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Inspectora — Self-Hosted Inspection & Calibration Register: Due Board, Logbooks vs. renting SaaS

Self-hosted inspection register: what is due, what is overdue, and what was last done to it — every due date computed from the last inspection, never stored.

The subscription math

Inspectora — Self-Hosted Inspection & Calibration Register: Due Board, Logbooks — yours
$79.00
one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server
Buy once
MaintainX — rented
Essential $20 per user/month billed annually ($25 billed monthly); Premium $65/user/month billed annually ($75 monthly); Basic $0 [1]
Break-even: 2 months of MaintainX equals the one-time price.
Assumption: The Essential tier on the annual commitment, shown for a three-person maintenance team: 3 × $20 = $60/month. A free Basic tier exists and is a fair starting point for one person. Inspectora is $79 once, whatever the team size.
How their pricing grows: MaintainX meters PER USER with a login — requester accounts are free, but everyone who actually does the work is a paid seat, every month.
“A user is defined as someone who uses the MaintainX app and has a unique login.”
Stay with MaintainX if you need work orders, parts inventory and maintenance planning — a real CMMS. Inspectora is the register of what is due and what was done, which is the part an audit asks about.

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 [2]

No public price — quote-gated (verified). Standard, Premium+ and Enterprise plans are listed with no figures; the page routes to a price calculator.
Limble names its tiers but publishes no number, so there is nothing to compare against except the shape of the deal. Recorded as quote-gated rather than estimated from a third-party site.

How their pricing grows: Limble does not publish a price at all: the figure arrives after a calculator and a conversation, which means it can be different for you than for the next buyer.

“Calculate my price”

Stay with Limble if you want a full CMMS with a vendor-managed rollout. Inspectora publishes its price on the page you are reading and is one payment.

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

  1. MaintainX — price checked 2026-08-22 — source
    “'$20 per user*/month billed annually' ... '$25 billed monthly' ... '$65 per user*/month billed annually' ... '$0 per user/month' ... 'A user is defined as someone who uses the MaintainX app and has a unique login. Requester accounts are free.'”
  2. Limble — price checked 2026-08-22 — source
    “'Calculate my price' (the plans Standard, Premium+ and Enterprise are named with no price shown on the page)”

Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.

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