Gymora vs. renting SaaS

Self-hosted gym membership manager with front-desk check-in guards and class-pack credit tracking.

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The subscription math

Gymora — yours

$59.00

one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server

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GymMaster — rented

Foundation USD $89/month per site (Advanced $129/mo; Professional $209/mo), ex. GST ^[1]

Break-even: 1 month of GymMaster equals the one-time price.

Assumption: Foundation caps at 100 current members; yearly billing gives 10% off.

How their pricing grows: GymMaster meters its per-site plans by 'current members' - a count that includes paid, billing, and future-start members - so growing your membership is what pushes you into a pricier tier.

“Current members are those with paid in full or regular billing membership, including $0 memberships, members signed up for a future start date and any members who are exempt from internal reporting.” — read 2026-08-11

What GymMaster does that we don't: GymMaster does not lock customers into a fixed-term contract.

If you need a public member booking site with built-in card processing and automated email or SMS, stay where you are - Gymora does not do that.

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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.

How their pricing grows: Glofox does not publish prices; the site instead collects your business type and number of locations through a form to generate a custom quote.

“Are you a new or established business? * Number of locations”

If you run a multi-location gym chain, stay where you are — Gymora is single-location, single-tenant only, with one staff/admin login per install.

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.

How their pricing grows: Mindbody's price scales with the number of locations you run, not with how many staff logins you add at each location.

“Your subscription price increases based on adding new locations and not adding new people to existing locations.”

What Mindbody does that we don't: Mindbody includes unlimited staff logins per location at no extra charge.

If you need multi-location management with public online booking and integrated payment processing, stay where you are - Gymora does not do that.

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

GymMaster — price checked 2026-07-05 — source
“USD $89/month”
Glofox — price checked 2026-08-02 — source
“Get a price quote”
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.

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