Hive Inspect
Who it’s for: Solo inspectors and teams of a few inspectors who want AI help writing reports in their own words, plus booking, agreements and payments in the same account, at one price.
Strengths
- Smart Add. In the mobile app, you type or say what you found in a sentence. Hive shows up to three matching comments from your report, each with a match score. If nothing fits, AI Comment Assist drafts a new comment and files it in the right section. You approve every comment, and you can save new ones to your template. Inspectors report that Smart Add saves them 25–30 minutes per inspection.
- Every AI tool on every plan, with no usage cap. That covers Smart Add, AI Comment Assist, AI Comment Merge (combines up to three related defect comments into one) and Edit Templates with AI.
- Context Layer. Each defect gets a labeled box for the buyer: how common the defect is nationally and in your state, and how easy it usually is to repair. It is on every plan, including the 10-report pack, and you can turn it off for any template or report.
- Running the business, on the base plan. Online booking that only offers open slots, a different agreement for each service, card, ACH, Affirm and Pay at Close payments, and a report that stays locked until the client pays and signs. Also included: automations, an agent portal and repair requests for agents.
- Reports and forms. Reports in English and Spanish, and PDFs in French. Templates for Texas TREC, NPMA-33 WDI and Florida insurance forms.
- Switching in. Support moves your templates, agreements, contacts and services for you, for free, and you can import past inspections.
- Support. Customer support 7 days a week by chat, screen share, video call or email, and a person on the Hive team answers every chat. You also get a one-on-one onboarding call.
- Your clients’ data. There are no vendor offers in your client portal, and Hive doesn’t sell client data.
Limits worth knowing
- Smaller and newer than Spectora. Hive has 2,500+ inspectors against Spectora’s 12,000+. It also has fewer ratings: App Store 4.9 from 32, Google Play 5.0 from 18.
- No AI that reads photos. If you want photo-to-comment drafting, look at ISN, Palmtech or Binsr Pro.
- No installed desktop program. Desk work happens in a web browser. If you want an installed program, choose Home Inspector Pro, ScribeWare or HomeGauge.
- Calendar sync is Google only. Outlook and Apple calendars don’t sync.
- Extra seats cost more than at some rivals. An extra inspector is $69/month, against $35 at Inspector Toolbelt, $45 at TapInspect and $50 at Palmtech.
- No public API yet, and no phone support. A public API and a ChatGPT or Claude connector are coming soon. Spectora’s are live now.
Price: $99/month or $999/year per inspector, however many inspections you do. Extra inspectors are $69/month or $599/year. The new-inspector plan costs $39, $59, then $79 for the first three months, and $99 after that. A 10-report pack is $99. The new-inspector plan and the 10-report pack are for single-inspector businesses. You start with 5 free reports before any plan, and no credit card is needed.
Source: hiveinspect.com/pricing, docs.hiveinspect.com, Hive Pay at Close, checked 5 Oct 2026.
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