Compare the Top Free SCADA Software as of July 2025

What is Free SCADA Software?

SCADA software is used to control and manage the information between software and industrial equipment with the purpose of monitoring industrial processes. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free SCADA software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    FactoryStudio
    Tatsoft’s FactoryStudio gives you the tools to rapidly design powerful and secure industrial applications! Features: real-time data modeling, data logging, MQTT broker/client/spB, audit trail, alarms & events, visual SQL query database gateway, high-performance smart displays, HTML5 dashboards, WPF drawing tools, iOS app, trends & annotations, reporting & more! You can program scripts in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript and Python. With ZERO install on the client side, and only 2 minutes install server side, you can be up and building performance improving applications in no time! Includes dozens of built-in native protocol drivers to PLCs, DCSs, and support for other industry standards, like OPC and MQTT. Need a driver we don’t have yet? We also have a toolkit for protocol driver development! FactoryStudio can act as your data hub for everything in your industrial ecosystem: your link between IT and OT, your real-time devices, and your SQL data sources with easy data-binding
    Starting Price: $960 one-time fee
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    WEBICC

    WEBICC

    AEG COMMISSIONING

    Discover the WEBICC SCADA solution for the management and automation of industrial processes, perfectly adapted for the digital age. With a 100% web and multi-platform interface, WEBICC SCADA fits the needs of projects of any size, from the most compact to the most ambitious. Create complex and customized visualizations easily using SVG graphical symbol screens, data logs, alarms, maintenance notifications, emails, real-time and historical graphs, plus detailed reports. Our applications run smoothly in any modern HTML5 compatible browser, be it a touch panel PC, computer, tablet or smartphone. Our server runs on Windows, Linux operating systems and ARM architectures such as Raspberry Pi. The client application requires no installation, requiring only a free web browser. Transform the way you interact with industrial systems with WEBICC SCADA – superlative efficiency, flexibility and control.
    Starting Price: €403.9
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    FactoryTalk Optix

    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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    Fernhill SCADA

    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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    Ignition SCADA

    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 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 Ignite
    Starting Price: $250 USD
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    VTScada

    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
    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.
    Starting Price: $3 per month
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    MatDeck

    MatDeck

    LabDeck

    MatDeck is a universal, technical software for Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Coding, Databases and many other uses. Our software offers a complete Python IDE; thousands of mathematical functions; a drag and drop GUI Designer and various visualization tools, all embedded within a cutting-edge, live document for an inexpensive and professional computing environment.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Aircada Pro
    Aircada Pro makes it easy to create augmented reality HMIs and overlay existing SCADA data above each piece of equipment. Workers can harness their phone’s camera to view their data in real-time, gaining access to each of the machines’ schematics, historical data, analytics, and more. Aircada Pro offers several features including: -Live in the field data monitoring. -Augmented reality tasks and work orders. -Alarms for fast response troubleshooting. -Facility map to search and locate all assets. -Messenger for efficient team communication. -Customizable virtual reality SCADA displays. With Aircada Pro and augmented reality, maintenance teams will now have all the information they need, live in the field, to safely, quickly, and enjoyably get the job done.
    Starting Price: $89/month/user
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    COMBIVIS Studio 6
    Combivis Studio 6 is an all-in-one Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used by machine builders to design scalable and effective HMI screens to control KEB drives, motors, and brakes. Studio 6 includes KEB’s powerful libraries which facilitate EtherCAT drive communication, Master-Follower synchronization, and Camming profiles. All system development needs can be met throughout the entire project lifecycle with Combivis Studio 6. From prototype to commissioning and support, Combivis has the tools for success. Combivis Studio 6 includes a product selection configurator, IEC-1131-3 programming editor, fieldbus and remote I/O configurator, quick set-up wizards, and full access to all KEB product documentation.
    Starting Price: 0
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    Peakboard

    Peakboard

    Peakboard

    With its low-code platform for creating industrial applications, Peakboard GmbH assists production and logistics companies in monitoring their internal processes and managing their own systems interactively. The solution can gather process data from all common data sources, including SAP, machine controls, material flow controls, and Excel. It can then evaluate and display this data on screens in real-time. This approach enables easy identification of sources of errors, thereby increasing productivity. Customers have the autonomy to decide which key figures they would like to be displayed on the dashboard. Furthermore, information can be relayed to over 90 connected IT interfaces using touchscreens. This establishes an intuitive user interface that employees in production and the warehouse can utilize to interact with the complex IT landscape. As a result, controlling production machinery becomes as simple as using a smartphone.
    Starting Price: 708 € (annually/license)
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    LAquis SCADA
    Supervisory control and data acquisition system. Monitoring, screens/interface, storage, process control, administration, management, generation of realtime reports and advanced customizable documents with calculations, layouts and algorithms. It can be locally or optionally via the WEB.
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    Rapid SCADA

    Rapid SCADA

    Rapid Software

    Rapid SCADA is an open-source industrial automation platform. The out-of-the-box software provides tools for rapid creation of monitoring and control systems. In case of large implementation, Rapid SCADA is used as a core for the development of custom SCADA and MES solutions for a Customer. Open source is the key to software transparency and security. The licensing model permits the creation of new derivative software products. Rapid SCADA is a perfect choice for creating large distributed industrial automation systems. Rapid SCADA runs on servers, embedded computers and in the cloud. Rapid SCADA nodes exchange information between themselves and interact with external databases in real-time. Acquisitions and dispositions are automatically created in your electronic bound book when you receive and sell through our 100% ATF Compliant POS system.
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