This calculator vs. ServiceTitan
Two different shapes: ServiceTitan is an account-based field service management platform for running a plumbing company's whole operation. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one water-heater replacement cost, given its type, location, vent, and gas or electrical path, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
ServiceTitan is a field service management platform, founded in 2007 by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan, headquartered in Glendale, California. It is used by plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and other trades for scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, marketing, reporting, and job costing across a whole business, with a mobile app for crews in the field. It is an account-based platform: you sign up and use it as an ongoing service across a whole company, not a one-off calculator. ServiceTitan's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — field service management software serving the plumbing trade among others, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for ServiceTitan appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what ServiceTitan does. It does not schedule technicians, dispatch crews, or invoice a customer, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes one water-heater replacement's heater type (electric tank, atmospheric or power-vent gas tank, condensing gas tankless, electric tankless, or heat pump), tank gallons or tankless GPM, location, venting and vent length, gas line and gas-line length, electrical path, and add-ons — expansion tank, drip pan, condensate, recirculation pump, haul-away, seismic straps, a mixing valve, and tankless service valves — plus loaded installer wage, payroll burden, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the installed price, the price per gallon or per GPM, the effective hourly rate, and a comparison against a typical 50-gallon electric garage swap at the same rates — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears the walk-away floor, and a single printable customer proposal for that one job. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a plumbing company and need scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, marketing, and job costing tracked across every crew and every job. | ServiceTitan, or a comparable field service platform — running the whole pipeline is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this water-heater replacement, given its type, location, vent, and gas or electrical path? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much does a gas-line upsize or a full panel rebuild actually add over pricing the old line or circuit as reusable? | This calculator's gas and electrical line items, not a blended install price. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this job? | This calculator's walk-away price check. |
| I need my whole sales and install team working the same leads and paperwork from one shared account. | ServiceTitan — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a water-heater bid actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. ServiceTitan is used through a subscription account. |
Most plumbing companies get different value from each: ServiceTitan (or a comparable field service platform) for running the company's whole lead-to-job pipeline and paperwork as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one water-heater job should cost from its type, location, vent, and gas or electrical path before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a lead record, a scheduled job, or a signed contract.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or ServiceTitan?
They do different jobs, and a plumbing company of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. ServiceTitan, founded in 2007 by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan and headquartered in Glendale, California, is a field service management platform used by plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and other trades to run scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, marketing, and reporting across a whole business, sold as an ongoing subscription account. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from heater type — electric tank, atmospheric or power-vent gas tank, condensing gas tankless, electric tankless, or heat pump — tank gallons or tankless GPM, location, venting and vent length, gas line and gas-line length, electrical path, and add-ons like an expansion tank, drip pan, condensate, recirculation pump, haul-away, seismic straps, a mixing valve, and tankless service valves, plus loaded installer wage, payroll burden, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the installed price, the price per gallon or per GPM, the effective hourly rate, and a comparison against a typical 50-gallon electric garage swap at the same rates, before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A plumbing company that already schedules technicians, dispatches crews, and invoices across every job is better served by ServiceTitan or a comparable field service platform; a plumber who wants an instant, private answer to what one water-heater replacement should cost from its type, location, vent, and gas or electrical path before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with ServiceTitan?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ServiceTitan, Inc. ServiceTitan is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Water Heater Bid Calculator to price your own job.