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Alternatives to Xometry
21 manufacturing tools sit alongside Xometry in this directory. Below is what separates each from Xometry on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 0
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Xometry starts at
- Free
Why people look past Xometry
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Xometry has a free tier. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
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.
Source to pay procurement suite that sits on top of an existing ERP
- No free tier, where Xometry has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Per order, priced on the part.
Industrial edge platform that collects, normalises and forwards OT data to cloud and enterprise systems
- No free tier, where Xometry has one.
- Publishes an entry price of $1500/month, where Xometry does not.
- Sold on a Per site by data point count model rather than Per order, priced on the part.
- 3 tiers to Xometry's 2.
Enterprise asset management suite licensed by a shared pool of AppPoints rather than by named user
- No free tier, where Xometry has one.
- Publishes an entry price of $3150/month, where Xometry does not.
- Sold on a Per year by AppPoint pool model rather than Per order, priced on the part.
- 4 tiers to Xometry's 2.
Industrial connectivity server translating 150-plus PLC protocols into OPC UA, formerly KEPServerEX
- No free tier, where Xometry has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Per order, priced on the part.
- 1 tier to Xometry's 2.
Wireless vibration and asset reliability monitoring, now owned by AssetWatch
- No free tier, where Xometry has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Per order, priced on the part.
- 1 tier to Xometry's 2.
HMI, SCADA and energy automation platform licensed by I/O tag count
- No free tier, where Xometry has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Per order, priced on the part.
- 1 tier to Xometry's 2.
Every Xometry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xometry (this page) | Free | Per order, priced on the part | 2 | |
| JaggaerIf the problem is source-to-pay procurement across all categories rather than buying custom parts | On request | Quote | - | vs Xometry |
| Litmus Edge | $1500/month | Per site by data point count | 3 | vs Xometry |
| IBM Maximo Application Suite | $3150/month | Per year by AppPoint pool | 4 | vs Xometry |
| Kepware Server | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| Petasense | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| COPA-DATA zenon | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| Nanoprecise Sci Corp | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| KCF Technologies | $199/one-time | Per monitoring point, quoted | 2 | vs Xometry |
| Samotics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| Erbessd Instruments | $999/one-time | One-time purchase | 2 | vs Xometry |
| Flow Software | $11390/one-time | One-time purchase | 3 | vs Xometry |
| Poseidon Systems | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| Augury | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| PROGNOST Systems | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| MOVUS | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| Rockwell FactoryTalk | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| Sensemore | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| Seeq | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| GENESIS Version 11 | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| AVEVA System Platform | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
| ABB 800xA | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Xometry |
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 Xometry badges page.
What you would be giving up
Xometry is most often brought in for an engineering team needing machined prototypes in a week without qualifying a shop, a procurement group consolidating dozens of low-value part suppliers onto one purchase order, a startup with no supply chain buying a first low-volume production run, a design team price-checking a geometry change before committing to it. 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 Xometry is broadly right and the question is cost, the Xometry 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.
Xometry runs on web, api. 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 Xometry alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Xometry?
- 21 other manufacturing tools are listed in this directory, led by Jaggaer, Litmus Edge, IBM Maximo Application Suite, Kepware Server. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Xometry?
- None of the manufacturing tools listed alongside Xometry publish a free tier on the record we hold.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Xometry?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Xometry has a free tier. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Xometry?
- Xometry is most often brought in for an engineering team needing machined prototypes in a week without qualifying a shop, a procurement group consolidating dozens of low-value part suppliers onto one purchase order, a startup with no supply chain buying a first low-volume production run, a design team price-checking a geometry change before committing to it. 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 Xometry?
- 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 Xometry 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 Xometry against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Xometry 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, 21 tools beside Xometry. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.