GageList vs Gaugify (vs CertEquip)

GageList and Gaugify are the two published-price specialists in gage calibration tracking, and they price the same way, flat tiers by asset count with unlimited users, which makes this one of the few comparisons in the category you can settle mostly with arithmetic plus one feature question. All numbers below were read off both vendors' pricing pages on August 15, 2026.

How do the tiers compare?

At 500 assets: Gaugify $70 a month versus GageList $79 billed annually ($99 monthly). At 1,000: $150 versus $159 ($199). At 5,000: $250 versus $249 ($299), a near-tie on annual billing. At 10,000 the order flips: GageList $399 ($499) versus Gaugify $499. GageList also has what Gaugify doesn't: a free tier (25 gages, 5 users) and a crib-management add-on at $479 a year; Gaugify bundles crib and inventory management into its tiers.

What does GageList's premium buy?

The specialist extras: calibration certificates you create and print from the system, barcode label printing, 21 CFR Part 11 digital signatures for regulated industries, a companion mobile app, and Zapier alongside its REST API. Gaugify counters with bundled crib/inventory management and its lower rates. If certificates and 21 CFR matter in your quality system, that alone can decide it for GageList; if the job is records, reminders, and reports at the best price, Gaugify's sheet wins below the top tier.

When is neither the right tool?

When gages are one shelf of the compliance load. Both products model gages and instruments; the reach truck's annual inspection, the crane's certification, and the fire suppression system's service schedule don't fit, so mixed operations end up running a specialist plus a spreadsheet. CertEquip is the third column for that case: every regulated asset class in one registry, each asset typed with its own requirement, status computed from the records, history append-only, and an audit binder exporting the whole fleet's evidence at once, at $99 a month for 50 assets, $249 for 250, $599 uncapped, unlimited users. For a pure gage crib, the specialists are cheaper per unit and carry certificate printing and 21 CFR signatures CertEquip lacks; CertEquip earns its place only when the whole fleet's certifications belong in one system.