7 Best Firstbase Alternatives for Remote Teams in 2026

If you are comparing Firstbase alternatives, the trigger is usually the bill. Firstbase keeps pricing off its own website, but its AWS Marketplace listing shows $27,500 for 12 months for 100 users, and in 2023 a verified buyer on PriceLevel documented a $45,000/year platform fee plus a $125,000/year services commitment, around $170,000 before a single laptop ships, and one team on Reddit was quoted $500,000 for platform access alone. The other pattern in its own reviews is coverage that thins the moment you hire outside the US, UK, and EU.

Firstbase itself is well-reviewed, so this is not a quality problem, it is a cost-and-coverage fit problem. This guide compares the seven best Firstbase alternatives, each with its real pricing and user reviews, so you can match one to where and how your team actually hires.

How We Selected the Top Firstbase Alternatives

Since teams leave Firstbase over its recurring fee and its thin reach past the US, UK, and EU, we judged each option on what actually decides whether a replacement holds up, not on a list of features.

• Real country coverage: whether the platform genuinely reaches the APAC, LATAM, MENA, and CIS markets where Firstbase falls back on partners, not the count printed on a marketing page.
• Total cost of ownership: the recurring platform fee that usually triggers the switch, plus hardware price and service fees, because a vendor can look cheap on one line and load the cost onto another.
• Delivery performance: average and maximum lead times, and whether the SLA holds in hard markets.
• Contract flexibility: whether you can run one order before signing anything, and whether you can walk away without a penalty, the opposite of Firstbase's annual commitment.
• Full lifecycle: procurement is the easy part. The real test is offboarding, storage, redeployment, and resale.
• User evidence: what buyers report on G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, and Reddit, weighted toward specific, recent accounts.

Best 7 Firstbase Alternatives Compared for 2026

The table gives the quick view. The detail is below: what each tool costs, where it works, and where it falls short. Each vendor's section below cites its review score, the public G2 rating, or the Trustpilot figure where a vendor lacks a meaningful G2 profile, with the review count and linked to source, all current as of October 2026.

Tequipy: Best for Globally Distributed Teams

Teams usually leave Firstbase over the recurring bill, so start there. Tequipy charges no ongoing platform tax: free for up to 100 devices, then a flat $99 a month, which puts a 300-person company at about $1,188 a year, before the optional $199 a month HRIS integration add-on, against the $45,000 platform fee one Firstbase buyer reported in 2023. Hardware sells at plain retail, an $1,800 MacBook is $1,800, with no markup. Tequipy earns mainly on hardware and second on services: it buys at volume through 600+ authorized resellers, below the retail price you pay.

Tequipy runs the whole lifecycle on one platform: global procurement, MDM enrollment, delivery, repairs, offboarding, storage, redeployment, and resale, across 180+ countries through 600+ local resellers. You own the fleet outright.

The team behind it scaled Revolut's IT from 100 employees to 5,000 across 17 offices, and built Tequipy to handle that spread without a per-seat platform fee. Devices are sourced in the employee's own country, so there are no customs delays and no surprise duties, and delivery averages 3 business days globally, with a maximum of 10 business days.

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Tequipy Key Features

Local Sourcing Through 600+ Resellers in 180+ Countries

When a new hire in the Philippines or Kazakhstan needs a laptop, Tequipy sources it from an authorized reseller in that country. This is exactly where Firstbase reviewers report gaps. As one Firstbase IT administrator on G2 wrote, "as a global company, we would appreciate it if Firstbase could expand its coverage to more countries... we have occasionally had to find alternative solutions, such as making local purchases or, in some cases, asking new hires to handle these arrangements themselves."

Where Firstbase falls back on partners, Tequipy sources locally through authorized resellers in the countries most platforms write off as edge cases: Philippines, Brazil, India, Colombia, UAE, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. Booksy tested Tequipy in Latin America first, the region where its previous vendors had failed, according to Booksy's case study. In their words: "They managed it perfectly, which gave us the confidence to start using their services for other geographies as well."

That reliability shows up in the numbers: 99% arrive before start date.

Full Device Lifecycle on One Platform, Including Resale

Most procurement tools handle ordering and maybe delivery. Tequipy covers the full cycle: buy, pre-configure, deploy, service, offboard, store, redeploy, and sell back. Every stage works on any device, including hardware you bought before using Tequipy, so there is no lock-in.

