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Limble vs UpKeep
Two mid-market CMMS products with well-documented APIs and similar tier structures. The comparison turns on volume limits versus first-party condition monitoring, and on which vendor is more honest about what it will not tell you.
Last reviewed 7 November 2026
The products
Limble CMMS
Limble
Cloud CMMS and asset management platform with unlimited assets, work orders and PM schedules on every tier, an OpenAPI-documented REST API and named ERP and IoT integrations.
Full profileUpKeep
UpKeep
AI-native CMMS and asset operations platform covering work orders, preventive maintenance, parts, safety and its own Edge IoT sensors, with a documented REST API.
Full profileThe main differences
Volume. Limble gives unlimited assets, work orders and PM schedules on every tier. UpKeep gives unlimited work orders on every tier but starts PM scheduling at Premium, which is a meaningful difference: a preventive programme needs the Premium tier at UpKeep and works on Limble's entry tier.
API. Both are good and both gate access to upper tiers. Limble publishes a full OpenAPI 3.1 specification; UpKeep publishes a full REST reference with webhooks. Limble's is machine-readable, which is marginally more useful to a developer team, but there is little between them.
Offline mobile. Both gate it. Limble puts it on Premium+, UpKeep on Professional. Both document it clearly, which puts them ahead of several competitors here that contradict themselves.
IoT and condition monitoring. UpKeep has the structural advantage with its own Edge sensor line, which can open work orders without a third-party integration. Limble names third-party partners, AssetWatch, Augury, Monnit and VibeCloud, and notes that integrations may carry additional cost.
Asset hierarchy. UpKeep documents a four-level hierarchy and its location nesting limits. Limble does not document hierarchy at all, so it is unverified. For anyone designing a register, UpKeep's candour is genuinely useful even though the limits themselves are a constraint.
Pricing. UpKeep publishes USD 24 and USD 55 without stating a billing basis. Limble publishes nothing on its pricing page. UpKeep is marginally more transparent; neither publishes the upper tiers where most of the capability lives.
Side by side
| Attribute | Limble CMMS | UpKeep |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Limble | UpKeep |
| Primary use | CMMS | Hybrid EAM and CMMS |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Organisation size | Small, Medium, Enterprise | Small, Medium, Enterprise |
| Licensing model | Commercial | Commercial |
| Free version | Not verified | No |
| Trial | Not verified | Yes |
| Published price | Contact vendor for pricing | USD 24 per user per month (Essential plan; billing cadence not stated by the vendor) |
| Product status | Active | Active |
| Capabilities | ||
| Asset register and hierarchy | Not verified | Yes A four-level asset hierarchy via parent assets, corroborated by parentAsset and subAssets fields in the API. Locations nest two levels below Enterprise and six on Enterprise. source |
| Work order management | Yes Unlimited work orders on every tier, including Standard. source | Yes Unlimited work orders on every tier. source |
| Preventive maintenance scheduling | Yes Unlimited PM schedules on every tier. Standard is capped at 3 work orders per month with attached procedures. source | Yes PM scheduling from the Premium tier. source |
| Predictive or condition-based maintenance | Yes IoT sensor integrations, anomaly detection and meter and threshold-based scheduling, from Premium+. Depth unverified. source | Not verified |
| Mobile technician app | Yes iOS and Android. Offline mode is gated: available on Premium+ and Enterprise, explicitly absent from Standard. source | Yes iOS and Android, with a true offline mode gated to the Professional tier and above. source |
| Spare parts and inventory | Yes Unlimited spare parts with min and max thresholds and part QR codes, from Premium+. source | Yes Parts and inventory with costing, from Premium. source |
| Procurement and purchase orders | Yes Unlimited purchase orders on Premium+ and Enterprise, with budgets, approvals, GL codes and multi-currency on Enterprise. Not available on Standard. source | Yes Purchase order management on Enterprise; the API exposes purchase orders and categories. source |
| Asset lifecycle and cost tracking | Not verified | Not verified |
| Multi-site operation | Yes Multi-location tools, reporting and regions with maps, on the Enterprise tier only. source | Yes Multi-site module support, on the Enterprise tier only. source |
| Contractor management | Yes Vendor records, insurance certificate tracking and sharing work orders with external vendors, from Premium+. There is no dedicated contractor module. source | Not verified |
| IoT and BMS integration | Yes IoT sensor integrations on Premium+ and Enterprise, with AssetWatch, Augury, Monnit and VibeCloud named. No building-management-system connector is listed. source | Yes UpKeep Edge is the vendor's own sensor line, measuring vibration, temperature and runtime and able to open work orders. For building systems the vendor describes a generic REST route rather than a named BMS connector. source |
| Maintenance KPI reporting | Yes Dashboards and reporting on every tier; Standard is capped at 3 advanced analytics reports per month. source | Yes Customisable reports and dashboards, with analytics history by tier and custom dashboards on Enterprise. source |
| Documented API | Yes A full OpenAPI 3.1 specification with webhooks, rate limits and regional endpoints. Gated to Premium+ and Enterprise. source | Yes A public REST API reference with bearer token auth and webhooks, covering assets, work orders, parts, locations, requests, PM, meters, purchase orders, vendors and users. Enabled only for Enterprise accounts. source |
| Last reviewed | 7 November 2026 | 7 November 2026 |
| Profile | View profile | View profile |
Not verified means the capability has not been checked for that product. It does not mean the product lacks it. Blank cells and unverified rows are never counted as a "no".
Strengths and limitations
Drawn from each product's own profile, where every item is labelled a verified fact or an editorial judgement.
Limble CMMS
Read the full assessmentUpKeep
Read the full assessmentWhich to choose
Choose Limble if PM programme scale matters: unlimited PM schedules on the entry tier, against UpKeep starting PM at Premium, is the single biggest practical difference.
Choose UpKeep if you want first-party condition monitoring without an integration project, or a documented asset hierarchy you can design against before you commit.
The deciding question for most teams is whether the asset register and PM programme are already designed. If not, that work matters more than either product: see how to build a preventive maintenance schedule.
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Sources and review basis
Attribute values come from each product's structured profile rather than being written into this page, so a correction made once appears everywhere. This comparison was last reviewed on 7 November 2026. Assessment of this category is documentation-based, not hands-on testing of every product.
Disclosure
Alongside advisory work I also build a CMMS and CAFM platform, so I have a commercial interest in enterprise software generally. No vendor here has paid for inclusion, placement or wording, and there are no reseller or affiliate arrangements.
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