Solargraf Review 2026: Fast Residential Quoting, Assessed Honestly

Solargraf occupies a specific slot in the solar software market: it is a quoting tool first and a design tool second, and it does not pretend otherwise. That focus is why some installers love it and why others outgrow it within a year. This review covers what Solargraf is in 2026, what its published pricing costs a real team, what it does well, where the limitations sit, and which alternatives deserve a look before you sign. It is unusual in this category for publishing a full price list, so the money part of this review rests on the vendor’s own numbers rather than on rumour.

• SurgePV covers design and proposals from one record at $1,299 to $1,899 per user per year with multi-market compliance libraries.

Short version. Solargraf is a residential solar quoting and proposal platform owned by Enphase Energy, priced from $2,799 to $12,999 a year by plan with included project credits. It is a good fit for US residential sales teams whose bottleneck is proposal turnaround. It is a weaker fit for commercial pipelines, engineering-led teams, and anyone who needs bankable yield output or non-US compliance handling.

If you have already decided to leave and just want the shortlist, our Solargraf alternative comparison covers six options side by side. This page is the review that comes before that decision.

What Solargraf Is

Solargraf is a web-based platform for scoping, quoting, and selling residential solar. You enter an address, the tool pulls imagery, detects rooflines, lays out modules, runs a shading and production estimate, applies financing options, and produces an interactive customer proposal with an e-signature at the end. Permit plan sets and a light CRM layer sit alongside that core flow.

The design brief is visible in every screen. This is a product for the person who has 40 leads and needs 40 quotes out this week, not for the engineer who needs a defensible loss diagram.

Solargraf, Inc. is a subsidiary of Enphase Energy. That relationship has become more visible over time, with tighter links between a Solargraf design and Enphase’s commissioning and field tooling, so a design can move into installation without being re-entered.

Enphase Ownership and What It Means for a Buyer

This deserves a section rather than a footnote, because it is the structural fact that separates Solargraf from most of its competitors.

A design platform owned by a hardware manufacturer is not automatically compromised. Solargraf supports batteries and inverters from a broad range of manufacturers, and installers quote non-Enphase systems in it every day. The Enphase field-tool integration is a genuine benefit if you are an Enphase installer, because it removes a real re-entry step.

The thing to weigh is structural rather than sinister. Solargraf is built and maintained inside a hardware business, so its most publicised integrations to date are the ones that connect a design to Enphase commissioning and field tooling. That is how vertical integration usually looks, and buyers accept comparable arrangements with plenty of other vendors, including free manufacturer tools.

So the question is practical, not moral. If your business is largely Enphase, ownership is a feature and you should count it as one. If you deliberately quote across several inverter and battery brands to protect margin, test the non-Enphase workflow on a trial specifically and ask how quickly those paths update when a manufacturer releases new SKUs. Buy the answer you get, not the assurance.

Solargraf Pricing in 2026

Solargraf publishes its plans, which is worth crediting because most of this category makes you sit through a sales call to learn a number. These figures come from Solargraf’s own pricing page.

Public API access is charged at $4,000 a year on every tier except Enterprise, where it is included. Billing is annual, with no monthly option advertised. A free trial is available.

The structure matters more than the headline. Solargraf charges for a bundle of seats plus a bundle of projects, where most competitors charge per seat and let you design as much as you like. That is a real difference in who wins.

Where the model helps you. A canvassing-heavy operation with ten people who each touch a handful of projects gets crushed by per-seat pricing and does fine here, especially on Enterprise where users are unlimited. If your headcount is high relative to your project count, Solargraf is structurally cheaper than a seat-priced tool.

Where the model hurts you. Cost tracks projects, and projects include the ones you never win. A team with a 20% close rate pays for five quotes per sale. Overage at $9 to $11 a project is not ruinous, but it turns a fixed software line into a variable one and makes speculative quoting feel expensive. Annual billing, which is what the published plans show, removes the cheap exit if the fit is wrong three months in.

A worked example. Take a six-person team quoting 900 projects a year. On Teams at $6,399 you get 720 projects, so 180 overage projects at $9 add $1,620, for $8,019 before any API charge. Compare that to the same six people on SurgePV’s team pricing at $1,299 per user per year, which is $7,794 with no project ceiling. The two land close, and the difference is that one number is fixed and the other moves with how much you quote. Confirm current pricing with both vendors before budgeting against this. Our solar design software pricing comparison puts the whole category side by side.

What Solargraf Genuinely Does Well

Speed to a presentable proposal. This is the product’s reason to exist and it delivers on it. Address in, roofline detected, layout placed, financing attached, interactive proposal out. For a sales team measured on quotes per week, that compression is worth real money.

The customer-facing document. Solargraf’s proposals are built for a homeowner on a sofa rather than an engineer at a desk. Savings, financing comparisons, and system visuals are legible to a non-technical buyer, and the presentation layer is one of the parts users tend to single out favourably in public reviews.

Published pricing. In a category where almost every vendor hides behind a demo booking, a full public price list with overage rates lets you model your own cost before you talk to anyone.

Breadth of the sales workflow in one place. Design, permitting packets, financing options, e-signature, and a light CRM layer sit under one roof. For a small installer who does not want to stitch four tools together, that consolidation is why some teams pick it over a purer design product.

Battery and storage coverage. Solargraf handles storage design across a wide range of manufacturers, which matters more each year as attachment rates climb.

Enphase field handoff. For an Enphase-heavy installer, pushing a design into the commissioning and field workflow without re-entry removes a genuine source of error and delay.

Where Solargraf Falls Short

Every criticism here is one you can verify on a trial. Test them rather than taking anyone’s word, including ours.

