9 Best MRP Software of 2026

MRPeasy ranks first because it puts real MRP on the cheapest plan instead of saving it for an upper tier. Starter, at $49 per user a month, already includes production planning and reporting, BOM management, drag-and-drop rescheduling, lot traceability, warehouse management, workforce planning, CRM and standard accounting, with integrations for QuickBooks Online, Xero, Shopify and ShipStation. Professional at $69 adds quality control, serial numbers, subcontracting, co-product and disassembly BOMs and a matrix product configurator. Enterprise at $99, the plan MRPeasy marks as most popular, adds the master production schedule, backward scheduling, barcode printing and scanning, multiple production sites, maintenance management and sales forecasting. Pricing for larger teams is unusual: after the first 10 users, each bundle of 10 more costs a flat $79 a month. The gaps are the API, which is listed only on the $149 Unlimited plan, and paid training at $150 an hour.

Katana is the best fit for product brands that make what they sell and need stock to stay in sync with online channels. Its manufacturing tools cover BOMs with subassemblies, make-to-stock and make-to-order workflows, cost calculations, contract manufacturing and a shop floor app with barcode scanning, while the inventory side adds batch, lot, serial and expiry tracking across locations. Native integrations include Shopify, Amazon, QuickBooks Online and HubSpot, and the API is available even on the free plan. That free plan is generous on users, integrations and locations but caps the catalog at 30 SKUs, so most working businesses will move to Advantage. Advantage has no published price: Katana scopes the setup with you and quotes one annual contract that includes implementation, a customer success manager and priority support. It ranks below MRPeasy because there is no self-serve paid plan to compare.

Odoo's Manufacturing app has the broadest feature set on this list for the money. It schedules manufacturing orders with finite capacity planning and a Gantt chart, proposes just-in-time replenishment with make, buy or subcontract options, and includes a master production schedule for S&OP meetings. The tablet Shop Floor app organizes workers, workcenters, worksheets and quality checks, and traceability works by lot or serial number. Because PLM, Quality and Maintenance are sibling apps, a small plant can grow into them without a second system. Odoo offers a One App Free plan with unlimited users, but a real MRP setup also needs Inventory, Purchase and usually Accounting, which moves you onto a paid all-apps plan. The pricing page showed euros when we checked, so the US price is pending. Expect more setup work than with MRPeasy or Katana.

Craftybase suits makers and small manufacturers whose main planning job is knowing material costs, batches and stock across sales channels. Pro starts at $20 a month for a single channel, Studio adds multi-user inventory and recipe management at $41 a month billed annually, and Indie, at $83 a month billed annually or $99 monthly, opens unlimited users and channels with BOM and recipe management, automated production assemblies, batch and lot tracking and traceability reports. Automatic COGS and stocktaking help at tax time. The limits are order volume and scheduling: Indie allows 1,000 order lines a month, and production scheduling, Amazon integration and automatic stock sync start on Business at $166 a month billed annually. Craftybase is not a capacity planner for a machine shop, but for soap makers, candle makers and similar batch producers it is quick to learn and priced for small teams.

Cetec ERP is the most complete system here with a published per-user price. For $50 per user a month, with a 5-user minimum, you get ERP, MRP, CRM, MES, QMS and financials, covering quoting, job costing, material planning, traceability from finished goods down to each component, and shop floor control. Users with smaller footprints, such as shop floor and portal access, are priced at a discounted rate. Self-supported use is included, with online resources and community access, while the Standard priority support plan costs $650 a month and Enterprise support $3,200 a month. Add-ons include ITAR hosting on Azure Gov Cloud at $500 a month and a test instance at $250 a month. Cetec ranks below the self-serve MRP tools on ease of use because it is a full ERP with more to configure, but its pricing is clear and every instance starts with a free trial.

ERPNext is the best value MRP if you are comfortable with open source. The software is free under GPL-3.0 and you can install it on your own server, while Frappe Cloud hosting starts at $5 a month for a single site on shared servers, priced per site rather than per user. The manufacturing module covers multi-level BOMs for finished goods and sub-assemblies, production planning that pulls the items to produce, explodes their BOMs and checks raw material availability across warehouses, and work orders that drive job cards and backflushing. Capacity planning and subcontracting are included, and quality checks run before produced items are valued. The trade-off is setup effort: Frappe says self-hosting suits companies with a tech team, and expert implementation is sold separately. Small manufacturers without technical staff will find MRPeasy or Katana faster to get running.

SOS Inventory is the natural choice for small manufacturers that already run their books in QuickBooks Online. Every plan includes assemblies with unlimited BOM levels, auto-build on shipments, purchase orders generated from stock levels and transaction-level QuickBooks sync covering classes, properties and sales taxes. Companion costs $74.95 a month with 2 users and one location. Plus at $144.95 adds unlimited locations, serial and lot numbers, bin tracking, barcoding and contract manufacturing. Real production control sits on Pro at $199.95 a month with 5 users, which adds work orders, work centers, WIP, job tracking and job cost accounting, labor and overhead tracking, and process and variable-yield manufacturing. Extra users cost $25 a month each on any plan. SOS lacks the capacity scheduling and MPS found in MRPeasy and Odoo, so it fits assemblers and light manufacturers better than plants with complex routings.

Fishbowl is a long-standing choice for small manufacturers that want MRP without moving off QuickBooks or Xero. The Advanced Manufacturing plan covers full BOMs with sub-assemblies and configurations, MRP and production scheduling, work orders and made-to-order builds, job, labor and landed costing, and lot and batch traceability, with mobile barcode scanning and an open API. Cloud hosting is included, and deployment can be adjusted for teams that want more control. The catch is price: Advanced Manufacturing starts at $675 a month and the final quote depends on users and deployment, while the cheaper Essentials, Growth and Scale plans are for inventory and do not include manufacturing. That puts Fishbowl well above MRPeasy or SOS Inventory for a 3 to 5 person shop, which is why it ranks lower on value despite a solid feature set.

JobBOSS² is the specialist on this list. ECI describes it as a quote-to-cash ERP for high-mix, low-volume job shops that combines MRP functions such as material forecasting with shop floor execution, job costing and labor tracking. Estimators can generate quotes and convert them to jobs, and the AI BOM Builder drafts BOMs from PDFs, Excel files, images and CSVs for review. Scheduling uses a drag-and-drop calendar, and shop floor staff track time in a mobile app. Inventory tools forecast needs, create purchases and alert on low stock. It integrates with both QuickBooks Desktop and Online, and US customers can choose multi-tenant cloud, private hosted cloud or on-premise deployment. Pricing is by quote only, and ECI says implementation takes around 3 to 6 months, so it is a bigger commitment than the self-serve MRP tools ranked above it.