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in the category. And no junk.
iCans is $99 or $159 a month, unlimited users, built by a guy running 600+ dumpsters in South Florida, and their yard software is better than ours. They also do not do junk removal at all. Their pricing page publishes both tiers and no payment fee. Ours adds 1.5% on top of Stripe's rate and stops at $149 per service type. Here is the whole thing with all the numbers in it.
Looking for an iCans alternative? It comes down to junk, and to which tier you need
Those are the only two questions on this page. Everything else between us is close, and some of it they win.
The yard is the business
Roll-off only, and you want the deepest container and landfill economics in the category.
- You never do a junk removal job and you never will
- You want to know your cost per dumpsite and per material type
- You want P and L and asset utilization analytics in the software
- Your books run through QuickBooks and you want that sync on any plan
- You take cash or check and you are past about 66 rentals a month
You do junk too, or you might
Both verticals in one platform, one plan, priced by the job instead of by the tier.
- You run junk and dumpsters, or you take junk jobs when the phone rings
- You want review requests going out without moving up a tier to get them
- You want a first-time customer to see a price and book it
- Your volume swings and you want the bill to swing with it
The honest math, both directions
iCans has two tiers and both are published. Ours moves with your work and stops at $149 per service type. Pick the tier you would actually need and put your own numbers in.
iCans
Base plan, pay monthly, cancel anytime
HaulHQ
No tier to pick. Dumpster rental only, so one service type.
Which tier do you actually need?
Both of their tiers are honest, published, and unlimited users. The question is only which one your business lands in, because that is what you are comparing us against.
Two plans, and the second one is where reviews live
- Base, $99: driver app, unlimited users, QuickBooks sync, onboarding, website integration for online orders. Everything you need to run the yard.
- Plus, $159: adds P and L, asset utilization and landfill metrics, automated review requests, and custom text notifications.
- If you want reviews going out on their own, that is the $159 plan. If you want the analytics, that is also the $159 plan, and the analytics are genuinely good.
- Free 7 day trial, no credit card, no contracts, onboarding included on both.
One plan, and a ceiling below their second tier
- There is no tier. Review automation, texting (100/mo free, then $0.02), both dispatch boards and the customer portal are in the one thing, at every volume.
- Our most expensive possible month is $149 per service type. Their Plus tier starts at $159 before any payment fee.
- So on published numbers, our ceiling sits below their Plus floor. Against their Base at $99 it is a different fight and the calculator above runs it honestly.
- We do not have their analytics. Not a version of them, not a lesser one. See the next section.
What is actually in the box
iCans marks come from their own site. Where they do not say, we do not say either, and where we have not checked, we say that instead.
| Feature | HaulHQ | iCans |
|---|---|---|
| The legs | ||
| Dumpster rental | Verified yes | Verified yesRoll-off, and it is the whole product |
| Junk removal | Verified yesLoad size pricing, own dispatch board | Verified absent"Junk removal" returns zero matches on their site |
| A first-time customer sees a price and books | Verified yesTenants choose whether the number shows at size selection or in the booking modal, but it always shows before the customer books | Not verifiedTheir portal is for commercial accounts at their negotiated rates. "Website integration for online orders" is listed but never shown, so we could not settle this from their site |
| Price a job by load size | Verified yes | Verified absentChecked, absent. Their "load state" is container state: empty, full, dumped, returned |
| Talking to customers | ||
| Two way texting | Verified yesIncluded · 100 texts/mo free, then $0.02 | Not published |
| Automated review requests | Verified yesIn the one plan | Verified yesPlus tier, $159 |
| Client portal | Verified yesMagic link, no password. Customers view bookings and invoices, pay, approve estimates, and message | Verified yesLogin for commercial accounts, with their contract rates applied |
| AI chatbot that books | Verified yesQuotes from your price book, negotiates to your floor, books the job | Verified absentAI routing |
| Running the yard | ||
| Dumpster and container inventory | Verified yes | Verified yesBest we checked anywhere. Real-time location and load state for every can in the fleet |
