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Rutba vs UpKeep

The mobile-first CMMS everyone in this category is measured against - what a maintenance technician actually opens on their phone.

Checked 3 September 2026UpKeep - pricing and product

What UpKeep is

A cloud CMMS aimed at maintenance teams: work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, asset registers, parts inventory, meters, requests from a portal or QR code, and a mobile app that is the point of the product. Sold per user in tiered plans, with the higher tiers adding predictive maintenance and IoT sensor integration.

Who it genuinely suits

  • Maintenance teams whose work happens away from a desk
  • Facilities and property managers accepting requests from occupants
  • Anyone whose priority is a technician-friendly mobile experience today
  • Regulated industries that need the compliance module UpKeep sells

Where they win

What UpKeep does better than us.

Every comparison page on this site has this section and none of them is empty. If it were, you would be right to discount the rest of the page.

The mobile app is the product

A field technician opens UpKeep on a phone and finds a first-class experience: offline work orders, camera-attached notes, barcode scanning, meter readings, signed completions. Ours is a web app; the mobile-first experience is on the road-map and it is honest to say so.

Preventive maintenance and meter-based triggers, done

Time-based schedules, meter-based schedules with rollover, and calendar exceptions are mature. Our equivalent work engine is M4 and lands next.

A request portal for occupants

A tenant or an employee submits a repair request from a QR code without an account, and it lands on a technician's queue. We plan the same; today the request path is manual.

IoT and predictive maintenance in higher tiers

Sensor integrations for vibration, temperature and runtime, with anomaly alerts on the higher plans. We do not compete with this today and it is not next.

Where we win

What Rutba does that this does not.

Argued from how the products are built rather than from a feature list, because feature lists are the part of a comparison that goes stale first.

The register is not just the maintenance team's

A laptop the HR officer issued to a new joiner appears in facilities as the same row the accountant depreciates. UpKeep's asset register belongs to maintenance, and the CFO's fixed-asset schedule is a separate spreadsheet by definition.

Custody as insert-only events

Who had a thing and when they returned it is a chained record rather than an editable field. That matters when a leaver dispute reaches HR six months later, which is the reason this shape was chosen.

One system, not a CMMS beside an ERP

If Rutba is the ERP, a work order posts labour through workforce to the pay run and parts through inventory to the ledger without an integration to configure. UpKeep by design is one system beside another.

And the one that is not a feature

UpKeep Technologies, Inc. will not build what you ask for. We will.

That is not a criticism of them — a vendor at their scale has to weigh your request against every other customer it touches, and schedule it behind a roadmap set a year out. Your request is a rounding error in their planning, honestly so. We are small, and the people building the product are the people you talk to: what helps everyone goes into the product at no extra charge, what is specific to you is quoted as the work it is, and when the answer is no you get the reason.

Side by side

The same six questions the hub asks of everyone.

QuestionRutbaUpKeep
Runs the businessCRM, stock, orders, production and the ledger, from one vendorIncludedNot covered
Runs the dayMail, files, documents, chat and meetings, included rather than licensed separatelyIncludedNot covered
One set of recordsDo the modules share the records, or integrate copies of themIncludedNot covered
Buy it yourselfCan you subscribe and start without a partner or a sales cycleIncludedIncluded
Parts sold separatelyCan you take one piece without committing to the platformIncludedIncluded
Run it yourselfIs there a path to your own hardwarePartlyNot covered

On price: We do not reproduce UpKeep Technologies, Inc.’s prices here. A list price is published and fair to quote, and it is stale within a quarter — which would make this page quietly wrong in a way you could not see. Read today’s number from them, and ours is on our pricing page in full, tier by tier.

Moving

What leaving UpKeep actually involves.

The question that decides this is not whether you should move but whether you can. This is the honest version, including the parts that do not come across.

  1. 1

    Bring the asset list across as CSV; UpKeep exports cleanly. Custody history rarely migrates - it becomes an opening balance.

  2. 2

    Preventive schedules should be rebuilt in ours (M4) rather than exported - the shape of triggers differs.

  3. 3

    The mobile app on the road-map is not the product today. If your work is 90% on a phone, wait.

No customer has done this yet. The steps above describe the mechanism — what exports, what imports, what has to be rebuilt — rather than a migration we have run. When one has been run, this section will say whose it was.

Our actual recommendation

If your maintenance team lives on their phones and needs a working CMMS this quarter, buy UpKeep. Consider us when the point is one register the whole organisation reads from, when your Rutba licence already includes the accounts and the people, or when you can wait one milestone for the work engine.

If you did move

The products this comparison is about.

With their real availability labels, which apply inside a comparison exactly as they do everywhere else on this site.

Note before you compare: Rutba Facilities is not generally available yet. Any row above that we win on it is a claim about what ships, not about what you can buy today.

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Rutba Facilities

Early access

Asset & facilities management software

Every asset the organisation owns — laptops, machines, vehicles, buildings and their spaces — in one register with custody events that never lose the trail, lifecycle with contracts and licences, and the work that keeps them running against the same asset the accountant and the HR officer see.

  • One asset register the whole estate reads from
  • Custody as insert-only events — who had what and when it was returned
  • Sites, buildings and spaces, with assets attached to each

Includes: Assets · Facilities

From $9 per user / month

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Rutba People

Available now

HR, payroll & employee management software

Employee records, the org structure, attendance and leave, a shared time clock, and payroll that runs on all of it — plus a self-service portal so staff answer their own questions instead of asking HR.

  • Employee records, employment history, contracts, teams and matrix reporting lines
  • Attendance and leave with approval chains
  • A shared time clock that gives attendance an actual source

Includes: HR · Employee Self-Service · Payroll · Time Clock · Workforce · Recruit · Talent

From $8 per employee / month

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Rutba Books

Available now

Accounting & bookkeeping software

Invoicing, bills, banking and reconciliation on one side; the ledger, tax, budgets and the financial reports on the other — fed automatically by every sale, pay run and stock movement happening elsewhere in the business.

  • Two apps on one ledger - the daily bookkeeping surface and the accountant’s workbench, neither hiding anything from the other
  • Sales invoices, bills, receipts, supplier payments and credit notes, with per-line tax
  • Bank statements read in whatever your bank emits - CAMT.053, MT940, OFX/QFX or CSV - and matched, with reconciliation that must reach zero

Includes: Books · Accounts

From $14 per user / month

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