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1NCE vs AWS IoT Core comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

1NCE
Ranking in IoT Connectivity
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
AWS IoT Core
Ranking in IoT Connectivity
2nd
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IoT Connectivity category, the mindshare of 1NCE is 2.9%. The mindshare of AWS IoT Core is 22.4%, down from 41.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IoT Connectivity Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS IoT Core22.4%
1NCE2.9%
Other74.7%
IoT Connectivity
 

Featured Reviews

Pieter Geelen - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelancer at geelen.io
IoT projects have become effortless as I manage long‑life sensor connectivity and tracking
I think the cool part about 1NCE is that they provide SIM cards for ten years, making them relevant for ten years. It is fairly cheap to get a SIM card from them and if you have a need for particular networks, they support the breadth of networks. With IoT sensors, for example, the 2G and 3G are probably more used. NarrowBand-IoT is also available there. When you want to bring a sensor in the field, it is going to have a certain lifetime and you want to add a SIM card to that, and it is very easy to do that with 1NCE. The best features 1NCE offers in my experience are that you get the SIM cards, you have a platform in which you can manage your SIM cards and you have a backend where you can also communicate. What I think is really powerful about 1NCE is that you can just order it online. It is very simple to do, you have it really quickly and it just works out of the box. If you would compare that to other mobile phone or mobile network providers, then this would be a lot of work with contracts and other administrative tasks. Here you do not have that. Another nice feature is that their platform allows for geofencing or geolocation, so you can identify where what towers are being used and where your sensor approximately is. This also helps with tracking. They have the capability to manage network access, whether devices can go directly to the internet or have a different approach of accessing those devices. This covers the breadth of needs for bringing IoT and mobile network together. 1NCE has impacted my organization positively because I am a freelancer and I deliver this to customers. Customers very often struggle with getting started with IoT. They have to think about contracts for mobile phone providers or mobile network providers. Because 1NCE has a very simple business model, it is very easy to understand, very easy to budget, and that lowers the threshold for companies that want to start with this.
Christophe De Mulder - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Platform teams & principal enterprise architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Uses managed connectivity to stream telemetric data and reduce internal setup efforts
TLS encryption is used on the MQTT protocol, but no other specific security features are used. A custom certificate handling system has been built for short-lived and device-specific IoT device certificates, so a custom security model has been built. AWS IoT Core is used for the core only, and events are streamed to Kafka where they are further processed. Whether AWS IoT Core or another solution is used, it would not make that big of a difference because it just throws the events to the Kafka broker. There are no lacking features because the pure core is used and the rest is managed in-house. Discussions have been had with the AWS team itself. If AWS IoT Core is used just for basic functionality, it is very expensive. Price calculations were done together with AWS, the core product team, and the product manager for AWS IoT Core. They made an adaptation, and a few quarters ago, they introduced a feature that allows paying a decent price for just using the basic things that are needed. The price setting point of view is satisfactory. Building it ourselves was looked at because it was too expensive. Some open source tooling was considered because the key thing about having a good solution is that the open source tools that could be found were more than enough. The key thing is, of course, to make it resilient.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Instead of coordinating with different providers, the visibility and monitoring is key for any infrastructure, and provisioning through one platform is one of the best use cases."
"What I really appreciate about 1NCE, and I think they are the only player that really does it like this, is that they provide the SIM card and it just works."
"Since I use 1NCE for IoT devices, it has significantly changed IoT device management and everything related to it."
"We estimate connectivity costs were reduced by around 20 to 30 percent and centralized device management saved several hours of administrative effort each month."
"1NCE has positively impacted our organization by reducing connectivity costs and simplifying the management of our IoT deployment, making it easier to scale effectively."
"The AWS team, technical experts, and technical support are very helpful, and satisfaction is high."
"It is a scalable solution if used in any of the cloud environments. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
 

Cons

"The areas for improvement could be around analytics and reporting flexibility."
"1NCE has a 500 MB lifetime cap, which is tight for some IoT devices that use more data."
"1NCE could be improved with more advanced analytics and reporting features for monitoring device performance and connectivity trends."
"One of the areas where AWS IoT Core lacks is in terms of the fact that it does not serve as a good visualization tool like Grafana or Kibana, making it an area where improvements are required."
"If AWS IoT Core is used just for basic functionality, it is very expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
27%
Outsourcing Company
21%
Educational Organization
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with 1NCE?
The areas for improvement could be around analytics and reporting flexibility. While the platform provides good operational visibility, having more customizable dashboards and deeper reporting capa...
What is your primary use case for 1NCE?
I have been using 1NCE for over a year and a half. Primarily, it is a solution for IoT connectivity and device communication use cases across distributed environments. My primary use case for 1NCE ...
What advice do you have for others considering 1NCE?
1NCE is a good product and I would recommend this. I would rate this review a 7.
What needs improvement with AWS IoT Core?
TLS encryption is used on the MQTT protocol, but no other specific security features are used. A custom certificate handling system has been built for short-lived and device-specific IoT device cer...
What is your primary use case for AWS IoT Core?
AWS IoT Core is used to stream in telemetric data from the vehicle. Predictive maintenance of vehicles is performed using this data to determine whether tires, the engine will fail, or if the vehic...
What advice do you have for others considering AWS IoT Core?
The core only is used, and the reason is because it is the core business, and there are a lot of things that are done in-house and done more efficiently. For people who want to use basic functional...
 

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Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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