| Landfill and disposal cost tracking | Verified absent | Verified yesCost by dumpsite and material type, with dumpsite assignment built into the route logic |
| Route optimization | Verified absent | Verified yesAI-built routes per territory and asset type |
| Analytics: P and L, asset utilization, landfill cost | Verified absent | Verified yesPlus tier, $159 |
| Rental agreement e-sign | Verified yesTyped name signature and agreement acceptance at checkout, stored on the booking | Not published |
| QuickBooks sync | Verified absentExport your data and hand it to your bookkeeper. No direct sync | Verified yesIn every plan |
| The bill | ||
| Users included | Unlimited | UnlimitedBoth plans. Same as us |
| Price published, no call needed | Verified yes | Verified yesBoth tiers, in full |
| Try it free | Verified yesFirst 5 jobs free at signup, once, no card | Verified yes7 day trial, no card |
| Pay only when you complete work | Verified yes | Verified absentFlat monthly, no published usage component |
| Contract | None | NonePay monthly, cancel anytime |
| Card platform fee | Stripe's rate + 1.5%Counts toward the $149 per-service-type cap | Not publishedNot on their pricing page, checked July 15. Not in their Terms of Service, checked July 17 |
Where iCans is stronger
They publish their price, they do not gate a demo, their users are genuinely unlimited, and their yard software is better than ours. Eight places they beat us.
Best container tracking we checked anywhere
Real-time location and load state for every can in the fleet, asset utilization data, driver schedules tied to route capacity. We track what you own and where it is. They track it better. If cans are your whole asset base, that difference is the software.
They know what your dumpsite costs you
Disposal cost tracked by dumpsite and by material type, with landfill assignment built into the route logic itself. We have nothing like it. For a roll-off operator, tipping is one of the biggest line items in the business and they are the only ones we checked who model it properly.
P and L in the software, at $159
Profit and loss, asset utilization, landfill metrics. We do not have a smaller version of this, we have none of it. If you want to open your software and see what actually made money last month, that is their Plus tier and it is worth the $60 step up.
QuickBooks syncs on every plan
Not an add-on, not a tier, it is in the $99. We do not have it at all. You can export your data and hand it to your bookkeeper, which is not the same thing and we know it.
AI-built routes. We have no routing
Routes optimized per territory and asset type, with the dumpsite in the logic. We do not have routing of any kind. If your cans are spread across a county, that is a real gap and it is ours.
Unlimited, same as us, on both plans
Stated in their pricing header, and a customer of theirs puts it plainly: $99 whether you have 10 cans or 1,000, and as many drivers as you want. We say "unlimited users" as a differentiator against Jobber and Workiz. Against iCans it is a tie, and any page that implies otherwise is lying to you.
An operator, 600+ cans, bootstrapped
Ricardo Rivera built iCans while running Junk It Plus Dumpsters in South Florida. By their own count: 400 plus haulers, 20,000 plus dumpsters managed, $39M plus processed. That is the same kind of credibility we claim from running our own junk removal company, and theirs is currently bigger.
Past 66 rentals on cash, Base is cheaper
If your customers pay cash or check, no percentage starts on either side and their $99 is the whole published bill. Ours keeps counting jobs to the $149 per-service-type cap. Past 66 rentals a month you are paying us more, up to fifty dollars more. If that is you and you do not need junk, take the cheaper one.
What the difference buys
Four things. If none of them matters to your business, we mean it: go buy iCans.
Junk removal exists here
Load size pricing, a junk dispatch board, both verticals sharing one customer. On iCans, "junk removal" returns zero matches. If you take even a few junk jobs a month, that is not a feature gap, it is a second piece of software and a second login.
Reviews without the upgrade
Automated review requests are in our one plan. On iCans they are in Plus at $159. Our most expensive possible month of job fees and card fees together is $149 per service type. So the tier you would need to get reviews costs more than our ceiling, before any payment fee.
A price for a stranger
Ours books a first-time customer at a real number off your price book. Their portal is built for repeat commercial accounts and applies contract rates behind a login. Whether a stranger can get a price on iCans is not something their site shows, so we are not scoring it. Ours we can show you.
