An LMN alternative that prices the company, not the licenses.
LMN is budget-based software for landscapers. Groundflag keeps the budget, the season, the route and the construction job on one account, with one price per company and every user inside it.
Where LMN is strong
On the pricing page read October 25, 2026, LMN Starter starts at $297 a month billed monthly, with one office or crew lead license and five crew member licenses, for companies under 10 employees; LMN Professional starts at $648 a month with three office or crew lead licenses and fifteen crew licenses; Enterprise starts at 100 users with pricing from sales. Additional licenses are available for a fee, every price comes after a one-time onboarding fee, and every plan is reached through Book a demo. Budget-based estimating with overhead recovery is LMN's center, and every plan lists route optimization, SMS to clients, a customer portal, GPS location verification, weather notes and a crew app in English and Spanish with offline access. Professional adds real-time job costing, equipment and material costing, vendor bills, subcontractor tracking, files and photos, live job and crew maps and Zapier. The product now sits under Granum.
The budget and the season, on one account
A company budget that sets the labor rate.
Eight fields (crew size, wage, paid hours, billable share, burden, overhead, trucks and equipment, margin) give the loaded cost and the selling rate per hour, and the price book uses that same rate. Estimates from the landscape catalog show crew hours, price and margin.
Estimate against actual, on the one plan.
The estimate becomes the job budget, and time clock hours, purchase orders, vendor bills and subcontracts land on it by cost code.
Maintenance contracts, priced the way you negotiated them.
A season in fixed installments on a day you pick, per visit or hourly from the visit's minutes; snow by event, by inch over a trigger, or by season.
Every screen in three languages.
English, Spanish and Portuguese, chosen by each person, including the client's report and the payment pages.
One price, all the users.
Groundflag is $149 a month for the Crew plan or $124 billed yearly, with every user included and no license count; 30 days free, no card, and you sign up yourself.
Know what is not there yet
The Groundflag landscape module is built and passed its production proof on October 23, 2026, and it is not switched on for new accounts until the next release; the company budget passed its proof on a local build the same day. Groundflag needs a signal: offline in the field is the February 2027 target, and LMN lists offline access on every plan. Groundflag does not pull weather from a feed yet, has no crew efficiency scores or live crew map, and has no employee training library like LMN's Greenius add-on. On iPhone, Groundflag runs as a web app for now; the native app is on Android.
Side by side
| Groundflag | LMN | |
|---|---|---|
| List price, October 25, 2026 | Crew $149 a month or $124 a month billed yearly, every user included | Starter $297 a month with 1 office or crew lead and 5 crew licenses, Professional $648 a month with 3 and 15, Enterprise from 100 users by quote; extra licenses for a fee, after a one-time onboarding fee |
| Getting started | 30 days free, no card, self-service sign-up | Book a demo on every plan |
| Budget | Eight fields set the loaded cost and the labor rate the price book uses | Budget-based estimating with overhead recovery; one active budget on Starter |
| Job costing | Estimate against actual by cost code, with POs, vendor bills and subcontracts, on the one plan | Real-time job costing, vendor bills and subcontractor tracking from Professional |
| Rain day | The day shifts to the crew's next working day and the clients get the text | Adjust the schedule for weather; weather notes from the crew app |
| Client pays | Card and ACH on the invoice and the portal | Credit card, ACH and debit through LMN Pay in the customer portal |
| Languages | Every screen in English, Spanish and Portuguese | Crew app in English and Spanish |
| Route optimization | Straight-line nearest-neighbor ordering, saved like a manual reorder | Listed on every plan |
| No signal | Needs a signal for now (February 2027 target) | Offline access in the crew app |
| Developers | A public REST API, signed webhooks and a Zapier app | Zapier from Professional |
Questions
Is Groundflag cheaper than LMN?
Groundflag charges one price per company with every user included ($149 a month for Crew, $124 billed yearly); LMN Starter starts at $297 a month with six licenses and Professional at $648 a month with eighteen, extra licenses for a fee, after a one-time onboarding fee. Read both pages before you decide, and check what each plan turns on.
Does Groundflag do budget-based estimating?
Yes. The company budget turns your crew, wages, overhead, equipment and margin into a labor rate, the price book uses it, and the job compares the estimated hours with the time clock.
Is the landscape module live today?
It passed its production proof on October 23, 2026 and ships turned off until the next release. The rest of Groundflag, including the construction side, is live and priced on the plans page.
Sources
- LMN plans and pricing, checked on October 25, 2026
- LMN product page, checked on October 25, 2026
- LMN Professional plan, checked on October 25, 2026
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