Offboarding is where the money is. In Capterra's 2022 Employee Offboarding Survey of 287 HR workers, 71% said at least one departing employee failed to return company equipment, according to Capterra's offboarding survey. Across its customers, Tequipy recovers 100% of devices. For RemoFirst, that meant roughly $2,000 per employee in prevented losses, documented in RemoFirst's case study. The team arranges pickup directly with the leaving employee and wipes each device once it comes back.

Dedicated Slack Channel and a Team That Answers

Every customer gets a dedicated Slack channel with the same team handling procurement, servicing, and offboarding. Replies come same-day. No ticketing system, no handoffs, no account manager who rotates every quarter.

This is the thing customers raise unprompted. As Gigs' case study recounts, the team is "one of the most responsive and solution-oriented teams I've worked with... no unnecessary back-and-forth, no complex processes, just practical, fast help whenever we need it." A customer at Tabby added that "they actually listen and adapt quickly, which is rare and quite refreshing."

Tequipy Pricing

No long-term contracts. No minimum order volume. No recurring fee to start. A 300-employee company pays $1,188 a year for the platform. For context, one Firstbase buyer reported a $45,000 platform fee in 2023.

Firstbase's one public price is its AWS Marketplace contract: $27,500 a year for 100 users (October 2026). In our pricing calculator, a 100-person team pays Tequipy $2,856 a year, plus $199 a month for the optional HRIS add-on. Enter the numbers from your Firstbase contract and see for yourself.

Where Tequipy Shines

• Retail hardware, not a services commitment: where Firstbase bundles hardware behind a platform-and-services spend, a MacBook costs the local recommended retail price in London, Lagos, or Lima, with no markup and no country multipliers.
• Test-first, no vendor switch: place a single order in your toughest market with no contract attached. Trying Tequipy doesn't mean dropping whatever you use now; it runs alongside your current setup, and it even covers devices you bought elsewhere.
• Full lifecycle including recovery: a 100% recovery rate after offboarding, documented across published case studies.
• Pay only for what you use: offboarding, storage, and redeployment are billed when used, not as a standing monthly fee per seat.

Where Tequipy Falls Short

• No leasing: you buy hardware outright at retail; Tequipy offers no lease or finance anywhere. For devices off the balance sheet, look at Fleet or Firstbase instead.
• SOC 2 in progress: Tequipy holds ISO 27001 certification and runs penetration tests, with SOC 2 still in the works. That certification could well be finished by the time you read this, so if SOC 2 is a firm requirement, confirm where it stands with the team instead of ruling Tequipy out.
• Fewer native HRIS integrations: native sync covers HiBob, BambooHR, and Workday, with everything else through the REST API. If the integration list was what worked for you on Firstbase and you need a specific HRIS or MDM connector, ask the team.

Tequipy Customer Reviews

"What stands out is their speed, devices are delivered to employees in multiple countries within a few days, and the transparency of their pricing and process. Tequipy has become a reliable partner of our IT operations." (Dimitrios Stergiou, Director IT and Information Security, TapTap Send's case study)

"While many vendors say they're global, Tequipy actually delivers, literally and figuratively." (Lisa Kiseleva, People Operations Specialist, Gigs' case study)

Who Tequipy Is Best For

• Fast-growing teams hiring across multiple countries that need one reliable platform and can't dedicate staff to vendor coordination.
• IT and Ops teams that have outgrown a patchwork of local vendors and want one accountable partner.
• Teams testing a new geography where the no-contract model lets you validate a market before committing.
• Teams that hit inconsistent Firstbase shipping and cannot risk a laptop landing after the employee's start date.

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Workwize: Best for Teams That Need Deep HRIS Automation

Workwize's G2 rating stood at 4.2 from 23 reviews in October 2026. Swapping Firstbase for Workwize will not shed the recurring platform fee, that model carries over, but this Amsterdam-based lifecycle platform answers a different Firstbase gripe: integration depth, backed by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 today.

Key Features

Where Firstbase leans on a smaller integration set, Workwize leads with 100+ native integrations (Workday, HiBob, Personio, Rippling, Jamf, Intune, Okta), a warehouse-and-deploy model, and asset tracking that gives real-time device status. It is built so onboarding and offboarding fire automatically from HR events rather than being requested by hand.

