Fire risk assessment software: an honest UK comparison

Search “fire risk assessment software” and you get seven or eight results that look interchangeable. They are not. Some are built for fire risk assessors, one is built for housing providers, and a couple are general inspection platforms that happen to rank.

We make one of these tools, so read this with that in mind. What follows is what each product is actually for, what it costs where the price is published, and where Assura Safety is the wrong answer. Prices were checked in August 2026 and exclude VAT.

First, three different products wear the same label

The single most useful thing to know before you demo anything:

Built for fire risk assessors. AssessKit, FireHub, FireCheckr and Assura Safety. You are a consultancy or a sole trader, the assessment is your deliverable, and the software exists to get a defensible report out faster.

Built for the organisation that owns the buildings. RiskBase. The assessment is one input into managing a portfolio over time.

General inspection platforms. Velappity and Mobiess. Fire safety is one of many form types they support.

If you are an assessor, you can discount the last four almost immediately. That is not a criticism of them, it is a scope difference, and it is invisible from the search results.

The tools built for assessors

AssessKit

Aimed squarely at solo assessors and small firms. Generates PAS 79-1 and BS 9792 reports, tracks client review dates with automated reminders, and manages a portfolio of sites and clients.

It is the only one of these with a genuinely free tier: two assessments a month on one site, no card. Paid plans start at £39/month for 15 assessments, with an agency plan for multiple assessors and roughly 17% off annually.

Where it wins: price, and you can try it properly without talking to anyone. If you are a sole trader doing a handful of assessments a month, it is the obvious starting point and nothing here undercuts it.

FireHub

Built by fire risk assessors, and it shows in the shape of it. Native iOS and Android apps, works offline, PAS 79 methodology, pre-loaded responses, a client dashboard, and diary and booking management.

Pricing is unusually flexible: £13 per report pay-as-you-go with no commitment and unlimited users, or subscriptions at £140/month for one user, £380 for six, and £580 for ten, all with unlimited reports.

Where it wins: offline working, and the pay-per-report option. If you assess basement plant rooms and rural sites with no signal, a web app is a genuine liability and this is the answer. At ten users the subscription works out around £58 per user, which is the cheapest per-seat deal of any tool here.

FireCheckr

The most interesting of the three, and the newest. You capture voice notes and photos on site, and AI turns them into a first-draft report you then review. It claims a drop from about three hours per report to one. Templates are based on PAS 79-1 and BS 9792, and it includes a CRM and a white-labelled client portal.

No pricing is published, so a demo is the only way to find out.

Where it wins: if dictation genuinely fits how you work, capturing on site by voice is a bigger time saving than any form design. It is also the closest competitor to what we do, and it deserves to be on your shortlist.

Assura Safety

Ours. A structured bank of around 200 questions across fire hazards and control, protection and management, following the PAS 79 methodology, with hierarchical numbering carried into the PDF so finding 1.3.2 in the report traces back to the question on site. Housing work is classified as BS 9792 Type 1 to 4, and high-rise residential buildings pull in Building Safety Act questions automatically.

The part we have put the most into is the action plan. For every non-compliance it drafts a remedial action grounded in your own legislation library, uploaded and tagged by you, and cites the specific regulation or standard behind it. Priority, timescale and assignee are all editable, because the judgement is yours.

£95/user/month for Essential, £105/user/month for Professional, and Enterprise is quoted. There is also a pay-as-you-go option from £12 per report, with the first report free.

Where it loses, and it is worth being blunt:

• It is the most expensive per seat on this page. At one user, FireHub is £140 for unlimited reports against our £95, and AssessKit is £39. If price is your deciding factor, we are not it.
• There is no mobile app and no offline mode. It is a web app. FireHub has both.
• No review-date tracking. AssessKit does this with reminders. Ours is on the roadmap.
• No structured limitations field. Caveats go in the narrative rather than their own section.
• No self-serve trial yet. You have to talk to us, which is friction we would rather not have.

Where it wins: the legislation library and cited action plans. If you need to hand a client an action plan where every item points at the regulation behind it, and you want that grounded in your own document set rather than a vendor’s generic one, that is the thing we do that the others do not. Multi-organisation support with owner, admin and member roles matters if assessors, reviewers and clients all need different access.

The three that rank but probably are not for you

RiskBase is fire and building risk assessment software for the organisations that own buildings: property managers, local authorities and housing providers. Asset-level surveys, floorplan mapping with QR codes, resident engagement, and a deliberate emphasis on building a picture of a building over years rather than producing one report. It ranks first for this search and it is a good product, but if you are a consultancy selling assessments it is solving a different problem. No published pricing, and its site does not mention PAS 79 or BS 9792.

Velappity is an end-to-end inspection and compliance platform: custom forms, RAMS, toolbox talks, incident reports, asset compliance, training records, client portal, free trial. Fire risk assessment is one thing you can build in it. If you do fire alongside general health and safety work, that breadth is the point. If you only do fire, you will be configuring a lot of what a specialist tool gives you on day one.

Mobiess is enterprise mobile data capture for facilities management, used by the likes of VINCI, Skanska and Mitie, with fire safety compliance as one module. If you are an FM organisation with a CAFM system to integrate, look at it. If you are a five-person fire consultancy, you are not the buyer.

How to actually choose

Ignore feature lists, including ours. Pick your two most awkward buildings and produce a full report in each tool you are considering, end to end. Then ask:

• Did the structure fight you, or match how you already assess?
• Would you send that PDF to a client without reformatting it?
• Can you record what you could not inspect, and why?
• Does the risk vocabulary match PAS 79, and can you overrule what the software suggests?
• What happens with no signal?
• Can you export your data if you leave?

Then work out the real annual cost at your actual team size and assessment volume, because per-report, per-user and per-assessment pricing stop being comparable very quickly.

The short version

Sole trader watching costs: AssessKit. Poor signal on site, or you want to pay per report: FireHub. You would rather dictate than type: FireCheckr. You own the buildings rather than assess them for clients: RiskBase. Fire is part of a wider H&S offer: Velappity. Enterprise FM: Mobiess.

Cited, audit-traceable action plans built on your own legislation library, for a team that needs role separation: that is us, and we would rather you knew the trade-offs before a demo than after. Have a look at the features or get in touch.