Compare / Head to head
UpKeep vs Fiix
Mobile-first CMMS against the deep plant CMMS. Different products for different buyers, even where the shortlists collide.
Checked 3 September 2026
We are not a neutral party, and you should read this knowing that. Rutba makes software that competes with both products on this page, and there is a section about us at the bottom. Everything above it is written from what each vendor publishes about their own product, dated, with no prices reproduced and nothing said about anyone’s roadmap, finances or customers. If we have described either product incorrectly, tell us and we will correct it and say that we did.
The actual decision
What you are really choosing between.
Whether your maintenance function is a technician on a phone or a reliability engineer with a spare-parts crib. Both are real, and the same CMMS does not usually suit both.
UpKeep
UpKeep Technologies, Inc.
A cloud CMMS aimed at maintenance teams: work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, asset registers, parts inventory, meters, requests from a portal or QR code, and a mobile app that is the point of the product. Sold per user in tiered plans, with the higher tiers adding predictive maintenance and IoT sensor integration.
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.
| UpKeep | Fiix | |
|---|---|---|
| Depth on plant maintenance | Covers the basics well; reliability analytics are limited. | Deep - failure codes, root-cause analysis, reliability metrics. |
| Mobile experience | The product is the mobile app. | Mobile exists; the browser is the primary surface. |
| Factory-automation integration | Not the thesis. | Native integration with Rockwell FactoryTalk and the wider stack. |
| Free tier | Limited free trial. | A real Foundation tier that is free for small teams. |
| MRO inventory across sites | Adequate. | Mature multi-site with transfer and consolidation. |
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 UpKeep if…
- The team's work is field-first and phone-first
- The estate is buildings and equipment more than machinery
- Occupant requests and the portal are core
- You want a fast trial and a fast rollout
Choose Fiix if…
- The floor is Rockwell or another automation stack it connects to
- Reliability analytics and failure codes are the point
- Multi-site MRO inventory is a first-class need
- Depth beats mobile polish for your buyer
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 the fixed-asset register the accountant reads
UpKeep's register belongs to maintenance and Fiix's to the plant. Rutba's is one register HR, accounting, facilities and maintenance all read from - a laptop, a lathe, a delivery van and a boiler are the same shape of row.
When Rutba is the ERP, the seams collapse
A Fiix or an UpKeep customer runs a CMMS beside their ERP; parts and labour post through integrations. A Rutba customer's parts are drawn from Rutba Inventory and the labour posts through Rutba People to the pay run without an export.
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 People
Available nowHR, payroll & employee management software
Employee records, the org structure, attendance and leave, a shared time clock, and payroll that runs on all of it — plus a self-service portal so staff answer their own questions instead of asking HR.
- Employee records, employment history, contracts, teams and matrix reporting lines
- Attendance and leave with approval chains
- A shared time clock that gives attendance an actual source
Includes: HR · Employee Self-Service · Payroll · Time Clock · Workforce · Recruit · Talent
From $8 per employee / 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
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 UpKeep
The mobile-first CMMS everyone in this category is measured against - what a maintenance technician actually opens on their phone.
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.
Other head-to-heads featuring UpKeep or Fiix
Head to head
UpKeep vs MaintainX
The two mobile-first CMMS leaders. Both do the same job; the decision is what you want the technician to see when they open the app.
Head to head
Asset Panda vs UpKeep
An asset tracker against a CMMS. This one is genuinely about buying different products, and the wrong choice is expensive.
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.
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.