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FieldView Plus vs METER Group ZENTRA

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FieldView Plus

Agriculture

Advanced digital agriculture by Climate

From
$29/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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METER Group ZENTRA

Agriculture

Research-grade soil, plant and atmosphere sensors with the ZENTRA Cloud data platform

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: FieldView Plus fieldView Plus starts at $649 per year while the Basic plan starts at $0.00 per year, so the useful analysis features are all paid; METER Group ZENTRA hardware costs several times what commodity soil probes cost, so a farm that only needs a rough irrigation trigger is paying for calibration accuracy it will never use.
  • They diverge on capability: FieldView Plus covers Field health imagery, METER Group ZENTRA covers TEROS soil sensors.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which FieldView Plus and METER Group ZENTRA actually diverge.

Attributes where FieldView Plus and METER Group ZENTRA differ
AttributeFieldView PlusMETER Group ZENTRA
Starting price$29/monthOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionPer device subscription
Founded2006Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, Ios, Android), 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 FieldView Plus

  • Field health imagery
  • Nitrogen advisor
  • Seed scripts
  • Scouting app
  • Variable rate
  • John Deere
  • CLAAS
  • Major equipment

Only in METER Group ZENTRA

  • TEROS soil sensors
  • Water potential measurement
  • ZL6 data loggers
  • ZENTRA Cloud
  • Threshold alerts
  • Open API
  • ATMOS weather stations

What people use each for

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

FieldView Plus

  • Collecting planting, application and harvest data from the cab into the cloudnot METER Group ZENTRA
  • Building variable rate seeding scripts for a planternot METER Group ZENTRA
  • Comparing hybrid and field performance through yield analysis and field region reportsnot METER Group ZENTRA
  • Scouting fields against satellite field health imagerynot METER Group ZENTRA

METER Group ZENTRA

  • A university soil physics group that needs measurements defensible enough for peer reviewnot FieldView Plus
  • An irrigation district accounting for water applied and lost across a schemenot FieldView Plus
  • A vineyard managing deficit irrigation from water potential rather than volumetric moisture alonenot FieldView Plus
  • An environmental consultancy monitoring a remediation or drainage site where the data may be contestednot FieldView Plus

Where each one falls short

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

FieldView Plus

  • FieldView Plus starts at $649 per year while the Basic plan starts at $0.00 per year, so the useful analysis features are all paid
  • Seed Scripts, Enhanced Scripting, Yield Analysis, Field Region Reports, Image-Enhanced Scouting, Field Health Imagery, Manual Scripting, Grain Futures, RemoteView and CloudSync are all excluded from the Basic plan
  • Local on-farm support is excluded from the Basic plan
  • FieldView Drive hardware is a separate purchase and its price is not shown on the pricing page

METER Group ZENTRA

  • Hardware costs several times what commodity soil probes cost, so a farm that only needs a rough irrigation trigger is paying for calibration accuracy it will never use.
  • ZENTRA Cloud is a per-device subscription, so a large sensor network carries a recurring bill that grows linearly with every probe added and is easy to underestimate at design stage.
  • The three-year subscription bundled with the ZL6 Pro means the renewal decision arrives exactly when a typical research grant has ended, which is how long-running datasets get abandoned.
  • METER sells measurement rather than recommendations; there is no irrigation scheduling engine, so someone has to turn the numbers into decisions or buy a second platform that will.
  • Installation quality dominates results with soil sensors, and a badly installed TEROS probe produces confidently wrong data, so the accuracy you paid for depends on field technique the vendor cannot supply.

Pricing, plan by plan

FieldView Plus

$29/month
  • Plus$1199/year
    • Field health imagery
    • Nitrogen advisor
    • Seed scripts
  • Prime$1799/year
    • All Plus features
    • Advanced recommendations
    • Priority support

METER Group ZENTRA

On request
  • ZENTRA Cloud$undefined/year
    • Priced per activated device, pay for what you use
    • Three year subscription included with the ZL6 Pro logger
    • Cellular data included in the device subscription

Which should you pick?

Choose FieldView Plus if

  • You need field health imagery.
  • You work on Web, Ios, Android.
  • You also want nitrogen advisor.
FieldView Plus review

Choose METER Group ZENTRA if

  • You need teros soil sensors.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want water potential measurement.
METER Group ZENTRA review

Questions people ask

Is FieldView Plus or METER Group ZENTRA better?
Neither clearly leads. FieldView Plus starts at $29/month and METER Group ZENTRA at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, FieldView Plus or METER Group ZENTRA?
FieldView Plus starts at $29/month and METER Group ZENTRA at On request.
Does FieldView Plus or METER Group ZENTRA run on more platforms?
FieldView Plus runs on Web, Ios, Android. METER Group ZENTRA runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is FieldView Plus best used for?
FieldView Plus is most often used for collecting planting, application and harvest data from the cab into the cloud, building variable rate seeding scripts for a planter, comparing hybrid and field performance through yield analysis and field region reports, scouting fields against satellite field health imagery. Of those, collecting planting, application and harvest data from the cab into the cloud and building variable rate seeding scripts for a planter are not what METER Group ZENTRA is typically brought in for.
What can FieldView Plus do that METER Group ZENTRA cannot?
FieldView Plus covers Field health imagery, Nitrogen advisor, Seed scripts, Scouting app. METER Group ZENTRA covers TEROS soil sensors, Water potential measurement, ZL6 data loggers, ZENTRA Cloud.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

METER Group ZENTRA: Is ZENTRA Cloud included with the loggers?

A three-year subscription is included with the ZL6 Pro. Other loggers require a separate per-device subscription.

METER Group ZENTRA: Do I need a separate cellular data plan?

No. Cellular data is covered within the device subscription rather than billed as a separate SIM contract.

METER Group ZENTRA: Will it tell me when to irrigate?

No. METER provides measurement, not scheduling recommendations. You either interpret the data yourself or feed it into a scheduling platform.

METER Group ZENTRA: Why is it more expensive than commodity soil probes?

Individual sensor calibration and documented measurement physics, which is what makes the data hold up in research, regulatory and legal contexts.

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