Solo
Independent assessor
£79 /month
1 assessor included
- 5 report credits per month
- Unwatermarked PDFs + AI drafting
- Action register + 1 free reviewer seat
Head to head
FRA Flow vs FireHub: which fits your FRA workflow?
Both products digitise UK fire risk assessments, and both were designed around how assessors actually work. The differences are methodology (BS 9792:2025 vs PAS 79), capture devices, what happens between capture and an issued report, and how each is priced. This page compares them dimension by dimension.
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- Dimension by dimension
- Pricing as of June 2026
- Honest about trade-offs
At a glance
The six dimensions that decide it.
01
Methodology
FireHub: fully PAS 79 compliant, with pre-populated common responses. FRA Flow: BS 9792:2025, the current British Standard for housing FRAs, from the data model up.
02
Building types
FireHub: general building types under PAS 79. FRA Flow: housing only, by design (blocks of flats, HMOs, sheltered, care, student, mixed-use).
03
Capture devices
FireHub: tablet app on iOS and Android with offline working; not suitable for phones per their FAQs. FRA Flow: phone and tablet, offline capable on both.
04
Report production
FireHub: pre-populated responses, your logo and the client's on reports, wording changes applied by their team on request. FRA Flow: evidence-linked AI drafting, self-serve templates, per-landlord branding profiles.
05
QA and sign-off
FireHub: managers monitor report progress; no reviewer sign-off workflow in their public materials. FRA Flow: exception-led reviewer queue, change diffs, recorded sign-off with timestamp and content hash.
06
Client delivery
FireHub: web portal with unlimited client logins, significant findings as an action plan, tasks assignable to colleagues and contractors. FRA Flow: branded BS 9792 PDF plus a tracked action plan per landlord.
Methodology
BS 9792:2025 versus PAS 79.
The clearest difference is the standard each product is shaped around. FireHub describes its assessments as fully PAS 79 compliant. PAS 79 served as the UK's de facto FRA methodology for two decades, but for housing it has been superseded: BS 9792:2025 is now the British Standard for fire risk assessment in housing, replacing PAS 79-2. FRA Flow is built on BS 9792 from the data model up: the capture prompts, the report skeleton, and the issued output all follow the current standard.
If your portfolio is housing, this is the difference to weigh first, because it determines the shape of every report you issue from here on. If your portfolio spans non-housing building types, PAS 79-1 remains the relevant methodology and FireHub's generality is a genuine advantage; FRA Flow does not cover offices, retail, or industrial premises. The PAS 79 vs BS 9792 guide covers the housing transition in detail.
Workflow
From site visit to issued report.
On site, the products are closer than they are apart. Both capture observations and photographs with offline support and upload when back on connectivity. The practical differences are device policy (FireHub is tablet-only, while the FRA Flow app runs on phones and tablets) and how much structure capture imposes: FRA Flow's capture is BS 9792-shaped, so observations land in the sections the report needs them in.
After the visit, the products diverge. FireHub speeds up report writing with pre-populated common responses chosen during the assessment. FRA Flow generates draft narrative with AI, and every drafted paragraph links back to the photo, observation, or risk score that produced it, so a reviewer can verify rather than trust. The drafting never signs anything off; the competent person does.
At issue time, FireHub publishes the report to its client portal. FRA Flow routes the draft through a reviewer queue first: exceptions surfaced, changes diffed against the previous assessment, sign-off recorded with a timestamp and content hash, and then a per-landlord branded PDF and action plan are issued. If reviewer discipline is part of how you defend reports under the Fire Safety Order 2005, this is the structural difference between the two products.
Pricing compared
Two different models, priced for different jobs.
FireHub's published pricing, as of June 2026: pay-per-use report credits at £13 plus VAT each (a credit is used when a report is viewed in the portal or sent to a client), an Individual plan at £140 per month for one user with unlimited reports, a Medium plan at £380 per month for six users, and a Large plan at £580 per month for ten users. The first report is free. FRA Flow prices per assessor with pooled report credits: Free (£0, two reports a month), Solo at £79 per month with five reports, Practice at £249 plus £49 per assessor, Consultancy at £499 plus £79 per assessor, and Enterprise from £1,500. Reviewer and admin seats are free on every paid tier. Full detail on the [pricing page](/pricing/).
