Compare the Top Free SCADA Software as of November 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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