iAuditor alternative for hospitality: room, kitchen and fire checks on software you own, not per seat per month
SafetyCulture prices iAuditor per seat — $24 a month each on annual billing, read from its own page. A hotel with twenty people doing checks pays for twenty seats. The self-hosted pair that covers the fire round, the kitchen diary and the evidence for a one-time price, refusals first.
Hospitality is the industry where per-seat inspection software is the wrong shape. A hotel's checks are done by housekeepers, night porters, kitchen staff and maintenance — many people, each doing a small part, most of them part-time. A tool priced per person charges for every one of them. This page is for the operator who typed "iauditor alternative for hospitality" into a search box and wants a straight answer: what iAuditor costs by its own page, what a self-hosted alternative does and does not do, and the arithmetic in between.
What iAuditor costs, from the vendor's page
SafetyCulture, the company behind iAuditor, publishes a free plan and a Premium plan at $24 per seat per month on annual billing, or $29 monthly, excluding taxes. We read that page on 5 July 2026; check it before you decide, because prices move. The important word is seat. A twelve-person hotel where everyone logs a check is twelve seats: $288 a month, $3,456 a year. Twenty-five seats is $600 a month, $7,200 a year. That is multiplication on the published Premium price, not a forecast, and it says nothing about whether the free plan's limits fit your operation — only the vendor's page can tell you that.
What the alternative is, and what it is not
The self-hosted answer here is two products, because a hotel's checks are two different jobs.
Inspectora is an inspection and calibration register: a list of the things that get checked, the interval each is checked on, and the date each was last done. Its screen is the due board — due, overdue, and the state most tools do not have, never done, which is not the same as expired and must not be filed as if it were. Every completed check goes into a logbook with the evidence attached (the certificate, the photo, the reading), schedules group checks into rounds, and a calendar feed puts the due dates into the calendar your maintenance lead already looks at. For a hotel: the fire-door round, the emergency-lighting test, the lift inspection, the legionella flush, the extractor clean, the PAT dates, the boiler service.
What Inspectora is not, from its own page: it is not a CMMS — no work orders, no parts inventory, no maintenance planning; it does not perform or certify anything, it records that a check happened and holds the certificate; it has one grouping tag rather than a rules engine; and the people named on records are tracked, not given logins. If you want a form builder with branching questions and a mobile app that guides a person through a checklist step by step, that is what iAuditor is, and Inspectora does not compete with it. Inspectora competes with the spreadsheet that says when the fire doors were last checked and is wrong.
Safora is the kitchen half: a replacement for the paper food-safety diary. Six record types, temperature readings entered by staff and flagged automatically when they deviate, a green-amber-red compliance calendar, a manager's daily sign-off, and an audit-ready export for the inspector. It chases the breach nobody closed, and it treats a closed day as a closed day rather than a missing record. Its limits, from its page: it does not connect to fridge probes or sensors (a sensor can post to its API and raise the same alert a person would), it submits nothing to any authority, and it is not a certificate of compliance or legal advice.
Both are self-hosted PHP applications, bought once — $79 each — running on your own server with their data in your own database. Both carry a REST API and an MCP endpoint since the 3.0 release, so a head-office assistant can read the due board without a seat.
The arithmetic, labelled as arithmetic
| Year 1 | Year 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| iAuditor Premium, 12 seats at $24/month (annual billing) | $3,456 | $10,368 |
| iAuditor Premium, 25 seats | $7,200 | $21,600 |
| Inspectora + Safora, one-time | $158 | $158 |
The owned column carries hosting, a ten-minute install each, and your own backups; the five-year math prices those lines honestly. The subscription column carries a mobile app with guided checklists and a form builder that the owned pair does not have. Which column is right depends on whether your problem is people filling in forms or knowing what is due — and in most small hotels it is the second.
Where this sits in the catalogue
Inspectora is part of the Field-Service Suite; Safora anchors the Restaurant Ops Suite. A hotel with a restaurant usually wants the pair rather than either suite. The HACCP logbook pricing question works the per-seat versus per-site crossover for the kitchen alone, and the inspection software cost teardown does the same for the register. Both demos are open without a sign-up: Inspectora and Safora. The SafetyCulture figure, with its source and date, is in the Price Observatory beside the iAuditor comparison page.