Guide
How much does snagging software cost?
Updated
The spread here is wider than in any other construction software category, because the products are not doing the same job.
Talk to a specialist Six systems, three published prices, and the New Homes Quality Code requirements they all have to serve, each traceable to the page it came from.
The prices we could actually read
| System | Published price | Charged per |
|---|---|---|
| Site Audit Pro | £12.90 one-off, then £0, £6.99 a month or £59.99 a year | Device and user. iOS required for the subscriptions |
| PlanRadar Basic | £23 or £25 a month | User, maximum one user, 10 digital plans |
| PlanRadar Starter | £80 or £89 a month | User, 30 digital plans per user |
| PlanRadar Pro | £119 or £139 a month | User, 100 plans and 1 BIM model per user |
| Fieldwire Pro | $39 a month, billed annually | User. No sterling figure shown to us |
| Fieldwire Business | $64 a month, billed annually | User. Adds custom forms, integrations and a BIM viewer |
Every figure above was read on the supplier's own pricing page on 15 August 2026 and is reproduced, not estimated and not converted. PlanRadar shows two figures per tier under a Monthly and Annual toggle, with annual stated to save more than 10%, so we have read the lower figure as the annual rate. Fieldwire's page offers a British Pound option we could not exercise, so its prices here are the US dollar ones it served us.
Per user is the wrong unit for snagging, and everyone knows it
Snagging is the one construction workflow where the people who need access are mostly not your employees. A per-user licence that also charges for every subcontractor turns a £119 a month tool into something quite different. Two suppliers have solved this in opposite ways. PlanRadar states that subcontractors and watchers are unlimited and included free on every tier, so you pay for your own team only. Snagmaster does not publish a price at all but states unlimited users, unlimited projects and unlimited signatories. Fieldwire charges per user on its paid tiers, with 5 users on the free Basic plan. Ask any supplier the same question first: who counts as a user, and do the trades count?
What moves a quote from the three that do not publish
- Plots or units
- Aftercare systems are usually priced on the size of the book they manage rather than the number of staff. If you are buying for aftercare, expect the first question to be how many plots are inside their defect liability period.
- Projects live at once
- A contractor running four sites and a housebuilder running forty are different customers even at the same headcount. Some systems meter projects: Fieldwire's free tier stops at 3.
- Drawings and BIM
- Metered on PlanRadar, at 10, 30 per user and 100 per user across the tiers, with BIM models from Pro. On a large residential scheme with hundreds of plot drawings, that limit is a real constraint, not a footnote.
- Implementation
- None of the six publishes an implementation fee. Zutec offers a proof of concept on one project before full-scale implementation, which is the cheapest way to find out what implementation really involves.
- Storage and photographs
- Snagging is a photography workload. PlanRadar states unlimited exports and data storage on every tier; Site Audit Pro puts extra cloud storage behind its paid subscriptions. Ask what a year of site photographs costs.
- Getting the data out
- A snagging register is evidence. Ask, before you buy, what an export of every snag with its photographs and its sign-off looks like, and how long the supplier retains it after you leave.
The cheap end is genuinely usable, for one person
Site Audit Pro at £12.90 as a one-off plus an optional £6.99 a month is not a stripped demo: its free plan covers offline projects, issue details, photo annotation, signatures and branded PDF reports. For a single site manager walking plots and emailing a report the same evening, that is the whole job. What it will not do is pin a snag to a drawing, give a subcontractor a login, or track a resident's defect through a two-year aftercare period. Those are the three things that make the rest of this list cost what it costs.