Research reviewed November 2026. This is a research-based review — we analyzed published specs, pricing, and user feedback.

PataBid Quantify Review 2026: AI Takeoff and Live Supplier Pricing for Electrical Estimators

Updated November 5, 2026 – Tested Intelligence

Quick verdict: PataBid Quantify is cloud estimating software for specialty sub-trades, with electrical contractors at the center of its pitch: point at one device on a drawing and its AI finds and counts the rest, then prices the bid against live supplier feeds instead of a stale price book. It suits mid-size and enterprise shops that want every branch bidding the same way. The catch is opacity: PataBid publishes no price list, so the number only arrives through a sales conversation.

What it is

Quantify is PataBid’s estimating platform for mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection contractors bidding residential, commercial, industrial and institutional work. It combines graphical takeoff, costing, proposal generation and closeout in one cloud system, with public tender searching and bid management alongside the estimate itself. PataBid says the company was built by estimators, and its support team is staffed by estimators — a claim its customer case studies repeat approvingly.

The reference customer on PataBid’s own site is an electrical shop: Seletech Electrical Enterprises, a Calgary contractor with 32+ years in the trade, covering commercial electrical, fire alarm, controls, communications and DC power. Seletech says its estimators cycled through Accubid, McCormick and XKey before landing on Quantify, and cancelled McCormick after trying Quantify at a trade show. That is a vendor-published case study, not an independent audit — but the customer is real and named, and its reasons are specific enough to test in a demo.

Key features

Graphical AI takeoff: select an item on a drawing, set its attributes, and the AI finds the matching items for you
Item and assembly database of 60,000+ items, with real-time pricing integrations
Live supplier pricing: Seletech’s deployment feeds contractor-specific pricing from Gescan and City Electric Supply directly into estimates
Formula-driven inputs and Quick Pads for taking off items your own way
Built-in labor unit explanations, custom crews, packages and equipment in the Closeout module
PDF editor: extract drawing or spec pages, add markups and notes, export as a new PDF
Proposal generation, public tender searching and bid management in the same system
Cloud-native: estimates and data accessible anywhere, with personalized onboarding and estimator-led support

Pricing

Pricing is not public on PataBid’s own site — there is no pricing page, only demo and contact routes. Directory listings (Capterra and Software Advice, checked November 2026) put the starting price at US$2,460 per year on an annual license. Treat that as a directory figure and a floor, not a quote: only PataBid’s sales team can price a multi-branch shop.

What the pricing page doesn’t make obvious: there isn’t one — but directory descriptions of the license carry a detail most coverage skips. Quantify’s annual license allows flexible user sharing: multiple team members can work under a single license, with support and updates included. That is a different cost shape from the strict per-seat licensing common in electrical estimating (Trimble Accubid Anywhere, reviewed here, is priced per estimator). A shop whose estimators share peak bidding weeks should model the shared-license cost before assuming Quantify is the expensive option.

Who it’s for

Mid-size and growing electrical contractors bidding commercial, industrial and institutional work across more than one estimator or branch, where inconsistent labor assumptions and stale material prices are the real bid risk. If live supplier pricing matters more than a published sticker price — Seletech calls it “the most critical part of the system” — Quantify is built around exactly that.

Who should skip it

Solo electricians and small service shops: this is a bidding platform for dedicated estimators, not job management, dispatch or invoicing — for that end of the shop, see Jobber or Tradify in this section. Shops that refuse to buy software without a published price and a self-serve trial should also pass; Quantify’s sales-led process is part of the deal.

Pros

AI takeoff works the way estimators do: show it one device and it finds the rest
Live, contractor-specific supplier pricing inside the estimate, not a periodic price-book update
Shared annual license softens the per-seat cost that makes rival platforms expensive at peak load
Support and onboarding delivered by people with estimating backgrounds, per its named electrical reference customer
Takeoff, costing, proposals, tender search and bid management in one cloud system

Cons

No published pricing: the only hard number available comes from directories, not the vendor
Built for mid-size and enterprise sub-trades; likely overkill and over-priced for a two-person shop
Supplier integrations named so far are Canadian-heavy (Gescan, City Electric Supply); US shops must verify their own suppliers connect
Vendor claims of up to 75% estimating time savings are marketing figures, not independently verified
No field or service workflow: won work still needs a separate job management system

FAQ

How much does PataBid Quantify cost?

PataBid does not publish pricing. Capterra and Software Advice list a starting price of US$2,460 per year on an annual license with flexible user sharing, support and updates included — a directory figure to confirm in a sales quote, not a checkout price.

What does Quantify’s AI actually do?

Takeoff automation. You select an item on a drawing and set its attributes, and the AI finds the remaining matching items, cutting the manual counting that dominates electrical takeoff. It also automates supplier pricing updates and proposal formatting.

How is Quantify different from Trimble Accubid Anywhere?

Both target electrical estimators. Accubid Anywhere, reviewed here, leans on Trimble’s ecosystem and per-estimator licensing. Quantify’s distinguishing claims are its shared annual license, live pricing from named distributors such as Gescan and City Electric Supply, and estimator-staffed support.

Bottom line

For an electrical contractor whose estimators lose bids to slow counts and stale prices, Quantify attacks the right two problems, and its shared-license model can undercut per-seat rivals. Go in with your supplier list in hand and make PataBid prove those exact feeds connect — and get the annual figure in writing, because nobody else can tell you what it costs.