UPKEEP ALTERNATIVE · FASTMAINT CMMS, CLOUD OR ON-PREMISES
FastMaint: a CMMS your team can count on every shift
FastMaint is for maintenance managers who need the software to keep up when the shift is busy. If you’re searching for an UpKeep alternative, you may know the frustrations. Work order lists you can’t filter or sort the way you need, so reports take longer than the job. Screens that crawl just when everyone’s logged in. Bugs that sit waiting for a fix. And preventive maintenance and parts on a higher plan than the one you bought. FastMaint puts the whole program in every edition, runs in our cloud or on your own servers, and when something’s wrong, the people who wrote it answer.
The short version. If it’s the glitches, the slow screens or the plan you’re on, you’re not being fussy. FastMaint answers them, for one plant, one hotel, one facility, with a maintenance team of anything from two people to ten or more, and nobody whose job title contains “IT”: the whole maintenance program in every edition, a choice of where it runs, and a direct line to the people who wrote it.
Find the work order, get the report
A CMMS should hand you the job you’re looking for in seconds, and the numbers your boss wants without an afternoon of exporting and sorting.
FastMaint’s Find searches work orders, equipment, parts and locations, with wildcards and an option to search descriptions, in every edition. Work orders can be emailed or texted straight to the technician doing the job.
FastMaint’s reports are built for the questions you actually get asked, in every edition. Work order cost and duration against the estimate. Downtime compared across three successive periods, with drill-down to the records behind the total. Costs that roll up through your equipment and location hierarchy, so a whole line or a whole building has a number. On FastMaint Cloud, reports can also run on a schedule and arrive in your inbox. Maher Kloub at National Chlorine Industries: “Very easy to learn, easy to start, easy to plan & easy to report.”
Build your PM schedule this week
Thirty days with the complete product, your own equipment and your own PM tasks in it. Nothing held back for a later plan.
No credit card. If you buy, everything you set up carries over.
The PM schedule is the whole point
Preventive maintenance is why most teams buy a CMMS in the first place. Software that treats it as an upgrade has the order backwards. UpKeep lists PM scheduling and parts and inventory from its Premium plan up.
In FastMaint, PM scheduling is core in every edition, by the calendar or by meter readings, with the parts, purchasing and reports that go with it. Rylan Lally, chief operator at City of Westfield Wastewater, has used it for years because it “keeps us on track with preventive maintenance”. David Cook at M-I Swaco: “I have been able to see a downward trend in equipment break downs and spare parts usage.”
When you call, the people who built it answer
We’re a small company on purpose. Email us and you reach the people who wrote the software, problems get looked at quickly, and what customers tell us is genuinely listened to.
I had an issue with the program after the update and Sanjay listened and worked hard to understand the issue and help get it resolved!
— Jennifer Oakley, Maintenance Planner, Demkota Ranch Beef
Dan Dell at the Alfred Mann Foundation found support “very responsive, helpful, and quick to work out any issues”.
Cloud or on your own servers. Your choice, and you can change it.
UpKeep runs in one place: its cloud. That’s fine until IT asks where the maintenance data lives, the plant network gets locked down, or the connection at the far end of the site lets you down. FastMaint gives you a menu, with the same maintenance core in every option:
- FastMaint Cloud. Hosted by us, used in a browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Nothing to install, no server to look after, updates and support in the subscription. Starts at a single user.
- FastMaint Web on your own server. The same browser access for your team, with the data on your own network, run by your IT.
- FastMaint Professional or Standard on Windows computers. Built for sites with little IT support, and keeps working when the internet doesn’t. Professional is multi-user; Standard is for a single user.
Move between them as you grow. Start installed and step up to Cloud later, or leave Cloud at any time with your whole database backed up to a file the installed editions open. Your data is never held hostage.
Ten years later, they’re still using it
Mathew Thompson at One Penn Management found it took minutes to show his staff, and his team now saves around 7 hours a week on maintenance management. Four of our five published case-study customers are past the ten-year mark.
