Quoting and estimating platform for custom manufacturers that reads 3D CAD, detects features, flags manufacturability issues and applies your own pricing rules.
- Best for
- Established job shops (roughly 10-50+ people) quoting many custom parts per week
- Price
- Custom quote; not published. Vendor says price depends on shop size, RFQ volume, modules, integrations and contract length.
Upload CAD, PDFs or drawings (or forward RFQ emails to an inbox) and get DFM risk flags plus an editable draft quote.
- Best for
- CNC shops that want faster first-pass quotes with machinability checks
- Price
- Free to try, no credit card required. Paid pricing not published.
Prices milled, turned and sheet-metal parts from the STEP model plus the PDF print, using editable formulas tied to your own machines and rates.
- Best for
- Small machine shops (1-20 people) that want transparent, formula-based quoting
- Price
- $199/month for the whole shop, unlimited users. 14-day free trial, no card, no contract.
Reads geometry from STEP/IGES or drawings, checks the part against your machines, and prices it on your rates, with an approval gate before anything reaches the customer.
- Best for
- Small shops that want an instant-quote widget on their own website
- Price
- From €119/month (Start, up to 100 quotes) or €5 per quote pay-as-you-go; Pro €219/month; prices net of VAT. 14-day trial.
Quoting plus production software for contract manufacturers: CAD in, rule-based draft quote out, with routing and shop-floor modules on higher tiers.
- Best for
- Mixed-process shops (CNC + 3D printing + molding)
- Price
- Startup $330/month; Pro $880/month; Factory Floor custom. One-year initial term.
Connects to your RFQ inbox, opens the CAD, drawing and BOM in each request, drafts the estimate and lets you reply on the same email thread.
- Best for
- US machine and fab shops under 100 people drowning in emailed RFQs
- Price
- Starts at $195/month (1-2 employee shops); vendor says most shops pay $195-$495/month depending on headcount and ITAR. Month-to-month, free 1-week trial.
General quote-to-cash assistant for trades: picks up requests from Gmail/Outlook, reads STEP files, drafts a priced quote from your history, and books invoices in QuickBooks or Xero.
- Best for
- Very small shops (1-5 people) that want cheap quoting plus invoicing
- Price
- Free (3 AI quotes/month); Solo $14.99/mo; Business $49/mo; Pro $99/mo (unlimited).
Watches estimators' inboxes, turns RFQs with prints into drafts, extracts BOMs, and matches each line against your past won quotes.
- Best for
- Fabrication and job shops with a large library of past quotes
- Price
- From $399/month for solo shops.
AI part analysis (DFM, cycle-time and cost estimates) plus toolpath generation inside Autodesk Fusion; also sold as an API.
- Best for
- Fusion-based shops wanting estimating and CAM help in one place
- Price
- API plans: Free (100 DFM analyses + 10 estimates/month), Core $400/mo, higher tier $1,500/mo. Shop-app pricing beyond free tools: unknown.
Plug-in that proposes machining strategies, operations and toolpaths for 3-axis and 3+2 milling inside your existing CAM package. Vendor says it gets you up to 80% of the program.
- Best for
- Milling shops where the programmer is the bottleneck
- Price
- Bespoke, per active seat; not published in the US. (A Chinese reseller page lists annual plans from ¥2,780/month.)
AI CAM agent that runs natively inside Mastercam and Siemens NX and generates editable, ready-to-post toolpaths using your tool libraries.
- Best for
- Shops already on Mastercam or NX doing 3-axis work
- Price
- Not published (per seat, contact vendor).
Widely used CAD/CAM with automation features; the Manufacturing Extension adds advanced toolpaths and automated programming aids. A common base for AI add-ins like Toolpath and CAM Assist.
- Best for
- Small shops wanting affordable all-in-one CAD/CAM
- Price
- Fusion $680/user/year; Manufacturing Extension $1,465/user/year (requires Fusion).
Combined ERP, MES and quality system built by a machine shop, aimed at precision shops needing AS9100/ITAR/FDA traceability.
- Best for
- Aerospace, defense and medical job shops (10-200 people)
- Price
- Quote-based; third-party listing says from about $500/month.
Cloud ERP/MES for job shops with quoting, job tracking, inventory, quality and an Autoschedule feature that re-plans from live production data.
