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Ignition Cloud Edition vs Tulip comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Ignition Cloud Edition
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
117th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tulip
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
113th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 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 Tulip is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tulip0.2%
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.
Prabal Kanti Sarkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Digital workflows have replaced manual GMP paperwork and have improved pharma data compliance
In my experience with Tulip, its best features include being a low-code, no-code platform that provides drag-and-drop features, so I do not need to spend too much time creating or writing code for showing different screens. It comes with audit compliance and an audit trail, which ensures I do not need to worry about the audit aspect because Tulip itself is certified for that context. Additionally, it provides very easy workflow solutions with pre-built functions and scripts, giving me the flexibility and confidence to write business cases quickly. Tulip's audit trail functionality captures whatever activity we do, such as data insertions and logins, so all that information is captured. This helps because we do not need to worry much about development since Tulip has its own completion record and app record, which significantly aids us. Tulip is an MES software that can be created and reused across different interfaces. When we create a Tulip application, we can run it in any player in different workspace areas without caring about the interface, allowing for reusability and flexibility. Since using Tulip, my organization has positively transitioned from a lot of manual documentation for GMP compliance to digital, significantly reducing paperwork and now maintaining data retention within Tulip instead of manually. Moving from manual to digital with Tulip has resulted in cost savings, as we no longer have to manage excessive manual documentation. Since Tulip is a digital platform, all information, including automatic timestamping, is handled effortlessly, reducing human error, and its built-in audit trail mechanism aids in our compliance and overall processes.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Both the database and Ignition can be set up very easily without any hardware, and reliability and high availability are always there, built in."
"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."
"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."
"Ignition gives you the blank paper to dream it, reach it, and draw whatever you need."
"What I love about Ignition Cloud Edition is the advantages and functionalities it has over other SCADA software."
"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."
"Since using Tulip, my organization has positively transitioned from a lot of manual documentation for GMP compliance to digital, significantly reducing paperwork and now maintaining data retention within Tulip instead of manually."
 

Cons

"The accuracy of Ignition Cloud Edition is not very great, and reliability also needs improvement."
"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 pricing aspect of Ignition Cloud Edition is actually on the high side."
"For someone considering Ignition Cloud Edition, I think it is not bad, but honestly, I see it as overpriced."
"One area Tulip can be improved is addressing the issue that arises when multiple users use the same data tables for Tulip applications."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
36%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Wholesaler/Distributor
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Construction Company
41%
Healthcare Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Transportation Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
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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.
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