We build the cheapest industrial controller on the market. By design.
Most "industrial Pi" vendors mark the board up 3–4×. We make our own — so the same CM5-class, EN 61131-2 hardware lands at roughly half their price, and a fraction of a PLC's.
Same job, sorted by what it costs you
Street price for a single comparable control node. Lower is better — our own board sits at the top.
| Vendor | Model | CPU | On-board I/O | Edge AI | Real-time | Temp range | Street price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ◢ Hyleon | Node One | CM5 quad-core | 16 DI/O · 4 AI | Hailo-8 ready | MCU co-proc | −25→+60 °C | $249 |
| Revolution Pi | Connect 5 | CM5 | expansion | add-on | PREEMPT_RT | −40→+55 °C | $489 |
| Seeed | EdgeBox RPi 200 | CM4 | 4 DI · 4 relay | add-on | none | −20→+60 °C | $419 |
| Siemens | S7-1200 + HMI | proprietary | 14 DI / 10 DO | none | native | 0→+55 °C | $920 |
| Allen-Bradley | CompactLogix 5380 | proprietary | modular | none | native | 0→+60 °C | $1,840 |
Indicative single-unit street pricing, Q2 2026. PLC rows exclude programming-software licenses (typically $1k–6k more).
Cheaper because of how we build — not what we cut
No vendor markup
We design and assemble our own boards. There's no distributor margin stacked on a re-badged reference design.
Open by default
Standard CM5, mainline Linux, off-the-shelf parts. No proprietary I/O tax, no per-seat license to program it.
Volume on one platform
Every Hyleon deployment runs the same core board, so we buy components at scale and pass it through.
Hyleon Node One
Our flagship controller. Industrial-grade, AI-ready, and fully open — the same board behind every deployment we ship.
Three boards, one platform
Same OS, same toolchain, same security model — scale the I/O and compute to the job.