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Start free, pay only when you need more. Clear plans, no contracts, no setup fees.

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As an example: a garage with one office admin and three technicians can pay £350+/month on some systems. The same team on Autera Workshop is £79/month, covers unlimited mechanics, and your office and admin logins are free.

Your data is yours. Export everything, customers, vehicles, jobs, invoices, as a machine-readable file at any time. Even if you cancel. No exit fees, no data held hostage.

Generous Autera Assist allowances on every plan, and MOT reminders by text on every paid plan. Need more? Top-ups are optional, never forced, and we never auto-charge you or lock your account. No surprise bills at the end of the month.

Compare every plan

Exactly what each plan includes. Swipe sideways on a phone to see every column.

Solo
Free forever
Starter
£29 /mo
Popular
Workshop
£79 /mo
Multi-Bay
£149 /mo
Plans & limits
Mechanics1UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Office & admin logins—UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Jobs / month2040UnlimitedUnlimited
Invoices & quotes / month20UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
New customers / month20UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Autera Assist AI credits / month302006002,000
Text reminders / month—50150400
Everyday
DVLA reg + DVSA MOT lookups✓✓✓✓
Quote → invoice → card payment✓✓✓✓
iOS & Android app✓✓✓✓
Autera Assist (reads diagnostic scans)✓✓✓✓
Job calendar✓✓✓✓
Analytics dashboard✓✓✓✓
Grow the workshop
Autera Snap (documents & camera)–✓✓✓
Branded PDFs + Xero / QuickBooks–✓✓✓
MOT reminders—Due alertsAutomatedAutomated
Inventory & suppliers––✓✓
Per-job time tracking✓✓✓✓
Digital vehicle health checks (VHC)––✓✓
ADAS PAS 1880 certificates––✓✓
Online booking page––✓✓
Your garage website (built for you, fully customisable)––✓✓
Customer job tracker (live "is my car ready?" link)––✓✓
Review booster (Google review ask at collection)––✓✓
Daily manager report (7am email digest)✓✓✓✓
Multi-site management––Add-onIncluded
Priority support (email + WhatsApp)–––✓

Mechanics and office logins are both unlimited on every paid plan, so the size of your team never changes the bill. Extra locations are £49/mo each on Workshop and Multi-Bay. SMS MOT reminders are live: 50 texts a month on Starter, 150 on Workshop, 400 on Multi-Bay. A public API is on the way.

Which plan fits your garage?

We sized the plans around the four most common UK garage shapes. If your shop fits one of these descriptions, the matching plan is usually the right starting point.

Every paid plan includes unlimited mechanics and unlimited admin users. Bring the whole team, your office staff, accountant and receptionist included, at no extra cost.

Solo
Free forever
BEST FOR

Sole-trader mechanics and mobile technicians working alone

You handle 5-25 jobs a month, send the odd invoice, and want to stop chasing customers for car details over WhatsApp.

What you get: 1 mechanic (just you). 20 jobs, 20 invoices, 20 quotes, 20 new customers/month, unlimited MOT history lookups plus fair-use DVLA reg lookups. Job calendar and analytics included. Full iOS & Android app included.

Starter
£29 / month
BEST FOR

Small workshops with a growing team and a busy front desk

You run a single bay, do 20-40 jobs a month, and need branded invoices, unlimited reg lookups with full MOT history, and your accountant on Xero or QuickBooks.

What you get: Unlimited mechanics and unlimited admin users (manager, parts, finance, customer support, viewer, invite them all at no extra cost). 40 jobs / month, plus unlimited DVLA & MOT history lookups, unlimited invoices and quotes, branded PDFs, document storage, photo job filing, and Xero/QuickBooks sync.

Workshop
£79 / month
BEST FOR

Established garages with a full team and an MOT bay

You have multiple ramps, run 200+ jobs a month, use MOT reminders powered by the official DVSA API, and want ADAS calibration certificates and digital vehicle health checks (VHC) filed against the job.

What you get: Unlimited mechanics and unlimited admin users with role-based permissions (owner, manager, technician, parts, finance, customer support). Unlimited jobs, ADAS PAS 1880 certificates, digital vehicle health checks (VHC), online customer booking page, MOT reminder workflow, per-job time tracking, inventory management, and team performance reports. Running more than one site? Add extra locations for £49/month each.

Multi-Bay
£149 / month + £49 per additional site
BEST FOR

High-volume workshops and multi-site groups that want every limit lifted

You handle 200+ jobs a month, want every usage limit lifted and the highest allowances, and want priority support with hands-on migration when you switch.

