Fixora — Self-Hosted CMMS: Usage-Based PM, Parts Inventory, Work Orders vs. renting SaaS
Self-hosted CMMS with usage meters, parts inventory, and a maintenance calendar — an open alternative to MaintainX.
The subscription math
Fixora — Self-Hosted CMMS: Usage-Based PM, Parts Inventory, Work Orders — yours
$129.00
one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server
Buy once
Fiix — rented
Basic $45 per user, per month (Professional $75/user/mo; free tier with limited users)
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Break-even:
1 month
of Fiix equals the one-time price.
Assumption: Per-user pricing - calculator assumes 3 users x $45 = $135/mo on Basic. Honest note: a 1-3 person shop should compare against Fiix Free first; the paid figure applies once the free tier's limits are outgrown. Fixora is one payment either way, with your data in your own database.
How their pricing grows:
Fiix licenses by named user login, so adding each technician, admin, or manager increases the monthly bill.
“A user is any named person who logs into Fiix. We recommend that each technician, admin, or manager have their own user license.” — read 2026-08-11
What Fiix does that we don't:
Fiix offers a permanently free tier for creating work orders, preventive maintenance tasks, and asset hierarchies, with no trial and no end date.
If you need a built-in purchasing / purchase-order module, stay with Fiix — Fixora has no purchasing module, and stock is adjusted by hand or by work-order consumption.
MaintainX — rented
Essential $20 per user/month billed annually ($25 monthly); free Basic tier
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Break-even:
3 months
of MaintainX equals the one-time price.
Assumption: Per-user - calculator assumes 3 users x $20 = $60/mo on Essential annual. A free Basic tier exists.
How their pricing grows:
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.” — read 2026-08-11
What MaintainX does that we don't:
MaintainX offers a Basic plan described as free forever for small teams tracking work orders.
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.
UpKeep — rented
Essential $24/user/mo (Premium $55/user/mo; Professional & Enterprise quote-only)
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Break-even:
2 months
of UpKeep equals the one-time price.
Assumption: Per-user - calculator assumes 3 users x $24 = $72/mo on Essential.
How their pricing grows:
UpKeep's Essential plan is billed per user per month, so cost rises directly with headcount.
“$ 24 /user/mo Small teams or single-site operations getting off spreadsheets/paper for the first time.” — read 2026-08-11
What UpKeep does that we don't:
UpKeep provides round-the-clock phone, SMS, and chat support to its customers.
If you need offline mobile access for work orders in the field, stay with UpKeep — Fixora's QR tags need a phone camera plus network access to your install, with no native offline mobile app.
Savings calculator
SaaS figures use the cited plan price above (see the sources below);
per-seat plans scale by the seat count from the same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Also in this category
Limble [4]
No public price - quote-gated (verified)
Standard/Premium+/Enterprise tiers shown with no numbers; interactive calculator only.
How their pricing grows: Limble routes non-standard plans through a sales Order Form and Customer Success Manager rather than a published price list.
“If your Order Form lists a plan not included here, please contact your Customer Success Manager for more details about such plans.”
What Limble does that we don't: Limble's Enterprise plan is built to run maintenance operations across multiple locations from one account, something Fixora's single-installation design does not offer.
If you need to manage maintenance operations across multiple locations from one account, stay where you are — Fixora does not do that (single-tenant: one admin login per installation).
Why owning beats renting here
- One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the
product page for honest limitations.
Sources
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Fiix — price checked 2026-08-04 —
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“$45 Per user, per month; a free tier exists (verified 2026-08-04)”
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MaintainX — price checked 2026-07-05 —
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“$20 per user*/month billed annually”
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UpKeep — price checked 2026-07-05 —
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“$24/user/mo”
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Limble — price checked 2026-08-02 —
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“Calculate my price”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only
print figures we could verify on the date shown.