Pricing

Like Firstbase, Workwize keeps hardware prices off the public page. Workwize's own page on Firstbase alternatives lists $8 per seat plus a $540 platform fee (Basic), and its pricing page sets a 150-seat minimum. One user reported roughly a 30% markup on hardware on top of the platform fee.

One Reddit user in r/ITManagers summed up the frustration: "we would pay 30% markup on products Workwize sold and we had to pay platform fees, to me it should be one or the other." The 150-seat floor is a gate, not a fit signal, and rules Workwize out for many teams before pricing matters.

Where Workwize Shines

• Hands-off HRIS automation: if your reason for leaving Firstbase was clunky automation rather than price, this is where Workwize answers. One G2 reviewer describes the payoff after wiring in their own tools: "we've hooked up HiBob and Jamf to Workwize, and now everything just works. New hires get their stuff automatically." For a Firstbase leaver who already runs a deep HR and security stack, that hands-off onboarding is the whole reason to move here.

Where Workwize Falls Short

• Coverage past core Western markets: Workwize carries over the exact limitation that drives people off Firstbase. A mid-market G2 reviewer, rating it 2 out of 5, wrote "we are talking weeks delay" and that buyers "in the EU, Australia, India, or South America" should wait, and a team that evaluated Workwize told us it was taking 4 to 6 weeks to deliver in Europe and India and could not serve 2 to 3 countries where they had employees.

Reviews

The public sample here is small: as of October 2026, Workwize carries a G2 rating of 4.2 from 23 reviews alongside a Trustpilot score of 3.0 from 5 reviews. Workwize invited every Capterra review and all 14 G2 reviews added in September 2026. Its Trustpilot reviews fell to 5, from 11 in July 2026.

Best For

• The Firstbase vs Workwize trade-off is most relevant to large teams wanting deeper automation: Firstbase leavers who were happy with its US and EU coverage but wanted deeper HRIS automation, can clear the 150-seat minimum, and accept a subscription rather than a per-order cost.

Deel IT: Best for Teams Already on Deel

Deel IT now publishes bundles from $49 per user per month, according to its pricing page in October 2026. Deel IT is Hofy, rebranded after Deel acquired it in mid-2024, so for a Firstbase leaver it is worth a look only in one narrow case: you already run Deel for EOR, payroll, or contractors, and want device lifecycle management inside the same portal.

Key Features

Deel IT's defining feature is consolidation: employment, payroll, and IT in one system, so onboarding and offboarding trigger automatically for teams already on Deel. Coverage spans 130+ countries, with MDM and asset management built in. One Deel IT reviewer on G2, in an incentivized review, said "MDM, UEM, and Asset Management have been integrated", so all devices sit in one view. That single-stack integration is the one thing most alternatives can't match.

Pricing

Deel prices from the US retail price plus a store fee, which customers put at 25%, but real comparisons run 40 to 50% and higher in hard markets. Its managed bundles start from $49 per user per month (Starter, includes MDM and endpoint protection).

A UK reviewer on Trustpilot confirmed the 25% store fee: "Hofy charge a flat 25% fee for any purchase on top of the price of the laptop." A team that evaluated Deel IT told us a $2,000 laptop came back quoted at $3,300, which they called "not defendable."

See how Hofy alternatives compare on pricing and flexibility.

Where Deel IT Shines

• Single-portal consolidation: against Firstbase, the one move Deel IT makes that Firstbase cannot is collapsing hiring, paying, and equipping into a single portal, provided you already live in Deel. Device actions inherit the employee records Deel already holds, so there is little duplicate data entry.

Where Deel IT Falls Short

• Won't fix the cost problem: Deel IT will not cure the cost problem that sends people off Firstbase. A Trustpilot user wrote in October 2025: "major downgrade since Deel's acquisition... hardware pricing has skyrocketed."
• Post-acquisition service slipped: another from January 2025 described the retrieval process as "bordering on harassment."

Reviews

There is no clean G2 read here, since the Deel profile is dominated by payroll and EOR reviews. That leaves the Trustpilot score of 3.3 from 30 reviews as the truest picture of the hardware product specifically, as of October 2026.

Best For

• Existing Deel customers: Firstbase leavers who already run Deel for EOR and payroll, want IT in the same portal, and accept the premium as the cost of consolidation.

