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Proagrica vs Soil Scout

Proagrica logo

Proagrica

Agriculture

Data integration for agriculture supply chains

From
$29/month
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: Proagrica proagrica's own domain (proagrica.com) now redirects through telusagriculture.com to telus.com/agriculture, and the destination site confirms the product line now operates under TELUS Agriculture branding rather than as an independent Proagrica product.; 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: Proagrica covers EDI integration, 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 Proagrica and Soil Scout actually diverge.

Attributes where Proagrica and Soil Scout differ
AttributeProagricaSoil Scout
Starting price$29/monthOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsWeb, ApiWeb
Founded1998Unknown

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 Proagrica

  • EDI integration
  • Product data management
  • E-commerce platforms
  • Order management
  • Market analytics
  • SAP
  • Oracle
  • Major retailers

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.

Proagrica

  • Data integrationnot Soil Scout
  • E-commercenot Soil Scout
  • Supply chainnot Soil Scout

Soil Scout

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

Where each one falls short

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

Proagrica

  • Proagrica's own domain (proagrica.com) now redirects through telusagriculture.com to telus.com/agriculture, and the destination site confirms the product line now operates under TELUS Agriculture branding rather than as an independent Proagrica product.

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

Proagrica

$29/month
  • StandardFree
    • Custom pricing
    • Data integration
    • Basic analytics
  • EnterpriseFree
    • Custom pricing
    • Full suite
    • Dedicated support

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 Proagrica if

  • You need edi integration.
  • You work on Web, Api.
  • You also want product data management.
Proagrica 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 Proagrica or Soil Scout better?
Neither clearly leads. Proagrica starts at $29/month and Soil Scout at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Proagrica or Soil Scout?
Proagrica starts at $29/month and Soil Scout at On request.
Does Proagrica or Soil Scout run on more platforms?
Proagrica runs on Web, Api. Soil Scout runs on Web.
What is Proagrica best used for?
Proagrica is most often used for data integration, e-commerce, supply chain. Of those, data integration and e-commerce are not what Soil Scout is typically brought in for.
What can Proagrica do that Soil Scout cannot?
Proagrica covers EDI integration, Product data management, E-commerce platforms, Order management. Soil Scout covers Fully buried sensors, Ten to twenty year battery, Underground radio, Dual depth sensing.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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.

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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