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Alternatives to Hippo CMMS
23 manufacturing tools sit alongside Hippo CMMS in this directory. Below is what separates each from Hippo CMMS on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 23
- With a free tier
- 2
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Hippo CMMS starts at
- On request
Why people look past Hippo CMMS
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Hippo CMMS entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Hippo CMMS carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 2 of the 23 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Hippo CMMS publishes a single plan, Eptura Asset at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Mobile-first maintenance and work order management for frontline teams
- Can be used without paying; Hippo CMMS cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $21/user/month, where Hippo CMMS does not.
- Sold on a Freemium, per user per month model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Hippo CMMS's 1.
Mobile-first maintenance management
- Can be used without paying; Hippo CMMS cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $24/month, where Hippo CMMS does not.
Easy-to-use maintenance management
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Hippo CMMS's 1.
Industrial edge platform that collects, normalises and forwards OT data to cloud and enterprise systems
- Publishes an entry price of $1500/month, where Hippo CMMS does not.
- Sold on a Per site by data point count model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Hippo CMMS's 1.
Enterprise asset management suite licensed by a shared pool of AppPoints rather than by named user
- Publishes an entry price of $3150/month, where Hippo CMMS does not.
- Sold on a Per year by AppPoint pool model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Hippo CMMS's 1.
Industrial connectivity server translating 150-plus PLC protocols into OPC UA, formerly KEPServerEX
Priced and rated the same as Hippo CMMS on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Every Hippo CMMS alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hippo CMMS (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| MaintainXActively sold standalone, published pricing, far better mobile | Free, then $21/user/month | Freemium, per user per month | 4 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| UpKeepA direct standalone replacement at a similar level of complexity | Free, then $24/month | - | - | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Limble CMMSComparable simplicity with published pricing and an active roadmap | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Litmus Edge | $1500/month | Per site by data point count | 3 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| IBM Maximo Application Suite | $3150/month | Per year by AppPoint pool | 4 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Kepware Server | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Petasense | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| COPA-DATA zenon | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Nanoprecise Sci Corp | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| KCF Technologies | $199/one-time | Per monitoring point, quoted | 2 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Samotics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Erbessd Instruments | $999/one-time | One-time purchase | 2 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Flow Software | $11390/one-time | One-time purchase | 3 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Poseidon Systems | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Augury | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| PROGNOST Systems | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| MOVUS | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Rockwell FactoryTalk | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Sensemore | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| Seeq | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| GENESIS Version 11 | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| AVEVA System Platform | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
| ABB 800xA | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Hippo CMMS |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Hippo CMMS badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Hippo CMMS is most often brought in for facilities teams wanting a cmms that a non-specialist can operate, sites where locating an asset on a floor plan is the natural way to find it, existing hippo customers evaluating whether to stay within eptura, organisations wanting maintenance inside a broader workplace management suite. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Hippo CMMS is broadly right and the question is cost, the Hippo CMMS pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Manufacturing category lists everything the directory holds, and best manufacturing tools ranks them.
Hippo CMMS runs on web, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Hippo CMMS alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Hippo CMMS?
- 23 other manufacturing tools are listed in this directory, led by MaintainX, UpKeep, Limble CMMS, Litmus Edge. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Hippo CMMS?
- 2 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: MaintainX, UpKeep.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Hippo CMMS?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Hippo CMMS?
- Hippo CMMS is most often brought in for facilities teams wanting a cmms that a non-specialist can operate, sites where locating an asset on a floor plan is the natural way to find it, existing hippo customers evaluating whether to stay within eptura, organisations wanting maintenance inside a broader workplace management suite. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Hippo CMMS?
- None of the manufacturing tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Hippo CMMS alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Manufacturing, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Hippo CMMS against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Hippo CMMS covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every manufacturing tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Manufacturing category, 23 tools beside Hippo CMMS. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.