Rampcheck and Trainual solve the same problem from opposite directions: one is source-available software you can own outright for $29, the other is a subscription at $99/mo run entirely on someone else's servers.
Head to head
| 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+ |
What Rampcheck does well
- Checklist templates per role — Multi-step onboarding across day 1 / week 1 / month 1, each step with a due-day offset, assignable to a hire in one click.
- New-hire portal — Every hire gets a private tokenized link with their checklist, progress bar, linked docs and self check-off — no account needed.
- Content library — SOPs and policies as rich HTML docs with optional video links, organized by category and linked from checklist steps.
- Quiz steps — Multiple-choice checks with a pass threshold; the step only completes on a passing score, and answers never leak to the portal payload.
What Trainual still does better
There's a real reason Trainual costs what it does: a bigger team, broader integrations and dedicated support behind it. If that ecosystem is genuinely what you need, it's worth paying for.
Which one should you pick
If your workflow depends on Trainual's specific integrations or you'd rather not run anything yourself, stay put — that's a legitimate call. If you're comfortable owning the tool and want to stop paying $99/mo for a job your own hardware can do, Rampcheck pays for itself and then some: less than two weeks of Trainual pays for Rampcheck, and by year three you have kept over $3,500.
Try Rampcheck — $29, once
Self-hosted role checklists, SOP library, hire portal and quizzes — no monthly seat fees.