Househound vs InspectorData: price, forms, and teams (2026)

InspectorData costs $79 a month, which it labels a limited introductory price, or $790 a year. Each added inspector is $54 a month. Pay-as-you-go is $15 a report, or 5 for $65 and 10 for $120, and credits never expire. Househound is $99 a month for the first inspector and $69 for each added one, or $990 and $690 a year billed annually, with no per-report fee.

Assumptions: list prices on October 27, 2026, monthly billing unless noted, card fees left out.

InspectorData costs less at every size: $20 a month less for the first inspector and $15 less for each added one.

One question to settle with InspectorData before you budget: its homepage says "Your first 2 AI reports are free", then $8 a report on the $79 plan (or 1 credit on pay-as-you-go), while its pricing page lists the AI report writer among the features every subscription includes. If the $8 applies and you use it on every report, 25 reports a month adds $200 once the 2 free ones are used, bringing one inspector to $279. Househound's Autodraft is part of the $99 with no per-report charge.

For the rest of the category, see what home inspection software costs.

On a $450 inspection, InspectorData's published rate takes $15.48 and Househound takes $15.03.

• InspectorData: 3.35% + $0.40 per transaction, deposited to your Stripe account. Its homepage also shows a PayPal option for invoices.
• Househound: 3.25% + $0.40 per payment, with Stripe's processing included, so nothing else is deducted. The money goes to your own Stripe account, and Househound takes card payments only (no ACH or PayPal).

The difference is 0.1%, or about 45¢ on a typical inspection fee. It's small next to the subscription gap.

Both cover TREC, Florida wind mitigation and 4-Point, and Spanish and French reports. InspectorData still has more Florida forms, and it puts them on the official forms.

InspectorData lists Florida 4-Point, Florida Wind Mitigation (OIR-B1-1802), Florida Roof Certification, mold, and Texas TREC REI 7-6, each on the official form with photo attachments, alongside InterNACHI and ASHI standards of practice. It sends the finished report in English, Spanish or French.

Househound has these forms, each beside the home inspection report on the same job:

• TREC REI 7-6, on TREC's promulgated layout: TREC's sections and lettered items, I / NI / NP / D boxes per item, your license and sponsor in the header, and a check that blocks publishing until every item has a box and every item marked D has a comment. It's written in the normal editors on the phone or the web, offline.
• Florida wind mitigation (OIR-B1-1802, Rev. 04/26) and the Citizens 4-Point: every question in the form's order, the wind mitigation opening-protection chart with the answer checked against it, a required-photo checklist, and publishing blocked until the answers and photos are in. A "Fill from home inspection" button fills matching empty answers (roof, panel, piping, water heater, HVAC) from the home inspection on the same job. They print as Househound's layout of the form's questions, not the official OIR PDF filled in.
• NPMA-33 for wood-destroying insects, which InspectorData doesn't list among its forms.

Househound has no roof certification or mold form, and models only Citizens' version of the 4-Point. Its Spanish and French versions are translated automatically and not edited by a person; English governs, and TREC reports aren't translated. If your insurers want the official OIR PDF or you write roof certifications, InspectorData fits better.

Both products support more than one inspector; Househound goes further on sharing one report.

InspectorData charges $54 a month per added inspector and lists multi-inspector teams, but doesn't describe two inspectors editing the same report at once.

In Househound, two to five inspectors can work one report at the same time on any mix of iPhone, iPad, Android and web, and edits reach every device in seconds. Each finding shows who last edited it, and each report has an activity feed. Booking is crew-aware: you set how many inspectors a job needs, the booking page only offers times when that many are free, and confirming assigns them. Payroll then builds each inspector's pay statement from the jobs they worked, with a CSV for your payroll provider. It records pay; it doesn't send it.

InspectorData leads with the PDF; Househound leads with a link, with a PDF download of the same report.

InspectorData generates and sends the PDF to clients, agents and lenders automatically, and clients can also open the report, photos and documents on its "View My Report" page. Its 360° photos become rooms the client can look around in.

Househound's report opens on any phone with no login. It leads with a count of major, moderate and minor findings and a filter for the major ones, plays video inside the finding, and opens 360° photos in the browser. Each publish is a dated version with its own PDF, and the delivery email links to the PDF rather than attaching it. Clients and agents get a portal with reports, agreements and invoices, and the client or buyer's agent can build a repair request from the deficiencies and share it as a link or as text.

If your lenders or agents want a PDF attached to an email, InspectorData already does that.

InspectorData was built by Lisa Meine, a Certified Master Inspector and Master InterNACHI Inspector, and lists an address in Mankato, Minnesota. The company behind it isn't named on its site. It states "We never sell your data".

InspectorData doesn't publish a general data export. The exports it documents are the QuickBooks export (products, customers, invoices, payments), PDF reports, and a per-inspection photo download.

Househound is independently owned, with no investors and no parent company. Inspection data is never sold and never used to market to your clients. You can export clients, inspections, invoices, payments and appointments as CSV; report content and templates don't export.

Switching from InspectorData moves your templates and comment wording, and your past reports as PDFs. Clients and agents come across if you can get them out as a spreadsheet. The schedule starts fresh.

Save the PDF of a long InspectorData report and import it on Househound's Templates page, which rebuilds the areas, items and comments into a template you review. Up to 10 files go in at once, 20 MB each.

Before you cancel, run the QuickBooks export if you use it, and download the PDFs and photos of reports you need. Upload the PDFs to the past-report archive (Reports → Archive → Past reports), where they're read-only, searchable and shareable. A client and agent list in a CSV or Excel file imports under People → Clients or Agents → Import contacts… on the web.

The full checklist is in how to switch from InspectorData.