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Redline vs LMN: quick quotes or full budgets.

LMN is landscape business software built around budgeting: overhead recovery, price lists, material and labor calculators, and crew timesheets. Redline is chat-first field service software that starts with a Free plan for $0, remembers your rates and drafts quotes when you describe the job. If you price every job against a full overhead budget, LMN is built for that and Redline isn't.

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The short version

Redline suits the landscaper who prices from experience: you know your man-hour rate and what mulch costs you, and you want the quote out the same day. Tell Redline your rates once and its memory keeps them. Then describe the beds and it drafts the quote. Free covers that plus contacts, the pipeline and the calendar. Solo at $29 a month adds invoices; Team at $129 a month adds the crew board for 3 seats.

LMN, from Granum, is landscape business software for maintenance, design-build and snow companies with crews. It does budgets with overhead recovery, price lists, material and labor calculators and automated proposals; scheduling with calendars and a whiteboard; an iOS and Android crew app for schedules, timesheets and tasks; and invoicing and payments. Its Starter plan is aimed at companies under 10 employees.

LMN's pricing page lists Starter from $297 a month with 1 office or crew lead license and 5 crew member licenses, Professional from $648 a month with 3 office or crew lead licenses and 15 crew member licenses for companies of 10 or more, and Enterprise by quote.

Front beds, priced from remembered rates

Our labor rate is $65 a man-hour and mulch is $68 a yard.

Got it: $65 a man-hour, $68 a yard for mulch. I'll use those on your quotes.

Remembered.

Quote the Kessler front beds: 12 yards of mulch, 9 boxwoods at $45, 3 hydrangeas at $60, about 14 man-hours.

Drafted for Ruth Kessler:

Mulch, 12 yards, $816

Boxwoods, 9 at $45, $405

Hydrangeas, 3 at $60, $180

Labor, 14 man-hours, $910

$2,311. Save it?

Memory keeps your rates so you don't repeat them. It isn't a price book or an overhead-recovery budget.

Redline and LMN, side by side

	Redline	LMN
How you use it	Chat first. You message it ("invoice Sullivan for the roof job") and it updates contacts, jobs, the calendar and invoices, asking you to confirm before it changes customer records. Web and iPhone.	Budgeting and estimating screens, a scheduling whiteboard, and a crew app for schedules, timesheets and tasks.
Free plan	Yes. $0 with no end date: AI chat, contacts, pipeline, calendar, scheduling assistant, Quick-Sort and a Pro Page. 1 seat and 4,000 AI credits that don't refill.	No free plan.
Starting price	Solo at $29 a month, or $23 a month billed yearly. 7-day free trial on the web.	Starter from $297 a month, per its pricing page.
Seats	Free and Solo: 1. Team ($129 a month): 3. Team+ ($299 a month): 10, plus extra seats at $29 each.	License bundles: Starter has 1 office or crew lead license and 5 crew member licenses.
Quotes	Itemized quotes by chat, including from a site photo, with an optional deposit %. Good, better and best options and tax are in the Quote composer (Solo and up). Saved as drafts; you email the customer from your own Gmail. No quote link, online approval or e-sign today.	Budgets with overhead recovery, price lists, material and labor calculators, automated proposals.
Invoicing and payments	Solo and up. Branded card pay links on your own Stripe account, no Redline fee on top. Card only, US dollars. Overdue flags at day 3, 7 and 14.	Invoicing and payments included in plans.
Scheduling	Every plan. Suggests up to 3 open slots, groups visits in the same town, sets up repeating visits with one save. No calendar sync, no online booking.	Scheduling, calendars and a whiteboard.
Dispatch	Team and up. Dispatch board, tech app, assign jobs by chat, crew chat. Techs tap their status; there's no GPS.	Crew app for schedules, timesheets and tasks.
What LMN has that Redline doesn't	Not in Redline today.	Overhead-recovery budgeting, price lists, material and labor calculators, crew timesheets, an Android crew app.
What Redline has that LMN doesn't	A Free plan. Paid plans from $29 a month.	No free plan. Starter from $297 a month.

LMN details come from LMN's own website, checked October 2026. Plans and prices change, so confirm on their site before you decide.

Who should pick which

Pick LMN if

You price every job against a budget that recovers your overhead
You keep price lists for plants, stone and materials
Crews clock in and out and you pay from their timesheets
You run several crews on maintenance and design-build at once
You want a whiteboard view of who is where all week

Pick Redline if

You're one truck or a small crew and price from experience
You want quotes out the same day you walk the property
You want to start at $0 and pay $29 when you start invoicing
You want the season's maintenance booked as repeating visits
A crew board for 3 seats at $129 a month covers your team

Questions contractors ask

Does Redline do overhead recovery?

No. Redline doesn't build budgets or spread overhead across jobs. On Solo it shows profit per job after the materials you file against it, and labor isn't tracked. To work out a rate that covers overhead, try the hourly rate calculator.

Does Redline have crew timesheets?

No. There's no clock-in or timesheets. On Team, techs tap Idle, En route or On job, and the board shows it.

How do the prices compare for a small crew?

LMN's pricing page lists Starter from $297 a month with 1 office license and 5 crew licenses. Redline Team is $129 a month for 3 seats, and Team+ is $299 a month for 10 seats. LMN includes budgeting and timesheets that Redline doesn't have, so it isn't a like-for-like comparison.

Where can I see more options?

See LMN alternatives and how Redline handles landscaping estimates.

Tell it your rates once.

Start Redline Free, give it your man-hour rate and quote your next bed install by message.