GroWrk: Best for US and LATAM Teams on a Flexible Budget

If you are leaving Firstbase to escape a recurring platform fee, GroWrk's A La Carte tier is the obvious first look: order device by device, with no subscription and no contract, something Firstbase's model never gave you.

Key Features

For a Firstbase leaver the draw is reach: GroWrk runs procurement, deployment, and retrieval deepest across the Americas, the region Firstbase leans on partners for, with HRIS sync and zero-touch MDM on its paid tier and device buy-back at end of life. The A La Carte tier lets you place one-off orders with no platform fee, then step up to Flex only if you want the automation bundled.

Compare GroWrk vs Hofy on pricing, device management, and contract flexibility.

Pricing

Two tiers, and the gap between them is where a Firstbase leaver has to choose. A La Carte is pay-per-order with no contract, but the full feature set sits behind the paid Flex tier on a 12-month contract, the same kind of annual lock-in you may have left Firstbase to escape.

Where GroWrk Shines

• Deepest in the Americas: where Firstbase thins out south of the US, GroWrk is deepest. A 3+ year GroWrk customer on G2 wrote that across staff in "Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina" and Uruguay, "I can expect they'll receive similar service." If your Firstbase pain was patchy Latin America delivery, that consistency is the reason to shortlist it.

Where GroWrk Falls Short

• Automation behind an annual contract: GroWrk's full automation sits behind the paid Flex tier on a 12-month contract, so the lock-in you left Firstbase to avoid can reappear one tier up.
• Hardware runs hot: a G2 reviewer in healthcare found that buying through GroWrk often costs two to three times more than buying it yourself, and a current customer told us a MacBook costing $1,700 to $1,800 direct was quoted at $2,500 to $2,600.
• Delivery gaps outside core markets: a December 2025 Trustpilot reviewer waited more than a month for a laptop to a Central European country, the same non-core-market gap Firstbase has.

Reviews

GroWrk's G2 rating of 4.4 from 36 reviews sits a little below Firstbase's 4.7 from 51, and it has a Trustpilot score of 3.8 from 15 reviews as of October 2026. Its Gartner Peer Insights rating runs lower, so pressure-test lead times in the exact countries where Firstbase let you down.

Best For

• US and LATAM-focused teams: Firstbase leavers whose hiring clusters in the US and Latin America and who want a no-subscription entry point, not teams that need one platform to reach every region.

Allwhere: Strong for US-Centric Teams

Allwhere drops the recurring platform fee that pushes people off Firstbase, but it keeps Firstbase's other limit: this New York-based lifecycle platform covers 54 countries, strongest in the US and especially US retrievals.

Key Features

For a Firstbase leaver, Allwhere's appeal is the low bar to try it: no platform fee and no minimum, with procurement, deployment, storage, and retrieval billed as used and a portal that tracks hardware in stock and in transit, plus Slack-based support. That commercial model sits close to Tequipy's, so a US-centric team can trial it without a commitment.

Pricing

Pay-as-you-go with no platform fee and no minimum. Allwhere's published Pricing Guide sets hardware at vendor cost, plus a 4% service fee on every transaction.

Where Allwhere Shines

• Strong US experience and support: for the US work Firstbase already handled well, Allwhere matches it on experience and support responsiveness. An IT manager on G2 said: "AllWhere customer portal provides clarity and transparency... they are very responsive both in Slack and email." For a US-headquartered team, the retrieval and portal experience is the strong point.

Where Allwhere Falls Short

• No reach past its 54 countries: if you are leaving Firstbase because it went thin outside the US, UK, and EU, Allwhere will not fix that. A buyer on r/sysadmin reported being told after signing that "it would not be possible to ship there." It covers no MENA, no Africa, no CIS, and in Asia lists only India, Japan and the Philippines, with no live service yet in Japan. Of the 50 countries on its Beta Regions grid, 15, including India and the Philippines, are Beta procurement only, with no retrieval, deployment or storage, so teams often run a second vendor alongside it.

Reviews

Treat Allwhere's G2 rating of 4.6 from 8 reviews as thin rather than settled: all eight are marked incentivized and date from 2023, as of October 2026. There is not yet enough recent, organic evidence to weigh it as heavily as the higher-volume profiles here.

See the Allwhere Review for more detail on customer feedback.

