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The self-hosted Podium alternative

Revup: Self-hosted review requests for local service businesses: every customer who rates is shown your public review page, and ratings below your threshold are also offered a private message to you. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Podium every month.

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Stop renting Podium.

Rented Podium Core $399 per month; Pro $599 per month; Signature 'Custom pricing'. One monthly figure per plan, each with a 'Talk to Sales' button, and no annual state shown; Podium Phones seats are extra ($30 each a month for 1-4 users, $25 for 5+) ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Revup

$99 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

1 month of Podium costs what Revup costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Stored at Core, the entry plan, $399 a month. Re-read 2026-09-26: Podium now publishes Core and Pro prices; on 2026-09-03 the page named no plan and no figure and sent every visitor to sales. Each card still routes the purchase through a sales call. Revup is $69 once.

How Podium pricing grows

Podium sells monthly plans through its sales team: Core and Pro now carry a published monthly price, Signature is custom, and phone seats and extra numbers are billed on top.

“$399 per month Talk to Sales”, their own page, read 2026-09-26

What Podium does that we don't

Podium's automations connect to over 200 third-party integrations.

“Put lead conversion on auto-pilot with automated tasks that can hook up to 200+ integrations.”, their own page

Who should stay with Podium

If you need multi-step drip campaigns, stay where you are — Revup sends one request and at most one follow-up.

What Revup deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Podium.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Podium's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

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 Revup vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Podium.

Are my SMTP/Twilio credentials safe?

They are stored in your database on your own server, used only for sends you trigger, never echoed back into the settings form once saved, and never passed through any third-party infrastructure.

Will this run on shared hosting?

Yes. Revup needs PHP 8.1+ with pdo and curl — present on virtually all cPanel/Plesk hosts. MySQL and SQLite are both supported, and the web installer takes about two minutes.

What if I don't configure SMTP or Twilio?

Manual mode: every request still gets its unique rating link, shown on the Requests screen for copy/paste into any channel. The rating page, feedback inbox, and dashboard all work identically.

What does sending cost?

Email costs whatever your SMTP already costs (usually nothing extra). SMS is billed by Twilio directly at their own pay-as-you-go rates — Revup itself meters nothing.

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Sources

Podium: price checked 2026-09-26, source“Plans designed to fit your specific business needs, talk to our sales team for details. Core With essential Al features, respond to and convert more leads faster. $399 per month Talk to Sales ... Pro Best Value ... $599 per month Talk to Sales ... Signature ... Custom pricing Talk to sales”

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.

Replace Podium with Revup.

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