Thorbis vs Workiz · Fire & life safety
Workiz for fire and life-safety contractors: the add-on stack, or every rate posted.
Workiz publishes its tiers and sells the phone and AI answering as separate add-ons. For fire and life-safety contractors, Thorbis is one posted price for the company with every usage rate posted beside it, the shop number Next on the roadmap included.
Workiz · their model
The add-on stack
- Published tiers · phone and AI answering sold separately
- Published tiers. Communications budgeted on top.
- Service teams that came for the call tracking.
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
Workiz beside Thorbis, for fire and life-safety contractors.
Row
Workiz
Thorbis
Who this is for
Service teams that came for the call tracking.
fire and life-safety contractors: the inspection cycle, the deficiency, and the service call.
The price
Published tiers · phone and AI answering sold separately
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Published tiers. Communications budgeted on top.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
The platform is published. The phone is an add-on.
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 Workiz?
Workiz: Published tiers · phone and AI answering sold separately. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our Workiz 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 Workiz side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If Workiz 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 Workiz 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 Workiz? We’ll extract your records.
Rather talk first? Email the team.