Practice
Small consultancies, 2–10 assessors
£249 /month
+ £49 /month
- 8 report credits per assessor
- Unlimited free reviewer + admin seats
- Client branding profiles + QA workflow
Consultancy
Multi-landlord teams, 10–25 assessors
£499 /month
+ £79 /month
- 15 report credits per assessor
- Per-landlord branding + multi-client dashboard
- Priority support + bulk report packs
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25+ assessors, SSO, or a custom integration?
Enterprise plans start from £1,500 / month and include a named CSM, SLA, and custom domains.
The verdict
Choose by portfolio shape and bottleneck.
01
Choose FireHub if your portfolio spans non-housing building types, you want flat unlimited-reports pricing at high volume, or your clients are embedded in its portal workflow.02
Choose FireHub if you assess only occasionally and £13 pay-per-use credits beat any subscription for your volume.03
Choose FRA Flow if your work concentrates in UK housing and you want BS 9792:2025 as the default shape of every assessment.04
Choose FRA Flow if your bottleneck is post-visit drafting and review, you need recorded competent-person sign-off, or your assessors capture on phones as well as tablets.05
Choose FRA Flow if you want self-serve control of templates and per-landlord branding rather than sending wording amendments to the vendor to apply.Run it yourself
The same-building test settles it.
Both products let you try before committing: FireHub offers a free first report, and FRA Flow's free tier includes two reports a month with no card required. Pick one block from your portfolio, run the same assessment in both end to end, and compare the issued outputs side by side: time taken, report shape against the standard you need, the audit trail behind each finding, and what the QA step actually consisted of. For a guided version of that on a portfolio sized like yours, book a demo.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask before they commit to a new workflow.
FAQ 01
Is FireHub the same as Firebase?
No. Firebase is Google's app development platform for software engineers. FireHub (firehub.co.uk) is UK fire risk assessment software from a Derbyshire-based company. They are unrelated products with confusingly similar names. This page compares FRA Flow with FireHub, the fire risk assessment tool.
FAQ 02
Does FireHub support BS 9792:2025?
As of June 2026, FireHub's public site describes its reports as fully PAS 79 compliant and does not mention BS 9792. If that changes we will update this page. FRA Flow is built on BS 9792:2025 from the data model up, which is the current British Standard for housing fire risk assessments.
FAQ 03
Which is better value for a sole trader?
It depends on volume and where your time goes. At high report volumes with no need for drafting or review support, FireHub's £140 per month unlimited plan is hard to beat on the subscription line. If post-visit writing is where your evenings go, FRA Flow Solo at £79 per month prices in evidence-linked drafting and a sign-off trail. Both have free entry points, so the cheapest evaluation is to run one real FRA in each. Full tiers on the pricing page.
FAQ 04
Can FRA Flow import our historical FireHub reports?
No, and we do not recommend trying to migrate historical records between any FRA systems. The working pattern is operational: historical FireHub reports stay in your existing records, and FRA Flow takes new assessments and annual reviews from your start date. Most tablet-first assessors are oriented in about a day.
FAQ 05
Where does each product store its data?
FRA Flow runs everything, including database, file storage, and AI inference, in UK or EU regions only; details are on the security page. FireHub does not state hosting regions in its public materials as of June 2026, so ask them directly as part of your evaluation if data residency matters to your clients.
FAQ 06
Is AI drafting a liability risk in fire safety reports?
AI in FRA Flow accelerates drafting but never signs off. Every AI-generated paragraph is editable, auditable, and traceable to the photo, observation, or risk score that produced it, and the competent person signs the report. FireHub does not advertise AI drafting; its speed-up comes from pre-populated common responses. Both approaches leave responsibility with the assessor.
Run the same building through both and compare the issued reports.
Book a demo or start free. We are happy to be compared side by side with FireHub on a real housing FRA.