Review
Fieldwire Review 2026: Pricing, Field Features, and Construction Teams
A Fieldwire review covering its field-management feature set, 2026 pricing, where it beats office-side PM tools, and who on a construction project should actually use it.
Fieldwire
Fieldwire is a field-management app for construction, now part of Hilti. Its job is not to replace your scheduling PM tool — it is to put the drawings, tasks, punch lists, and RFIs in the hands of the people actually standing on the jobsite. If your team lives in plan sheets and punch lists rather than Gantt charts and status decks, Fieldwire is built for exactly that.
This review covers what Fieldwire does well, where it overlaps with (and defers to) broader construction PM tools, the real 2026 pricing, and who should adopt it versus who should stay on a free tier or a general-purpose tool.
TL;DR
- Fieldwire is a field-first construction app: drawings, tasks, punch lists, photos, and (on higher tiers) RFIs, submittals, and budget.
- Pricing runs $0 (Basic) → $39 (Pro) → $64 (Business) → $89 (Business Plus) per user per month billed annually.
- Best for: general and specialty contractors who need drawing-based task management and field collaboration across a crew.
- Skip the paid tiers if: you only need office-side scheduling and reporting — a construction reporting hub plus a free Fieldwire Basic may cover you.
- RFIs, submittals, change orders, and budget live only on Business Plus ($89) — plan for that if those are contractual requirements.
What Fieldwire is (and isn’t)
Fieldwire is not a full construction PM suite. It does not own your master schedule, your bid, or your ERP. What it owns is the field layer: the set of sheets, the tasks pinned to those sheets, the photos taken against them, and the punch items that close out a job. Superintendents and foremen use it on tablets in the field; project engineers use it to push RFIs and track submittals.
If you need the broader picture — portfolio reporting, cost control, and schedule integration — see our guide to the best PM software for construction. Fieldwire is one tile in that mosaic, not the whole wall.
Where Fieldwire wins
1. Drawings are the interface. Tasks, photos, and punch items attach to specific sheets and locations. A field user opens the plan, taps a room, and sees the open items there. This is the single biggest reason crews actually adopt it — it matches how they already think about the building.
2. Punch lists and photos are native. Basic includes task management, specifications, files, and photos. Pro adds reports/exports, sheet compare, project templates, and custom task statuses. These are the day-to-day closeout tools, and they are fast on a phone.
3. Markup and field collaboration. Photo metadata stamps, custom task fields, and 360° photos (Business) let a supervisor document conditions without leaving the floor. The field-reporting tutorial in our construction field reporting guide maps cleanly onto Fieldwire’s model.
4. Higher tiers reach into the administrative core. Business adds custom forms, app integrations, and a BIM viewer. Business Plus adds RFIs, submittals, change orders, and budget — the contractual paperwork that ties field work to the office.
The pricing reality
Fieldwire’s published plans are below. All paid plans are billed annually per user.
| Plan | Price (per user/mo, billed annually) | Projects | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | 3 projects, 100 sheets | Small teams trying core features |
| Pro | $39 | Unlimited | Growing field teams scaling up |
| Business | $64 | Unlimited | Advanced teams unifying processes |
| Business Plus | $89 | Unlimited | Teams needing RFIs/submittals/budget |
| Custom | Contact sales | Unlimited users, SSO, API | Enterprise / unlimited options |
The free Basic tier is genuinely usable for a small crew on up to 3 projects — it includes plan viewing, task management, specifications, files, and photos. That is unusual generosity in construction software and matters for subs who cannot justify a per-seat bill.
Two planning notes:
- RFIs, submittals, change orders, and budget require Business Plus ($89). If your contract demands those workflows, Pro will not suffice.
- Paid plans are per-user, billed annually. A 12-person field crew on Pro is $468/month; on Business Plus it is $1,068/month.
Verified against Fieldwire pricing page on 2026-09-18.
Fieldwire vs broader construction PM
Fieldwire overlaps with heavier platforms but stays in its lane. For schedule and cost integration, teams often pair it with Smartsheet or a dedicated CPM tool — our construction reporting guide explains that split. monday.com can model field tasks too, but its drawings-and-punch-list experience is weaker than Fieldwire’s sheet-native design.
The right mental model: Fieldwire is the field tablet app; the scheduling/cost system is the office desktop app. They complement, not compete.
Who should use Fieldwire
- General and specialty contractors running punch lists, photos, and task tracking against live drawings across multiple jobs.
- Subcontractors who need a free or low-cost way to coordinate field work without a full PM suite — Basic ($0) is a legitimate starting point.
- Project engineers pushing RFIs and tracking submittals, provided the team is on Business Plus.
Who should skip the paid tiers
If your work is office-side scheduling and reporting, not field execution, a $0 Basic plus a reporting layer covers more ground than a $39–$89 per-seat Fieldwire license for everyone. A foreman needs Fieldwire; a planner in the trailer may not.
If RFIs/submittals are core but your volume is low, weigh Business Plus’s $89/user/mo against a tool where those features are included lower down. For a 20-person office+field mix, that bill adds up fast.
Team-size tradeoff (under 10 field users): a 6-person crew on Pro is $234/month — reasonable for drawing-based task management. But if only 2 of those 6 actually touch the field and the rest live in scheduling, put the 2 on Fieldwire and the 4 on a cheaper general tool. Do not license the whole org for a field app only half of them open.
Adoption and rollout on a jobsite
Fieldwire spreads fastest when you meet crews where they are — on a tablet, in the field, not in a training room.
- Start subs on Basic. Give the field a $0 Basic seat to try plan viewing, tasks, photos, and specs. Adoption risk drops when there is no procurement hurdle.
- Promote to Pro for the leads. Once a supervisor needs reports, sheet compare, and custom statuses, move them to Pro ($39). Keep the rest on Basic if they only view and comment.
- Reserve Business Plus for the paperwork owners. RFIs, submittals, change orders, and budget are Business Plus ($89) features — assign those seats to project engineers and PMs who actually process them, not the whole crew.
- Pair with the office layer. Push Fieldwire’s field data into a reporting system (our construction reporting guide covers the split) so the trailer sees what the field captures.
Limitations to plan around
- Not a full construction PM suite. No master schedule, no bid, no ERP. It is the field layer, not the office brain.
- RFIs/submittals are gated to Business Plus. If those are contractual, Pro will not suffice and the per-seat bill climbs.
- Per-user cost at scale. A large field org on Business Plus pays $89 × headcount. License only the people who open the app daily; viewers can often stay on Basic.
- Connectivity assumptions. Photo and sheet features assume a device in the field; offline behavior should be tested on a real jobsite before relying on it.
- Integration depth varies by tier. App integrations appear on Business and above; Basic is largely standalone.
Verdict: best for whom
Fieldwire is the right buy for contractors whose center of gravity is the jobsite — drawings, punch lists, photos, and field collaboration. The free Basic tier lowers adoption risk, and Pro ($39) is a fair price for unlimited projects with reporting and templates.
It is the wrong buy for teams that live in the schedule and the budget rather than the field. Put Fieldwire on the tablets in the field, pair it with an office-side system like Smartsheet or the broader construction PM hub, and only climb to Business Plus when RFIs and submittals become contractual must-haves.
How this content was prepared
Transparency note: This article is based on Fieldwire’s official documentation, publicly available pricing and feature information verified on 2026-09-18, and our editorial analysis. It is not sponsored, and no vendor paid for or influenced the recommendations.
We do not claim to have independently tested every feature end-to-end. Where a verdict reflects operator judgment, it draws on public documentation and editorial analysis, not a comparative hands-on trial. Pricing and feature details are dated in the metadata above.