The bill has a floor and a ceiling
A month where you did four rentals costs you six dollars. Their $99 is the same in your worst February. And everything we charge, job fees and our card fee together, stops at $149 per service type.
A lot of you should buy iCans
They are very good at the thing they do. We would rather say so than have you find out in month three.
Go with iCans
- Roll-off only, no junk, not now and not later
- Landfill and tipping costs are what you need to get under control
- You want P and L and asset utilization in the software
- QuickBooks sync matters more than anything else on this page
- Routing is a daily problem for you
- You take cash and you are past about 66 rentals a month
Go with HaulHQ
- You do junk, or you turn junk jobs away because you have nowhere to put them
- You want reviews going out without a tier upgrade
- You want strangers booking at a price, not just your commercial accounts
- Your volume swings with the season and you want the bill to swing too
- You are starting out and a monthly subscription before your first job hurts
The ones you were going to ask anyway
It does not, unless you pick that tier above. The default on this page is their Base plan at $99, because that is their entry price and it is real. We show the $159 because automated review requests and the analytics live in Plus, so if either of those is on your list, $159 is the number you are actually comparing us against. If neither is, stay on Base and the calculator will run it that way.
They do not publish one. We looked in two places: their pricing page on July 15, and their Terms of Service on July 17, which was last updated in July 2025. Neither document mentions a payment processing fee. So we render that cell as "not published" rather than guessing, and their column in the calculator is what they publish. Ours is everything we charge: $1.50 a job plus a 1.5% platform fee on cards, which sits on top of Stripe's own rate rather than instead of it, and which stops at $149 per service type. If you are comparing us on payments, ask them directly and then you will have both numbers.
Against their Base plan with no card payments, at 66 rentals a month: that is where our $1.50 per job adds up to their $99. Every dollar your customers put on a card moves it toward them, because we charge 1.5% and they publish nothing, so past about $6,600 a month in card volume our fee alone passes their published $99 and they are cheaper at any rental volume on published numbers. Against their Plus plan it is simpler: their $159 is above our $149 per-service-type ceiling, so we are cheaper at every volume. Move the sliders and it will tell you where you sit.
We do not know, and we are not going to score it either way. What their site shows is a portal for repeat commercial accounts, where contractors and property managers log in and see their negotiated rates rather than retail. Their Base plan also lists "website integration for online orders", but it is never shown. Whether a stranger with no account gets a number is not something we could settle from the outside. If we get a trial tenant and can check it properly, this page changes and the date at the top moves with it.
Yes, on both plans, and we are not going to be cute about it. Their pricing header says it and one of their customers says it better: $99 whether you have 10 cans or 1,000, and as many drivers as you want. We say unlimited users as a differentiator against Jobber and Workiz. Against iCans it is a tie.
Yes. Customers, jobs and invoices export any time. Ask iCans the same question before you sign with anyone, including us.
Try it on your worst month.
First 5 jobs free at signup, no card, no demo, no call. If the math says iCans, we just showed you the math.
Sources
- $99 Base and $159 Plus, unlimited users on both, 7 day trial with no card, no contracts, QuickBooks sync and driver app and onboarding in every plan: icans.ai, checked July 15, 2026
- Feature marks, junk absence, container tracking, landfill cost tracking, AI routing, review automation, commercial account portal, website integration for online orders: icans.ai, checked July 15, 2026
- Plus tier analytics (utilization, P and L, landfill cost tracking) and the Everything in Base, plus framing: icans.ai/pricing, checked July 17, 2026
- Bootstrapped, Ricardo Rivera, Junk It Plus Dumpsters, and their own counts of 400 plus haulers, 20,000 plus dumpsters and $39M plus processed: icans.ai, checked July 15, 2026
- No payment processing fee published: icans.ai pricing, checked July 15, 2026, and icans.ai/terms-and-conditions/, last updated July 2025, checked July 17, 2026. Neither document mentions one. The same disclosure applies to us: our 1.5% platform fee sits on top of Stripe's rate and stops at the $149 per-service-type cap
- HaulHQ pricing: our own pricing page, same numbers