Thorbis vs ServiceM8 · Fire & life safety
ServiceM8 for fire and life-safety contractors: tiers gated by job volume, or one price at any volume.
ServiceM8 publishes its tiers and gates them by job volume, so a good month moves you up a plan. For fire and life-safety contractors, Thorbis is one posted price for the company at any job count, and jobs are never metered.
ServiceM8 · their model
The job cap
- Free to $349 / month · tiers gated by job volume
- Published tiers. Job caps, not seats.
- Apple-first small operations running inside the tiers.
Thorbis · posted
$99
- Per company, per month.
- Unlimited people. Jobs are never metered.
- Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
The work
The days fire and life-safety contractors run, on either system.
01
The inspection cycle
Annuals, semi-annuals, and monthlies per property, scheduled from the record, with photos, findings, and signatures captured where the equipment hangs.
02
The deficiency
A failed head or a dead battery becomes a quote before the tech leaves the site, and a scheduled repair the moment the building approves it.
03
The service call
Trouble signals and damaged equipment between cycles, dispatched with the property’s full inspection history in the tech’s hand.
The difference
ServiceM8 beside Thorbis, for fire and life-safety contractors.
Row
ServiceM8
Thorbis
Who this is for
Apple-first small operations running inside the tiers.
fire and life-safety contractors: the inspection cycle, the deficiency, and the service call.
The price
Free to $349 / month · tiers gated by job volume
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Published tiers. Job caps, not seats.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
Tiers gated by job volume. Growth changes your plan.
The fire and life-safety day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs fire and life-safety contractors.
The paper trail is the product
This trade sells documentation. When it lives in binders and truck cabs, the thing you sell is the thing you cannot find.
Deficiencies die in the truck
A finding that never becomes a quote is revenue left on the wall, and a hazard left with your company’s name on the tag.
The cycle slips
A missed annual is a lost contract and an exposed building. Due dates belong on a board, not in someone’s head.
Straight answers
What fire and life-safety contractors ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for fire and life-safety contractors, next to ServiceM8?
ServiceM8: Free to $349 / month · tiers gated by job volume. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our ServiceM8 records?
CSV and Excel, Documents, The API: we map the columns and read what we can, with a dry run you inspect before anything is live. What we cannot take stays a limit you can see.
Is this comparison current?
The ServiceM8 side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If ServiceM8 changes its model, this page is wrong until it is updated, and we would rather you check than trust a stale row.
Fire & life safety against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs ServiceM8 for other trades
Start
One board for fire and life-safety contractors. One posted price.
$99 per company, unlimited people, and every usage rate posted beside it. No second conversation.
Coming from ServiceM8? We’ll extract your records.
Rather talk first? Email the team.