MaintainX and Solmex are both maintenance management systems for work orders, preventive maintenance, parts and assets. This page compares them on facts, sourced from each pricing page. Solmex covers more of the work around maintenance, such as routine jobs, fuel, work permits, workforce records and tools.
you want routine jobs, fuel, work permits, workforce records and tools on the same asset record as maintenance
you want failure codes on every plan, including the free one
you want purchase orders and meter-based maintenance at a lower list price
In short: both are maintenance management systems for work orders, preventive maintenance and assets. They differ in how much of the work around maintenance they cover, in language, and in price.
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Modules not listed by MaintainX. Solmex includes fuel management, work permits and tools. None of these is named on MaintainX's pricing page, which does not mean the product cannot do any of it.
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Where both list a module, the approach differs. MaintainX also lists breakdowns, purchasing and cost ledger. The cards below describe what Solmex does in each, so you can compare like with like.
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List price, ten full users. USD 350 a month on Solmex Business and USD 650 on MaintainX Premium, billed annually where the vendor publishes an annual price.
Module by module
What Solmex does in each module, and what MaintainX's pricing page lists for the same work. We have read MaintainX's pricing page, not tested its product, so a module it does not list may still exist there.
Routine maintenance
Growth plan
In Solmex:For jobs too frequent for a preventive programme and too small for a work order: greasing, washing, filter cleaning. Each job has its own interval, a daily board shows every asset against every job as done, due soon, overdue or never recorded, and each maintenance team has its own members, areas and jobs. A job never recorded reads as not tracked, never as overdue.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Something related is listed
Repeating work orders, 2 active on Basic and unlimited from Essential. A separate log of routine jobs per asset is not named.
Breakdowns
Starter plan, free
In Solmex:A failure code tree up to four levels deep that each organisation defines for itself, on every plan including the free one. A breakdown records what is blocking the repair and the expected return date, and one logged in error is cancelled rather than marked repaired, so it never counts as a failure. Availability, MTBF, MTTR, repeat failures and a Pareto of causes are reported on Business.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Listed on its pricing page
Downtime tracking (how long an asset was offline and why) and root cause analysis across assets and locations. Failure codes are not named.
Fuel management
Business plan
In Solmex:Fill-ups for many machines entered on one grid, fuel stations kept as a register, and each fill-up judged against that machine's own median consumption. An exception register lists oversized fills, meters that did not move and fills larger than the stated tank, and names the checks it cannot run, such as receipts it holds no record of, rather than guessing.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Not listed on its pricing page
Workforce
Business plan
In Solmex:Employee records with departments and teams, certifications with expiry dates, timesheets, and leave requests with approval. Work permit crews are picked from the same records, so the people named on a permit are people the organisation actually employs.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Something related is listed
Custom work schedules per user and, on Enterprise, labor utilization insights. Timesheets, leave and staff certifications are not named.
Work permits
Business plan
In Solmex:Fourteen permit types from editable templates, with a draft, approval, sign-off, active and closed lifecycle. One permit can cover a site, one machine, a work order or several machines, and prints as a PDF with a QR code. A closed permit is never reopened; continued work is a new permit.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Not listed on its pricing page
Not named. Checklists are described as supporting safety and compliance.
Purchasing
Business plan
In Solmex:A purchase request goes through the approval chain you configure. Each approver can approve, reject or send it back, and can refuse individual lines with a reason. An approved request becomes a purchase order its buyer cannot approve, and receiving the delivery posts the stock to the warehouse in the same step.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Listed on its pricing page
Purchase order management on Premium, and purchase order approval workflows that route an order to approvers by rule.
Cost ledger
Business plan
In Solmex:Fuel, parts issued from the warehouse and manual entries land in one ledger, each with its source, category and status. A cost is voided with a reason, never deleted. What an asset has cost over its life, this year and this month is one screen.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Listed on its pricing page
Time and cost tracking on Premium, and cost reporting from time, parts and more.
Tools
Business plan
In Solmex:A register of hand and power tools with calibration dates, assigned out to a person and returned, one active assignment at a time, so anyone can see who has the torque wrench.
On MaintainX's pricing page:Not listed on its pricing page
Plans and prices, line by line
Feature
Solmex
MaintainX
Free plan
IncludedStarter, free forever. One full user, up to 25 machines, work orders, faults, work requests and QR labels
LimitedBasic, free: unlimited work orders and requesters, with caps on work orders with procedures (2), repeating work orders and images (5 a month), and 1 month of analytics history
Cheapest paid plan
IncludedGrowth, USD 10 per full user per month billed annually (USD 12 month to month), with preventive maintenance and inspections
Higher list priceEssential: USD 20 per user per month billed annually (USD 25 month to month)
Preventive maintenance and inventory
IncludedBusiness, USD 35 per full user per month billed annually (USD 42 month to month), no machine limit
Higher list pricePremium: USD 65 per user per month billed annually (USD 75 month to month); its page lists parts inventory, purchase orders and meter-based maintenance here
Purchase orders
IncludedBusiness plan, with a rule that the buyer cannot approve their own order
Higher list pricePremium plan
Fuel management
IncludedBusiness plan, judged against each machine's own consumption
Not listed on its pricing page
Work permits (permit to work)
IncludedBusiness plan, fourteen permit types with sign-off and a QR-linked PDF
Not listed on its pricing page
People who only report faults
IncludedFree and unlimited on every plan, no account needed
IncludedFree, and unlimited on the Basic plan
IncludedLimitedHigher list priceQuote onlyNot listed on its pricing page
Sources: MaintainX's pricing page and Solmex pricing, both read on 13/10/2026. Vendors change plans without notice, so check the current page before you decide. A dash means the feature is not listed on the pricing page; it may still exist in the product.
