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£245/month
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Comparison
Q-Hub vs Qualio
Qualio describes itself as "the Agentic Compliance Platform for Life Sciences". Q-Hub is a QHSE platform for manufacturers, engineers and testing labs. The right answer depends less on features than on whether your compliance stops at quality.
Qualio is a trademark of its owner. Shown here to identify the product being compared; Q-Hub is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Compliance Report · Q1 2026Export PDF
Compliance 94% +3.2
Open NCRs 12 -5
On-time close 88% +6.1
Overdue 3 -2
Compliance trend
Compliance by site
The short answer
Read this bit and you may not need the rest of the page.
Choose Qualio if…
You make medical devices or pharmaceuticals. You need design controls, 510(k) or MDSAP submissions, and an eQMS your notified body already recognises. Qualio is built for that pathway and Q-Hub is not.
Choose Q-Hub if…
Your compliance covers quality AND health, safety and environment. You are certifying to ISO 9001 alongside ISO 45001 or 14001. You want the price before the sales call, and implementation without a separate fee.
Choose neither if…
If you need both — a life-sciences eQMS and a full QHSE system — you are looking at two platforms, and you should say so in the evaluation rather than expect either to stretch.
At a glance
Every row is checkable. Qualio’s column reflects what Qualio publishes on its own site.
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| Feature | Qualio | Q-Hub |
|---|---|---|
| What each covers | ||
Built for EvidenceQualio describes itself as "the Agentic Compliance Platform for Life Sciences". Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Life sciences — medical devices, pharma, biotech | Quality, health, safety and environment |
Health & safety module EvidenceQualio’s published module list: Documents, Design controls, Risks, Training, Change control, Audits, CAPAs and non-conformances, Suppliers, Analytics, Compliance Intelligence. No health and safety module is listed. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not in the published module list | ✓ |
Environmental management EvidenceQualio’s published module list contains no environmental management module. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not in the published module list | ✓ |
| Document control with e-signatures | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit management | ✓ | ✓ |
CAPA & non-conformance Evidence"CAPAs and non-conformances" is a named module in Qualio’s published module list. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Training records | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supplier management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commercials | ||
Published pricing EvidenceQualio’s pricing page lists three tiers — Foundation, Growth and Scale — and says "Request Pricing. Talk to us for a quote." No figures are published. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Request a quote | Yes — from £85/month |
Implementation fee EvidenceQualio’s pricing page states: "Implementation fee applies to all plans." Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Applies to all plans | None — included |
| Free trial | Not listed | 30 days, no card |
Support EvidenceQualio’s pricing page attributes dedicated customer success to its Scale tier. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Dedicated success on Scale tier | Unlimited, all plans |
| Based in | US, 80+ countries served | UK (Caldicot, Wales) |
| Where they go further | ||
Design controls / 510(k) / MDSAP EvidenceQualio lists design controls as a core module and names 510(k), MDSAP, CE and UKCA marking on its homepage. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | ✓ | ✗ |
Competitor pricing as published by each vendor. Figures marked ≈ are converted from the currency they were published in at today’s rate, for comparison only.
Competitor details read from their own published materials, last checked 2026-09-21.
Where Q-Hub is the better choice
Five differences that change the day-to-day, not a feature list.
4 letters of QHSE, one system
Safety and environment are in the same system, not a second one
- Qualio
- Not in the published module list
- Q-Hub
- Yes
Qualio’s published module list has no health and safety module and no environmental module. Run ISO 45001 or ISO 14001 alongside ISO 9001 and that is a second system and two sets of audit evidence.
£85 a month, published
You can see the price before you speak to anyone
- Qualio
- Request a quote
- Q-Hub
- Yes — from £85/month
Q-Hub publishes £85, £245 and £530 a month. Qualio’s pricing page says “Request Pricing. Talk to us for a quote.” One of those lets you build a business case without booking a call.
