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Ignition Cloud Edition vs Insights Hub comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Ignition Cloud Edition
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Insights Hub
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Ignition Cloud Edition is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Insights Hub is 0.2%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Insights Hub0.2%
Ignition Cloud Edition0.2%
Other99.6%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

David Titus - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Zinsa Technologies
Reduced downtime and costs have transformed multi-site monitoring and predictive maintenance
The best features Ignition Cloud Edition offers are valuable, including multiple features which I appreciate, such as the cloud marketplace procurement, which helps us to bypass the traditional slow software procurement by billing the software directly to our organization's existing infrastructure, giving us software implementation and helping us to accomplish things in a better way. The procurement is straightforward and easy. Ignition Cloud Edition also has pre-packaged core modules that automatically include the most critical tools from a web and mobile screens perspective. Additionally, it has lightweight IoT data transfer, alarm notification, and reporting. Thirdly, it features elastic scalability, allowing it to be instantly upgraded by the underlying cloud server CPU and RAM during massive data events without needing to rack and configure new physical hardware.
PT
OT Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Energy dashboards have given us clear cost insights and guide data driven production decisions
I hope Insights Hub can support a UMS idea and solution in the future. If we have a UMS hub or data center, Insights Hub could integrate with our database, allowing us to share one data center regardless of whether it is our MES system, SCADA system, or Insights Hub, which would be more efficient for a global company. Insights Hub could connect to our UMS data center, which would eliminate the need to rebuild a connection between the shop floor and Insights Hub. Additionally, Insights Hub could support MES functions, allowing us to integrate with the production line and transfer the ERP order from the ERP to our shop floor, thus helping the ERP be more efficient. This would include performing a buy-off from the shop floor to the ERP and adjusting the production plan for the ERP production order for greater efficiency in our production planning. I hope we can achieve MES functions in an IoT solution such as Insights Hub. One point I am not so satisfied with regarding Insights Hub is the gateway, which I believe runs on a Linux or Unix OS but does not display well for our end-users. This requires us to ask for help and support from our IT department as we cannot perform what we can do with a Windows device, such as RDP to the gateway and monitor any issues inside. Sometimes we do not know the issue exactly and have to check the log, which is very complex for the end-user.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Ignition platform is a general, powerful platform that is easy to use and cost-effective, where in most cases, you pay one time for your license and then use it forever."
"Ignition Cloud Edition has positively impacted my organization by enabling sharing so that projects can be shared without everyone having to access them through manual file sharing."
"My main use case for Ignition Cloud Edition, even if it's just in my learning phase, was that it is a very interesting cloud platform, it was very much feasible, it can interface to multiple types of controllers and also with RTUs, and I see that its application can be used in other applications which is much more comfortable than other available platforms."
"Both the database and Ignition can be set up very easily without any hardware, and reliability and high availability are always there, built in."
"What I love about Ignition Cloud Edition is the advantages and functionalities it has over other SCADA software."
"Ignition gives you the blank paper to dream it, reach it, and draw whatever you need."
"We did not anticipate the surprising positive impact Ignition Cloud Edition would have on our organization, considering that we did not think it would provide such good results, but it has definitely given us remarkable outcomes."
"Given that great variety and diversity of machines, the main characteristic of Insights Hub is that it allows me to talk to that diversity of machines, and therefore I can extract data from them and monitor my plant without needing to use additional developments or additional configurations."
"Insights Hub is a good IoT solution and cloud solution, with easy to normal implementation difficulty for a company, and it can provide some help for our company to do modifications or adjustments."
"Insights Hub is an overall major good framework for everybody to monitor the shop floor."
"Insights Hub has provided significant positive impact to my organization, including 30 to 50 percent faster incident resolution, fewer SEV one outages, reduced alert fatigue by 20 to 30 percent, better SLA compliance, and increased customer satisfaction."
 

Cons

"The way the historian is set up is not conducive to large deployments and it makes querying the data challenging."
"My concern is about cybersecurity. Since it's a cloud platform, the chances of countering cybersecurity attacks will be a major concern."
"The accuracy of Ignition Cloud Edition is not very great, and reliability also needs improvement."
"For someone considering Ignition Cloud Edition, I think it is not bad, but honestly, I see it as overpriced."
"The pricing aspect of Ignition Cloud Edition is actually on the high side."
"As of now, Insights Hub is an under-developed platform, so there is no organization-level impact."
"Insights Hub has a connection with Grafana, but I would like it to be improved."
"The learning curve is steep as it requires skill to fully utilize and is not very beginner-friendly, and querying can be complex."
"One point I am not so satisfied with regarding Insights Hub is the gateway, which I believe runs on a Linux or Unix OS but does not display well for our end-users."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
33%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Wholesaler/Distributor
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Insurance Company
68%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Manufacturing Company
2%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Ignition Cloud Edition?
Ignition Cloud Edition itself functions well, but Ignition in general has some things that could be improved, and the cloud edition also has those same issues. The way the historian is set up is no...
What is your primary use case for Ignition Cloud Edition?
I spin up an instance of Ignition Cloud Edition and simulate a bunch of tags and record them in a separate database.
What needs improvement with Insights Hub?
Insights Hub has a connection with Grafana, but I would like it to be improved.
What is your primary use case for Insights Hub?
Insights Hub is used for monitoring equipment in the plant, mainly for OEE calculation. Within Insights Hub, Mendix has an application called OEE Hub, which allows me to connect the machines to the...
 

Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about Ignition Cloud Edition vs. Insights Hub and other solutions. Updated: June 2026.
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