Who owns your inspection software in 2026?

If it feels like every inspection platform has the same owner lately, you’re not imagining it. In the span of a few years, the software market for home inspectors has consolidated from a field of independent vendors into a handful of portfolios. Here’s the ownership map as of August 2026 — plain facts with dates, because who owns your software determines who sets your bill.

The map

• Spectora + HomeGauge — one company now. Spectora announced its acquisition of HomeGauge on April 1, 2025. Spectora itself took a majority investment from Radian Capital, a New York private-equity firm, around 2022; co-founder Kevin Wagstaff has since exited and discussed the sale publicly. HomeGauge, for its part, had already been through one ownership change — American Family Insurance bought it in 2021, then sold it to Spectora.
• Home Inspector Pro + ISN — both owned by Porch Group. Porch (NASDAQ: PRCH) acquired Home Inspector Pro in 2022 and also owns Inspection Support Network, the dominant scheduling back office.
• Still independent: a short list — Tap Inspect and ReportHost among the long-standing ones, and newer founder-owned entrants like InspectrPlus.

Why this matters for your bill

None of this is a scandal — companies get bought and sold. But consolidation has a well-known economic consequence: when the two biggest platforms in a niche become one company, the pressure that kept prices honest disappears. Private-equity owners, in particular, buy software businesses because subscription customers with high switching costs can absorb price increases. That’s not cynicism; it’s the stated playbook of the model.

You can already see the structure of it. Spectora’s base plan is $109/month (or $1,090/year prepaid) as of June 2026, with automation priced separately at $3–4 per published inspection, websites at $699–$1,599/year, and card processing on top. Every one of those line items is a dial, and after a merger there’s one hand on all the dials. If you’re a HomeGauge customer, the question isn’t whether your product changes — it’s what happens to your renewal price once the integration settles. We ran the full cost math in our software-cost breakdown.

Questions worth asking your vendor this year

• What did my total bill — base plus add-ons plus processing — come to over the last 12 months, and what will the same usage cost next year?
• Is my plan’s price guaranteed for any period, in writing?
• If the product I bought is merged into another one, do I keep my pricing?
• Can I export my clients, contacts, and reports without a fee?

Where InspectrPlus stands

We’re on the short independent list, and the pricing follows from that: $34.99/month flat — unlimited inspections and reports, AI report writing, scheduling, agreements, invoicing and payments, mileage, and a bookable business website, all included. No per-inspection fees, no add-on tiers, no investor with a spreadsheet full of dials. If you’re re-evaluating after the merger, the Spectora comparison and the HomeGauge comparison are the honest, dated versions of the pitch — and our migration field notes cover what switching actually involves.