Elec-Mate vs SpeedCert

SpeedCert is trade software pitching speed — "EICR certificates 3x faster" — and aggressive pricing. Its strategy is breadth: the site lists 100+ certificate templates spanning electrical, fire, plumbing/gas and even healthcare, alongside jobs and scheduling, CRM, quotes and invoices, unified messaging, a customer portal, fire log books, mixed-trade calculators (heat pump design, plumbing sizing, electrical references) and AI features including Vapi-powered AI phone calls and an AI workspace.

Pricing runs from a free tier (unlimited records, basic PDF export) through £1 pay-as-you-go certificates to a £10/month Pro plan with unlimited AI and team collaboration, all with a 7-day trial and no card required.

SpeedCert's strengths: price, and the lowest-risk way to try digital certificates that exists — the free tier costs nothing. For an electrician doing occasional certificates on a tight budget, that is a genuine offer.

Elec-Mate is the UK electrician platform built for depth in daily use: 16 certificate types kept current to BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 (including the AFDD recommendation and domestic lighting RCD fields), an AI layer that does real site work — Board Scanner photographs the consumer unit and fills the circuit schedule, Voice Test Entry takes readings while your hands hold the leads, Defect Code AI writes coded observations with the regulation cited, and the Remedial Cost Estimator prices the fixes from live UK trade data.

Around that sit 70+ BS 7671 calculators, unlimited AI RAMS, quoting and invoicing with Stripe payments and Xero sync, and a training centre with 46+ courses, 20,000+ practice questions and free mock exams for the 18th Edition, 2391 and AM2. £19.99/month flat, 7-day free trial.

On a pricing-page checklist, SpeedCert and Elec-Mate now look similar: both list certificates, jobs, quotes, invoices and AI. Checklists are where the similarity ends, and we would say that about any comparison — including ours. The questions that separate platforms only show up in use:

Does the AI fill a 12-way board's schedule from one photo, or assist with fields? Does "voice" mean spoken test readings landing in the schedule, or an AI receptionist answering the phone? Do the calculators carry the full Appendix 4 tables with grouping and derating for BS 7671, or spread across heat pumps and plumbing? Is the training a syllabus with 20,000 questions and mock exams, or a tutorial library about the software? And who keeps 100+ templates across four industries current when one amendment lands — because keeping 16 electrical certificates true to A4:2026 is a full-time discipline on its own.

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Elec-Mate's depth is verifiable before you pay: the mock exams are free on this site, the calculators show their BS 7671 workings, and the trial includes every feature with no card. We invite exactly the scrutiny we apply.

SpeedCert: free tier; £1 per certificate pay-as-you-go; Pro at £10/month with unlimited AI (see speed-cert.com for current terms). On raw price, SpeedCert is the cheapest AI-certification offer in the UK market.

Elec-Mate: £19.99/month flat. The £10 difference buys the depth above — the board scanner, voice entry, defect citations, remedial pricing, the full calculator suite, unlimited RAMS and the qualification training centre.

If price is the deciding factor and the depth doesn't matter to your work, SpeedCert is the rational choice and this page will not pretend otherwise. Our bet is that a week on real jobs makes the depth matter.