4 weeks to go live, included
Implementation is included, not a line item
- Qualio
- Applies to all plans
- Q-Hub
- None — included
Qualio’s pricing page states “Implementation fee applies to all plans.” Ours is included with every subscription — discovery, configuration, data migration and training. Four weeks is standard; complex rollouts run six to eight.
Unlimited support on every plan
Support has no ticket limits and no premium tier
- Qualio
- Dedicated success on Scale tier
- Q-Hub
- Unlimited, all plans
Unlimited phone, email and live chat on every plan. No ticket limits, no per-incident charges, and no premium tier to upgrade into when something breaks on a Friday afternoon.
30 days free, no card
You can try it without a conversation
- Qualio
- Not listed
- Q-Hub
- 30 days, no card
A 30-day free trial, no credit card required. Qualio’s pricing page does not list a trial, so evaluating it starts with a conversation.
The half that is not in the module list
Qualio publishes no health and safety module. This is what sits in that gap: a near miss captured on a phone, triaged on the safety board, and closed through the same CAPA register as a quality non-conformance.
Safety · Live incidents 3 open
High Near miss — forklift vs racking Workshop B just now
Med Slip hazard — spill not signed Warehouse 2 12m
Low PPE observation — no goggles Line 4 1h
Incidents this month · 47
New Incident
Offline
Low Med High
Location · GPS Workshop B — Loading Bay 3
Description Near miss — forklift contact with racking during unloading
Photos
Submit Incident Report
Synced to dashboard
Where Qualio is the better choice
Three cases where we would tell you to buy Qualio, because a comparison page that never concedes anything is not worth reading.
You are a medical device manufacturer
- Qualio
- Yes
- Q-Hub
- No
Qualio lists design controls as a core module and names 510(k), MDSAP, CE and UKCA marking on its homepage. That is a regulatory pathway, not a feature, and Q-Hub does not serve it. Our medical-device work is with manufacturers running ISO 13485 as a quality system, not firms preparing submissions.
You need a validated system for GxP
If your auditor expects formal computer-system validation, Q-Hub does not claim it. We do not market 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, IQ/OQ/PQ, GAMP 5 or ALCOA+, and we would rather say so here than in week three of an implementation.
You are a global life-sciences business
- Qualio
- US, 80+ countries served
- Q-Hub
- UK (Caldicot, Wales)
Qualio states it serves 500+ companies in 80+ countries. Q-Hub is a UK company with UK-based support, and most of our customers are UK and Ireland manufacturers. If you need follow-the-sun coverage across eight time zones, weigh that honestly.
What you would actually pay
Set your team size and see the Q-Hub price. Qualio does not publish figures, so nothing on their side is estimated — their column quotes their own pricing page.
Qualio
Request a quote
Published pricing is not available, so the figure depends on a quote.
- Implementation: Applies to all plans
- Free trial: Not listed
Q-Hub figures are our published prices. Qualio does not publish prices, so nothing is estimated on their side — their column quotes their own pricing page, read 2026-09-21.
Four weeks, start to finish
The implementation the pricing card describes — discovery, configuration, migration and training, included with every subscription.
Feature deep-dive
Both platforms run documents, audits, CAPAs, training, risk and suppliers. On a feature checklist they look close. The difference is scope.
Qualio’s published modules cover the regulated product pathway, and cover it well. They do not include health and safety or environment. Run ISO 45001 or ISO 14001 alongside ISO 9001 and that is a second system, a second supplier, and a reconciliation job every time an auditor asks how an incident led to a corrective action.
Q-Hub was built around all four letters of QHSE, so an audit finding, a near miss and a supplier non-conformance land in one CAPA register.
- Configuration that is not scoped to one sector
- Safety and environment in the same system as quality
- One audit programme across ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001
- One CAPA register for every finding, wherever it came from
NCR Corrective Action · workflowLive
Auto-escalation · overdue > 24h → Head of QHSE
Switching from Qualio
What a move actually involves, based on how we run every migration.
What comes across
Documents, training records, asset registers and audit data. Folder structures, metadata and access permissions are mapped with your team rather than flattened into one library. Our implementation team has migrated document libraries with tens of thousands of files.
