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Alternatives to Unleashed

There is no single replacement for Unleashed, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What there is: products that beat it on one specific thing. Each section below answers a different reason for switching, so start with the reason that applies to you.

For context, Unleashed is a light manufacturing product. Batch and serial tracking on every plan, with production $69 a month extra on Core and free on Pro. Its weakest points, in our reading, are: growing teams, extra seats at $69 to $89 a month escalate quickly past the base price, and anyone needing verified planning, routings or capacity.

If you are switching for: stronger true mrp

Goes further on time-phased planning, what to order and when.

  • Katana

    Formerly Katana MRP

    Strong production control with documented MRP planning; paid pricing is quote-only since 2026-10, last published at $299 plus $199 for manufacturing.

    Full MRPProprietary SaaS

    Free plan available

    • Product brands that have outgrown spreadsheets and want production, stock and a shop-floor app in one place
    • Teams with many people who benefit from unlimited-user pricing instead of per-seat billing
    • Shops that need expiry dates and serial numbers alongside batch tracking

    Katana documents a dated "Suggested order by" on its planning add-on, where Unleashed's planning fields are only partly shown. Unleashed delivers BOMs and batch tracking for $468 a month against Katana's last published $498 manufacturing configuration, which has been quote-only since 2026-10.

    ✓ VerifiedChecked October 9, 2026

Also compared with Unleashed

Related products with no direction claimed. Each note says which page the comparison was written on.

  • Cin7 Core

    Formerly DEAR Systems, DEAR Inventory

    Capable manufacturing, but only if you buy the module that has it.

    Manufacturing ERPProprietary SaaSPasses all 6 Full MRP tests

    From $349/mo · $599/mo useful

    • Growing brands that already need multi-channel order management and want manufacturing in the same system
    • Teams of ten or more, where the bundled seat counts start to look reasonable
    • Shops that only need assembly-style kitting, which is included rather than extra

    Compared on Cin7 Core's page, where we wrote: "Unleashed adds its production module to Core for $69, $468 a month in total, where Cin7 Core gates production orders behind an add-on from $599, though Unleashed's manufacturing depth is lower."

    ✓ VerifiedChecked October 9, 2026

Before you switch anything

  • · Check the export path out of your current system before you commit to the next one.
  • · Price the new system for your real team size and the modules you need, not the headline tier.
  • · Migration is usually the expensive part, and almost nobody budgets for it.

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