Restock vs renting the software.
Reorder points, days of stock and suggested orders per product, from your own sales history.
Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-09-03 and 2026-09-26, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.
The subscription math.
2 months of Prediko costs what Restock costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Prediko meters by GMV — the merchant's own trailing twelve months of revenue — rather than by users or SKUs, so growth alone moves you up a band.
“$100k gmv in the last 12 months” Read 2026-09-03.
Who should stay with Prediko. Stay with Prediko if you want the live Shopify link and raw-materials planning as a managed service. Restock takes your sales history, works out reorder points, days of stock and suggested quantities per SKU — netting what is already on order — and raises the purchase orders (draft → sent → received), on your own server, with nothing indexed to your turnover.
How we counted. The lowest published band, which is the only one a small shop would ever start on. The mechanism is what matters: the bill is indexed to how much you SELL, so a good year raises the price of the forecasting that helped produce it, even though the workload has not changed. Restock is $89 once and forecasts from the sales history you import, whatever the turnover behind it.
2 months of Sortly costs what Restock costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Sortly meters by UNIQUE ITEMS and USER LICENSES per plan, with a first-year discount that ends.
“Unique Items: 500” Read 2026-08-30.
Who should stay with Sortly. Stay with Sortly if you want a phone-first visual inventory with barcode scanning and a free start. Restock is reorder forecasting and stock levels on your own server.
How we counted. The standing Advanced price; the page shows a first-year discount crossed against it, which is an offer, not the price. Plans are sized by unique items and user licenses. Restock has no item or user cap.
4 months of Zoho Inventory costs what Restock costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Zoho Inventory meters by ORDERS PER MONTH, USERS and LOCATIONS, each extendable as a paid add-on.
“500 orders / month 3 users 2 locations” Read 2026-09-26.
Who should stay with Zoho Inventory. Stay with Zoho Inventory if you need multi-warehouse order management and the rest of Zoho around it. Restock is the reorder brain — forecasts and reorder points — on your own server.
How we counted. The annual entry figure on the US page ($29); monthly it is $39. Re-read 2026-09-26 in both states on the US page and on the global page this row used to cite, which answers a European address in euros and keeps the older names and caps (Standard 29 with 2 users, Professional 79, Premium 129, Enterprise 249). On the US page the 79 tier is Premium and the 129 tier Plus. Every cap is sold as an add-on. No free plan appears on either page today. Restock is one payment.
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.
Also in this category.
“Cogsy has been discontinued and is no longer available.”
“Our pricing is based on the volume of inventory you manage – with no nasty surprises.”
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 Restock deliberately doesn't do.
Related on this site
Sources
- Prediko: price checked 2026-09-03, source“$49/month ... $100k gmv in the last 12 months ... 14 day free trial ... raw materials forecasting & boms$20 ... unlimited users, skus, pos”
- Sortly: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$0 USD/mo' ... 'Unique Items: 100' ... '$49 $24 USD/mo' ... '$149 $74 USD/mo' ... '$299 $149 USD/mo' ... 'Get a Quote'”
- Zoho Inventory: price checked 2026-09-26, source“[US page] STANDARD $ 29 per organization / month billed annually 500 orders / month 3 users 2 locations ... PREMIUM $ 79 ... 3000 orders / month 5 users 4 locations ... PLUS $ 129 ... ENTERPRISE $ 249 ... [Monthly] STANDARD $ 39 per organization / month billed monthly ... PREMIUM $ 99 ... PLUS $…”
- Cogsy: price checked 2026-09-05, source“Cogsy has been discontinued and is no longer available.”
- Inventory Planner (by Sage): price checked 2026-09-03, source“based on the volume of inventory you manage”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.