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GuardsPro deserves credit for publishing prices. But the base plan is not the platform: scheduling, tours, payroll export, dispatch and invoicing are paid add-ons, and the real per-guard cost lands somewhere very different from the sticker.
Facts checked July 2026, with sources including GuardsPro's own pricing and add-on pages.
GuardsPro publishes its prices: Essential, Advanced and Professional plans at $5, $8 and $10 per user per month, minimum 3 users, month to month, with a 30-day trial (GuardsPro pricing page, checked July 2026). In an industry full of quote-only vendors, that transparency is genuinely rare, and we respect it. GuardChek publishes prices for the same reason.
The catch is the add-on model. As Timeero's 2026 review puts it, the base plan covers basic GPS tracking and reporting, while core features like scheduling, site tours and payroll export are add-on modules, each at extra monthly cost per user. GuardsPro's own add-on modules page lists the scheduler, payroll, dispatch and invoicing among the extras.
Stack the modules a working guard company actually needs and the per-user total can land at a multiple of the base price. Then multiply by headcount: per-user pricing means every guard you hire raises your software bill, forever. A 50-guard company on a loaded per-user stack is paying for 50 seats of every module, every month.
| GuardsPro (published) | GuardChek (published) | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $5 to $10 per user/mo base, plus paid add-on modules per user | Flat tiers: $449 (up to 25 guards), $649 (up to 50), $899 (up to 100) |
| Scheduling, tours, dispatch, invoicing | Paid add-ons on top of base | Included in Growth and Professional tiers |
| Cost of hiring 10 more guards | 10 more paid seats of every module | $0 inside your tier's guard cap |
| Support | Email and chat; phone reserved for enterprise (GES) accounts | A human who runs security software for a living |
| Private instance | Enterprise GES tier only, quote-only | Every plan, every customer |
| Banned-subject database | Not offered in public materials | Included on Growth and Professional, with ID barcode scanning |
GuardsPro facts from guardspro.com pricing, add-on, GES, contact and FAQ pages plus third-party reviews, checked July 2026.
GuardsPro's published support channels for standard plans are email and live chat; its GES enterprise page confirms that 24/7 phone support is a perk of the enterprise tier. When your Saturday night dispatcher hits a wall, "wait for an email response" is a hard answer to give. GuardChek support is handled by people who run guard operations on this exact platform; we do not have a tier where talking to a human is a premium feature.
GuardsPro's Android guard app sits around 3.5 stars, with store reviews reporting crashes, random clock-outs and GPS accuracy problems, and its iOS app has only a few dozen ratings (both checked July 2026). Those are exactly the failures that turn into missed patrols and disputed hours. The GuardChek app runs every day at the founder's own security company before any update reaches customers; guards there are the toughest beta testers we could ask for.
GuardsPro does offer separate private-cloud hosting, but only on its quote-only enterprise GES tier. On standard plans your data lives in the shared cloud, and GuardsPro's public materials name no hosting jurisdiction. GuardChek gives every customer, on every plan, their own private instance with its own database. Your client list, your incident reports and your guards' personal information never share a system with another company, and that is not something you have to reach an enterprise tier to get.
One more difference that matters on real sites: GuardChek includes a company-wide banned-subject database with driver's-licence barcode scanning, so a trespasser banned from one property is known to every guard at every post, with arrest reports cross-linked. Nothing like it appears in GuardsPro's public feature or add-on lists (checked July 2026). Sites with recurring troublemakers notice the difference the first week.
Tell us your guard count and we will put GuardChek's flat tier next to any per-user quote you have, live on a screen.
Book a live demoPublished base plans are $5, $8 and $10 per user per month (minimum 3 users), checked July 2026. Scheduling, site tours, payroll export, dispatch and invoicing are paid add-on modules on top, so the loaded per-user price depends on which modules you turn on. Check their live price card for current add-on figures.
Per GuardsPro's own pages, standard support is email and live chat, and 24/7 phone support is listed as a feature of the enterprise GES tier, checked July 2026.
Yes, on its enterprise GES tier, which is quote-only and hosted on a separate private cloud per their site. GuardChek includes a private instance on every plan.
It depends on headcount and modules. GuardsPro's per-user model can be cheaper for very small teams on the base plan; GuardChek's flat tiers usually win once you need the full platform or your roster grows past a couple dozen guards. Our prices are published, so you can do the math for your own company in a minute.
No. Plans are flat per tier: $449 up to 25 guards, $649 up to 50, $899 up to 100, custom above that. Hiring inside your cap never changes the bill.