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Ready To Inspect vs Fieldwire by Hilti
Field task management built around plan sheets — mark a task on a drawing, assign it, and track it to done. RTI does one thing instead: it will not let an inspection be submitted until the photos that prove it exist, and it chains every record so the result holds up months later.
What each one costs
Ready To Inspect
$79 or $299 / mo, unlimited people
Crew at $79 a month and Company at $299 a month, both with unlimited people, a 30-day trial and no sales call before you can use it.
Fieldwire by Hilti
$0–$89 / user / mo
Fieldwire publishes per-user tiers: a free Basic plan, then Pro, Business and Business Plus, listed at $39, $64 and $89 per user per month on its pricing page. Fieldwire's help centre notes the free plan is capped by projects, sheets and users.
fieldwire.com/pricingWhere Fieldwire by Hilti is strong
Drawing-first: tasks are pinned to a location on a sheet, which is the fastest way to point at a physical problem.
Genuinely usable free tier for a small crew inside its project, sheet and user caps.
Strong plan version control, markup and as-built workflows.
Where RTI works differently
RTI is checklist-and-evidence first. The unit of work is an inspection point with a QR sticker on it, not a pin on a sheet.
RTI blocks the submission itself when the photos are missing, so the record cannot be completed thin.
RTI is priced per company, not per user: $79 or $299 a month with unlimited people, so adding a sub to the job costs nothing.
Capability by capability
Photo gate on submit
Ready To Inspect
Submit is blocked server-side until mandatory items are answered and the minimum photos exist.
Fieldwire by Hilti
Photos and files attach to tasks and checklists; we found no published rule that blocks completion until they exist.
Tamper-evident record
Ready To Inspect
Every action is written to a SHA-256 hash chain, so a later edit breaks the chain visibly.
Fieldwire by Hilti
Task activity history is kept; a cryptographic hash chain is not published.
QR to the checklist
Ready To Inspect
Scan the sticker on a room, unit, riser or panel and land on its first checklist item.
Fieldwire by Hilti
Work is found by plan sheet and location pin rather than by scanning a tag on the point.
Offline capture
Ready To Inspect
Answers and photos queue on the device and sync when a connection returns.
Fieldwire by Hilti
Offline-first mobile apps, documented as a core capability.
Review board
Ready To Inspect
Kanban lanes for submitted, in review, approved and rejected; a rejection carries its reason on the record.
Fieldwire by Hilti
Tasks carry statuses and assignees; approval is a status change rather than a review board with lanes.
Turnover package
Ready To Inspect
Approved work exports as a branded PDF or CSV with answers, photos, signatures and the audit trail attached.
Fieldwire by Hilti
Reports and photo exports are produced per project; the assembled, audited handover package is not the product.
Client sign-off portal
Ready To Inspect
A read-only portal for owners and inspectors, separate from your internal workspace.
Fieldwire by Hilti
External people are added as users on the plan rather than through a separate read-only client portal.
Fieldwire by Hilti details above come from its own published pricing and product pages, read on September 3, 2026, and they change — check fieldwire.com/pricing before you decide. A row marked as not published means we could not find it documented, not that the product cannot do it. Fieldwire by Hilti is a trademark of its owner; RTI is not affiliated with it.
Questions people ask
- How does Fieldwire's pricing compare to RTI's?
- Fieldwire is priced per user — its published tiers run from a free Basic plan to $89 per user per month — so cost scales with how many people you put on the job. RTI is priced per company: $79 a month for Crew and $299 for Company, with unlimited people on either. A ten-person crew is the point where the two curves separate.
- We already pin punch items to drawings. Why add RTI?
- Because a pin says where, and an inspection record says whether it passed and what proves it. RTI's gate means a submitted item already carries its photos, its answers, its author and its timestamp, and the approved set exports as one package. Teams commonly keep drawing markup where it is and use RTI for the inspections that have to survive a dispute.
See the difference on your own job.
Tag one area, run one walk, and compare the record it leaves with what you have today.
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