Design and simulation depth is not the product’s strength. This follows from the positioning rather than being a hidden defect. A tool built to produce a quote in minutes is trading modelling detail for speed. Shading and production estimates are, in our reading of public reviews, the area users raise questions about most often, and that is where scrutiny lands if your proposals go in front of a lender or an engineer. The practical instruction is simple: take three projects where you know the real production numbers, model them in a trial, and compare. Do not take the vendor’s word or a reviewer’s, including this one. Our shading analysis methodology guide explains what a deeper hour-by-hour engine does differently.

Bankable yield reporting is not part of the positioning. Solargraf is not positioned as a bankability tool. That is fine until a financier or a C&I customer asks for a P50 and P90 report, at which point you buy a second licence and run the project twice.

Project-credit billing creates cost risk. Worth repeating because it is the limitation most likely to surprise you in month nine rather than month one. Unpredictable volume is the case this model handles worst.

US residential is the design target. The rate structures, financing products, and permitting workflows are built for the American residential market. Teams selling under PM Surya Ghar in India, AS/NZS rules in Australia, or a European feed-in tariff should check coverage for their own scheme before committing, because in our experience that is where a US-first platform leaves you rebuilding the financial half of the proposal elsewhere.

Annual billing as published. No monthly option is advertised, so the trial does all the work of the decision. Use it on real projects, with the people who will operate the tool.

Who Should Buy Solargraf

Buy it if most of these describe you.

• You sell residential solar in the United States and your bottleneck is proposal turnaround, not design accuracy.
• Your headcount is high relative to your project count, so per-seat pricing punishes you and plan pricing does not.
• You install Enphase hardware often enough that the field handoff saves real time.
• Your project volume is predictable, so included credits and overage rates are budgetable.
• You want design, permitting, financing, and e-signature in one subscription rather than four.

For that team, Solargraf is a sensible purchase and the published pricing makes it easy to model. Arguing against it in that profile would be a sales pitch, not a review.

Who Should Not Buy Solargraf

• Engineering-led teams. If a qualified engineer signs off your designs and your proposals get technical scrutiny, you will want a deeper simulation engine underneath the document.
• Commercial and utility pipelines. The platform’s investment is in residential quoting. Test a real C&I job on trial and check whether you still need a second tool afterwards.
• Anyone needing bankable yield reports. That is a different product category and you will end up paying for both.
• Teams with volatile quoting volume. The credit model turns your worst quarters into overage and your best ones into surprise invoices.
• Anyone selling outside the United States. Tariff structures, subsidy rules, and code libraries are the expensive part to rebuild, and they are the part that does not transfer.

Alternatives Worth Comparing

SurgePV. The closest match for teams that want Solargraf’s proposal speed without giving up engineering depth. It runs $1,299 to $1,899 per user per year depending on team size, with design, hour-by-hour shading, financial modelling, and white-label proposals produced from one project record rather than assembled from two tools. Two things make it the natural comparison against Solargraf specifically. First, pricing is per seat with no project meter, so quoting aggressively does not raise your bill. Second, it ships multi-market compliance and tariff libraries covering NEC, IEC, AS/NZS, and IS code alongside PM Surya Ghar, feed-in tariff, and net metering structures, which is exactly the gap that makes a US-residential tool painful elsewhere. It is also manufacturer-independent, which is the direct answer to the ownership question above. What you give up is a smaller user community and less accumulated US permitting folklore.

Aurora Solar, for US residential depth. If your problem is that you need better roof modelling and shading credibility rather than faster documents, Aurora is the more serious design product. Its pricing is quote-based per seat, with figures of roughly $159 to $259 per user per month widely reported, so confirm with the vendor. It costs more per person and it earns that at volume. Our Aurora Solar review covers the trade in detail.

PVsyst, when a lender names it. Some financing agreements specify PVsyst output by contract. In that situation the comparison is not about which tool is better, it is about which output the paperwork accepts. Use PVsyst for the bankability report and something faster upstream. Our PVsyst review explains where substitution is and is not possible.

For the wider field, the best solar design software guide ranks the category, and the US market guide covers NEC and tariff handling across tools.

Verdict

Solargraf is an honest product about what it is. It sells quoting speed, a good customer-facing proposal, a broad sales workflow in one place, and a price list you can read without booking a call. For a US residential team whose limiting factor is how fast quotes go out, it does the job, and the plan-based pricing is genuinely kinder than per-seat billing when your headcount is high.

The reasons to look elsewhere are structural rather than defects. Project-credit billing means your software bill moves with your quote count, including the quotes you lose. Annual billing removes the cheap exit. The engineering layer underneath the proposal is built for residential selling rather than for scrutiny, so growth into commercial or lender-financed work usually means adding a second tool. And manufacturer ownership, while not a mark against the product, is a fact worth pricing if hardware neutrality is part of how you protect margin.

Weighing those together, our recommendation for most teams evaluating Solargraf today is SurgePV, and the argument is arithmetic plus scope rather than preference. At $1,299 to $1,899 per user per year you get a flat bill that does not move with quote volume, design and proposals from one record instead of two tools, and compliance libraries for markets beyond the United States. If your business is US residential, Enphase-heavy, high-headcount, and predictable in volume, Solargraf remains a defensible buy and you should trial it seriously. If any one of those four is not true, the fit starts costing you somewhere.

About This Comparison

Pricing, features and product positioning described here were checked in August 2026 using publicly available vendor information. Vendors change pricing, packaging and capabilities without notice, and several do not publish prices at all. Treat every figure as a starting point for your own enquiry rather than a quotation, and confirm current terms directly with each vendor before making a purchasing decision.

All product names, logos and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Reference to them here is for identification and comparison only and does not imply any affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from those companies. SurgePV is a Qbits Energy product, so treat this as a vendor comparison written by an interested party and weigh it alongside independent sources and your own trial of the tools.

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