ERP · ranked shortlist
Best ERP software in 2026
20 approved erp listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $14-$4,395
- Publish a $0 plan
- 6 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved erp listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the erp category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
ADempiere
Highest rated hereCommunity-run open source ERP forked from Compiere, with no vendor behind it
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- ERP, Open Source, accounting, manufacturing
- #2
Apache OFBiz
Java ERP and e-commerce framework from the Apache Foundation, sold as a toolkit not a product
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- ERP, Open Source, java, E-commerce
- #3
Axelor
French open source ERP and CRM with a low-code studio for changing the data model without forking
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $35 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $55.
- Billing
- Per user per month
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- Open Source, ERP, low-code, Bpm
- #4
Cin7
Connected inventory management for product sellers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $349 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $1,199 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- inventory, connected commerce, multichannel, 3pl
- #5
Dolibarr
Modular open source ERP and CRM for very small businesses, installable on shared hosting
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $14 a month.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- Open Source, ERP, crm, php
- #6
Fishbowl
Manufacturing and warehouse management for QuickBooks
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $4,395 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $5,495.
- Billing
- one-time
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- quickbooks, inventory, manufacturing, warehouse
- #7
GEP SMART
Enterprise source-to-pay from a vendor that also sells the consulting and the outsourced procurement team
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- Source To Pay, procurement, sourcing, Spend Analysis
- #8
iDempiere
Community-governed open source ERP, CRM and supply chain built on Java, OSGi and PostgreSQL
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- Open Source, ERP, java, Osgi
- #9
IFS Cloud
Single-codebase ERP, EAM and field service for asset-heavy industries
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- ERP, asset management, field service, manufacturing
- #10
Ivalua
Source-to-pay on one codebase and one data model, sold to large enterprises by module
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- Source To Pay, procurement, sourcing, supplier-management
- #11
Levelpath
AI-native procurement built around intake, from the founders who previously built Scout RFP
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- procurement, Intake, Ai Agents, sourcing
- #12
Omnea
Procurement orchestration and third-party risk management from intake through renewal
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- Procurement Orchestration, Third Party Risk, Intake, vendor-management
- #13
QAD Adaptive ERP
ERP for regulated and supply-chain-heavy manufacturers, strongest in automotive and life sciences
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- ERP, manufacturing, automotive, EDI
- #14
Rootstock
Manufacturing ERP built natively on the Salesforce platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- ERP, manufacturing, salesforce, mrp
- #15
Tryton
Modular open source ERP in Python with a five year support window on major releases only
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- Open source, no licence fee
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- ERP, Open Source, Python, accounting
- #16
Tyler Enterprise ERP (Munis)
Financial, payroll and revenue ERP for local government, formerly sold as Munis
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- Local Government, ERP, Fund Accounting, payroll
- #17
Unanet
Project ERP and CRM built for government contractors and architecture and engineering firms
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- Govcon, project accounting, Dcaa, ERP
- #18
Zip
Procurement intake and orchestration that sits on top of the systems you already run
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- Procurement Orchestration, Intake, Approvals, vendor-management
- #19
Zycus
Source-to-pay suite with heavy AI positioning, priced by module and quoted throughout
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- quote
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- Source To Pay, procurement, Spend Analysis, Esourcing
- #20
Cin7 Core
Inventory management for growing businesses
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $349 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $1,199.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
What erp software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $14Dolibarr
- Median entry price
- $349across 5 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $4,395Fishbowl
- Publish a $0 plan
- 6of 20
Paid erp plans in this set start anywhere from $14 a month for Dolibarr to $4,395 for Fishbowl. The median entry price across the 5 tools that publish one is $349, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Fishbowl's at $5,495 a month. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
6 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 4 of those charge nothing at all. 3 tools have no free tier of any kind.
13 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 erp listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- quote
- 11
- Open source, no licence fee
- 5
- subscription
- 2
- one-time
- 1
- Per user per month
- 1
Separately, 13 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 16 erp tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Barcode scanning , 3 of 16
- Advanced warehouse management , 2 of 16
- Annual subscription, quoted by sales , 2 of 16
- Material requirements planning , 2 of 16
- Unlimited inventory locations , 2 of 16
Named by fewer
Nothing else is named by more than one vendor, beyond the list on the left, no two of these tools describe their tiers the same way.
Named by exactly one vendor: Accounting integrations, Bill of materials, Enhanced customisation and search, Minimum twenty users, Priority support, Sold separately from ERP; quoted. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “ERP” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- ERP11
- manufacturing8
- Open Source6
- procurement4
- accounting3
- Intake3
- Source To Pay3
- sourcing3
- supply-chain3
- Contract Management2
- inventory2
- java2
Carried by a single tool: 3pl, automotive, crm, EDI, Govcon, Osgi, professional services, Small Business. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
6 of 20 erp tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with barcode scanning, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$14 to $4,395 is a $4,381 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $4,395 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
4 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 1 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, barcode scanning, advanced warehouse management, annual subscription, quoted by sales, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 5 billing models: quote on 11 listings, Open source, no licence fee on 5, and 3 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Compare erp tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- ADempiere vs Apache OFBiz
- Apache OFBiz vs Axelor
- Axelor vs Cin7
- Cin7 vs Dolibarr
- Dolibarr vs Fishbowl
- Fishbowl vs GEP SMART
- GEP SMART vs iDempiere
- iDempiere vs IFS Cloud
Go straight to the numbers
- ADempierepricingalternatives
- Apache OFBizpricingalternatives
- Axelorpricingalternatives
- Cin7pricingalternatives
- Dolibarrpricingalternatives
- Fishbowlpricingalternatives
Questions people ask about erp software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this erp ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved erp listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- How much does erp software cost?
- Across the 20 erp tools listed here, paid plans start between $14 and $4,395 a month, with a median entry price of $349. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $5,495 a month (Fishbowl). 6 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest erp software?
- 4 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Dolibarr has the lowest published entry price at $14 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free erp software?
- Yes, 6 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 4 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should erp software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are barcode scanning (3 of 16 tools that publish plan detail), advanced warehouse management (2) and annual subscription, quoted by sales (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as accounting integrations or bill of materials, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is erp software usually billed?
- quote (11), Open source, no licence fee (5), subscription (2), one-time (1), plus 1 less common arrangements, counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 13 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does erp software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are erp (11), manufacturing (8), open source (6), procurement (4), accounting (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under erp may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do erp tools offer?
- 20 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 1 tiers. 4 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many erp tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved erp listings appear on this page, including ADempiere, Apache OFBiz, Axelor, Cin7. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/erp, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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Adjacent in the same taxonomy, not a ranking.