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Facilio vs Brightly

Two facilities maintenance platforms that buyers often weigh for a portfolio of buildings. Facilio leads with a suite of AI agents on top of a connected CMMS and IoT layer for multi-site portfolios. Brightly, now part of Siemens, sells a suite of asset management, maintenance and capital planning products to public-sector and institutional owners. Vendor pages read Oct 22, 2026; desk research, not tested, no winner.

DESK RESEARCH, NOT TESTED. Compiled from vendors' public websites (accessed Facilio Oct 22, 2026; Brightly (Siemens) Oct 23, 2026). Vendor claims are not verified by Means & Methods Lab. No scores or rankings.

In short: Facilio (Connected CMMS & facility operations; no public prices (quote / sales)) vs Brightly (Siemens) (Asset management & CMMS; no public prices (quote / sales)). Facts last checked Facilio Oct 22, 2026; Brightly (Siemens) Oct 23, 2026. No winner declared; not tested.

Side by side

Facilio vs Brightly: vendor-published facts side by side
Sheet rowFacilioBrightly (Siemens)
CategoryConnected CMMS & facility operationsAsset management & CMMS
AI role (our label)AI features added to established productAI features added to established product
What it doesConnected operations and CMMS platform for facility management, with work orders, maintenance, assets, energy monitoring and Atom AI agents. It covers work orders and service requests, preventive maintenance, asset lifecycle, inspections, inventory and procurement, vendor and tenant portals, plus Connected Buildings (energy monitoring, cloud optimization, fault detection and diagnostics) and Connected Refrigeration. Atom Suite is a set of AI agents inside the platform that the vendor says automate service operations, invoice verification and FM decision-making. Vendor cites figures such as 80% less manual data entry and <24-hour average work-order resolution (vendor claims, not verified). Re-checked Oct 19, 2026: unchanged in substance (Atom Suite of AI agents for service operations, invoice verification and FM decisions; 80% and under-24-hour figures are vendor claims). Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: the homepage now calls Facilio an agentic AI platform for facilities management and names the Atom agents: service intake, service dispatch, vendor coordination, invoice processing, building compliance, procurement and sourcing, reporting, and alarm and fault triage. It also lists Mira, a helpdesk AI for service request intake, routing, dispatch coordination and emergency escalation across calls, chat, WhatsApp and email; IoT Edge software for BMS integration and equipment telemetry; and Facilio Studio, where its engineers build custom agents and apps. The page's one billion+ square feet, 80% of calls handled by AI and 4x faster dispatch figures are vendor claims, not verified. Re-read Oct 22, 2026: the homepage lists the Atom suite of AI agents (workflow, building-data and custom agents, including service intake, alarm and fault triage, and procurement and sourcing agents), connected CMMS, buildings and refrigeration apps, IoT Edge software for BMS and equipment telemetry, and Facilio Studio for custom agents; the FAQ names connectors for Planon, Archibus and Maximo and says the first module usually takes 4 to 6 weeks to implement.Siemens-owned asset management suite for CMMS, enterprise asset management, capital planning, energy and predictive monitoring. Products include Asset Essentials, TheWorxHub, Maintenance Manager, Energy Manager, Predictor, Assetic, Confirm, and others, for CMMS, enterprise asset management, capital/asset investment planning, energy and sustainability, and IoT predictive monitoring, with AI for maintenance. Brightly says it was acquired by Siemens in 2022 and "is now Siemens." Re-checked Oct 19, 2026: the Siemens asset management site now lists Origin, which gives AI-powered asset health updates from any CMMS's data to support repair-or-replace and budget decisions, and Event Manager among its products, and describes Maintenance Copilot surfacing instructions, summaries and safety information for technicians; it still says Brightly is now Siemens and adds a food and beverage use case. Predictor is described as AI-based capital planning and lifecycle modeling. Re-checked Oct 20, 2026: the Siemens asset management site is unchanged in substance (Asset Essentials, Assetic, Confirm, Energy Manager, Event Manager, Maintenance Manager, Origin, Predictor and TheWorxHub in the product menu; Maintenance Copilot surfacing instructions, summaries and safety info; still says Brightly was acquired by Siemens in 2022 and is now Siemens). Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: unchanged in substance (AI-powered insights across the asset lifecycle, Maintenance Copilot, IoT remote monitoring and predictive maintenance, capital planning; Asset Essentials, TheWorxHub, Maintenance Manager, Origin, Confirm and Predictor featured; still says Brightly was acquired by Siemens in 2022 and is now Siemens). The homepage's 4.6M users, 250M residents and $321B asset value figures are vendor claims not used here. Re-read Oct 23, 2026 for a compare: the Siemens asset management pages still list Asset Essentials, TheWorxHub, Maintenance Manager, Origin, Confirm and Predictor; the AI for maintenance page describes duplicate work-order detection, AI-prioritised work orders with suggested causes, diagnostic steps and safety notes, auto task summaries and a Technician/Maintenance Copilot chat in Asset Essentials.
Who it's forFM service providers, healthcare, retail, commercial portfolios and corporate facilities teams.Facilities and infrastructure owners in education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and senior living.
Pricing (as publicly stated)Not publicly listed. Pricing page (re-checked Oct 16, 2026) still lists tiered Standard, Essential and Enterprise plans for CMMS, building operations and refrigeration compliance, tailored by portfolio size, users and deployment scope, each with Request a custom quote; no prices shown. (The page's ROI calculator is a savings estimate, not a price.) Earlier note (Oct 15, 2026): Not publicly listed (tiered Standard / Essential / Enterprise by portfolio size, users and deployment scope; quote form on pricing page). Re-checked Oct 17, 2026: unchanged. Re-checked Oct 19, 2026: unchanged. (Standard, Essential and Enterprise, each Request a custom quote). Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: unchanged (Standard, Essential and Enterprise, each Request a custom quote, tailored by portfolio size, users and deployment scope). Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: unchanged; Standard, Essential and Enterprise plans are all quoted (request a tailored pricing proposal), with no dollar prices.No public prices found (checked Oct 16, 2026): Brightly's site now presents as Siemens asset management software ("Brightly is now Siemens"); there is no pricing or plans link, /pricing redirects to the homepage and /plans returns a not-found page. The site's calls to action include "Book a demo". Confirm current pricing with the vendor. Re-checked Oct 17, 2026: unchanged. Re-checked Oct 19, 2026: unchanged. Re-checked Oct 20, 2026: unchanged (/pricing still lands on the homepage content; Book a demo and Request a Demo; no figures). Re-checked Oct 21, 2026: unchanged (/pricing still lands on the homepage content; Book a demo; the site says it offers a custom solution that fits your needs and budget; no figures). Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: unchanged; no prices on the Siemens-hosted Brightly pages, and /pricing still lands on the homepage. Re-read Oct 23, 2026: still demo-led with no public prices; no change.
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Facts last checked: Facilio Oct 22, 2026; Brightly (Siemens) Oct 23, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor page before relying on them.

