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Agrivi vs Lely Horizon

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Agrivi

Agriculture

Smart farm management system

From
$29/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Lely Horizon logo

Lely Horizon

Agriculture

Dairy herd management software billed per lactating cow that only runs a Lely robot barn

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Agrivi no public pricing information disclosed on vendor website; Lely Horizon billing is per lactating cow, so the software cost grows with the herd indefinitely and a farm that expands from 120 to 200 cows takes a permanent software cost increase it did not budget when it bought the robots.
  • They diverge on capability: Agrivi covers Production planning, Lely Horizon covers Per-cow milking data.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Agrivi and Lely Horizon actually diverge.

Attributes where Agrivi and Lely Horizon differ
AttributeAgriviLely Horizon
Starting price$29/monthOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsWeb, Ios, AndroidWeb, iOS, Android, Windows
Founded2013Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Agriculture).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Agrivi

  • Production planning
  • Task management
  • Inventory tracking
  • Financial analysis
  • Crop database
  • Weather services
  • Satellite imagery
  • GDPR

Only in Lely Horizon

  • Per-cow milking data
  • Health and fertility alerts
  • Work list generation
  • Feed management
  • Farm Management Support
  • Multi-site view
  • Mobile alerts
  • Reporting and benchmarking

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Agrivi

  • Farm management record keeping across fields, inputs and field activitiesnot Lely Horizon
  • Supply chain traceability from farm to food processornot Lely Horizon
  • Integrating IoT sensor and machinery data into a farm data platformnot Lely Horizon
  • Agri-input companies and public sector bodies engaging growers digitallynot Lely Horizon

Lely Horizon

  • A 180-cow dairy running four Astronaut robots that needs the attention list to replace walking the barn twice a daynot Agrivi
  • A farm adding Vector automatic feeding that wants ration delivery driven by the same cow data as milkingnot Agrivi
  • A dairy manager tracking transition cow health across two sites from one accountnot Agrivi
  • A Lely advisor benchmarking a client's robot utilisation against comparable farms before recommending a fourth boxnot Agrivi

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Agrivi

  • No public pricing information disclosed on vendor website
  • Customers must book a meeting with sales team to discuss pricing
  • No pricing tiers, plan names, or trial option details available

Lely Horizon

  • Billing is per lactating cow, so the software cost grows with the herd indefinitely and a farm that expands from 120 to 200 cows takes a permanent software cost increase it did not budget when it bought the robots.
  • Horizon is not optional: the barn equipment depends on it, so the subscription cannot be cancelled in a difficult year the way a discretionary analytics tool can, which removes any negotiating position at renewal.
  • It manages Lely equipment and effectively nothing else, so a farm running a Lely robot alongside a conventional parlour or another manufacturer's feeder ends up with two systems and no combined cow record.
  • The migration from the older T4C system was compulsory and rebuilt the interface and reporting, and farms that had years of T4C reports and custom lists found the equivalents either missing or shaped differently, costing retraining time.
  • Everything is bought and supported through the local Lely Center, so pricing, response time and the quality of advice vary by dealer with no published rate card, and a farm with a weak local centre has no practical alternative supplier.

Pricing, plan by plan

Agrivi

$29/month
  • Essential$29/month
    • 5 fields
    • Basic tracking
    • Weather
  • Professional$99/month
    • Unlimited fields
    • Full analytics
    • API access

Lely Horizon

On request
  • Horizon Basic$undefined/month
    • Core robot operation and monitoring
    • Per lactating cow subscription
    • Invoiced digitally by the local Lely Center
  • Horizon Control$undefined/month
    • Adds herd management and fertility tooling
    • Per lactating cow subscription
  • Horizon Advance$undefined/month
    • Adds analysis, benchmarking and advisor tooling
    • Per lactating cow subscription

Which should you pick?

Choose Agrivi if

  • You need production planning.
  • You work on Web, Ios, Android.
  • You also want task management.
Agrivi review

Choose Lely Horizon if

  • You need per-cow milking data.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android, Windows.
  • You also want health and fertility alerts.
Lely Horizon review

Questions people ask

Is Agrivi or Lely Horizon better?
Neither clearly leads. Agrivi starts at $29/month and Lely Horizon at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Agrivi or Lely Horizon?
Agrivi starts at $29/month and Lely Horizon at On request.
Does Agrivi or Lely Horizon run on more platforms?
Agrivi runs on Web, Ios, Android. Lely Horizon runs on Web, iOS, Android, Windows.
What is Agrivi best used for?
Agrivi is most often used for farm management record keeping across fields, inputs and field activities, supply chain traceability from farm to food processor, integrating iot sensor and machinery data into a farm data platform, agri-input companies and public sector bodies engaging growers digitally. Of those, farm management record keeping across fields, inputs and field activities and supply chain traceability from farm to food processor are not what Lely Horizon is typically brought in for.
What can Agrivi do that Lely Horizon cannot?
Agrivi covers Production planning, Task management, Inventory tracking, Financial analysis. Lely Horizon covers Per-cow milking data, Health and fertility alerts, Work list generation, Feed management.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Agrivi: How is Agrivi priced?

Agrivi does not publish pricing details publicly. Organizations interested in the platform must book a meeting with the Agrivi sales team to discuss pricing tailored to their specific agricultural operation needs.

Source
Lely Horizon: How is Lely Horizon priced?

As a subscription per lactating cow milked by the Astronaut robots, in Basic, Control and Advance tiers. Lely does not publish rates; the local Lely Center quotes them.

Agrivi: Is there a free trial available for Agrivi?

Agrivi does not disclose trial or evaluation options on their public website. Customers must contact the sales team directly to inquire about trial access or platform evaluation capabilities.

Source
Lely Horizon: Can I run Horizon without Lely robots?

No. It is the control and management layer for Lely equipment and has no meaningful function without it.

Lely Horizon: What happened to T4C?

Horizon replaced it. Migration was required rather than optional, and reporting was rebuilt rather than ported.

Lely Horizon: Does the subscription end when the robot is paid off?

No. It continues for as long as the robots are milking, which is the cost most robot business cases understate.

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