Gymora vs. renting SaaS
Self-hosted gym membership manager with front-desk check-in guards and class-pack credit tracking.
The subscription math
GymMaster — rented
Foundation USD $89/month per site (Advanced $129/mo; Professional $209/mo), ex. GST
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Break-even:
1 months
of GymMaster equals the one-time price.
Assumption: Foundation caps at 100 current members; yearly billing gives 10% off.
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
Glofox [2]
No public price - quote-gated (verified)
Pricing page fetched live - no plan names or numbers published; quote-form only.
Mindbody [3]
Starting at EUR 99/month per location - tiers quote-gated (verified)
Page served EUR to our fetch (geo-dependent); Starter/Accelerate/Ultimate tiers are all 'Let's talk' - no USD figure for a calculator.
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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GymMaster — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“USD $89/month”
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Glofox — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“Get a price quote”
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Mindbody — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“Starting at 99 Euro/month per location”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only
print figures we could verify on the date shown.