The UpKeep alternative with free preventive maintenance.

For most maintenance teams, yes. FreeMaint Core includes work orders, PM, assets, parts, inventory, a requests portal and mobile offline mode — on UpKeep, work orders start on Essential, PM and parts with costing on Premium, and the request portal and offline mode on Professional. Outbound webhooks are on FreeMaint Starter and the GraphQL API on Business; SSO, SAML and Slack/Teams integrations are on FreeMaint Enterprise ($299 flat).

As of October 2026, UpKeep lists Premium — its first plan with preventive maintenance — at $55/user/month: 10 users = $550/month, 25 users = $1,375/month. FreeMaint is $0 on Core with PM included, $29/month flat on Starter and $99/month flat on Business with the API, for any team size. UpKeep Professional and Enterprise are custom-priced, so there is no list price to compare.

Yes — native mobile apps for iOS and Android with offline mode, photo, QR and barcode scanning, voice notes, push notifications; offline sync is included on Core. On UpKeep, offline mode is part of the Professional plan (custom pricing, as of October 2026).

Yes — CSV import for work orders, assets, parts, locations, users, free on every plan. If you need hands-on migration, our optional Setup & Migration service starts from $500.

Genuinely free forever on Core. Unlimited users, unlimited work orders, unlimited PM, unlimited assets, 18 languages, mobile app, and FreeMee AI with 100 credits a month. No credit card, no time limit. UpKeep, by comparison, has no free plan — only a 7-day free trial.

UpKeep includes an AI assistant with 250 credits on Essential (as of October 2026). FreeMaint ships FreeMee AI on every plan — chatbot, photo diagnosis, voice transcription, failure analysis, predictive maintenance, smart auto-assign — included free on Core, with higher monthly allowances on paid tiers (fair use applies, see /legal/freemee-pro-fair-use). For sensors, FreeMaint sells no hardware of its own but connects common devices with FreeMaint Connect on Business ($99/month flat): Shelly energy meters over Wi-Fi or Ethernet, LoRaWAN current and temperature sensors (Milesight) through The Things Stack, ChirpStack or a Milesight gateway, and any system that can send JSON, such as Node-RED or Home Assistant. Alert rules — threshold, rate of change, ISO 20816 vibration zones, no data — can open work orders, channels feed meter-based preventive maintenance, and energy meters get cost and CO2 on each reading. Remote equipment control is on Enterprise. No vibration sensor is decoded natively yet: vibration values come in through the HTTP API.

Yes — full HSE module (incidents, inspections, permits, LOTO) on Starter $29/mo flat, for any team size.

Paid tiers (Starter/Business/Enterprise) fund the product. We do not monetize through ads, data selling, or per-user fees. Core stays free forever for every company, and early adopters who signed up before the public pricing launch keep Starter tier free for life.