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Augury vs Sight Machine

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Augury

Manufacturing

Machine health monitoring sold as a per-machine annual service including sensors, installation and analyst diagnostics

From
On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
Sight Machine logo

Sight Machine

Manufacturing

Enterprise manufacturing data platform that builds a plant data model rather than a dashboard

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Augury the per-machine annual fee never stops, so over a five to eight year horizon the total exceeds buying sensors and software outright and running the programme yourself.; Sight Machine onboarding is a data engineering project measured in months per plant, so value arrives long after the contract starts and the internal sponsor needs the patience and budget to survive that gap.
  • They diverge on capability: Augury covers Halo sensors, Sight Machine covers Unified plant data model.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Augury and Sight Machine actually diverge.

Attributes where Augury and Sight Machine differ
AttributeAugurySight Machine
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Manufacturing).

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 Augury

  • Halo sensors
  • Diagnostics as a Service
  • Named fault diagnosis
  • Process Health
  • CMMS integration
  • Installation included
  • Fleet views
  • Unlimited users

Only in Sight Machine

  • Unified plant data model
  • Broad ingestion
  • Cross plant benchmarking
  • Root cause analysis
  • Natural language querying
  • Cloud data platform delivery

What people use each for

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

Augury

  • A food plant with 200 similar motors and pumps and no vibration analyst on staffnot Sight Machine
  • A multi-site manufacturer that needs one reliability picture across plants without standardising their maintenance teamsnot Sight Machine
  • An operator whose capex budget will not approve sensor hardware but whose opex budget will approve a servicenot Sight Machine
  • A site trying to move from calendar-based motor overhauls to condition-based intervals with defensible evidencenot Sight Machine

Sight Machine

  • A corporate operations team that cannot compare plant performance because every site defines a stoppage differentlynot Augury
  • A manufacturer whose historian data is plentiful but has never been modelled into anything a business can querynot Augury
  • A group standardising manufacturing reporting into a cloud data warehouse alongside finance and supply chain datanot Augury
  • A quality organisation investigating a defect that appears at several plants with different equipmentnot Augury

Where each one falls short

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

Augury

  • The per-machine annual fee never stops, so over a five to eight year horizon the total exceeds buying sensors and software outright and running the programme yourself.
  • Coverage is aimed at standard rotating equipment; reciprocating compressors, very low-speed machinery and non-rotating assets are poorly served, so you still need a second monitoring approach.
  • Diagnoses depend on Augurys analysts, which means the quality of your programme is set by a vendor queue you do not control and turnaround is not something you can escalate internally.
  • The sensors and the analytics are one system, so leaving Augury means removing the hardware and starting again; there is no path to keep the sensors and change the software.
  • Pricing is unpublished and negotiated per fleet, so buyers have no benchmark and comparable plants can pay materially different per-machine rates.

Sight Machine

  • Onboarding is a data engineering project measured in months per plant, so value arrives long after the contract starts and the internal sponsor needs the patience and budget to survive that gap.
  • It assumes the instrumentation already exists, so a plant whose machines produce no usable data gets nothing from a data platform and needs to solve connectivity first with a different class of product.
  • Pricing scales with plants and data volume and is never published, which puts it out of reach for single site manufacturers regardless of how relevant the capability sounds.
  • It is not an MES and does not control or execute anything, so it sits on top of the operational systems and adds a layer to maintain rather than replacing one.
  • Success depends on a central team that owns definitions and enforces them, and in groups where plants retain autonomy the standardisation the platform provides gets quietly ignored at site level.

Pricing, plan by plan

Augury

On request
  • Machine Health$undefined/year
    • Flat annual fee per monitored machine
    • Sensors, gateway, connectivity and installation included
    • Unlimited users and unlimited diagnostic reviews

Sight Machine

On request
  • Sight Machine$undefined/year
    • Enterprise manufacturing data platform
    • Per plant onboarding and modelling services
    • Cross site analytics and benchmarking

Which should you pick?

Choose Augury if

  • You need halo sensors.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want diagnostics as a service.
Augury review

Choose Sight Machine if

  • You need unified plant data model.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want broad ingestion.
Sight Machine review

Questions people ask

Is Augury or Sight Machine better?
Neither clearly leads. Augury starts at On request and Sight Machine at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Augury or Sight Machine?
Augury starts at On request and Sight Machine at On request.
Does Augury or Sight Machine run on more platforms?
Augury runs on Web, iOS, Android. Sight Machine runs on Web, API.
What is Augury best used for?
Augury is most often used for a food plant with 200 similar motors and pumps and no vibration analyst on staff, a multi-site manufacturer that needs one reliability picture across plants without standardising their maintenance teams, an operator whose capex budget will not approve sensor hardware but whose opex budget will approve a service, a site trying to move from calendar-based motor overhauls to condition-based intervals with defensible evidence. Of those, a food plant with 200 similar motors and pumps and no vibration analyst on staff and a multi-site manufacturer that needs one reliability picture across plants without standardising their maintenance teams are not what Sight Machine is typically brought in for.
What can Augury do that Sight Machine cannot?
Augury covers Halo sensors, Diagnostics as a Service, Named fault diagnosis, Process Health. Sight Machine covers Unified plant data model, Broad ingestion, Cross plant benchmarking, Root cause analysis.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Augury: Do I buy the sensors?

No. Sensors, gateways, connectivity and installation are included in the per-machine annual fee.

Sight Machine: Is this an OEE product?

It can produce OEE, but buying it for OEE alone is expensive. The reason to buy it is cross plant data standardisation.

Augury: Is there a per-user licence?

No. The web application allows unlimited users; the meter is monitored machines.

Sight Machine: Does it need a historian?

It reads from historians, control systems and MES. Some source of machine data is a prerequisite.

Augury: Who does the diagnosis?

Machine-learning models flag issues and Augury vibration analysts review them before a finding is released to you.

Sight Machine: How long does a plant take to onboard?

Plan in months per plant, depending on how many sources and how inconsistent the existing definitions are.

Augury: What happens if we cancel?

The sensors are part of the service and monitoring stops; you do not retain a usable standalone system.

Sight Machine: Who is the buyer?

A corporate manufacturing, quality or digital function. It is rarely a plant level purchase.

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