Honest comparison
For a RAMS, CPP and toolbox-talks bundle, The Site Book is the cheapest citable option in this comparison: Starter £0, Pro £39/month or £360/year, Business £199/month, and optional setup is £249 one-off for one job, not a subscription. Haspod Pro is the nearest annual-upfront bundle at £997/year; RAMS-only tools are not full bundles.
This is a bundle-price comparison, not a feature bake-off - ranked by the monthly-equivalent cost of buying RAMS plus CPP plus toolbox talks as a single line item. The Site Book wins outright at £360 a year, equivalent to £30 a month, or £39 on monthly billing. Haspod Pro Plan comes second at about £83 a month equivalent (£997 a year, annual upfront) and genuinely bundles Documents, Training, and Talks. HandsHQ publishes RAMS pricing, but the bundle fit depends on annual plans and team needs. Evalu-8 is modular EHS with a published GBP295/month RAMS module (bundling risk assessments and COSHH) on top of core EHS, only worth it if you need its wider EHS platform beyond the three-item bundle.
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Based on publicly available vendor pricing reviewed 2026-05-29. Bundle maths computed from published headline prices where available.
Pricing, fit, and feature coverage side by side.
| Feature | The Site Book | Haspod | HandsHQ | Evalu-8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Starter £0; Pro £39/mo or £360/yr; Business £199/mo | £799/yr (annual upfront) | £44-£190/mo individual; teams from £275/mo | Core GBP2.50/licence/mo (min 10); RAMS module GBP295/mo |
| Team size | 1 internal user on Pro; up to 5 internal logins and 25 active site portal users on Business | 1–50 | 10+ | 50+ |
| Best for | Small UK builders who need CDM documents plus lightweight site H&S operations: RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, toolbox talks, site attendance, site files, document review evidence, subcontractor evidence and worker/visitor portal access. | Small-to-mid UK businesses (sole trader up to ~50 users) that prefer browsing a 800+ template library and customizing by hand, and are comfortable with annual-only upfront commitments. Documents / Training / Talks are sold as separate annual subscriptions or bundled in the Pro Plan. | Mid-to-large contractors (10+ people) with a dedicated health and safety manager who need enterprise-grade team collaboration, approval workflows, and a curated template library. | Large contractors and enterprise teams with 50+ people who need a broad EHS platform covering compliance, training, audits, and incident management. |
| Not ideal for | New product (launched 2025) -smaller customer base and shorter track record than established tools like HandsHQ. | Annual-only billing with no monthly option and no automatic renewal -every plan requires a £799+VAT upfront commitment for 12 months, which is a heavy lift for sole traders testing the product. | Pricing starts at £44/mo for Basic with 1 RAMS; Advanced is £99/mo for 3 RAMS, Pro is £190/mo for 6 RAMS, and Small Team starts from £275/mo billed annually plus setup. | The RAMS module is GBP295/mo on top of core EHS (GBP2.50/licence/mo, 10-user minimum) -heavy for a sole trader who only needs RAMS, and most other add-on modules are still quote-only on the pricing page. |
| RAMS | AI-generated, site-specific, edit in-browser. | Via template library | Template library with editor. | Module within wider EHS platform. |
| CPP | Full Construction Phase Plans - not just RAMS. | Template | ||
| COSHH | Standalone COSHH document + site-specific register, SDS upload with extraction, and an expert-reviewed substance library. | Template | ||
| Method statements | Template library | |||
| Site inductions | Workers sign from their phone - key H&S details readable in 9 languages. | Training Plan add-on | ||
| Multilingual inductions (9 languages) | Workers read and acknowledge key H&S details in 9 languages; the language used is recorded in the audit trail and translations are site-team reviewable. | — | — | — |
| Worker cert tracking | Cert plus right-to-work evidence records, with expiry reminders. | |||
| Incident log | ||||
| Permits to work | Template only | |||
| Site diary | ||||
| Subcontractor tracking | ||||
| Toolbox talks | Talks Plan add-on | |||
| Site attendance | Business includes check-in/check-out and live H&S attendance. | — | Can be covered by configured EHS workflows. | |
| Site portal | Business includes up to 25 active site portal users. | — | ||
| Site files | Drawings, plans, H&S docs, procedures, RAMS, CPP and emergency information. | — | RAMS/project files, not a small-builder site portal. | Documents can sit in broader EHS modules. |
| Document review | Business document status, reviewer notes and review history. | — | Approval workflows on team-led plans. | Workflow capability depends on quoted modules. |
| Subcontractor evidence | Business evidence record, review and archive workflow. | — | ||
| Site inspections | Business inspections with checklist items. | — | Audits and inspections are core EHS modules. | |
| Corrective actions | Business corrective actions with owner, due date and completion state. | — | Actions are part of the broader EHS platform. | |
| PCPP import | Upload an existing PCPP and reuse the structure. | |||
| Document checking | ||||
| Data export | Includes the Audit Pack: one merged, audit-ready compliance-evidence PDF. | PDF/DOC download | ||
| AI chat | ||||
| RAMS / CPP / COSHH generation | The flagship: generates site-specific UK RAMS, CPP and COSHH from a plain-English brief. | — | — | — |
| Right to work | Right-to-work evidence records with expiry reminders, alongside cert tracking. | — | — | — |
| Mobile app | Workers sign and get inducted from their phone browser with nothing to install; a native builder app is in development, not yet in the public app stores. | — | — | — |
| QR / mobile sign-in | Site Control (per-site tier) adds a permanent entrance QR for sign-in/out from the worker's phone. | — | — | — |
| Contractor self-onboarding | Site Control (per-site tier) adds contractor self-join via the entrance QR with CSCS upload and approval. | — | — | — |
| RFIs | Site Control (per-site tier) adds RFIs - create, attach, comment, answer and close. | — | — | — |
Most compare pages rank on features. This one ranks on the bill. If you already know you want RAMS plus CPP plus toolbox talks as a single bundle, the right question is what the monthly-equivalent cost actually looks like - not which tool has the longest feature list. That framing rules out vendors who sell the three products separately (most RAMS-only tools) and vendors who refuse to publish any figures at all (HandsHQ). What's left is a short list with real numbers attached.