What you get: Unlimited mechanics & admin users, priority email + WhatsApp support, and white-glove migration assistance. Multi-location management is included, at £49/month per extra site (the same add-on is available on Workshop). Public API access is on the roadmap; your pricing locks in at sign-up.

Included on every plan

We move your data in for you, free

Send your customers, vehicles, job history and staff in whatever format they are in now, including a spreadsheet or photos of paper records. We load the lot and tell you when it is done, within one working day of your file reaching us.

No setup fee, no contract, and no card needed. It is free on the free plan too, because a system with two customers typed into it tells you nothing about whether it suits your garage.

How the free migration works

What every plan includes

We do not gate the basics behind a higher tier. The features below come with every Autera plan, including free Solo.

Powered by the official DVLA & DVSA APIs, not third-party data scrapers

  • ✓Official DVLA reg lookup + DVSA MOT History API (advisories, test dates, mileage)
  • ✓Free iOS & Android mobile apps: jobs, photos, time tracking, on the go
  • ✓Stripe online payments: customers pay invoices by card at checkout
  • ✓Customer portal for quote acceptance and pay-by-link
  • ✓Daily encrypted backups with 30-day recovery window
  • ✓UK-hosted, GDPR-compliant data storage
  • ✓No setup fees, no contracts, cancel any time

Still working it out?

If you are weighing Autera up against another tool, we have side-by-side comparisons for each of the main UK alternatives:

vs ServiceM8vs Garage Hivevs Garage Assistantvs MAM Autoworkvs LaunchControl

Already on ServiceM8 today? We will move your customers, vehicles and jobs across for free. Or, if you would rather see Autera in action first, book a 30-minute live demo on a real workshop account.

Pricing questions, answered

More than this? Read the full FAQ or email hello@getautera.com.

Every paid plan comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee on your first payment. If it is not the right fit, email hello@getautera.com within 30 days of your first charge and we will refund it in full, no questions asked. Full details are in our Refund Policy.

Yes, from the billing page, and you are never charged twice for the same days. Upgrades apply immediately and the adjustment appears on your next invoice rather than being taken on the day. Downgrades also apply immediately, so the features of the higher plan stop at that point and you are credited for the time you had not used.

Solo includes 20 jobs a month and Starter 40. Workshop and Multi-Bay have no job limit. You get a banner inside Autera as you approach the limit, and if you reach it, creating new jobs pauses until the month resets or you upgrade. Everything already in Autera stays available and readable throughout, and nothing is ever charged without you choosing it. Upgrading applies immediately from the billing page, so you are never stuck waiting on us.

Autera Assist drafts a clear, professional job description from a few details, so you are not rewriting the same paragraph every time. Every plan includes a monthly allowance: 30 on Solo, 200 on Starter, 600 on Workshop and 2,000 on Multi-Bay. Need more in a busy month? Optional top-up packs are there if you want them, never forced and never auto-charged. SMS MOT reminders are live and included on Starter (50 texts a month), Workshop (150) and Multi-Bay (400).

Yes. Pay annually and get two months free, a saving of about 17% compared with monthly billing. The annual price equates to 10 months of monthly fees on Starter, Workshop and Multi-Bay plans. Solo is free either way.

No. The price you see is the price you pay. FrameLogic Limited, which operates Autera, is not VAT registered, so no VAT is added to your subscription and there is none for you to reclaim.

We charge per workshop, never per login. Every paid plan includes unlimited mechanics and unlimited admin users at no extra cost: Starter £29, Workshop £79 and Multi-Bay £149 a month, whatever the size of your team. The free Solo plan is the one exception and covers a single mechanic, you. There are no per-seat fees of any kind. Extra sites are the only team-size add-on, at £49/month each on Workshop and Multi-Bay.

A mechanic is anyone who clocks on jobs and records time on the shop floor, the people turning wrenches. An admin user is anyone else with a login: a manager, parts desk staff, accountant, receptionist or read-only viewer. On every paid plan both are unlimited and neither costs extra, so the difference is only about what someone can do in Autera, never what they cost. The free Solo plan is the exception: one mechanic, no separate admin logins. If the same person does both (common for owner-operators who fix cars AND run the business), the owner login covers both jobs.

Every paid plan starts with a 14 day free trial. A card is taken when the trial starts and nothing is charged until the 14 days are up, so cancelling before then costs you nothing. You get the full feature set for two weeks. If you decide it is not for you, walk away. If you continue, we charge the plan rate from day 15 onward.

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