- Best for
- Machining and sheet-metal shops replacing legacy ERP
- Price
- Third-party listing says from about $800/month; vendor requires a demo for pricing.
Long-running job-shop ERP covering quoting, job costing, scheduling and inventory, with an AI BOM Builder add-on that drafts bills of materials from PDFs, spreadsheets and images.
- Best for
- Make-to-order job shops (5-100 people)
- Price
- Quote-based; a third-party listing cites from $6,000/year.
Job-shop ERP from ECI (formerly Shoptech) with estimating, order management, scheduling whiteboard, purchasing and accounting.
- Best for
- Small job shops that want a widely-supported ERP
- Price
- Quote-based; not published.
ERP for job shops and make-to-order manufacturers covering quoting, scheduling, inventory and accounting.
- Best for
- Small to mid job shops
- Price
- Third-party listing: from $125/user/month.
Machine monitoring and MES: real-time dashboards, alerts, ERP-connected job tracking and drag-and-drop scheduling.
- Best for
- Shops of 20+ machines that want monitoring plus scheduling
- Price
- Volume-based subscription; price not published.
Hands-off production monitoring for CNC shops: connects to FANUC and Haas controls to capture cycle times, part counts, alarms and tool-level data with no operator input.
- Best for
- Small precision CNC shops focused on cycle time and job costing
- Price
- Per machine per year; custom quote.
OEE and machine monitoring with broad CNC protocol support, unlimited users and cloud or on-prem options.
- Best for
- Job shops wanting budget-friendly OEE tracking
- Price
- Third-party review lists cloud tiers of $47-$140/machine/month plus a $1,000-$2,500 one-time activation; vendor asks you to request pricing.
Factory operations platform using clip-on current sensors and PLC connections, so it works on old machines without network controls.
- Best for
- Shops with older or mixed equipment
- Price
- Not published; third-party estimate around $50/machine/month. Now sold by ECI Software Solutions.
Software-only monitoring pointed at the controller IP; free tier for real-time dashboards, paid tier adds integrations and an MCP server so you can ask an AI assistant about your machines.
- Best for
- Small shops wanting to try monitoring for free
- Price
- Free tier; Full $30/machine/month. No extra hardware.
Inspection planning and quality platform: automated 2D/3D ballooning, GD&T/PMI extraction, CMM integration and AS9102/PPAP reports.
- Best for
- CMM-heavy shops doing aerospace/automotive FAI
- Price
- Not published.
Ballooning and characteristic-capture software for drawings, with measurement import and AS9102/PPAP templates.
- Best for
- Shops producing frequent FAI reports
- Price
- Not published.
Browser-based AI that reads 2D PDF drawings, places balloons and fills AS9102 Form 3 with dimensions, tolerances and GD&T for human review.
- Best for
- Small aerospace shops doing occasional AS9102 FAIs
- Price
- First drawing free, no signup; then per-drawing pricing (amount not published).
Train camera-based defect detection models in the browser, then run them on industrial PCs or cameras with LandingEdge.
- Best for
- Shops piloting visual inspection without hiring a vision engineer
- Price
- Free plan (1,000 credits/month, up to 3 users; downloaded models non-commercial only). Enterprise pricing via sales.
Turnkey AI camera inspection stations for cosmetic defects, including multi-camera setups for small parts.
- Best for
- Higher-volume part runs where 100% inspection is required
- Price
- Not published.
Platform for training small ML models (vibration, sound, temperature, images) and deploying them onto microcontrollers, PLCs like Arduino Opta, and edge computers.
- Best for
- DIY-minded shops and integrators building sensor-based anomaly detection
- Price
- Developer plan free for prototyping; production deployment requires an Enterprise subscription (custom pricing).
DIN-rail micro PLC (Wi-Fi/BLE, Ethernet, RS-485, 8 inputs, 4 relays) programmable with ladder logic or Arduino code, and able to run small ML models.
- Best for
- Adding simple monitoring or smart logic to an older machine
- Price
- Opta WiFi listed at €206 (VAT incl.) on the Arduino EU store; US price varies.
Low-cost hardware for running vision models locally: a camera with an on-sensor AI chip (Sony IMX500) and an add-on accelerator board for Raspberry Pi 5.
- Best for
- Cheap vision experiments (part presence, counting, simple checks)
- Price
- AI Camera $70; AI HAT+ $70 (13 TOPS) or $110 (26 TOPS).