The self-hosted Cheqroom alternative
Lendra: Log who has which laptop, tool, or camera checked out, and get automatic overdue flags on a live dashboard. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Cheqroom every month.
Stop renting Cheqroom.
Cheqroom publishes its numbers with NO currency symbol anywhere on the page: Core 184 per admin/month billed annually (Business 275, Enterprise 367), and "Every plan starts at 3 admins", so the smallest purchasable Core is 3 x 184 = 552 per month (every plan includes unlimited users and unlimited items) Lendra is $59 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.
Cheqroom bills per-admin seats annually and sets a floor under the plan: three admin licenses before you count anyone, with regular users unlimited and free on top.
“We bill annually. Every plan starts at 3 admins.”, their own page, read 2026-09-07
Cheqroom does not charge per regular user — every plan includes unlimited non-admin users, and it says so in answer to that exact question.
“No, you can have as many regular users as you need. This model is designed to empower your entire team to use the equipment they need without extra costs.”, their own page
If you need printed asset labels or generated sign-out agreements, stay with Cheqroom — Lendra reads tags from a keyboard-style scanner at its desk, prints no labels and generates no agreements.
What Lendra deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Cheqroom.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Cheqroom's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Lendra vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off Cheqroom.
Isn't this just a spreadsheet?
Will this run on shared hosting?
Can I trust the core logic?
Is it going to be bloated and hard to learn?
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Sources
- Cheqroom: price checked 2026-09-07, source“'184 per admin/month*' ... '*We bill annually. Every plan starts at 3 admins.'”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.