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A Simpro alternative without the per seat bill.
Simpro is a serious platform priced accordingly. If you are paying enterprise money for a fraction of the features, here is what a system built for your company costs instead.
Book a conversationWhat Simpro is good at
Starting here because it is true, and because a comparison page that pretends otherwise is not worth reading.
Worth knowing
Genuinely broad: projects, inventory, purchasing, maintenance contracts, detailed job costing.
Worth knowing
Strong where work is quoted, staged and cost tracked across long jobs.
Worth knowing
Built for contractors with real complexity, and it handles it.
When you should stay where you are
If you are using the project costing, inventory and purchasing properly, Simpro earns its price and we would not try to talk you out of it. Nothing we build would replace that depth in one go.
Where people run into the edges
- It is the most expensive way to be counted. At the top of the market per seat, so growing the team is where the cost really lands.
- Most companies use a fraction of it. Paying for breadth you never open is the most common complaint we hear about it.
- Setup is a project in itself. Powerful software takes configuring, and that time is yours.
What per seat costs over three years
Simpro is from around £80 per user per month. Per seat pricing is fine while you are small and becomes the main number as you grow.
| Team size | Simpro at about £80 a seat | Over three years |
|---|---|---|
| 5 people | £400 a month | about £14,000 |
| 15 people | £1200 a month | about £43,000 |
| 30 people | £2400 a month | about £86,000 |
Prices as published in August 2026. Check them yourself before deciding anything: they change, and we would rather you found that out from them than from us.
Want your own figure rather than these three? Work out what it costs you over three years, including the people you are about to hire.
What we do differently
If you use six of its sixty features, a system that does those six properly and nothing else is cheaper, faster to learn and nobody needs training on the parts that are not there.
One monthly fee covers building it, hosting it, supporting it and improving it. There is no upfront cost: we build the opening screens in your branding first, and you only start paying if you want the real thing. Most systems take three to six months.
The honest summary
Off-the-shelf wins when your company fits the shape it assumes. It is cheaper, it is available today, and somebody else has already tested it. Bespoke wins when the fit is the problem: when the spreadsheet beside the software is doing the real work, when the same thing gets typed twice, and when the answer to "can it do this" has been no for two years.
If you are not sure which of those you are, that is exactly what the conversation is for, and we will tell you if the answer is to stay put.
Worth twenty minutes to work out which one you are?
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