OpenBOM

OpenBOM provides bill of materials software for engineering and manufacturing, covering item management, BOM management, inventory, purchasing and PDM, with integrations into Autodesk Inventor, Fusion 360, Onshape and other CAD systems, a REST API and a BOM Review AI agent.

Pricing this for small teams is what makes OpenBOM different from the rest of this category, because enterprise PLM implementations start at figures a ten-person hardware startup cannot consider, and that company still has a bill of materials, a supplier list and a change problem, usually solved with a spreadsheet that somebody emails around.

Publishing plans openly with a 14-day trial follows from the same position, since a small team buys software by trying it rather than by procurement, and a vendor that requires a demonstration before showing a price has excluded that buyer whether it meant to or not.

Including inventory and purchasing alongside the BOM is the practical difference for a startup, because the thing that actually stops a small hardware company is not managing the parts list but knowing which parts have been ordered and which have arrived, and a separate system for that is another spreadsheet. Plans run from 30 to 165 dollars.