Countfire pricing — what’s public, and what we charge.
Countfire doesn’t publish a price. We do — £55 per licence per month. Here is what is actually knowable about the cost of each, and what to ask any takeoff vendor before you sign.
Start with the checkable part. Everything below comes from Countfire’s own site or from third-party software directories, last verified 2 May 2026. Where their published material doesn’t answer a question, the row says so rather than filling the gap with a guess.
Public pricing
CountfireNot published
ZeroCount£55 per licence / month
Pricing model
CountfireTiered (third-party trackers cite ~$99–$999/month per seat)
ZeroCount£55 flat, per licence
Free trial
Countfire7 days, no card required
ZeroCountAvailable via demo, on real drawings
The dollar range is what third-party software directories report. It is not a quote, it did not come from Countfire, and we can’t confirm it. Read it as a range other people have written down. If you want Countfire’s actual number, the only reliable route is to ask Countfire.
Why hardly anyone in this market publishes a price.
Worth saying plainly before anything else: not publishing a price is neither unusual nor underhand. Most construction software above a certain size does exactly this, and the reasons are ordinary commercial ones rather than anything sinister.
Pricing that moves with seat count, contract length and module mix is genuinely hard to put on a page in a form that stays true for every buyer. A sales-led motion lets a vendor discount a large account without repricing for everyone else. And there is a herd effect: the first firm in a category to post a number becomes the number every competitor quotes against in a meeting, so nobody wants to go first.
The cost of all that lands on the buyer, though, and it is a real cost. You can’t shortlist on budget. You can’t tell whether the figure you were quoted is the same one the firm down the road got. And a price you had to book a call to obtain arrives attached to someone whose job is to sell it to you, which is a different conversation from reading a number on a page and deciding for yourself.
We publish because we would rather lose the enquiries where £55 is the wrong answer than spend a half-hour call discovering it together. That is a preference about how we want to sell, not a moral position about how anyone else does.
The headline rate is not the cost.
Whichever way a vendor prices, the monthly figure is only the first question. Five more decide what a takeoff tool actually costs you over a year, and they are worth asking of us as much as of anyone else.
What the fifth seat costs, and the tenth. Per-seat pricing is comfortable until you hire. Ask what happens at the point the team grows, and ask whether a licence is named to one estimator or can move between them when someone is on leave. Ours stays at £55 per licence, with multi-licence rates from five seats.
Which tier you will outgrow.Where pricing has bands, the interesting question is not what the entry band costs — it is which limit you hit in month three. Drawing volume, symbol libraries, users, storage, exports. Find the ceiling before you sign, because that is the number you will actually pay from month four. We don’t have tiers, so there is nothing here to check on our side.
What you point the trial at.A trial is worth exactly what you test on. Running one against a clean vector set tells you the software works on clean vector sets. Take it to your worst drawing instead — the scanned survey, the sheet marked up by hand, the plan someone photographed on a desk — because that is the drawing that decides whether the tool saves you time or quietly adds a checking job.
Currency, VAT and what actually leaves the account. The figures on third-party directory sites are usually in dollars, which reflects how those sites list software rather than how any given vendor invoices. For a UK buyer the number that matters is the one in sterling with VAT on it. Ours is £55 excluding VAT; UK customers pay 20% on top, so £66 a licence all in.
What is billed separately. Onboarding, training, support, migrating your existing project library, extra storage, the connector to your estimating package. Any of these can be included or a line item, and the difference between two otherwise-identical quotes is often here rather than in the headline. On ours, support and every future update are inside the £55, along with unlimited drawings and every file format — the pricing page lists what that covers in full.
£55 per licence, per month.
One number, one plan. VAT is charged on top at 20% for UK customers. Unlimited drawings and unlimited symbols. Vector PDFs, scanned PDFs and photographed plans all at the same rate, because charging more for a worse drawing would be a strange way to sell software that exists to read worse drawings. Billing is monthly and cancels before the next renewal; annual billing is available and saves two months a year.
There is one honest gap in that, and this is the page to point at it rather than hope nobody notices. We don’t publish multi-licence rates. They start at five seats and the right number genuinely depends on the team, so we have the conversation instead. The difference we would defend is that the single-licence price — the one nearly every firm starts on — is on the page, in public, before you speak to anyone.
Where Countfire is ahead of us.
A page written by one of the two parties deserves reading sceptically, so here is the part that doesn’t flatter us.
- Ten years in market against our first year, with the track record that implies.
- Roughly 141 indexed pages of content, 71 blog posts and 30 case studies — a depth of published material we do not have yet.
- Six trade-specific landing pages, including fire sprinkler, lighting, security and structured cabling, which we do not cover today.
- A self-serve seven-day trial with no card, where ours runs through a demo call.
The last of those matters most on a page about cost. A seven-day self-serve trial with no card is a cheaper way to find out you don’t want something than a demo call is, and half an hour of an estimator’s day is a real price to pay before you have seen anything. We do it the other way round because a counting engine is worth judging on your drawings rather than our sample set, and getting your drawings in front of it needs someone on the call. That is the trade, stated rather than hidden.
This page only answers the price question.
Two more questions usually travel with it, and each has its own page so that none of the three ends up a worse version of the other two. If you want the products set side by side — drawing formats, how each counting engine works, what they connect to — that is the comparison. If you already use Countfire and are weighing up whether moving is worth the disruption, that is the alternatives page.
Quick answers.
- How much does Countfire cost?
- Countfire does not publish a price. Third-party software directories report a tiered model in the region of $99 to $999 per seat per month, but that is a figure other people have written down rather than a quote, and we have no way to verify it. The only reliable way to get Countfire's number is to ask Countfire.
- Why doesn't Countfire publish its pricing?
- We can't speak for them, and we won't guess. It is worth saying that most construction software of any size prices this way — pricing that varies with seat count, contract length and module mix is genuinely hard to put on a page in a way that stays true for every buyer. It is normal for the category, not a red flag.
- How much does ZeroCount cost?
- £55 per licence per month. That is the whole price. No tiers, no enterprise plan, and no feature held back for a higher band. Multi-licence rates start from five seats.
- Is that £55 including VAT?
- No. £55 excludes VAT, and UK customers are charged 20% on top, so a single licence works out at £66 a month including VAT.
- Is ZeroCount priced in pounds or dollars?
- Pounds. The dollar figures that appear on third-party directory sites are a quirk of how those directories list software, not a statement about how anyone invoices. We bill in sterling, so there is no exchange rate sitting between the price you read and the amount that leaves the account.
- Can I try either one before paying?
- Countfire publishes a seven-day free trial with no card required, which is a lower-friction start than ours. ZeroCount runs through a demo call first, then we set you up with a working account so you can run real takeoffs on your own drawings before committing.
- What happens to the price when the team grows?
- The per-licence rate stays £55 and multi-licence rates start from five seats. We don't publish the team rates because the right number depends on what the team actually needs, and we would rather say that plainly than post a figure we would end up moving.
Countfire claims on this page are taken from countfire.com and from third-party software directories, last verified 2 May 2026. Countfire is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with ZeroCount; the name is used here for identification only. Our own terms are set out in full on the pricing page.
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