Sobriety Hub alternative: pricing and fit compared

Sobriety Hub says it is “purpose built from the ground up specifically for sober living owners and managers,” with customers “ranging from less than 10 beds to 450+ beds,” and that its team currently operates Dutton House Sober Living in Austin, Texas. Everything below is as listed on their website in October 2026, checked on October 15, 2026.

• Residents and houses: a timeline of each resident's UAs, meetings, notes and milestones; infractions, overnight passes, chores, medications and legal history; plus maintenance requests, bed management and room assignments. (features page ↗)
• Payments: credit, debit or ACH through a Stripe connected account, automated invoicing, weekly or monthly autopay, and reminders by email, SMS and in-app notification. (payments page ↗)
• Forms and outcomes: e-signed custom forms with conditional logic, or forms its team builds for you; an Insights module covering length of stay, discharges, relapse and readmission, and probation and parole outcomes.
• Resident app: free for all Sobriety Hub customers, on iOS and Android. Residents pay fees, complete forms, log meetings (“Meeting Attendance with GPS Verification”), chores, check-ins and mood, and use direct messages and house group chats. (resident app page ↗)
• Also listed: AI search across resident records, a public listing called Sobriety Hub Connect, audit trails, and support by text and email from a dedicated account manager.
• Security: its FAQ says “Sobriety Hub Software is HIPAA compliant,” with data on an encrypted AWS database and a published Data Protection Addendum. (FAQ ↗)

We describe Sobriety Hub only from its public website; its demo is the best source on any detail.

Sobriety Hub publishes its prices, which makes a fair comparison easy. Its pricing page ↗ says it is “priced by how many staff or house managers you have,” with “no charge per bed, house or resident, and no long-term contract.” As listed on their website in October 2026:

• Full staff user: $75 a month, or $65 a month paid annually ($780 a year). For owners, directors and anyone who needs outcomes, reports or billing.
• Client-manager user: $25 a month, or $20 a month paid annually ($240 a year). For house managers. Its FAQ says a client manager manages one house and its current residents, with view-only forms and payments, and no outcomes or incoming and discharged residents.
• Resident users: free.
• Onboarding: a one-time $250 fee covering form building, migrating your resident data, payment setup and two onboarding meetings.
• Processing fees: 3.9% per card payment and 1.2% per ACH payment, added to the resident's payment by default; operators can choose to absorb them.
• Terms: month-to-month, cancel any time with no penalty. No free trial.
• Larger accounts: enterprise pricing above 15 staff, and a Pro version at $200 a month that its FAQ says applies to “a small subset of advanced-usage customers.”

So the price does not change with beds or houses, only with staff logins.

If Sobriety Hub is working for you and the bill makes sense, staying is a reasonable choice. Sobriety Hub may be the better fit if:

• You want messaging in the resident app. Sobriety Hub lists direct messages and house group chats. Sober Living Companion has announcements to everyone in your organization, not direct messages or group chats.
• You want onboarding done for you. The $250 fee covers building your forms, migrating your data and two onboarding meetings.
• You need a vendor that states HIPAA compliance. Sobriety Hub's FAQ says it is HIPAA compliant. Sober Living Companion is not an EHR and makes no HIPAA compliance claim.
• You have one staff login. One full user is $75 a month, or $65 on annual billing, close to our $60. At that size the real difference is the $250 onboarding fee.
• You rely on features it lists such as maintenance requests, AI search or its Connect listing. Check anything you rely on in our demo before you decide.

When operators compare Sobriety Hub with other software, a common question is how the published price grows with their team. Each point below follows from Sobriety Hub's own pricing page and FAQ.

1. Each manager is a seat. Sobriety Hub's FAQ says that if different managers run different houses, “each manager would just have their own Client Manager account.” With Sober Living Companion, managers are free and unlimited, and you choose which houses each one sees.
2. Seat types matter. Sobriety Hub's FAQ describes a client manager as covering one house, so by our reading a manager who covers two houses or handles intake would need a $75 full seat. Confirm with Sobriety Hub for your setup.
3. Getting started. Sobriety Hub has a $250 onboarding fee and no free trial. We have no setup fee, and the first month is free with code FIRSTMONTHFREE.
4. Processing fees. Sobriety Hub lists 3.9% for cards and 1.2% for ACH. With us, card payments run through your own Stripe account, we take no platform fee, and Stripe's standard fee applies (2.9% + 30¢ per domestic card payment, as listed on stripe.com in October 2026). The home absorbs it by default, or you can add it to the resident's card payment where your state allows card surcharges (never on debit cards). On an $800 card payment, 3.9% is $31.20 and 2.9% + 30¢ is $23.50; by ACH on Sobriety Hub, 1.2% is $9.60.

One house, the owner is the only login

Two houses, an owner and two house managers

Six houses, two directors and six house managers

For a single-login home the gap is $15 a month plus the onboarding fee; it widens with every staff login. Redo the math with your own team using our pricing page and Sobriety Hub's.

1. Export from Sobriety Hub. Its FAQ says “resident data, form submissions, and payment records can all be exported as CSV files.” Export all three, including discharged residents. The FAQ does not describe a bulk download of uploaded documents, so ask Sobriety Hub support how to get those files out.
2. Send it to us. Email info@empowernextproject.org or call (916) 877-6237. A person goes through the files with you, and you can book a free onboarding call.
3. We import it. Current residents go on your roster in the right house; discharged residents stay on record. Payment history comes over where your CSV includes it, and documents you download can be attached to each resident's record.
4. Rebuild your forms. Send the agreements you use now. A PDF agreement can become a reusable e-signature template, and your intake questions become your online application link.
5. Set up money. Connect a Stripe account you already have, or create one, so card payments go straight to you. Set each resident's weekly or monthly fee.
6. Residents join. Each resident downloads the free app and enters the house join code or opens the join link.
7. Check, then cancel. Compare the imported records with Sobriety Hub before you cancel.

A roster import is often done the same day; years of payment history or many houses take longer.

What comes with you

Residents, current and discharged, with houses, dates and contact details; payment history from your CSV; and documents you download. Anything not in an export does not move.

What changes

• Saved cards and autopay do not transfer. Residents enter their card again in the new app.
• Messaging becomes announcements. If your houses run on group chats or direct messages, plan another channel for those.
• Outcome reporting restarts. Dates come over with your roster, but outcome questionnaires and follow-ups start when you enroll residents (a campaign can enroll everyone automatically). Download any Sobriety Hub reports you need for a grant first.

Checklist before you switch

1. Export everything first and keep a copy offline.
2. Check your billing. Sobriety Hub's FAQ says you can cancel any time with no penalty. If you paid annually, ask how the rest of the year is handled; the FAQ doesn't say.
3. Overlap for a few weeks. The first month with us is free with code FIRSTMONTHFREE, so running both costs nothing on our side.
4. Turn off Sobriety Hub autopay before the first rent date in the new app, so no resident is charged twice.
5. Pick a start date and one house to go first, tell residents, and let that manager learn the app before the rest follow.
6. Check privacy requirements. If a funder or your counsel requires a vendor HIPAA commitment, settle that before you move records.