7 Best Firstbase Alternatives for Remote Teams in 2026

If you are comparing Firstbase alternatives, the trigger is usually the bill. Firstbase does not publish pricing, but 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 count in brackets and linked to source, all current as of July 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 under 100 devices, then a flat $99 a month, which puts a 300-person company at about $1,188 a year against the $45,000 Firstbase asks to start. Hardware sells at plain retail, an $1,800 MacBook is $1,800, because the margin sits on services like offboarding, not the device invoice.

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 rather than renting it.

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.

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. Every order, every 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 asking new hires to handle these arrangements themselves."

Where Firstbase falls back on partners, Tequipy keeps direct reach 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. Across thousands of shipments, Tequipy has recorded 3 late deliveries.

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." A customer at Tabby added that "they actually listen and adapt quickly, which is rare."

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, Firstbase's platform fee starts at $45,000 a year.

Where Tequipy Shines

• Retail hardware, not a services commitment: where Firstbase bundles hardware behind a platform-and-services spend, the same MacBook costs the same 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 global leasing: Tequipy sells hardware at retail with services billed as you use them, and leasing is available in Europe only. If your reason for shortlisting alternatives is to lease across every market and keep hardware off the balance sheet, Firstbase or Fleet suit that financing need better.
• 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, they often build a custom integration for a particular setup.

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 part 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

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 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. A real Professional-tier quote came back at about €19.50 per seat per month on a 150-seat minimum, with roughly a 30% markup on hardware stacked 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 that in "the EU, Australia, India, or South America... we are talking weeks of delay," and a team that evaluated Workwize told us it quoted 4 to 6 weeks to deliver in Europe and India and could not serve two countries where they had employees.

Reviews

The public sample here is small: as of July 2026, Workwize carries a G2 rating of 4.4 from 9 reviews alongside a Trustpilot score of 4.1 from 11 reviews. Its Capterra reviews all carry a "vendor referred, incentive offered" label, so weight the G2 and Trustpilot samples more heavily.

Best For

• 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 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. As a Deel IT reviewer on G2 put it, "MDM, UEM, and Asset Management have been integrated" into a single consolidated view of devices. That single-stack integration is the one thing most alternatives can't match.

Pricing

Deel publishes a 25% markup floor, but real comparisons run 40 to 50% and higher in hard markets, and the platform fee is billed annually upfront on a 12-month minimum.

A UK reviewer on Trustpilot confirmed the floor: "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 defensible."

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. One October 2025 Trustpilot review reads "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 July 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.

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 put it at "often 2 to 3 times more" than buying direct, 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 public scores sit close to Firstbase's: a G2 rating of 4.4 from 36 reviews and a Trustpilot score of 3.8 from 15 reviews as of July 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 Brooklyn-based lifecycle platform covers 56 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. The hardware markup is not published and buyer reports are mixed, so the all-in cost is only clear once you request a config-specific quote.

Where Allwhere Shines

• Strong US experience and support: for the US work Firstbase already handled well, Allwhere matches it on experience and support responsiveness. As an IT manager on G2 wrote, "the 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 56 markets: 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 most of Asia outside India and the Philippines, 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 July 2026. There is not yet enough recent, organic evidence to weigh it as heavily as the higher-volume profiles here.

Best For

• US-centric teams inside its 56 markets: Firstbase leavers whose hiring stays inside Allwhere's 56 markets and who want the platform fee gone, with no need for MENA, Africa, CIS, or most of Asia.

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 EU SMEs that want financing and management in one subscription, a different trade than Firstbase's buy-and-commit model.

Pricing

Leasing converts hardware cost to a monthly fee, but over a 36-month term the lease runs roughly 60% above the device's retail price, 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 July 2026 it holds a Trustpilot score of 4.2 from 129 reviews, the deepest review base of any vendor here. For a 5 to 200-person team 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 limited to the EU and US: active coverage is roughly 10 European countries plus the US, so it does not solve hiring beyond Firstbase's core regions.

Reviews

Fleet's evidence is one-sided but deep: a Trustpilot score of 4.2 from 129 reviews as of July 2026, while its G2 profile exists but carries no reviews yet, so Trustpilot is the meaningful read here.

Best For

• EU SMEs that want to lease: Firstbase leavers of 5 to 200 people in France, Spain, Germany, or the UK who actively want to lease with bundled MDM and have no major hiring outside Western Europe.

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 Buenos Aires-based, bootstrapped vendor, 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, "Quipteams 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 with the smallest, most regional sample: a G2 rating of 5.0 from 14 reviews for its LATAM service and a Trustpilot score of 3.3 from 3 reviews, as of July 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 under 100 devices, $99/month flat above that, hardware at retail, and services billed only when used. There is no floor to clear and no one to reject you for being too small.

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

Firstbase has no free trial and no single-order pilot. 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. As one December 2025 G2 reviewer wrote, "the main challenge is shipping times, 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's platform and services commitment can exceed $170,000 a year, and 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 does not publish pricing. 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-day average, 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. Workwize, Deel IT, and Fleet require annual or multi-year commitments.

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; Firstbase's platform, pricing structure, and coverage model are unchanged by the deal itself.