Shelf
by Shelf · Open source asset and equipment tracking with bookings
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Overview
Shelf is an open source asset management platform for tracking equipment, kits and consumables. Assets carry QR codes, locations, custody records and custom fields, and the Team plan adds bookings with a calendar, availability view and PDF pull lists. A companion app for iPhone and Android is included with every plan for scanning and auditing in the field.
- Best for
- Teams lending shared equipment — studios, labs, universities — that need bookings without per-seat fees.
- Pricing
- Free Personal plan; Team is $67/month or $370/year per workspace, with add-ons for audits ($37/mo or $205/yr), alternative barcodes ($170/yr) and SSO (from $9/user/mo annual); the Plus price is not shown in the captured text and Enterprise is quote-only.
- Runs on
- WebiOSAndroid
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Flat price per workspace, unlimited users on the Team plan
- Unlimited assets on every plan, including the free Personal plan
- Bookings with calendar, availability view and PDF pull lists
- iPhone and Android companion app included with every plan
Trade-offs
- Bookings need the Team plan; Personal and Plus are one user each
- Audits, SSO/SAML/SCIM and alternative barcodes are paid add-ons
- Team plan covers 1 team plus 1 personal workspace only
- Enterprise terms and hosting options are quote-only, no figures shown
How Shelf markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Shelf’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“The equipment platform your team will actually use.”
- Angle: Outcome / benefit-led
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Shelf’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Shelf pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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