The self-hosted MaintainX alternative
Fixora: Self-hosted preventive maintenance for teams running machines, vehicles or plant: every PM triggers on engine hours, distance or the calendar — whichever comes first. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying MaintainX every month.
Stop renting MaintainX.
Fixora1 month of MaintainX costs what Fixora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: Per-user - calculator assumes 3 users x $65 = $195/mo on Premium annual, the first MaintainX tier that lists meter-based maintenance and parts inventory, which Fixora's comparison needs; Essential at $20 lists neither. The same page is read for Inspectora's comparison, which stores Essential instead; both rows carry the same full ladder and the same read date (2026-09-26). A free Basic tier exists.
MaintainX bills per named app user with a unique login, so the price scales up as more staff need accounts.
“A user is defined as someone who uses the MaintainX app and has a unique login. Requester accounts are free.”, their own page, read 2026-09-26
MaintainX offers a Basic plan described as free forever for small teams tracking work orders.
“Free forever. For small teams who need to digitize and track work orders.”, their own page
If you need IoT sensor integrations for automatic meter and telematics data, stay with MaintainX — Fixora meter readings are entered manually, with no IoT / telematics auto-ingest.
What Fixora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Self-hosted alternatives to MaintainX.
FixoraSelf-hosted preventive maintenance for teams running machines, vehicles or plant: every PM triggers on engine hours, distance or the calendar — whichever comes first.
InspectoraSelf-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.
Why owning beats renting MaintainX.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in MaintainX'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 Fixora vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off MaintainX.
Is the math actually right?
Do I need a cron job for PM schedules?
Will this run on shared hosting?
I already run Fixora 1.0 — what happens on upgrade?
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Sources
- MaintainX: price checked 2026-09-26, source“Basic Free forever. ... $0 per user/month ... Essential ... $20 per user*/month billed annually $25 billed monthly ... Premium ... $65 per user*/month billed annually $75 billed monthly ... Everything in Essential, plus: ... Meter-based maintenance Parts inventory management ... *A user is defined…”
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.