Permora vs renting the software.
Every permit expiry and inspection date across your jobs, on one board and in your own calendar.
Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-09-03 and 2026-09-24, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.
The subscription math.
2 months of Contractor Foreman costs what Permora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Contractor Foreman prices by plan and user count, and permits come as one module of the whole suite rather than on their own.
“Basic $49 per month ... 1 User ... Standard $105 per month ... Up to 3 Users” Read 2026-09-24.
Who should stay with Contractor Foreman. Stay with Contractor Foreman if you want permits inside a full construction-management suite with daily logs, work orders and a CRM. Permora is the permit-and-inspection register on its own, on your own server, bought once.
How we counted. The entry plan for one user, as the pricing page shows it with annual billing (read 2026-09-24). Permit tracking is usually one feature inside a construction-management suite paid for monthly; Permora is that one job, bought once.
Work out your own numbers.
The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
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Why owning beats renting here.
No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.
Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.
Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Permora deliberately doesn't do.
Related on this site
Sources
- Contractor Foreman: price checked 2026-09-24, source“'Basic $49 per month Free for 30 days then pay $588 annually at renewal. 1 User' ... 'Standard $105 per month ... Up to 3 Users' ... (features page) 'Permits Keep permits organized and inspections connected' ... 'Monitor permit status, fees, pull-by dates, and inspection connections'”
- PermitFlow: price checked 2026-09-03, source“Book a Demo”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.