A Fiix alternative, for a plant rather than an estate
What is a good alternative to Fiix for a single plant with real process data?
Manufacturing Updated
Reading your own machines should not be a line item. With Fiix it is: from $3,000 per plant per year plus $6,000 to implement, on their Enterprise plan, through a Rockwell product you license separately.
With Koidra it is DataPilot: $10 a seat, connected by our engineer, with no middleware to license.
| Koidra | Fiix | |
|---|---|---|
| Reading one PLC, first year | DataPilot, $10 per seat, connected for you | From $9,000 per plant |
| $3,000/year plus $6,000 to implement | ||
| Extra products required | None | FactoryTalk Optix, licensed separately |
| Plan required for it | None. DataPilot is its own package | Enterprise |
| Predictive maintenance | AI Advisory, $55 per seat, includes Maintenance Management and DataPilot | Sold separately through a representative |
| Grows into process analytics and autonomous control | AI Advisory and KoPilot, same platform | Not offered |
| Price | Maintenance Management $35 per seat | $45 or $75 per user, before integration |
| Frontline mobile app | Included | ✅ |
Prices from Fiix’s published pages, September 2026.
Where the money actually goes
Fiix reaches controllers through FactoryTalk Optix, a separately licensed Rockwell platform between your assets and the software, and their own page prices that at $3,000 per plant per year plus $6,000 to implement, on top of the Enterprise plan.
For one site, reading your own machines can cost more than the maintenance software. With Koidra it is a package of its own, DataPilot, at $10 a seat, and predictive maintenance on top of it is AI Advisory rather than a module quoted through a representative.
One note on their predictive module: Asset Risk Predictor is a real machine-learning product, but its page now redirects to the Fiix homepage and it is absent from their pricing. Ask them for a quote rather than trusting a figure you find online.
Built for a plant first
We are built for a plant, and a plant is where the money in the table above goes. Standardizing maintenance across an estate, on Rockwell or anything else, is a request we take: what is not on our list yet we build on request, on the same record, rather than through a second product licensed separately.
What Maintenance Management covers, or what we read and write.