Where the vendor descriptions differ

  • AI: Facilio lists the Atom suite of AI agents, including service intake (turning calls, emails, chat and WhatsApp messages into prioritised work orders), alarm and fault triage, and procurement and sourcing agents, plus custom agents built in Facilio Studio. Brightly lists Maintenance Copilot (instructions, summaries and safety information for technicians), Origin (AI-powered asset health updates built from CMMS data, for repair-or-replace and budget decisions) and Predictor (AI-based capital planning and lifecycle modeling).
  • Product shape: Facilio offers connected CMMS, connected buildings and connected refrigeration apps, and IoT Edge software that brings BMS and equipment telemetry into maintenance decisions. Brightly's suite (Asset Essentials, TheWorxHub, Maintenance Manager, Energy Manager, Predictor, Assetic, Confirm, Origin and Event Manager) covers CMMS, enterprise asset management, capital planning, energy and IoT predictive monitoring.
  • Who it is for: Facilio describes multi-site portfolios with complex vendor ecosystems, with tenant and stakeholder portals on its Essential plan. Brightly leads with facilities and infrastructure owners in education, government, healthcare, manufacturing and senior living.
  • Integrations: Facilio names out-of-the-box connectors for Planon, Archibus and Maximo plus an API, and lists Yardi and Siemens among its integrations. Brightly says Origin works from any CMMS's data; its pages read here do not list a connector catalog.
  • Pricing (checked Oct 22, 2026): neither publishes prices. Facilio's Standard, Essential and Enterprise plans are all quoted through a tailored proposal. Brightly lists no prices, and its /pricing address lands on the homepage.
  • Rollout: Facilio says the first module usually takes 4 to 6 weeks to implement. Brightly gives no time frame on the pages read.
  • Not used here: savings figures, customer quotes and customer counts from both vendors (vendor material). Neither tool has been tested by Means & Methods Lab.

Paraphrased from the sources listed above. Vendor claims are reported as claims.

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