Comparison · LMN vs Wintertrace
LMN and Wintertrace, side by side
A neutral, sourced comparison between LMN by Granum's landscaping and snow & ice business-management platform and Wintertrace, an open-source, self-hosted alternative for winter-service documentation.
Who is LMN?
LMN by Granum — Granum is the parent brand (launched October 2025) uniting LMN, SingleOps, and Greenius; announcement datelined Atlanta, GA and Toronto, ON. On the market: LMN has served landscapers since 2009. It targets 3,000+ North American landscaping companies, spanning company-size tiers from 1-3 crews (Starter) to multi-location enterprise operations.
Side by side
| Aspect | LMN | Wintertrace |
|---|---|---|
| Provider & origin | LMN by Granum — Granum is the parent brand (launched October 2025) uniting LMN, SingleOps, and Greenius; announcement datelined Atlanta, GA and Toronto, ONsource | Wintertrace — maintainer-led open-source project |
| On the market since | LMN has served landscapers since 2009source | Released; developed in the open on GitHub |
| Hosting model | Cloud-based web platform plus a mobile crew app (English and Spanish) with offline mode for field usesource | Self-hosted on your own server |
| Pricing model | Subscription, billed monthly: Starter from $297/mo (1 office/crew-lead licence + 5 crew-member licences); Professional from $648/mo (3 office/crew-lead licences + 15 crew-member licences); Enterprise — contact sales; one-time onboarding fee appliessource | Free software; you pay only for hosting |
| Contract | Billed monthly; one-time onboarding fee noted on the pricing page; no minimum contract term is publishedsource | None — uninstalling removes it |
| Source code | Proprietary (commercial SaaS)source | Open source (AGPLv3) on GitHub |
| Extensibility | Zapier integrations from the Professional tier up; client import via QuickBooks or CSV; payments via LMN Pay (Stripe); no public/open module systemsource | Extensible through installable modules |
| Data location | Not publicly documented | On your own server — addresses, GPS tracks, photos |
| Feature scope | Full landscaping + snow & ice operations platform: budgeting, estimating, scheduling, time tracking, CRM, invoicing, job costing, plus snow-specific plow-pass tracking, salt-application tracking, GPS-based proof of service, route/priority-zone planning, and automatic post-event invoicingsource | Focused on winter-service documentation |
| Target customer | 3,000+ North American landscaping companies, spanning company-size tiers from 1-3 crews (Starter) to multi-location enterprise operationssource | Operators who want to own their data and tooling |
Where LMN is stronger
LMN has been serving landscapers since 2009 and, per its own site, counts more than 3,000 North American landscaping companies as customers — a long operating history and an established user base that a newer project cannot match. It is a broad, all-in-one operations platform: budgeting, estimating, scheduling, CRM, invoicing, and job costing sit alongside snow-specific tools for tracking plow passes, salt applications, and proof of service, all under one vendor and spanning both the landscaping and snow/ice seasons. Wintertrace does not attempt any of that breadth — it stays focused on winter-service documentation.
LMN also offers a dedicated estimating product area, native payment processing through LMN Pay (powered by Stripe), QuickBooks/CSV import for client data, and Zapier integrations from its Professional tier up. Its training ecosystem is substantial: an “LMN Online Academy” video library plus dedicated onboarding/launch programs for each plan tier, backed by a company (now Granum) that also runs SingleOps for tree care and Greenius for crew training. Contractors who want one vendor covering estimating, scheduling, billing, and snow operations together — with a mature product and a large peer community — are well served by LMN.
Where Wintertrace makes a different offer
Wintertrace is open source (AGPLv3) and self-hosted: you run it on your own server rather than a vendor’s cloud, and there is no subscription for the software itself — only the cost of hosting it. That also means the underlying job, customer, GPS, and photo data stays on infrastructure you control, rather than a vendor’s platform, for as long as you want to keep it.
The other structural difference is extensibility. Wintertrace ships a focused core for winter-service documentation, then grows through installable modules — rather than a fixed, vendor-defined feature set or a tiered per-seat subscription. Operators who need a specific capability can add the corresponding module instead of waiting on a vendor roadmap or upgrading to a higher-priced tier for a bundle of features they don’t need. The resulting records may support liability cases; they are not a substitute for legal advice.
Who should pick what
If you run a landscaping business that also does snow and ice work, and you want a single subscription covering estimating, scheduling, CRM, billing, and crew training alongside snow tracking — with a large, mature vendor and an established peer network behind it — LMN’s breadth is the more direct fit.
If you mainly run winter-service work and want to own your data and your tooling, without paying per-seat for a landscaping-wide operations suite, Wintertrace is built for that. The two are not mutually exclusive: some operators run LMN for landscaping-side estimating and billing while keeping a self-hosted documentation trail for winter-service jobs alongside it.
Public information as of 11 July 2026. Based on publicly available information. We have not tested the software ourselves.
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