Where Solmex comes from
Built by people who have done the maintenance.
Solmex was written by people who have run maintenance themselves: the fault that arrives as a phone call with no asset named, the service that slips because nobody read the meter, the part that sits on someone's desk waiting for approval while the job waits with it. Whether you look after a production line, a hotel, a building or a set of vehicles, those problems are the same, and they shaped how Solmex works.
Written by maintenance people
Built around faults, services and parts
Every number says where it came from
How Solmex handles everyday maintenance problems
Every maintenance team has heard these sentences. Here is what Solmex does with each one.
“The person who saw the leak has no login.”
In Solmex:Every asset carries a QR code. Scanning it opens the asset's card with a button to report the problem: no app, no login, no paid licence, and the report already names the asset.
“The 250 hour service on the compressor was done at 285.”
In Solmex:The next service is still due at 500, not 535. Services stay on the manufacturer's fixed milestones, so one late job never shifts the whole programme.
“The chiller has no meter at all.”
In Solmex:It is recorded as having none, never as a reading of zero, and scheduled on the calendar instead. An asset nobody has inspected yet reads as never inspected, not overdue.
“The part has been waiting for approval since Monday.”
In Solmex:Purchase requests go through the approval chain you set, each approver is told when it is their turn, and everyone can see exactly who the request is waiting on.
“Permits are in a binder, parts in a spreadsheet, costs in another.”
In Solmex:Work orders, services, parts, permits, purchasing and costs sit on the same asset record. What an asset has cost over its life is one screen.
“The generator used twice its usual fuel this week.”
In Solmex:Each fill-up is judged against that machine's own median consumption, so the outlier is flagged at the pump, before anyone has to go looking for it.
What ten full users cost
A worked example, not a quote. Take ten people who create and close work orders, plus any number of colleagues who only report faults. Those reporters are free on Solmex, so only the ten are priced. On listed prices Solmex Business is USD 350 a month (USD 4,200 a year, billed annually). MaintainX Premium is USD 650 a month (USD 7,800 a year). MaintainX Enterprise is quoted privately and is not part of this example.
Ten full users, per month, at list price
Solmex BusinessUSD 350
MaintainX PremiumUSD 650
Difference: USD 3,600 a year
Moving from MaintainX to Solmex
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Export your asset list
Start with the assets, not the history. Take your register out of MaintainX as a spreadsheet.
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Import it, checked first
Solmex checks the whole file before writing anything, so one bad row never leaves you with half an import.
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Run both side by side
Every workspace starts with 14 days of the Business plan, free and with no card. Try it on a few assets first, and enter past services as history where the schedule needs them.
Frequently asked questions
Why choose Solmex over MaintainX?
Choose Solmex if you want routine jobs, fuel, work permits, workforce records and tools on the same asset record as maintenance, you want failure codes on every plan, including the free one and you want purchase orders and meter-based maintenance at a lower list price.
How do the list prices compare?
For the plans that carry purchase orders and inventory, ten full users cost USD 350 a month on Solmex Business and USD 650 on MaintainX Premium, billed annually where the vendor publishes an annual price. Vendors change prices, so check both pricing pages.
Who builds Solmex?
People who have worked in maintenance. The way Solmex handles fault reports, late services, meters, parts and approvals comes from running maintenance day to day, which is why it is used for production plants, hotels, buildings and vehicles alike.
Does Solmex have a free plan?
Yes. Every new workspace gets a 14-day free trial of the Business plan, then stays on the free Starter plan with all its data: one full user and up to 25 machines, with work orders, faults, work requests and QR labels. Work requesters are free and unlimited on every plan.
Does MaintainX charge for people who only report faults?
No. Its pricing page says requester accounts are free. Solmex also makes work requesters free and unlimited on every plan, so on this point the two are equal.
How do the two handle preventive maintenance on run hours?
Both list meter-based maintenance. Solmex keeps meter-based services on the manufacturer's fixed milestones, so a late service never shifts the ones after it, and an asset with no meter is scheduled on the calendar instead. Meter-based plans are on Solmex Growth at USD 10; MaintainX lists meter-based maintenance on Premium at USD 65.