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Granular vs Soil Scout

Granular logo

Granular

Agriculture

Farm management software for profitable farming

From
$1200/year
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Soil Scout logo

Soil Scout

Agriculture

Buried wireless soil sensors with a ten to twenty year battery and no cables to the surface

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Granular granular pricing page redirects to app login portal; no public pricing information accessible; Soil Scout sensors are unserviceable once buried, so a failed or drifting unit means excavation and the confidence you place in a single reading has no easy verification.
  • They diverge on capability: Granular covers Farm financial management, Soil Scout covers Fully buried sensors.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Granular and Soil Scout actually diverge.

Attributes where Granular and Soil Scout differ
AttributeGranularSoil Scout
Starting price$1200/yearOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsWeb, Ios, Android, ApiWeb
Founded2014Unknown

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 Granular

  • Farm financial management
  • Field activity tracking
  • Yield analytics
  • Satellite imagery
  • Crop planning
  • Input management
  • Labor tracking
  • Multi-farm dashboard

Only in Soil Scout

  • Fully buried sensors
  • Ten to twenty year battery
  • Underground radio
  • Dual depth sensing
  • Moisture, temperature and salinity
  • Soil Scout Hub
  • Web service API
  • Long base station range

What people use each for

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

Granular

  • Farm profitability analysisnot Soil Scout
  • Crop planningnot Soil Scout
  • Resource allocationnot Soil Scout
  • Financial reportingnot Soil Scout
  • Multi-farm managementnot Soil Scout

Soil Scout

  • A golf course monitoring greens moisture where a surface-mounted probe would be hit by mowers and playnot Granular
  • A stadium pitch under a closed roof where hand-held probing is impractical during the seasonnot Granular
  • A research plot needing consistent multi-year soil data below cultivation depthnot Granular
  • An irrigated field where a surface logger would not survive tillage or a spray boomnot Granular

Where each one falls short

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

Granular

  • Granular pricing page redirects to app login portal; no public pricing information accessible

Soil Scout

  • Sensors are unserviceable once buried, so a failed or drifting unit means excavation and the confidence you place in a single reading has no easy verification.
  • No pricing is published at all, which makes it hard to justify against commodity probes that quote openly, and per-sensor cost is well above the alternatives.
  • It measures but does not control, so tying moisture readings to actual irrigation decisions requires either manual interpretation or a separate integration project with the control system.
  • Underground radio range depends on soil type and moisture; heavy wet clay attenuates the signal and can force more base stations than the headline kilometre figure suggests.
  • The company is small and Finland-based, so outside its established golf and sports turf distribution the support, spares and installation expertise depend entirely on whether a competent local distributor exists.

Pricing, plan by plan

Granular

$1200/year
  • Granular Business$1200/year
    • Field management
    • Financial tracking
    • Activity planning
  • Granular Insights$2400/year
    • Everything in Business
    • Satellite imagery
    • Yield analytics
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Everything in Insights
    • Multi-farm management
    • Custom integrations

Soil Scout

On request
  • Soil Scout$undefined/year
    • Sensors and base station quoted per site
    • Hub subscription terms quoted with the hardware
    • No individual sensor data plans required

Which should you pick?

Choose Granular if

  • You need farm financial management.
  • You work on Web, Ios, Android, Api.
  • You also want field activity tracking.
Granular review

Choose Soil Scout if

  • You need fully buried sensors.
  • You also want ten to twenty year battery.
Soil Scout review

Questions people ask

Is Granular or Soil Scout better?
Neither clearly leads. Granular starts at $1200/year and Soil Scout at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Granular or Soil Scout?
Granular starts at $1200/year and Soil Scout at On request.
Does Granular or Soil Scout run on more platforms?
Granular runs on Web, Ios, Android, Api. Soil Scout runs on Web.
What is Granular best used for?
Granular is most often used for farm profitability analysis, crop planning, resource allocation, financial reporting. Of those, farm profitability analysis and crop planning are not what Soil Scout is typically brought in for.
What can Granular do that Soil Scout cannot?
Granular covers Farm financial management, Field activity tracking, Yield analytics, Satellite imagery. Soil Scout covers Fully buried sensors, Ten to twenty year battery, Underground radio, Dual depth sensing.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Granular: What are Granular pricing tiers?

Granular pricing information is not publicly available. The pricing page redirects to their application login, requiring customers to contact Granular sales directly for pricing.

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Soil Scout: How long do the sensors last?

Up to ten years for the Happi100 and up to twenty for the Hydra100, buried, with no battery replacement.

Granular: Does Granular offer a free trial or demo?

Trial availability for Granular cannot be determined from public pages. Contact Granular sales directly to request a demo or trial of their agricultural operations management platform.

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Soil Scout: Do the sensors need mobile data plans?

No. Sensors transmit to a base station through the soil, and only the base station uses a cellular modem.

Soil Scout: Can it control irrigation directly?

No. It is a measurement and alerting system; controlling valves needs an integration with your irrigation controller through the API.

Soil Scout: What happens if a buried sensor fails?

You dig it up. There is no remote service option, which is the trade-off for having nothing above ground to damage.

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