Best SCADA Software
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What is SCADA Software?
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software enables organizations to monitor and control industrial processes and infrastructure in real time — whether on a factory floor, in a utility plant, or across distributed sites. It collects data from sensors, PLCs, RTUs, and other field devices, then visualizes that data in dashboards or HMIs, allowing operators to supervise operations, detect anomalies, and issue control commands when needed. SCADA software supports remote or centralized control over pumps, valves, motors, and other equipment — making it easier to manage processes like manufacturing, water treatment, power distribution, or facility systems. By offering continuous data logging and alerting, it helps teams optimize performance, improve reliability, ensure safety, and support regulatory compliance. Overall, SCADA software serves as the backbone of industrial automation — turning raw sensor data into actionable insight and enabling efficient, safe, and scalable operations. Compare and read user reviews of the best SCADA software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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FrameworX
Tatsoft
Tatsoft's FrameworX is a complete SCADA and IIoT platform for edge-to-enterprise industrial applications. It unifies operations, data, and AI under one scalable, .NET-based architecture. FrameworX includes AI Designer, built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Three MCP servers cover design, operations and runtime, plus an in-process AI agent spine, all released and supported today. AI works directly inside the Designer IDE in real time, configuring tags, alarms, historian, devices, displays, and scripts in one session, and engineers approve every step. Works with any MCP-compatible AI client, including Claude. The platform includes real-time data modeling, historian, alarms, reports, audit trails, scripting in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, and Python, plus 100+ native drivers for PLCs, DCS, OPC, and MQTT. Deploy anywhere with zero client installs and full web, mobile, and desktop access. 100+ connectors included at no charge.Starting Price: $750 -
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FactoryTalk Optix
Rockwell Automation
FactoryTalk® Optix™ is a new visualization platform that accelerates value delivery with modern technologies, innovative designs and scalable deployment options. FactoryTalk Optix can help improve your process, efficiency and deliverables – in one easy to access tool. Take advantage of new levels of collaboration, scalability and interoperability to achieve your HMI vision. New SaaS-enabled workflows will enable your team to collaborate any time, from anywhere, thanks to built-in change tracking and versioning that automatically keeps track of who did what and when. Harness the cloud and become more agile by deploying quickly and scaling based on demand. Use the increased efficiency to beat competitors to market, get to profit faster and improve return on investment. Transform the way you collaborate! The cloud makes it easier for suppliers, employees and customers to collaborate from anywhere in the world.Starting Price: $650 -
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WEBICC
VIEWTECH SYSTEMS
WEBICC SCADA is a web-based, multi-platform SCADA software for monitoring and automation of industrial processes. It supports standalone, remote, and cloud-based deployments and runs on Windows, Linux, and ARM platforms (including Raspberry Pi). WEBICC SCADA provides web HMI visualization using SVG graphics, data logging, alarm management, real-time and historical charts, and reporting, all accessible through any modern HTML5 web browser without client installation. WEBICC SCADA features a modern web HMI designer with on-the-fly configuration, allowing rapid development and easy customization of industrial dashboards. The platform is suitable for edge SCADA applications, supports distributed architectures, and enables secure remote access to industrial data. WEBICC is designed for system integrators seeking a flexible, lightweight, and cost-effective alternative to traditional SCADA systems, without vendor lock-in.Starting Price: €403.9 -
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Fernhill SCADA
Fernhill Software
Fernhill SCADA is a scalable SCADA offer based on a client server architecture. Supports multiple clients and redundant architectures. Easy to use and setup. Drivers for common PLCs: Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi Melsec, Omron, Siemens S7 & more. Open protocol drivers for: BACnet, DNP3, Modbus. Supports open data access interfaces including OPC UA, OPC Classic, ODBC, MQTT & more. Built-in historian and trending. Configured using a single Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The runtime works across multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. Free runtime - deploy any number of SCADA systems with one low cost developer license.Starting Price: Free runtime -
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Open Automation Software
Open Automation Software
Liberate your Industry 4.0 data with Open Automation Software IIoT platform for Windows and Linux. OAS is truly an unlimited IoT Gateway for Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi 4, Windows IoT Core, and Docker deployments. Create HMI visualization for web, WPF, and WinForm C# and VB .NET applications. Log data and alarms to SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, MariaDB, SQLite, InfluxDB, and CSV files. MQTT Broker and Client interface along with cloud connectivity to Azure IoT and AWS IoT Gateway. Read and write data from remote Excel Workbooks. Alarm notification to email, SMS text, and voice messaging. .NET and REST API programmatic access. Allen Bradley ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix, Micro800, MicroLogix, SLC 500, and PLC-5. Siemens S7-200, S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200, and S7-1500. Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, and Modbus ASCII for Master and Slave communications. OPTO-22, MTConnect, and OPC UA, OPC DA.Starting Price: $495 one-time payment -
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Ignition SCADA
Inductive Automation
