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Supplia — Supplier Register & Contract-Renewal Tracker (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted) vs. renting SaaS

Self-hosted supplier & contract register — renewal alerts, expiry warnings, committed spend by category.

The subscription math

Supplia — Supplier Register & Contract-Renewal Tracker (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted) — yours
$69.00
one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server
Buy once
ContractSafe — rented
Organize $375, Finalize $579, Maximize $746 — each a "month (billed annually)" annual-prepay plan, published in the page's own structured data. The rendered cards show no figure to a fetcher; the only visible price is "$2.50 per contract" for setup services [1]
Break-even: 1 month of ContractSafe equals the one-time price.
Assumption: The entry plan at the vendor's own published rate, monthly on an annual prepay. Worth noting for anyone re-reading this row: the figures live only in the page's structured data, so a browser and a fetcher see different things here — the citation quotes the data the page publishes about itself. Supplia is $69 once for the register, with no annual commitment behind it.
How their pricing grows: ContractSafe prices by PLAN on an annual prepay, and sells the setup work separately again — "jump start services" are charged per contract on top of the subscription.
“"unittext": "month (billed annually)"” — read 2026-09-03
What ContractSafe does that we don't: ContractSafe adds the services most registers leave to you: their own paralegals will load and tag the back catalogue for a per-contract fee.
Stay with ContractSafe if you want AI search across scanned contracts and someone else doing the data entry. Supplia is the register a renewal date lives in — suppliers, contracts, renewal alerts, expiry warnings and committed spend by category — bought once and kept on your own server.
Concord — rented
Plans at $499, $899 and $1,299 per month paid annually, each including 5 users; additional users $49, $69 and $89 per user/month [2]
Break-even: 1 month of Concord equals the one-time price.
Assumption: A full contract-lifecycle platform from $499/mo. Supplia covers vendor and contract tracking with renewal alerts - narrower, but yours for one payment.
How their pricing grows: Concord's plans include a set number of users and charge extra per additional user beyond that.
“$499 /per month (paid annually) Includes 5 users Additional users $49/mo” — read 2026-08-11
What Concord does that we don't: Concord lets teams upload documents and collect e-signatures directly in the platform from day one, which Supplia's link-only, signature-free register does not do.
If you need electronic signatures and approval workflows built into your contract tool, stay where you are — Supplia does not do that (it is a register and a reminder, not a contract-lifecycle-management suite).

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

Juro [3]

No public price - the pricing page is a configurator ("build custom pricing that's right for your business") that asks how many contracts you process a month and displays an "aproximate price $0 USD" until a quote is requested (verified)
Fetched live 2026-09-03: no plan price is published anywhere on the page. What it publishes instead is the SHAPE of the deal — the first question is your monthly contract volume, so the meter is contracts, and the number arrives from a salesperson. Recorded as quote-gated rather than guessed at. Supplia is $69 once, and the register does not care how many contracts you put in it.

How their pricing grows: Juro meters by CONTRACT VOLUME — the configurator opens by asking how many contracts a month you process — and the resulting figure is quoted rather than published.

“how many contracts does your business process per month?”

What Juro does that we don't: Juro is a full contract lifecycle platform: drafting, negotiation, e-signature and an approval workflow around the repository, not just the renewal dates.

Stay with Juro if you need contracts drafted, negotiated and signed inside the tool. Supplia is the register on the other side of signature: suppliers, contracts, renewal alerts, expiry warnings and committed spend by category, bought once and kept on your own server.

ContractWorks [4]

No public price - the vendor withdrew its pricing page entirely; the address returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-03
Quote-gated contract repository. Supplia does the supplier and renewal-tracking part - a register and reminder, not full CLM - for one visible price.

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. ContractSafe — price checked 2026-09-03 — source
    “"name": "organize plan (annual prepay)" ... "price": "375.00" ... "unittext": "month (billed annually)" ... "name": "finalize plan (annual prepay)" ... "price": "579.00" ... "name": "maximize plan (annual prepay)" ... "price": "746.00"”
  2. Concord — price checked 2026-09-03 — source
    “$499 /per month - Additional users $49/mo ... $899 - $69/mo ... $1,299 - $89/mo”
  3. Juro — price checked 2026-09-03 — source
    “build custom pricing that's right for your business ... how many contracts does your business process per month? ... aproximate price$ 0 usd”
  4. ContractWorks — pricing page withdrawn, checked 2026-09-03. The vendor no longer publishes a pricing page, so there is no live source to link.

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

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