Trainual costs $99/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $3,564 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$99/mo is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Rampcheck: the pay-once alternative
Rampcheck does the same core job for $29, once. Self-hosted role checklists, SOP library, hire portal and quizzes — no monthly seat fees.
| Rampcheck | Trainual | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 once | $99/mo |
| Role-based onboarding checklists | Yes | Yes |
| SOP / policy library | Yes | Yes |
| New-hire portal + progress | Yes | Yes |
| Quizzes with pass threshold | Yes | Yes |
| Manager verify + overdue alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted, data stays yours | Yes | No |
| Price after year 3 | Still $29 | $3,564+ |
Less than two weeks of Trainual pays for Rampcheck, and by year three you have kept over $3,500.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Trainual's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Rampcheck is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Rampcheck — $29, once
Self-hosted role checklists, SOP library, hire portal and quizzes — no monthly seat fees.