At-a-glance fit per product - pulled from the same data that drives the snapshot table.
Pick the option that matches how your team actually works.
If you want to pay monthly and keep the option to cancel, The Site Book at £39 a month is the clearest full CDM bundle for small builders. That one bill covers RAMS, CPP, COSHH, site inductions, and toolbox talks - no separate line items, no annual lock-in. The annual Pro option is £360 a year, equivalent to £30 a month.
Recommended for: Monthly flexibility - cancel-any-time, no annual commitment
If you're willing to pay for twelve months upfront, Haspod Pro Plan at £997 a year (roughly £83 a month equivalent) is the second-cheapest genuine bundle. It combines Documents, Training, and Talks - the three-item bundle most RAMS buyers actually want. The catch is the annual cheque up front and a template-browsing workflow rather than AI-generated site-specific documents.
Recommended for: Annual upfront - happy to pay a year in advance for a lower effective rate
Strengths, weaknesses, fit, and the sources every claim came from.
The Site Book Ltd
Starter £0; Pro £39/mo or £360/yr; Business £199/mo
Haspod Ltd
£799/yr (annual upfront)
HandsHQ, part of HSI
£44-£190/mo individual; teams from £275/mo
Evalu-8 EHS
Core GBP2.50/licence/mo (min 10); RAMS module GBP295/mo
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Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
Genuine bundles start at £360 a year with The Site Book, equivalent to £30 a month, or £39 if you pay monthly. Haspod's Pro Plan at around £997 a year works out at roughly £83 a month equivalent. Evalu-8 is modular EHS - its RAMS module is a published GBP295 a month on top of core EHS. Anything below that annual-equivalent price is almost certainly a RAMS-only tool rather than a real three-item bundle.
Yes, but it rarely works out cheaper once you add toolbox talks and site inductions on top. Tools like CDM Wizard and Pcpp generators sell CPP in isolation, and template packs offer standalone RAMS. Once you stitch three separate products together, the total bill usually beats a single bundle. Bundle pricing exists because the overlap between RAMS, CPP, and talks is large enough that vendors can sell them together profitably.
A full CDM 2015 bundle should ship RAMS and method statements, a construction phase plan, COSHH assessments, site induction records, and toolbox talks - plus the audit trail that proves workers signed them. The Site Book bundles all of those at £39 a month or £360 a year. Haspod Pro bundles Documents, Training, and Talks. Evalu-8 covers the same ground inside a wider EHS platform, with a published GBP295/month RAMS module on top of core EHS.
Annual billing usually looks cheaper on paper but ties your cash up for twelve months. Haspod Pro at £997 a year beats its effective per-month rate only if you use it for the whole year. The Site Book Pro is £39 monthly, or £360 annually, which is £30/month equivalent. If cancel-any-time matters, monthly is cheaper in practice because you pay only while you need the tool.
No. The setup service is optional and separate from software pricing. It is a £249 one-off, not a subscription, and covers The Site Book paperwork for one job so the first pack is prepared for review. Ongoing access stays on the software plan: Starter £0, Pro £39/month or £360/year, or Business £199/month.
Based on publicly available vendor pricing reviewed 2026-05-29. Bundle maths computed from published headline prices where available.
Every pricing, feature, and fit claim in this comparison is pulled from public vendor documentation and cross-checked against independent sources. The “source basis” footer on each product card lists the exact URLs and the date we fetched them. We revisit this page at least every 90 days - last reviewed on .