# Ubidots alternative for a small fleet (https://logable.app/compare/ubidots-alternative) Ubidots and Logable compared row by row, checked on 12 September 2026: alert channels, retention, reports, team size and entry price. Ubidots keeps data longer and reaches a phone in more ways. Logable costs less at the entry plan, and tells the next person when the first one does not answer. ## The short answer Both products take readings, draw them and alert on them. The split is the size of the fleet and the way the alert has to arrive. - **Choose Ubidots when the alert must reach a plain phone** Professional includes 10 SMS or voice alerts a month. Logable does not send SMS, so it needs a data connection. - **Choose Ubidots when you need a year of raw data** Six months on Professional and 24 months on Industrial, against 60 days of raw readings on Logable. - **Choose Logable for a small fleet and a small team** Starter is USD 25 for 8 devices and Growth USD 49 for 25, with 6 members across four roles. ## Ubidots and Logable, side by side Every row on the left carries the page it was read from. The Ubidots column describes the Professional plan unless the row says otherwise. | | Ubidots | Logable | | --- | --- | --- | | MQTT | Yes. Documented with broker URLs and publish topics. [1] | Yes. MQTT over TLS. A device publishes to its own topic with its own token. | | HTTPS and REST | Yes. HTTP and REST are documented for sending readings in and for reading them back out. [1] | Yes. HTTPS. One POST per reading to the device endpoint, with a device token. | | Modbus | No. The API reference index lists no Modbus page. [1] | Through a gateway. Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP through a gateway that publishes MQTT. A field guide covers the setup. | | LoRaWAN | No LoRaWAN page appears in the API reference index. [1] | No LoRaWAN support. A LoRaWAN network server can post readings over HTTPS, but Logable decodes no LoRaWAN payloads. | | Dashboards | Yes. Dashboards, with up to 5 end users, 5 organizations and 1 admin user on Professional. [2] | Yes. A drag and drop dashboard builder. 50 dashboards on every plan. | | Alert rules | Yes. Condition rules, scheduled triggers and inactivity detection. Professional includes 1,000 event executions a month. [2] | Yes. Trigger rules with ready-made presets, deadband, confirmation samples and dwell. No per-plan limit on the number of rules. | | Escalation and quiet hours | No escalation stages or quiet hours are listed. Alerts go by SMS, email, voice, webhook and Telegram, with 100 email and 10 SMS or voice alerts a month on Professional. [2] | Yes. Escalation policies with stages and quiet hours. Alerts reach email, push and the in-app inbox. | | Reports | Yes. Automated CSV, XLS and PDF reports with scheduled delivery. [2] | Yes. A report builder on Growth and above. Saved and scheduled reports on Business and above. | | Mobile app | Yes. A mobile app, with a white-labelled version on the Industrial plan and above. [2] | Partial. An iOS and Android app for dashboards, devices and alerts, with push alerts on Growth and above. The public store listings are not open yet. | | Organizations and roles | Partial. Professional allows up to 5 end users, 5 organizations and 1 admin user. Industrial raises admin users to 10. [2] | Yes. Organizations with four roles: viewer, member, admin and owner. One login covers every site you manage. | | Your own branding | Yes. Custom domain and logo, as an add-on on every plan. Delegated user and organization management from the Industrial plan up. [2] | Yes. Your logo and brand colour across the whole dashboard, on the Industry plan. Partners run client organizations from one account. | | Hosted for you | Yes. Hosted by Ubidots. [2] | Yes. Hosted by Logable. Nothing to install. | | Self-hosted | Partial. A private deployment option is listed on the Enterprise plan, which is quoted. [2] | No self-hosted edition and no on-premise licence. | | How it is priced | A plan per tier with included devices, dots a second and monthly execution counts. Professional adds USD 2 per extra device up to 1,000. [2] | A flat price per plan, sized by device count. Monthly or annual, where annual pays for ten months. | | Entry price | Professional is USD 99 a month with 50 devices included. Industrial and Enterprise are quoted. [2] | Starter is R399 a month for 8 devices, or USD 25. A 14 day trial covers 5 devices and asks for no card. | | Data retention | Six months on Professional, 24 months on Industrial and over 24 months on Enterprise. [2] | Raw readings for 60 days. Hourly and daily summaries are kept after that. | | Support | A standard support response on Industrial. A 24 hour response with a technical account manager on Enterprise. [2] | Email support through