Cable Ledger vs. Bluebeam
Bluebeam Revu is the industry's PDF workhorse: markup, measurement, quantity takeoff and Studio sessions for reviewing drawing sets together.
Where Bluebeam is strong
- The standard for PDF markup and measurement in AEC.
- Quantity takeoff and batch tools that estimators rely on.
- Studio sessions for reviewing a drawing set with several people at once.
Where Cable Ledger differs
- Bluebeam is a document tool. It does not file daily reports, track crews or price production against a contract. Cable Ledger does those, and keeps the prints beside them.
- Bluebeam is licensed per named user per year, with no monthly option. Cable Ledger is monthly, per login, with the roster free.
- Prints in Cable Ledger carry pins and photos that work with no signal, which covers what most line crews open a drawing for.
Can you use both? Estimators doing takeoff should keep Bluebeam. Cable Ledger is not a takeoff tool. It is where the crews who build what was estimated report, and where that work becomes an invoice.
What Bluebeam costs
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Basics | $22 per user / month$260 per user / year |
| Core | $28 per user / month$330 per user / year |
| Complete | $37 per user / month$440 per user / year |
Sold per named user per year ($260 Basics, $330 Core, $440 Complete), shown here as a monthly equivalent. No monthly plan. Volume discounts are negotiated.
Sources, checked October 1, 2026: Bluebeam pricing 2026 (Drawboard); Bluebeam Revu pricing 2026 (Costbench); Bluebeam pricing (Toolradar).
Cable Ledger pricing
Every login costs the same.
Standard price $350Founding price $199.50/mo with 6 logins
Then $69 a month for each login after that, whatever the role. Billed monthly, or pay a year up front and get 2 months free.
Founding rate: 43% off for your first 12 months, then $350/mo. Limited time only.
- Owner, office, supervisor or foreman: the same price for every login.
- Every feature for every login. No role tiers and no feature tiers.
- A promotion never changes the bill, and nobody needs a licence class.
- The crew on your roster are free. You pay for the people who sign in.
Put in your own team
Office, foremen and crew. The numbers update as you type, and nothing leaves this page.
Cable Ledger
7 logins billed, all at one rate. 24 crew on the roster free.
$419 a monthBilled monthly, $5,028 a year. No annual contract.
Bluebeam
7 seats billed
$152 to $257 a month, billed as a year up front
- Basics: $152/mo
- Core: $193/mo
- Complete: $257/mo
Sold per named user per year ($260 Basics, $330 Core, $440 Complete), shown here as a monthly equivalent. No monthly plan. Volume discounts are negotiated.
FiberField
7 seats billed
$963 a month
- Manager: $149/seat/mo
- Foreman: $129/seat/mo
- Crew: $49/seat/mo
Per seat per month, by role, as published on FiberField's own site. In the calculator, office users are priced as Manager seats, foremen as Foreman seats, and crew as Crew seats when you tick the crew box.
Procore
Unlimited users, priced on volume
$417 to $833 a month, billed as a year up frontEstimate
Procore does not publish prices. It quotes an annual fee per product, based on annual construction volume. The range shown is from independent estimates (about 0.1% to 0.2% of volume, starting around $4,500 a year) and is not a Procore quote. Implementation is often extra.
Fieldwire
7 seats billed
$273 to $623 a month, billed as a year up front
- Pro: $273/mo
- Business: $448/mo
- Business Plus: $623/mo
Per user per month, billed annually. A free Basic plan covers up to 5 users and 3 projects. Enterprise is quoted.
Spreadsheets + QuickBooks
No extra software
$1,213 a month in office time, from your numbers
No software cost beyond what you already pay. What it costs is office time: enter the hours your office spends a week turning tickets into invoices, and what an hour of that time costs you.
Competitor figures are list prices from the public sources linked on each comparison page, checked October 1, 2026. They exclude taxes, add-ons, implementation and negotiated discounts. Check with each vendor before you decide.
Your crews already did the work.
Stop paying a week to prove it.
Set up one contract, file one report, and see the estimate come out the other side.