Open-source alternative  ·  Industrial Automation / PLC

Replace Allen Bradley Studio 5000 with CODESYS.

CODESYS supports IEC 61131-3 programming across 400+ hardware platforms. Ladder logic, structured text, SFC, FBD. Free IDE with runtime licence per controller. Not vendor-locked to one PLC brand.

You'd keep~R55 500 to ~R111 000/year

Current licence  ·  Industrial Automation / PLC

Allen Bradley Studio 5000

~R55 500 – ~R111 000/yr

10-user estimate

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CODESYS

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R111 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Allen Bradley Studio 5000's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard Edition

R55 500/yr

R4 625/month

Annual licence (est. monthly)

With CODESYS

Keep R55 500/yr

Full Edition

R111 000/yr

R9 250/month

Annual licence (est. monthly)

With CODESYS

Keep R111 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Allen Bradley Studio 5000 grows around 10% per year on average. CODESYS hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR49kR98kR147kR197kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R179kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.78M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Allen Bradley Studio 5000CODESYS, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.