the contact page on every plan. Priority support on the Industry plan. | Checked on 12 September 2026. [1] [Ubidots API reference index](https://docs.ubidots.com/v1.6/llms.txt), read 12 September 2026. [2] [Ubidots pricing page](https://ubidots.com/pricing/), read 12 September 2026. If a row here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it. https://logable.app/contact?subject=other&page=%2Fcompare%2Fubidots-alternative ## Where Ubidots is the better choice Five reasons to buy Ubidots instead. Every one of them is in the table above. - **SMS and voice alerts** Professional includes ten a month. Logable sends email, push notifications and an in-app inbox message, and nothing over a voice call. - **Data kept for six months or longer** Six months on Professional and 24 months on Industrial, against 60 days of raw readings on Logable. - **A documented API for reading data out** REST, MQTT, CoAP and TCP or UDP are documented for building your own application on top. Logable documents the ingest path and outgoing webhooks. - **UbiFunctions** Serverless functions inside the platform, for custom processing. Professional includes 1,000 executions a month. - **Scheduled CSV, XLS and PDF reports** Listed on the pricing page as a platform capability, on every plan from Professional up. ## Where Logable is the better choice Five reasons to buy Logable instead, each one checked in the product. - **Entry price for a small fleet** Starter is USD 25 for 8 devices and Growth is USD 49 for 25, against USD 99 for 50 on Professional. - **Six people on the entry plan** Growth includes 6 members across four roles: viewer, member, admin and owner. Each person sees only what the role allows. - **Escalation stages and quiet hours** If the first person does not acknowledge, the next one is told. Quiet hours hold a non-critical alert until the morning. - **Device types for weighing and storage** Silos, belt scales, weigh bins and check weighers arrive with their metrics, their widgets and their rules already defined. - **Rand pricing and local invoicing** Starter is R399 a month and Growth is R749, invoiced by a South African company. > Six people on the plan, not one admin and five viewers. > > Growth includes six members across four roles. Each one opens a dashboard, sets a rule and acknowledges an alert, as far as the role allows. ## What moving over involves Moving over starts a new history for every device. A device is pointed at the Logable MQTT or HTTPS endpoint with a new token, and the history begins from that moment. Dashboards are rebuilt from the templates and the rules from the presets. One gap remains: Logable does not send SMS, so an alarm that must reach a phone off the data network needs a different answer. ## Every reading on one screen A dashboard built by dragging widgets onto a grid, from a template for the equipment you run. ## The drive motor reaches 92.4 °C at 02:14 The push names the motor and the temperature, and the alert is critical, so quiet hours never hold it. If nobody acknowledges, the next name on the list is told. ## Frequently asked questions ### Why does Logable not send SMS alerts? Alerts reach email, push notifications on the mobile app, the in-app inbox and outgoing webhooks. There is no SMS channel and no voice call. If an alarm has to reach a phone with no data connection, Ubidots includes ten SMS or voice alerts a month on Professional and Logable is the wrong choice. ### How long does Logable keep my data? Raw readings are kept for 60 days. Hourly and daily summaries are kept after that, so a chart over a year still draws and a report over a quarter still runs. Ubidots keeps raw data for six months on Professional and 24 months on Industrial. ### How many people can use one Logable account? Starter includes 3 members, Growth includes 6 and Business includes 80, across four roles: viewer, member, admin and owner. Ubidots Professional allows 1 admin user and up to 5 end users. ### Can I read my data back out of Logable with an API? Logable documents the way readings come in, over MQTT and HTTPS, and the way events go out, over webhooks. There is no documented read API for building your own application on top. Ubidots documents REST, MQTT, CoAP and TCP or UDP for exactly that. ## The other comparisons - [Datacake](https://logable.app/compare/datacake-alternative): The same table for a hosted LoRaWAN platform. - [ThingsBoard](https://logable.app/compare/thingsboard-alternative): The same table for an open platform you host yourself. - [Water tank monitoring](https://logable.app/solutions/water-tank-monitoring): See the level in every water tank live, and hear before one runs dry or overflows. ## See the alert on your own equipment Open the live demo, or talk to us about the equipment you want to watch.