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The self-hosted Qminder alternative

Tokora: Self-hosted queue & token display — issue numbers, call them to counters, run the waiting-room board. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Qminder every month.

Own Tokora for $69 Try the live demo

Stop renting Qminder.

Rented Qminder Business $869/month month-to-month ($9,468/year on annual billing, about $789/month) and Premium $1,149/month ($12,588/year) ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Tokora

$69 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

1 month of Qminder costs what Tokora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: An enterprise queue platform whose entry plan costs more per month than Tokora costs once. Tokora runs the same call-the-next-number board on a screen you already own.

How Qminder pricing grows

Qminder's plans are tiered by the number of included users, so cost rises as a team adds seats beyond the plan's allotment.

“We offer different tiers that are based on the number of users and some functionalities.”, their own page, read 2026-09-24

What Qminder does that we don't

Qminder offers iPad and Apple TV apps, multilingual SMS and chat, and staff performance reports across locations.

“Check-in kiosk iPad app ... Waiting room Apple TV app ... Multilingual SMS notifications & chat ... Staff performance reports Location performance reports (read 2026-09-24)”, their own page

Who should stay with Qminder

If you need an iPad kiosk app, multilingual SMS and chat, or staff performance reports across locations, stay where you are — Tokora texts visitors through your own Twilio account and does nothing else outbound.

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

Why owning beats renting Qminder.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Qminder'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 Tokora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Qminder.

Do I need special hardware or a ticket printer?

No — the kiosk, the counter console, and the display board are all just web pages. Put the board on any spare screen or TV with a browser; visitors take a number on their own phone or a shared tablet.

How do the numbers reset?

Per service, automatically each day, computed on view — there is no cron job to schedule and nothing to reset by hand.

Does it store any patient or personal health data?

No health records and no payments. It keeps three things that can identify someone: the optional note, the mobile number a visitor adds for text alerts, and the IP address of the device that took the ticket (used for the kiosk's rate limit). An admin clears all three from tickets older than a chosen number of days under Data retention (90 by default). The note never appears on the public board.

MySQL or SQLite?

Either — SQLite for a zero-config trial, MySQL/MariaDB for production on ordinary shared hosting.

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Sources

Qminder: price checked 2026-09-03, source“Business $869 /month ... $9,468 /year ... Premium $1,149 /month ... $12,588 /year (re-read 2026-08-30)”

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 Qminder with Tokora.

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