Microsoft Azure IoT Central vs. ThingsBoard

Microsoft Azure IoT Central

ThingsBoard

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure IoT Central	Score 4.0 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Azure IoT Central allows users to connect IoT devices to the cloud and offers centralized management to configure and updated connected devices.	N/A
ThingsBoard	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT Platform supporting IoT device management, data collection, processing and visualization for connected IoT solutions.	$10 per month/up to 30 devices

Pricing

Microsoft Azure IoT Central

ThingsBoard

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Cloud: $10
per month/up to 30 devices
Professional Edition - Maker: $10
per month/up to 10 devices
Self Managed - Maker: $10
per month/up to 10 devices
Self Managed - Prototype: $99
per month/up to 100 devices
Professional Edition - Prototype: $149
per month/up to 100 devices
Trendz Analytics - Prototype: $175
per month/up to 200 devices
Self Managed - Startup: $199
per month/up to 500 devices
Trendz Analytics - Startup: $200
per month/up to 500 devices
Trendz Analytics - Business: $350
per month/up to 1,000 devices
Professional Edition - Startup: $399
per month/up to 500 devices
Self Managed - Perpetual Fallback License: 2,999
one time purchase
Community Edition: Free
Trendz Analytics - Perpetual Fallback License: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure IoT Central	ThingsBoard
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Azure IoT Central	ThingsBoard
Considered Both Products	Azure IoT Central AK Adi Kochavi Programmer Chose Azure IoT Central Handles excellently and after trying a few of them I saw that it is most suitable for the current work of the company and all the products that the company works with Incentivized Helpful? MS Mirza Sisic Test Engineer Chose Azure IoT Central Before deciding to go with Microsoft Azure IoT Central, we considered Google, Datadog, and AWS alternatives. The reason we went with Azure was that the client was heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and Azure plays really well with other Microsoft products. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure IoT Central I haven't used any similar product, but I have heard about Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud capabilities. I don't know how would Azure stack up to them. Incentivized Helpful?	ThingsBoard FS f.sauve sauvé Process Engineer Chose ThingsBoard AWS -> too loud :) Incentivized Helpful?

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	Microsoft Azure IoT Central	ThingsBoard
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Azure IoT Central	ThingsBoard
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Azure IoT Central	ThingsBoard
Likelihood to Recommend	If there is a need for a system to be developed in a short time then Azure IoT Central is the perfect option, offering a fast solution for a simple system that can be used and built upon. This is a great advantage as it skips on some details, also this is a bit of a disadvantage as most times developers want to know what they are working with. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Immediate installation on cloud VM FS f.sauve sauvé Process Engineer Read full review
Pros	Creation and management of user roles, who can access your IoT resources and configure the level of access, very granular and self-explanatory Configuration of apps and devices, integrations, and administrations are done in an intuitive way and it's easy to navigate your way through the available settings. The documentation is really excellent, everything is explained succinctly and there are enough practical examples to get you started. Existing templates can save you a lot of time in getting your desired setup complete with less effort and time invested. Incentivized MS Mirza Sisic Test Engineer Read full review	API integration users management easy to use great UI Easy to upgrade Few configuration task FS f.sauve sauvé Process Engineer Read full review
Cons	Lack of info on error messages GUI misses important configuration options Not well documented options inside IoT Hub for example (consumer groups) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	MicroPython Library not yet available for downlink DATA FS f.sauve sauvé Process Engineer Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	near to Zero Conf FS f.sauve sauvé Process Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Before deciding to go with Microsoft Azure IoT Central, we considered Google, Datadog, and AWS alternatives. The reason we went with Azure was that the client was heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and Azure plays really well with other Microsoft products. The competitive products might be a little bit easier to set up, with more flexible pricing, but, the integrations with other Microsoft services were the deciding factor for our use case. Incentivized MS Mirza Sisic Test Engineer Read full review	AWS -> too loud :) FS f.sauve sauvé Process Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Continuous and significant progress Integration of the product in the ongoing work and improvement of our system capacity Convenient interface Incentivized AK Adi Kochavi Programmer Read full review	TB CE is real production tool TB CE is quite the same as TB PE so move to PE is easier FS f.sauve sauvé Process Engineer Read full review
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