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The self-hosted Fulcrum alternative

Inspectora — Self-hosted inspection register: what is due, what is overdue, and what was last done to it — every due date computed from the last inspection, never stored. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Fulcrum every month.

Stop renting Fulcrum

Fulcrum — rented
Professional $43 and Elite $39, each a "user license per month, billed annually" with a five-user minimum, published in the page's structured data (the rendered cards show no figure to a fetcher). Their own data prices Elite BELOW Professional; both are recorded as published [1]
billed every month, forever · your data in their cloud
Inspectora — yours
$79.00
one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server
1 month of Fulcrum equals this one-time price.
Buy once

Assumption: Stored at the vendor's OWN minimum of five users ($43 x 5 = $215/month), not the three-seat basis the other rows on this product use, because Fulcrum will not sell fewer than five. Their structured data prices Elite ($39) below Professional ($43); that is what it says and it is quoted rather than reconciled. Inspectora is $79 once, for however many people walk the round.

How Fulcrum pricing grows with you

Fulcrum meters per user licence per month on an annual commitment AND enforces a floor of five licences, so a three-person team buys five.

“"minvalue":5” — their own page, read 2026-09-03

What Fulcrum does that we don't

Fulcrum is a field-data platform around the inspection: offline capture, a drag-and-drop form builder, geospatial capability and ArcGIS connectivity.

“"unittext":"user license per month, billed annually"” — their own page

Who should stay with Fulcrum

Stay with Fulcrum if you need offline mobile capture, custom form building and GIS. Inspectora is the register, not the clipboard: what is due, what is overdue, and what was last done to it, with every due date computed from the last inspection rather than stored — single-tenant, on your own server. Full honest limitations are on the product page.

Why owning beats renting Fulcrum

  • One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
  • Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Fulcrum's cloud.
  • No plan ceilings. Records and users are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
  • It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.

Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Inspectora vs Fulcrum comparison.

Sources

  1. Fulcrum — price checked 2026-09-03 — source
    “"@type":"offer","name":"professional" ... "price":"43","pricecurrency":"usd" ... "unittext":"user license per month, billed annually" ... "@type":"offer","name":"elite" ... "price":"39","pricecurrency":"usd" ... "minvalue":5”

Competitor prices change — 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.

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