostly need clients, jobs, scheduling, routes and invoices in one place, we are cheaper by an order of magnitude and you can see the price before you talk to anyone.
Frequently asked questions
How much does RealGreen cost per month?
RealGreen does not publish a monthly price. The figures in circulation range from $125 to $600+ per month depending on modules, with a reported $995 one-time implementation fee on an annual agreement. Directory listings show $199/mo flat. Your actual quote depends on customer count, users and which modules you take.
Does RealGreen have a free trial?
Its own pricing page offers a demo and a custom quote, not a trial, and lists no free tier. Directory listings disagree with each other on this - Capterra and Software Advice say no trial, GetApp and SourceForge say yes. Take the vendor's page as authoritative.
Is there a setup fee for RealGreen?
Yes, by every account we found, though the amount varies. The figure most often repeated is $995 for implementation and training. Two Capterra reviewers describe paying $6,782 for implementation and committing $8,000 annually. Get yours in writing before signing.
Is RealGreen the same as WorkWave?
WorkWave acquired Real Green Systems in June 2021 and the product is now marketed as RealGreen by WorkWave. The Service Assistant platform many operators still refer to is the same lineage. Note that "Real Green" is also the name of an unrelated lawn care service company in Austin, Texas.
Why does RealGreen hide its pricing?
It is a segmentation choice rather than a trick. The entry tier is described as "ideal for 3 crews or more," and when customers range from three trucks to franchise networks, a single published number either scares off the small operator or underprices the large one. The cost is that finding out takes a sales call and several weeks.
What is a cheaper alternative to RealGreen for a one-truck operation?
Anything that publishes its price, which is most of the category. Our cost breakdown prices the eight tools that print a number, from $199.99 a year up. The honest caveat: none of them do chemical tracking or franchise management, so if you spray or franchise, the cheaper tools are not substitutes.
Sources and limits
Every figure above was read first-hand on 18 August 2026 from: realgreen.com/pricing; realgreen.com's July 2026 lawn care pricing chart; Capterra, Software Advice, GetApp and SourceForge listings for RealGreen / Service Assistant; Landscape Leadership's software comparison; Lawnager's and QuoteIQ's RealGreen comparison pages; realgreenservices.com; serviceautopilot.com/pricing; and G2's January 2026 acquisition announcement.
What we could not verify. The most detailed operator pricing report on this topic sits in a LawnSite forum thread that now returns a payment-required response to anything but a browser, so we did not read it and have not quoted it. We have no first-party RealGreen quote - we are a competitor, and a quote obtained under false pretences would be worse than no quote. Every monthly figure in this article is therefore third-party and should be treated as a starting point for your own call, not as a price list.
What is ours and what is assumed. The 60-client, 32-week, $99,840 book is our standard worked example, not an industry average. The three-crew, 180-client, $299,520 extrapolation is our assumption about crew capacity, stated so you can disagree with it. The year-one totals are arithmetic on other people's numbers: if their numbers are wrong, ours are too, in the same direction.