Best For

• US-centric teams inside its 54 countries: Firstbase leavers whose hiring stays inside Allwhere's 54 countries and who want the platform fee gone, with no need for MENA, Africa, CIS, or most of Asia, so teams hiring across those regions may want to compare Allwhere alternatives.

Fleet: Best for EU SMEs That Want to Lease

Fleet leans into the recurring cost that Firstbase leavers usually want gone, because its model is leasing first: this Paris-based Device-as-a-Service platform finances hardware over 36-month operational leases, turning upfront cost into a monthly operating expense.

Key Features

Fleet centers on 36-month device leasing, bundled IT management tiers so you don't run your own MDM stack, and ISO 27001 plus SOC 2 certification. It is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses in Western Europe that want financing and management in one subscription, a different trade from Firstbase's annual platform fee, billed apart from services and hardware.

Pricing

Fleet does not publish device prices. TechCrunch put Fleet's 2022 leases at €54.90 (MacBook Air) to €99.90 (MacBook Pro) per device per month, over 36 months. Leasing converts hardware cost to a monthly fee, but over a 36-month term the €99.90 MacBook Pro lease ran roughly 60% above its 2022 retail price (the total includes financing, support, warranty management and MDM enrollment), so it is a cash-flow choice more than a saving.

Where Fleet Shines

• Bundled leasing and managed MDM in the EU: in the EU where Firstbase is already strong, Fleet's pull is bundling leasing with managed MDM in one place, and its user base backs that up: as of October 2026 it holds a Trustpilot score of 4.1 from 131 reviews, the deepest Trustpilot review base of any vendor here. For a small or mid-sized company in Western Europe, the bundled model is genuinely convenient.

Where Fleet Falls Short

• Lease, not rental: the recurring commitment is bigger than the ads suggest, because the "rental" framing is really a lease. One Trustpilot reviewer flagged it directly, "misleading ad, it's not rental, it's leasing."
• Slow support on breakages: a founder on Trustpilot reported a "waiting 5 weeks for replacement," and a current customer told us delivery typically takes about two weeks.
• Coverage mostly in the EU and US: Fleet now claims 150 countries (October 2026), but in February 2026 it was reported to operate actively in about 10 to 12 European countries plus the US, and no user evidence yet tests the wider claim. So it may not solve hiring beyond Firstbase's core regions.

Reviews

Fleet's evidence is one-sided but deep: a Trustpilot score of 4.1 from 131 reviews as of October 2026, while no G2 profile for Fleet (fleet.co) was found, so Trustpilot is the meaningful read here.

Best For

• EU teams that want to lease: Firstbase leavers at smaller and mid-sized Western European businesses that want to lease hardware with bundled device management.

Quipteams: Best for LATAM-Heavy Teams

Quipteams answers both Firstbase complaints at once for one region: no recurring platform fee, and depth in Latin America, exactly where Firstbase thins out. It is a bootstrapped vendor with a Buenos Aires-born team, and Latin America is where its user evidence is strongest.

Key Features

Quipteams runs procurement, deployment, storage, and retrieval with no platform fee and no contract, on a pure pay-as-you-go basis. Its focus is speed in Latin America, exactly the region where Firstbase falls back on partners and slows down.

Pricing

Among the leanest commercial terms here, with the trade-off that hardware is priced case by case.

One team we spoke with flagged fees of "around $1,000" on a high-end machine, so confirm the all-in cost on your standard configuration.

Where Quipteams Shines

• Fast in Latin America: in the region Firstbase struggles to serve, Quipteams is fast. As one October 2025 G2 review put it, "Quip Teams... filled the Rippling gap in LATAM perfectly... A new hire in Buenos Aires got her MacBook within 24 hours." For a team whose hardware pain is specifically LATAM, that responsiveness is hard to match.

Where Quipteams Falls Short

• Unproven outside LATAM: if you also hire in the US, UK, or EU where Firstbase was solid, Quipteams is unproven. Its non-LATAM coverage is claimed but thin on independent evidence.
• No published certifications: it does not publish ISO 27001 or SOC 2, and reviewers want more platform integrations.

Reviews

The highest score in this set comes from a mostly Latin American sample: a G2 rating of 5.0 from 32 reviews, 19 of them from Latin America, and a Trustpilot score of 3.3 from 3 reviews, as of October 2026. Read the 5.0 as strong evidence for LATAM specifically, not proof of global depth.

