A Cropster alternative for small and growing roasting teams.

Direct Answer

If Cropster fits how your roastery works and the bill makes sense, stay on it. Its higher packages cover quality control objectives, end-to-end traceability, resource planning, and green contract and cost management, and Rostoc does not try to replace those.

If you are looking because the platform has become more than you use, or because the bill grows with every kilogram you roast, Rostoc is the lighter option: machine-connected roast logging, reusable roast plans, green coffee lots, and batch history in one workspace, at a fixed monthly price.

• Choose Cropster if structured QC, contracts and cost management, or resource planning across coffee and non-coffee stock are central to how you work.
• Choose Rostoc if the job is the roast day: the machine connection, the plan, the lot it draws from, and the batch record.
• Either way, check your roaster first. Every machine-connected logger depends on the exact model and connection.

What It Costs, Checked 2026-09-24

Cropster's packages page states that all Roast plans combine a static monthly price with a volume-based price, and that volume charges begin after 250 kg roasted. Its Firescope pricing page lists a free plan (up to 10 roasts a month, machines up to 6 kg), Starter at €26 per month or €260 per year (up to 200 roasts or 250 kg a month, machines up to 6 kg), and Cropster Core from €95 per month. Both pages checked on 2026-09-24; confirm current prices with Cropster before you decide.

Rostoc Growth is $39 per month or $390 per year, with unlimited batches, unlimited machines, and no volume charge. Foundation is $19 per month for up to 50 batches a month on one machine. Hobby is free for 30 batches a month on one machine, desktop only. Every new account starts with 30 roasts at Growth entitlement, with no card and no time limit.

For a roastery logging more than 50 batches a month on two compatible machines, Growth stays $39 a month. A good month does not change the bill.

What Rostoc Covers

Rostoc starts at the machine. It reads bean and environmental temperature, rate of rise, and the control and status data a roaster exposes, and records each roast against the plan it belongs to. The catalogue holds 263 models across 93 brands, of which 198 are supported (counted 2026-09-24). Check your machine before anything else.

Around the roast, Rostoc keeps the production chain linked: green coffee lines and lots in warehouses, reusable roast plans with per-machine setups, and batches that deduct from the lot that fed them. Sample roasting over Nucleus Link stays connected to the same lots.

• Desktop app on macOS, Windows and Linux; browser access on Foundation and Growth.
• Green coffee inventory with a ledger of every stock movement, on Growth.
• Roast plans, reference curves, and batch history that stay searchable.
• Roast analysis for each batch: phase stats, a consistency score, and a written summary.

Where Rostoc Stops

Rostoc does not do order-driven production scheduling, wholesale ordering, fulfilment, roasted or packaged stock, structured cupping and QC, or cost accounting beyond green coffee stock value. If those are why you use Cropster, it will serve you better, and you should stay.

Moving Over

Rostoc imports roast curves and green coffee lots from Cropster's own exports. Roasts import one at a time today, so start with the reference roasts you actually roast against. Lot exports import in one pass, with the column mapping suggested for you. The switch-from-Cropster guide walks through each step.

You do not have to switch in one go. The 30 free roasts have no time limit, so you can run Rostoc beside Cropster on real production days before deciding.

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