Run both for a while
Most customers run the old and new systems in parallel for two to four weeks before switching off. Nobody is asked to cut over on a Friday and hope.
Configured to your processes
Q-Hub is configured to match your organisational structure, workflows and approval routes — not the other way around. Your existing document numbering and naming conventions are audited in week one so they carry over.
What we cannot promise
We have not migrated a Qualio tenant end to end and will not pretend otherwise. Ask us for the specifics of your export format on the call and we will tell you what we know and what we would need to test.
Trusted by compliance teams worldwide
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“Qhub provides a visible, intuitive way to manage data and workflows, revolutionising our approach to operations”
Fowlers of Bristol (Engineers) Ltd
Operations director
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“Qhub helps us to... proactively use our QMS... and increase efficiency”
Anglia Cathodic Protection Services
Business manager
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“Really made a difference with providing compliance during audits – both regulatory, customer, and internal.”
Auxitrol Weston
Quality manager
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“QHub has supported us in achieving a higher compliance rate.”
BMC Analysis
Technical Manager/ Quality Manage
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“We can't believe how fast we were able to get it up and running.”
Cawood Group
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“Managing NCRs are now so much easier”
Enviromesh
Quality manager
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“Where was this 2 years ago... we're blown away”
Jaltek
Compliance manager for Jaltek
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“Qhub has improved our safety management system no end, making it very efficient”
Rocal Endurance Doors
Compliance manager
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“We use it for as much as possible.”
Scottish Leather Group
Compliance manager
Integrations
Connects with the tools you already use
Q-Hub connects to your existing tools via REST API, webhooks and SSO, with bespoke connectors on request. More integrations coming soon.
Microsoft 365
SharePoint
Teams
Slack
Google Workspace
Power BI
Jira
SAP
Salesforce
Enterprise Security
Your data is safe with us
Each certification and commitment, with the detail behind it.
ISO 27001 Independently audited information security management, certified to ISO/IEC 27001.
Cyber Essentials UK Government-backed certification against the most common cyber attacks.
GDPR Compliant Full compliance with UK & EU data protection law.
99.9% Uptime SLA Guaranteed platform availability, backed by our SLA.
UK Data Centres All customer data hosted in ISO 27001-certified UK data centres.
Frequently asked questions
It depends what you need. Q-Hub supports ISO 13485 as a quality management system and we work with device manufacturers running it that way. If you need design controls, 510(k) or MDSAP submission support, Qualio is built for that and we are not.
Not for validated GxP environments. We do not claim 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, GAMP 5 validation or IQ/OQ/PQ documentation. If your auditor expects formal computer-system validation, stay with a life-sciences eQMS.
Health, safety and environmental management in the same system as quality. Qualio's published modules cover quality and regulatory; there is no H&S or environmental module listed. If you certify to ISO 45001 or ISO 14001 alongside ISO 9001, Q-Hub keeps that evidence in one place.
Q-Hub publishes its prices: £85, £245 and £530 a month, with Enterprise quoted, and implementation included. Qualio does not publish figures — its pricing page lists Foundation, Growth and Scale tiers and asks you to request a quote, and states that an implementation fee applies to all plans. We cannot tell you what Qualio would charge you; only they can.
Documents, training records, asset registers and audit data all migrate, with folder structures, metadata and permissions mapped rather than flattened. We have not run a Qualio-specific migration end to end, so bring your export format to the call and we will tell you exactly what transfers and what needs checking.
Yes. Q-Hub is built and supported from Caldicot in Wales, and unlimited phone, email and live chat support is included on every plan with no ticket limits or premium tiers.
Yes — the three standards share a harmonised ten-clause structure, which is why BSI, the UK national standards body, runs them as a single integrated management system: “an integrated management system for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001”. Q-Hub runs all three as one audit programme, so a finding closes once against whichever standard it belongs to instead of being re-entered somewhere else. Qualio is built for the regulated product pathway, so health and safety and environment sit outside its published module list entirely.
See it against your own processes
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