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Xactimate & price list tracker

Xactimate prices the majority of insurance restoration work in the United States, which makes every price list update and settings change a direct edit to your revenue.

Xactimate prices the majority of insurance restoration work in the United States, which makes every price list update and settings change a direct edit to your revenue. In 2026 Verisk added a third labor-efficiency model, Large Restoration/Remodel, on top of the long-running fight over carriers using the new-construction setting to cut payouts. Courts have mostly held that no specific setting is contractually required, so that argument gets won with documentation, not the policy. This tracker logs every pricing and estimating-platform move the desk catches: price list revisions, labor-efficiency changes, AI estimating entrants, and the rulings that decide which settings stick. Labor efficiency is the hidden multiplier on every estimate you write. Treat changes to the platform like changes to your rate sheet, because that's exactly what they are.

The pricing log

What movedFlaggedOperator impact
Xactimate adds a third labor-efficiency model, Large Restoration/Remodel, sitting between the Restoration/Service setting and full rebuilds2026-05-30Every large loss now has a which-tier-applies fight; a one-page tier justification in your estimate package is how you keep that labor margin.
The old New Construction labor setting is relabeled Total Rebuild or Similar, and the three-tier setup requires a 2026-or-later price list2026-07-16The relabel weakens the classic underpayment dodge; asking whether your occupied, phased job is really a Total Rebuild is a better argument than you had last year, but you need a 2026 price list to make it.
Xactimate hourly billable labor rates now update monthly2026-07-16Labor pricing moves every month now, so estimating off a stale list means eating documented wage inflation on every job.

Every entry 4 tracked, newest first

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The software land grab goes free
JobSight shipped JobSightAI (AI receipt capture, conversational search across jobs).
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Xactimate's labor tiers: what actually changed
Detail firmed up on the three-tier labor-efficiency architecture we flagged in May: the new Large Restoration/Remodel tier sits between Restoration/Service and the old "New Construction" setting, which has been relabeled "Total Rebuild or Similar." It requires a 2026-or-later price list.
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Capabuild is now "TrueRestore", the rebrand we called
Capabuild, the LiDAR/360 documentation app for restoration and mitigation contractors that TrueBuilt acquired, has rebranded its restoration product to TrueRestore, wiring jobsite capture directly into TrueBuilt's AI estimation engine.
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Verisk adds a third Xactimate labor-efficiency model
Xactimate moved from two labor-efficiency models to three, adding a "Large Restoration/Remodel" tier meant to bridge service-level work and full rebuilds.

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