Short answer: on the published monthly prices Tervita is cheaper than SalonLife at every band SalonLife publishes - 11 euros against 29 for one specialist, 55 against 99 for five. Two things run the other way: SalonLife's SMS is slightly cheaper, and SalonLife offers annual prepay while Tervita does not. Past five staff SalonLife's public page stops saying anything at all; Tervita names a number and stops rising at it.
What was actually checked here
SalonLife's public pricing page on 5 August 2026 consisted of exactly five bands ordered by staff count: one employee at 29 euros a month, two at 49, three at 69, four at 89 and five at 99 euros a month. Paid annually, the same five bands come to 20.75, 33.25, 45.75, 58.25 and 66.59 euros a month. The page states plainly that VAT is added, and describes every band as unlimited on appointments, clients and products. SMS is billed separately at 0.084 euros. The trial runs 14 days.
Tervita's public pricing is a single plan: 11 euros a month per bookable specialist, with a ceiling of 88 euros a month from eight specialists upward. Every feature and every location sits inside that price, VAT is added, and the trial is 14 days without a card. A paid seat means a bookable calendar - an administrator or receptionist gets access free and with no cap on numbers.
The comparison rests on SalonLife's public page and on Tervita's actual product code. It is not an audit of a SalonLife account. Where the precise boundary of a feature is not visible on the public page, confirm it in their demo before buying - and the same rule applies to Tervita.
How the gap moves as the team grows
At one person the gap is at its sharpest: 11 euros on Tervita against 29 on SalonLife, close to threefold. At two specialists it is 22 against 49, at three 33 against 69, at four 44 against 89 and at five 55 against 99 euros a month. Across the whole published range the ratio stays near double.
Annual prepay narrows the gap without reversing it. SalonLife's annual rate for a single employee is 20.75 euros a month against Tervita's monthly 11. At three it is 45.75 against 33, at five 66.59 against 55. So even with the SalonLife customer paying a year up front and the Tervita customer paying month to month, Tervita stays cheaper.
That does not make annual prepay irrelevant. For a business that would rather pay once and carry a lower monthly rate, SalonLife offers that and Tervita does not. Tervita's pricing today is monthly only, with no annual option, and it is fairer to say so before the purchase than after it.
Do the arithmetic with real roles. Count only the calendars a client can book, and work out the monthly SMS volume separately. The total-cost calculator for free and paid systems helps assemble the lines that go missing next to a headline subscription.
What happens past five staff
This is where the two approaches diverge most, and the divergence is about knowledge rather than price.
SalonLife's public table ends at the fifth band. For a sixth, eighth or twelfth employee there is no row, no slider and no per-person rate. Their own homepage says the maximum monthly rate for a single salon is 99 euros, which points to a ceiling, but no such line appears on the pricing page itself. For a growing salon that means the price is something you ask for rather than read.
Tervita's ceiling is on the pricing page: from eight bookable specialists the monthly rate is 88 euros, and that number does not change at twelve or at twenty. Hiring another specialist produces no jump, because growth is linear at 11 euros a head until the ceiling.
None of that is an argument for either side on its own - a price you have to request may well turn out to be a good one. But a salon planning a budget gets a number from one and a conversation from the other, and that difference is real.
Where SalonLife is cheaper, and what Tervita lacks
Two things, honestly.
The first is SMS. SalonLife charges 0.084 euros a message against roughly 0.09 on Tervita. The difference is small, but it is in their favour, and in a salon sending a high volume of reminders it is a real line.
The second is the annual prepay described above. SalonLife gives a meaningful discount for it. Tervita has no such option today.
Both offer a 14-day trial, so neither holds an advantage there either.
Who each one suits
SalonLife suits a salon that would rather pay for a year at once and carry a lower monthly rate, or one that likes a banded price that does not move with every new hire. They have been in the Estonian market a long time and the product has a mature user base of its own.
Tervita fits better when the team is growing and you want the price known in advance; when administrators and receptionists should not cost money merely for logging in; or when there are several locations, since those sit inside the same price without stepping up to a more expensive plan. If you are weighing the broader question of how to choose a system at all, the guide to choosing salon scheduling software is a good place to start.
Do not decide on the subscription line alone. Add up specialists, locations, SMS volume and whether you pay monthly or annually - and compare after that.