Top 10 Amazon FreeRTOS Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Amazon FreeRTOS Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

#1

Wind River VxWorks
By Wind River
(10)4.0 out of 5
VxWorks has been the industry-leading real-time operating systems (RTOS) for building embedded devices and systems for more than 30 years. Its rich functionality helps customers deploy innovative products while lowering costs and shortening production cycles.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
Reviewers say compared to Amazon FreeRTOS, Wind River VxWorks is:
More expensive
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#2

Windows for IoT
By Microsoft
(16)4.2 out of 5
Windows 10 IoT lets you use the power of Windows to create a solution quickly and securely.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
Reviewers say compared to Amazon FreeRTOS, Windows for IoT is:
More expensive
Easier to admin
Better at support
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#3

TinyOS
By GitHub
(25)4.0 out of 5
TinyOS is an open source, BSD-licensed operating system designed for low-power wireless devices, such as those used in sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, personal area networks, smart buildings, and smart meters.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
Reviewers say compared to Amazon FreeRTOS, TinyOS is:
Easier to admin
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#4

Nucleus RTOS
By Mentor
(24)4.2 out of 5
The Nucleus RTOS is deployed in over 3 billion devices and provides a highly scalable micro-kernel based real-time operating system designed for scalability and reliability. System reliability can be improved using lightweight memory partitioning support that can function with or without MMU/MPU assisted protection in systems spanning the range of aerospace, industrial, and medical applications. Developers can make full use of multi-core solutions across the spectrum of Microcontroller and Microprocessor SoCs using SMP and AMP configurations to integrate multiple operating systems. To meet the power requirements of todays advanced designs, engineers can ease development with integrated power management in Nucleus that includes support for DVFS, deep sleep modes, and power/clock gating.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
Reviewers say compared to Amazon FreeRTOS, Nucleus RTOS is:
More expensive
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
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#5

Ubuntu
By Canonical Ltd.
(2,060)4.5 out of 5
Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
Reviewers say compared to Amazon FreeRTOS, Ubuntu is:
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
Better at support
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#6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
By Red Hat
(803)4.5 out of 5
Open source platform for mission-critical computing
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
Try for free
Reviewers say compared to Amazon FreeRTOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
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#7

Tizen
By Tizen Association
(61)3.7 out of 5
Tizen is an open and flexible operating system built from the ground up to address the needs of all stakeholders of the mobile andæconnected device ecosystem, including device manufacturers, mobile operators, application developers and independent software vendors(ISVs)
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
Reviewers say compared to Amazon FreeRTOS, Tizen is:
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
More expensive
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#8

Contiki
By Contiki
(2)4.0 out of 5
Contiki is an open source operating system for the Internet of Things. Contiki connects tiny low-cost, low-power microcontrollers to the Internet. Contiki is a powerful toolbox for building complex wireless systems.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
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#9

RIOT OS
By RIOT
(1)5.0 out of 5
RIOT powers the Internet of Things like Linux powers the Internet. RIOT is a free, open source operating system developed by a grassroots community gathering companies, academia, and hobbyists, distributed all around the world.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
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#10

Apache Mynewt
By The Apache Software Foundation
(1)4.0 out of 5
Apache Mynewt is a modular real-time operating system for connected Internet of things devices that must operate for long times under power, memory, and storage constraints.
Categories in common with Amazon FreeRTOS:
• IoT Operating Systems
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