We have been using this CMMS for 10 years at Columbus, Ohio location and are also using it at our Marrero, Louisiana location. Biggest selling point is EASE OF USE.
— Frank Seipel, Process Engineer, Vertex Refining Ohio
What an UpKeep alternative should give you
| What you’re really asking | FastMaint | UpKeep |
|---|---|---|
| Is preventive maintenance in my plan? | Yes, in every edition, by calendar or meter readings. | PM scheduling starts on Premium. Essential covers work orders. |
| What about parts and purchasing? | Parts, purchasing and vendors in every edition. | Parts and inventory from Premium. Purchase orders on higher plans. |
| Can I see what each job really cost? | Actual cost and duration against the estimate, in every edition. | Time and labor tracking from Premium. |
| Can I try it properly first? | 30 days with the complete product. No credit card. If you buy, everything you set up carries over. | Free trial on Essential and Premium. Demo for the higher plans. |
| Where can it run? | Your choice: FastMaint Cloud hosted by us, your own server, or Windows computers on your network. Switch later. | Cloud only. |
| Will it still be here in ten years? | Same product, same company, since 2002. Customers past ten years. | A younger, fast-growing platform. |
UpKeep details read from upkeep.com/pricing, September 2026. Check their current pages before deciding. FastMaint details: features and editions.
Who FastMaint is for
One site. A few people who already have day jobs. A manager who wants work orders, PMs, parts and reports that simply work every shift, and the software still in use in ten years. If that’s the CMMS you went looking for, this is it.
FastMaint is rated 4.1 out of 5 on Capterra across 28 reviews, as of September 2026, and 23 customers have reviewed it on our own site. Pepsico’s pilot plant uses it. So do Westin Hotels, JB Weld, Katoen Natie, Alberta Electric System Operator and the City of Boulder water treatment plant.
Not sure we’re the right fit? Ask us.
Tell us your team size, how many sites, and how your people like to work. If FastMaint isn’t right for you, we’ll say so.
Free guide: Essential Maintenance Metrics
The 8 metrics small maintenance teams actually track, including work order backlog, PM versus breakdown time, and equipment downtime in hours. Useful whichever CMMS you choose.
Questions buyers ask
For one site with a maintenance team of two to ten or more people, yes. Preventive maintenance, parts, purchasing and reports are in every FastMaint edition, you can run it in our cloud or on your own servers, teams learn it in days, and support comes from the people who wrote the software.
As of September 2026, UpKeep’s pricing page lists PM scheduling, custom checklists and parts and inventory management from the Premium plan up. The Essential plan covers unlimited work orders. In FastMaint, preventive maintenance, parts, purchasing and reporting are core in every edition.
Yes, in every edition. Work orders can be emailed or texted to the people doing the work, and in Professional, Web and Cloud their replies can update and close the work order, so a technician can take a job and finish it without opening the software.
Both, and you choose. FastMaint Cloud is the Web edition hosted by us, used in a browser on a computer, tablet or phone, with updates and support in the subscription, starting at a single user. FastMaint Web installs on your own server with the same browser access. Professional and Standard install on Windows computers, keep working without an internet connection, and are built for sites with little IT support. You can move between them later, and Cloud data can be backed up at any time to a database file the installed editions open. UpKeep is cloud only, as of September 2026.
Four of our five published case-study customers have used FastMaint for more than ten years, and several reviewers on our customers page say the same. Vertex Refining has run it at two sites for a decade. That matters more than a feature list, because the usual way a CMMS fails is that the maintenance team stops opening it.
Yes. The 30-day trial is the complete product, with no credit card needed. The equipment list, PM schedules and task templates you build during it carry straight over when you enter a license key, so the trial is also your setup.
FastMaint publishes its prices: Standard $2,500 one-time for a single user, Professional and Web from $6,000 one-time, and FastMaint Cloud hosted by us from $100 a month. As of September 2026 UpKeep lists Essential at $24 and Premium at $55 per user per month, with Professional and Enterprise quoted, and implementation packages from $500 to $5,000.
