1factory vs Ketryx

1factory is a platform for manufacturing, supply-chain, and quality operations, covering product quality, supplier quality, and compliance. Quality Control includes PDF auto-ballooning, inspection plans, first article inspections, PPAP, in-process inspections, SPC, and gage calibration. Incoming inspection supports AQL sampling, lot acceptance or rejection, lot switching, and certificates of conformance. Supplier tools provide approved-vendor lists, qualification and certification, dashboards, scorecards, supplier FAI and PPAP, and corrective actions. The QMS includes document control, approval and access workflows, training, records management, and audit-readiness tools. APIs exchange part-master and order data with ERP or PLM systems and retrieve inspection results and measurements; requests and responses use UTF-8 JSON and an organization API key. Access is available through web, API, and self-hosted deployment. Standard plans require a one-year minimum and annual billing. Supplier Collaboration and QMS Standard cost $20 a month; Quality Control Standard costs $75 a month.

Ketryx is a web-based software product founded in 2021, with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vienna, Austria. Its listed controls include revision history, approval workflows, audit trails, and electronic signatures. These features provide a record of changes, structured review steps, traceability, and signed actions within the product. Ketryx uses a freemium pricing model with a Free plan listed at free, billed at $0 per year, for organizations that have raised less than $2 million. Startup, Business, and Enterprise plans are also listed, but their prices are not provided. The Startup plan is described for organizations under 200 people. Business is for scaling companies accelerating their software development lifecycle, while Enterprise is for established companies streamlining software development lifecycle processes. Ketryx is listed for web use only, so readers should plan around browser access when evaluating deployment.