Ubidots
The industrial IoT platform that gets sensor data from device to dashboard with a few lines of code.
About
Ubidots is an IoT platform aimed at industrial and commercial deployments: collect sensor data, visualize it on customizable dashboards, set intelligent alerts, and push data onward to business systems. Connectivity is deliberately easy, with support for MQTT, HTTP, TCP, and UDP, plus Modbus for industrial gear, and a library of 200+ device libraries, SDKs, and tutorials so a new device can start sending data with a few lines of code. Device types auto-replicate when new hardware appears, which saves real setup time at scale.
The platform leans no-code for the operations side: drag-and-drop dashboards, threshold alerts over email, SMS, and voice calls, scheduled reports, and analytics for trend detection. Pricing starts at $99/month (Professional: 50 devices, 10 million data points, 6 months retention) with custom Industrial tiers for larger deployments. Founded in 2013 in Colombia, Ubidots has a solid reputation in manufacturing, agriculture, energy, and smart-city verticals; Software Advice shows a 4.9 rating. There is no published independent benchmark of its throughput, so scale claims are provider-stated.
What it can do
- MQTT, HTTP, TCP, UDP, and Modbus device connectivity
- 200+ device libraries, SDKs, and integration tutorials
- Drag-and-drop dashboards with real-time widgets
- Threshold alerts over email, SMS, and voice calls
- Scheduled reports and analytics for trend detection
- Device types with automatic replication for new hardware
- API plus Node.js cloud functions for custom parsing
Setup
Create an account, generate a device token, and POST or MQTT-publish sensor data to the Ubidots REST/MQTT endpoint; build dashboards with the drag-and-drop widget editor and set alerts on thresholds.
Prerequisites
A Ubidots account; devices or gateways able to reach the cloud over HTTP/MQTT/TCP/UDP; a token per device.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: ubidots.com documents the protocols, the $99/month Professional tier terms, and the 200+ library claim; Software Advice shows a 4.9 rating and a 2013 founding in Colombia; Slashdot comparisons corroborate the feature set. Strengths: genuinely easy device onboarding, strong in industrial verticals, high user ratings. Docked for: (1) proprietary platform with no self-hosted or open-source path; (2) no published independent throughput benchmark; (3) the $99 entry price is steep for small hobby projects, and data retention tiers gate history. License: proprietary.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 2.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · $99/mo Professional tier (50 devices, 10M dots) confirmed on ubidots.com
- · Software Advice 4.9 rating; founded 2013, Colombia
- · no published independent throughput benchmark
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.