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Compare/HoodOps vs ServiceTrade

Comparison

HoodOps vs ServiceTrade

ServiceTrade is the established commercial field-service platform — broad across mechanical and fire trades, priced per user. Here's where a hood-cleaning-specific tool pulls ahead.

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The Bottom Line

ServiceTrade is a mature commercial field-service platform built for multi-trade mechanical and fire contractors, priced per user. It handles inspections and service agreements well across many trades — but it's a generalist. HoodOps is built for hood cleaning: it auto-generates the NFPA 96 certificate with the real section citation, derives the NFPA 96 cleaning frequency from cooking type, grades photos against NFPA criteria, and seals tamper-evident records through EvidLY — none of which a general commercial platform does. And HoodOps prices by customer accounts with unlimited users, not per seat.

Pricing

Per Account vs. Per Seat

HoodOps
From $99/mo
  • ›Priced by customer accounts serviced
  • ›Unlimited users, every plan
  • ›No implementation fee
  • ›Launch offer: 50% off year one, paid in advance
ServiceTrade
~$75/user/mo
  • ›Priced per user (quote-based)
  • ›Built for commercial mechanical & fire trades
  • ›Strong service-agreement & inspection management
  • ›Generalist, not hood-cleaning-specific

Cost at scale

A 10-user office on ServiceTrade is roughly $750/mo (as of July 2026) and climbs with every seat. HoodOps stays $99\u2013$399/mo with unlimited users — you only pay as you serve more customers.

Feature by Feature

What Each One Actually Does for Hood Cleaning

CapabilityHoodOpsServiceTrade
Auto-Generated NFPA 96 Report & Certificate
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NFPA 96 Frequency Engine
Per-State NFPA 96 Edition
Insurance-ready service record
Grease Depth Logging
Digitally Signed, Tamper-Evident Records (EvidLY add-on)
EvidLY / Policy Lens (optional add-on)
Unlimited Users
Commercial Multi-Trade Service Management
Mature Service-Agreement / Contract Tooling
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✓ built in  ·  ◐ partial / limited  ·  ✕ not available

Honest Take

Pick the One Built for Your Operation

Choose HoodOps if…

  • ✓You run a kitchen exhaust cleaning company
  • ✓You need an NFPA 96 certificate on every job
  • ✓You're scaling crews and refuse to pay per seat
  • ✓You want compliance intelligence, not just a calendar
  • ✓You'd rather prove the work than just log it

Choose ServiceTrade if…

  • ✓You're a multi-trade commercial contractor (mechanical + fire), not hood-cleaning-only
  • ✓You manage large commercial service-agreement portfolios across trades
  • ✓You need broad commercial inspection workflows over kitchen-exhaust depth
  • ✓You already run ServiceTrade across other divisions
  • ✓Per-trade breadth matters more than NFPA 96 automation

Frequently Asked Questions

No. HoodOps prices by the number of customer accounts you service, with unlimited users on every plan.
Yes — auto-generated with the NFPA 96 section citation, and sealed as tamper-evident records through EvidLY.
Yes — cleaning frequency is derived from cooking type per NFPA 96, with grease depth logged against the threshold.
ServiceTrade is a mature commercial platform for multi-trade contractors, but it’s a generalist — it doesn’t auto-generate NFPA 96 certificates or derive cleaning frequency.
ServiceTrade runs hood cleaning on the same generic inspection forms it uses for every other trade; an NFPA 96 report and certificate are something you build inside it, not something it ships. HoodOps generates both automatically from the job record, with the Table 12.4 cadence and jurisdiction-resolved citations included.
Yes. The HoodOps dispatch map pins every scheduled job, so you can see the month's work by location and plan routes around it, with each job carrying its NFPA 96 cleaning cadence.

Built for Your Trade. Priced for Your Growth.

Unlimited users, priced by customer accounts, no implementation fee. HoodOps launches October 2026.

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