Best For

• LATAM-focused teams: Firstbase leavers whose hardware problem is mostly Latin America, at moderate volume, without a hard ISO 27001 or SOC 2 requirement.

Reasons to Consider an Alternative to Firstbase

Firstbase does a lot well. These are the specific places where its own customers say it falls short.

The Total Cost

The headline number is only half the story. What that annual platform-and-commitment spend actually buys is software access and a fixed services allocation, not hardware at cost and not delivery in the markets where Firstbase's own reviewers say it thins out. One Reddit user in r/ITManagers did that math out loud after his own quote: "they wanted $500k just to use their platform... we can hire 10 people to do that work at the price."

This is the clearest reason teams switch to a retail-priced platform. Tequipy is built the other way: free for up to 100 devices, $99/month flat above that, an optional $199/month HRIS integration add-on, hardware at retail, and services billed only when used. There is no floor to clear.

Coverage Outside the US, UK, and EU

Firstbase runs a two-tier model. It is strong in the US, UK, EU, and Canada, and partner-mediated elsewhere, where BYOD, custom imaging, repairs, and returns get limited. A December 2025 G2 reviewer names it plainly: "they do not have a presence in every country where our offshore contractors operate." For a team hiring in Latin America, the Caucasus, Central Asia, or Southeast Asia, that gap is the daily reality.

You Can't Test Before You Commit

AppDirect, which bought Firstbase in December 2024, offers a free edition on its marketplace. It is for US companies, covers up to 50 employees, and has no returns or other services. It is not a way to test Firstbase's lifecycle service, and outside the US the lowest public entry point is the $27,500 AWS Starter Edition. You sign an annual contract with a services commitment before you learn whether it delivers in your hardest market. For a distributed team, that is the riskiest way to buy a vendor whose weak spot is coverage in exactly those markets.

Shipping Consistency in Some Regions

Even happy Firstbase customers flag delivery timing outside core markets. One December 2025 G2 reviewer wrote that "the main challenge is shipping times" and that "they can be a bit inconsistent, which is tough when we're onboarding someone quickly."

If two or more of these sound familiar, that is the situation Tequipy was built for.

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What are the best Firstbase alternatives?

The strongest alternatives are Tequipy for globally distributed teams, Workwize for deep HRIS automation, Deel IT for teams already on Deel, GroWrk and Quipteams for US and LATAM coverage, Allwhere for US-centric teams, and Fleet for EU leasing.

Why do companies leave Firstbase?

Usually for two reasons: cost and coverage. Firstbase lists $27,500 for 12 months for 100 users on AWS Marketplace, and one buyer's 2023 platform fee and services commitment came to $170,000 a year. Its coverage is strongest in the US, UK, and EU while thinner in APAC, LATAM, MENA, and Central Asia.

How much does Firstbase cost?

Firstbase keeps pricing off its own website. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows $27,500 for 12 months, for 100 users and a committed pool of platform actions. In 2023, a verified buyer reported a $45,000/year platform fee plus a $125,000/year services commitment, and one Reddit user was quoted $500,000 for platform access. Expect an annual contract rather than pay-per-use.

Which Firstbase alternative is best for global teams?

Tequipy, for teams hiring across many countries. It delivers in 180+ countries through 600+ local resellers, at a 3-business-day average globally and a maximum of 10 business days, with hardware at retail price and no contract. GroWrk and Quipteams are strong if your footprint is mostly the Americas.

Do Firstbase alternatives require a contract?

Not all of them. Tequipy, GroWrk (A La Carte), Allwhere, and Quipteams let you start with no contract or minimum. Fleet lets you buy with no minimum; its leases run 36 months. Deel's help centre lists a free Deel IT Essentials plan: no contract, ordering only, no device management. Workwize publishes no contract terms, though users report annual commitments, and its pricing page requires at least 150 seats.

Why is Firstbase now part of AppDirect?

AppDirect acquired Firstbase in December 2024, so Firstbase now operates as an AppDirect company. For buyers, IT hardware sits inside AppDirect's wider software and telecom procurement suite; since the deal, AppDirect offers a free edition on its marketplace. It is for US companies, covers up to 50 employees, and has no returns or other services. US customers can also buy Firstbase hardware as standalone marketplace products.