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The complaint contractors raise about lead platforms is paying twice over, a monthly fee and then per lead, for leads that several pros are all chasing. This page sets that against paying only when a job is booked.
Pricing sourced July 2026 · Pre-launch comparison
In short
Contractors go looking for an Angi alternative because they pay a monthly membership plus per-lead charges, for leads that are shared with competitors and may never convert. The alternative is a pay-per-booking model with no membership and no lead fees.
Should you switch from Angi?
A flat $1 per booking tends to work out when:
- You want to drop the recurring monthly membership that applies even in a slow month.
- You do not want to pay per lead for requests that may never convert.
- You dislike that the same lead is sold to several contractors at once.
- You want your only cost to land when a customer actually books.
- A quiet month should cost you nothing rather than the membership plus lead charges.
On a membership-plus-lead model your fixed costs keep running whether work comes in or not, and the variable lead cost goes toward requests you might lose to the other contractors who bought the same lead. For a small NYC crew, that is real money committed before a single job is confirmed.
A booking-based platform strips out both the membership and the lead risk. With Bobby, a provider joins free, gets matched free, and pays a flat $1 only when a customer actually books.