Ignition SCADA by Inductive Automation® combines an unlimited licensing model, with instant web-based deployment, and the industry-leading toolset for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) — all on one open and scalable universal platform. Ignition is The New SCADA because it solves all the major pain points of old SCADA . Ignition empowers your business to easily control your processes, and track, display, and analyze all your data, without limits. Ignition SCADA software comes standard with a comprehensive set of data acquisition tools which includes built-in OPC UA to connect to practically any PLC, and the ability to seamlessly connect to any SQL database. Ignition can also turn any SQL database into a high-performance industrial historian and connects to IIoT devices through MQTT.Starting Price: $1620 one-time fee -
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Adroit Ignite
Adroit Technologies
Adroit Technologies have been developing SCADA/HMI software for over 30 years. With over 30 000 licenses sold globally into every industry imaginable. The Adroit Ignite HMI software is a perfect derivative of the Adroit SCADA targeted at smaller industrial applications, OEM and machine builders to use. Built on the Microsoft .NET technology stack the Adroit Ignite design surface supports the widest ability to integrate virtually any aspect of your control system. Giving you access to all the familiar .Net controls, Vector Graphics and even allows you to drop in and use your own Custom Controls within your visualization design. Integration can be supported through scripting which is integrated into Visual Studio to allow even the most complex extensions. Our I/O Server delivers data from all the well known PLC brands and open standards such as OPC, OPC UA, Web Services, OLEDB , MQTT, BACNet As we tell our customers, If you can dream it you can build it in Adroit IgniteStarting Price: $250 USD -
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Winlog
Sielco Sistemi srl
Winlog is a SCADA/HMI software platform for developing multilingual industrial automation applications. It is available as Winlog Pro for standard projects and Winlog Evo for advanced web-based and database-integrated solutions. The platform includes extensive graphic libraries with thousands of static and animated objects for rapid HMI development. Winlog supports major industrial communication protocols, including Modbus RTU/TCP, Siemens, Allen-Bradley, OPC DA/UA and MQTT for Industrial IoT integration with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS and HiveMQ. It offers recipe management, alarm handling, data logging, CSV/PDF reporting, and integration with MySQL, SQL Server and other databases via APIs. Applications can be accessed remotely through Web Client, Web App and Smart App, while the free Winlog Remote app for Android and iOS provides mobile access and push alarm notifications.Starting Price: $415/PC -
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eXtremeDB
McObject
How is platform independent eXtremeDB different? - Hybrid data storage. Unlike other IMDS, eXtremeDB can be all-in-memory, all-persistent, or have a mix of in-memory tables and persistent tables - Active Replication Fabric™ is unique to eXtremeDB, offering bidirectional replication, multi-tier replication (e.g. edge-to-gateway-to-gateway-to-cloud), compression to maximize limited bandwidth networks and more - Row & Columnar Flexibility for Time Series Data supports database designs that combine row-based and column-based layouts, in order to best leverage the CPU cache speed - Embedded and Client/Server. Fast, flexible eXtremeDB is data management wherever you need it, and can be deployed as an embedded database system, and/or as a client/server database system -A hard real-time deterministic option in eXtremeDB/rt Designed for use in resource-constrained, mission-critical embedded systems. Found in everything from routers to satellites to trains to stock markets worldwide -
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GENESIS64
Iconics
GENESIS64™ is an advanced HMI SCADA solution suite designed for Microsoft operating systems. ICONICS GENESIS64 suite delivers unparalleled performance with OPC, BACnet, Modbus, and open standard database connectivity. The GENESIS64 suite provides connectivity from plant floor SCADA and building facilities to corporate business systems. Designed to leverage 64-bit and OPC UA technologies, GENESIS64 allows operators, executives, and IT professionals to integrate real-time manufacturing, energy, and business information into a secure and unified web-enabled visualization dashboard. -
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VTScada
Trihedral
VTScada is award-winning software that provides a refreshingly intuitive platform for creating highly-customized industrial monitoring and control applications that end users can trust and use with ease. A wide variety of industries around the world use VTScada for mission-critical applications of every size. VTScada is unique in that all its core SCADA components are developed in-house and are installed out-of-the-box. No need to cobble together basic functionality using custom code and third-party components like alarm dialers, Historians, and application version control. Built-in is better.Starting Price: $3,295 one-time fee -
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inVIEW IIoT Platform
INDAS
The inVIEW IIoT Platform from INDAS is a Cloud solution for remote supervisory, control and data acquisition projects. It is utilized for visualization and control of any kind of real-world automated processes or applications using web-browsers and for the gathering of data from the automation equipment or IoT devices. The inVIEW IIoT Platform can be used in industrial, residential, infrastructure or even home automation projects. The inVIEW IIoT Platform is a service of using cloud-hosted inVIEW WebSCADA software for all kind of your remote supervisory, remote control and/or data acquisition projects. Create your projects and run your business on an industrial-grade reliable cloud solution with all costs known upfront. When using inVIEW IIoT Platform, for visualization of your data and for designing and editing of your project, you will need only web-browser on any kind of device. No additional software, add-ons or plug-ins of any kind are needed.