Ignition: what it sells, price and AI features
Ignition is on the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated September 2026.
Updated . Launches and events from Sept. 17, 2025 to September 2026.
"The Industrial Automation Platform." Ignition from Inductive Automation collects plant data and builds SCADA, IIoT, MES, HMI, alarming and reporting applications on one server license with unlimited clients, tags and connections. Controls and plant engineers use it. Ignition Catalyst in Ignition 2027 connects the customer's own AI models to the platform and lets teams build agents. Source: inductiveautomation.com.
- Site
- inductiveautomation.com
- Category
- Industrial data platforms
- Status
- Active
On the research maps
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The AI manufacturing operations software map
"The Industrial Automation Platform." Ignition from Inductive Automation collects plant data and builds SCADA, IIoT, MES, HMI, alarming and reporting applications on one server license with unlimited clients, tags and connections. Controls and plant engineers use it. Ignition Catalyst in Ignition 2027 connects the customer's own AI models to the platform and lets teams build agents. Source: inductiveautomation.com.
- Category
- Industrial data platforms
- Price
- Standard and Edge licenses are perpetual, paid once per server; Cloud Edition is pay as you go; a full price list is linked from its pricing page
- AI capabilities
- Named agent, Assistant and MCP or agent API
- Scale
- Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Its pricing page says it is trusted by over 15,000 organizations worldwide. Its 2026 conference drew close to 2,000 visitors.)
Sources: inductiveautomation.com, inductiveautomation.com, inductiveautomation.com, docs.inductiveautomation.com and controlglobal.com.
Launches and dated events, newest first
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Ignition Catalyst brings AI assistants and agents to Ignition 2027
Launch, . At the 2026 Ignition Community Conference (September 22 to 24) the company dropped the standalone MCP module and introduced Ignition Catalyst. Catalyst Core is included at no extra cost, and Catalyst Agent supports user-defined agents with bring-your-own-model and MCP in both directions.
Source: Control Global. From the AI manufacturing operations software map.
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Inductive Automation previews an MCP module for Ignition
Launch, . At the 2025 Ignition Community Conference the company previewed an MCP module that lets Ignition expose tag data, database access and configuration to AI systems, and lets users build custom MCP servers in Designer. It was a proof of concept planned for 2026.
Source: Vendor release. From the AI manufacturing operations software map.
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Cite as: Newsprint, "Ignition: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/ignition/, updated 2026-11-11