Compare / Head to head
MaintainX vs Fiix
The newer procedure-driven CMMS against the mature plant one. Really about whether "procedures" or "reliability engineering" is the language the team already speaks.
Checked 3 September 2026
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The actual decision
What you are really choosing between.
Whether the auditor asks "did you follow the procedure" (MaintainX) or the engineer asks "what is the mean time between failures on that pump" (Fiix). Same industry, different jobs.
MaintainX
MaintainX, Inc.
A cloud CMMS focused on procedure-driven maintenance: work orders with typed procedures, real-time chat per asset, preventive maintenance, parts and vendor management, and mobile-first offline capture. Sold per user, with an inspection module aimed at food, pharma and safety-critical shops.
Fiix
Rockwell Automation (Fiix)
A cloud CMMS with a strong plant lineage: assets, preventive maintenance, MRO inventory, purchasing, parts vendors, reliability analysis, and integrations into Rockwell's factory automation and MES stack. Sold per user in tiered plans, with a Foundation tier that is free for small teams.
Head to head
Where they actually differ.
Only the rows that differ. A comparison table padded with things both products do equally well is a table designed to be long rather than useful.
| MaintainX | Fiix | |
|---|---|---|
| What the work is | A typed procedure with steps, sign-offs and required fields. | A work order with failure codes, causes and reliability outcomes. |
| Depth of analytics | Focused on procedure completion and audit trail. | Deep reliability metrics, MTBF, MTTR, cost per asset. |
| Chat | Real-time, attached to the asset. | Not the product's move. |
| Factory-automation integration | Not the thesis. | Native to Rockwell FactoryTalk. |
| Free tier | Limited. | A real Foundation tier for small teams. |
Which to pick
Real reasons on both sides.
A matchup where one option never wins is not a comparison, and every reader can tell.
Choose MaintainX if…
- The regime is food, pharma, or another where procedures are the compliance model
- You want conversations about assets attached to the asset
- The team wants a modern, mobile-first product first
- Sign-off audits are more important than reliability analytics
Choose Fiix if…
- The buyer is a reliability engineer, not a compliance officer
- Failure codes and root-cause analysis are what the meetings are about
- Multi-site MRO inventory needs to be one thing
- Rockwell is on the floor
And now the part where we talk about ourselves
Where Rutba fits, on the same axes.
Constrained to what the comparison above actually examined. If neither product was measured on something, we do not get to win it here.
Neither is trying to be an ERP - we already are one
MaintainX exports material cost; somebody enters it in the ledger. Fiix syncs work orders to an accounting system; somebody reconciles them. Rutba posts through Rutba Inventory to Rutba Books directly, because the systems are one system.
The register serves the people who do not sign work orders
HR issues laptops from it. Accounting depreciates buildings from it. Facilities schedules cleaning on it. Neither MaintainX nor Fiix is that register; both keep their own, for their own users.
If you looked at us
The products this comparison touches.
With their real availability labels, which apply inside a comparison exactly as they do everywhere else.
Before you compare: Rutba Facilities is not generally available yet. Anything we claim above that rests on it is a statement about what ships, not about what you can buy today.
Rutba Facilities
Early accessAsset & facilities management software
Every asset the organisation owns — laptops, machines, vehicles, buildings and their spaces — in one register with custody events that never lose the trail, lifecycle with contracts and licences, and the work that keeps them running against the same asset the accountant and the HR officer see.
- One asset register the whole estate reads from
- Custody as insert-only events — who had what and when it was returned
- Sites, buildings and spaces, with assets attached to each
Includes: Assets · Facilities
From $9 per user / month
Rutba Inventory
Available nowInventory management & warehouse (WMS) software
Stock levels, multi-location transfers, stocktakes, and valuation — the single source of truth every other part of the business reserves and deducts against.
- Live stock across unlimited locations and bins
- Transfers with in-transit visibility
- Scheduled and rolling stocktakes with variance reporting
Includes: Stock · Warehouse Control
From $22 per user / month
Rutba Books
Available nowAccounting & bookkeeping software
Invoicing, bills, banking and reconciliation on one side; the ledger, tax, budgets and the financial reports on the other — fed automatically by every sale, pay run and stock movement happening elsewhere in the business.
- Two apps on one ledger - the daily bookkeeping surface and the accountant’s workbench, neither hiding anything from the other
- Sales invoices, bills, receipts, supplier payments and credit notes, with per-line tax
- Bank statements read in whatever your bank emits - CAMT.053, MT940, OFX/QFX or CSV - and matched, with reconciliation that must reach zero
Includes: Books · Accounts
From $14 per user / month
Keep comparing
Both of these against us, and against the rest.
Written to the same standard: sourced to what each vendor publishes, dated, and naming where each one wins.
The pillar
Rutba vs MaintainX
A newer CMMS whose distinctive move is procedural work orders - the operator sees a checklist and cannot skip a step - and a real-time chat surface on every asset.
The pillar
Rutba vs Fiix
The deep, plant-oriented CMMS in this group. Backed by Rockwell and integrated with their factory-automation stack, it is what a serious plant maintenance function shortlists.
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Weighing these two?
Tell us which way you are leaning and why. We will tell you honestly whether we belong on the shortlist at all — there are comparisons on this site where the answer is no.