Electrical estimating software, compared on what vendors state.
Estimating, takeoff and field service tools for electrical contractors, with each vendor's own statements on price, assemblies and price feeds.
IntelliBid at a glance
A vendor summary box, as Conest published it
- Primary product
- IntelliBid electrical estimating software
- Built for
- Electrical, low voltage, datacom and solar contractors
- Material database
- Over 140,000 NEC-friendly items, over 500,000 pre-built assemblies
- Pricing services
- NetPricer, EPIC and TRA-SER (sold separately)
- Editions
- Standard, Plus and Pro
- Deployment
- Local PC or network, or hosted on CE Cloud
- In business since
- 1989
Conest, Electrical Estimating Software page, read October 3, 2026.
What the vendors' own pages say
- 14of 27 publish a price
- 13are quote only
- 1say material prices are included
- 4say they are sold separately
- 10leave prices to you
- 12name a feed without a cost, or say nothing
Most buyers compare a monthly price. For estimating tools, the larger question is often who pays for the material price feed. The full table sets out what each vendor states on that and on takeoff, libraries and labor units.
Where to start
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Bid estimating and takeoff
12 listings. Tools built to price electrical bids from plans, with a material database, assemblies, labor units and takeoff. What separates them is what comes in the box and what you license on top.
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AI takeoff tools
5 listings. Tools that read electrical plan PDFs and count devices, usually with a person checking the result. Most say little about assemblies, labor units or where prices come from.
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Field service with quoting
7 listings. Service management platforms that also write estimates from a price book you keep. The pages we read describe no plan takeoff, and one says so outright.
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Quotes and invoices
3 listings. Light tools for estimates, invoices and payments. None carries an electrical database, so they fit service and small-job work where you already know your prices.
What this site is not
It does not rank listings, and nobody pays to be listed or placed higher. Prices are read from each vendor's own pages on October 3, 2026. Read how we compare and who runs this site.