Zorowire vs Cableteque
Cableteque is quoting software for harness and cable contract manufacturers. It reads customer drawings with AI, builds the BOM and wire list, looks up prices at 30+ distributors with your own API keys and prices labour from your templates. Prices are set in a meeting; every plan includes a customer success manager and 20 hours of implementation. Zorowire publishes its prices, starts free and includes the formboard and the cut list.
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If you quote many assemblies a month from customer drawings and want implementation and distributor pricing handled for you, Cableteque is built for that. If you want to start yourself, see the price before a meeting, and get the board and the cut list from the same entry as the quote, Zorowire is the lighter, published-price option.
What you get with Zorowire
- Published prices and a free plan; start the same day without a meeting.
- The 1:1 formboard and the production cut list in every plan, not an add-on.
- A quote that comes from the same harness record as the board and the cut list, so a change reprices and redraws together.
- Cut-length allowances and strip lengths per wire end.
Where Cableteque is strong
- The deepest quoting for contract manufacturers we found: AI extraction of BOM and wire list from customer drawings and scans.
- Live supplier prices from 30+ distributors at your contract prices, plus ERP push.
- Labour templates loaded from your work centres, all quantity breaks at once, per-break margins.
- Implementation done for you, and EU data residency.
Plan by plan
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| Feature | Starter, Standard, Growth | Enterprise | Free | Starter | Shop | Pro |
| Price, as listed | Not published; set in a meetingsource: cableteque.com · checked | Not publishedsource: cableteque.com · checked | €0 | €24 a month or €190 a year | €79 a month or €790 a year | €149 a month or €1,490 a year |
| Users | Not stated (older captures: unlimited users)source: web.archive.org · checked | Not stated; SSO and MFAsource: cableteque.com · checked | 1 | 1 | 5, plus unlimited read-only viewers | 15, plus unlimited read-only viewers |
| Limits | Up to 80 / 150 / 300 assemblies quoted a month, weighted by BOM lines; a requote counts halfsource: cableteque.com · checked | Custom volumesource: cableteque.com · checked | Unlimited harnesses × 150 connections; 3 quotes a month | 1,000 connections per harness; unlimited quotes | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Platform | Browser; EU data on AWS Europe Centralsource: cableteque.com · checked | Browser; EU data on AWS Europe Centralsource: cableteque.com · checked | Browser on macOS, Windows and Linux; nothing to install | Browser on macOS, Windows and Linux; nothing to install | Browser on macOS, Windows and Linux; nothing to install | Browser on macOS, Windows and Linux; nothing to install |
| 1:1 formboard | 1:1 formboard layouts through the Manufacturing Engineering add-on (price not published)source: cableteque.com · checked | 1:1 formboard layouts through the Manufacturing Engineering add-on (price not published)source: cableteque.com · checked | Automatic 1:1 layout; tiled A4/A3/Letter/Tabloid with overlap, registration marks and a 100 mm check ruler, or one piece; peg coordinates | Automatic 1:1 layout; tiled A4/A3/Letter/Tabloid with overlap, registration marks and a 100 mm check ruler, or one piece; peg coordinates | Automatic 1:1 layout; tiled A4/A3/Letter/Tabloid with overlap, registration marks and a 100 mm check ruler, or one piece; peg coordinates | Automatic 1:1 layout; tiled A4/A3/Letter/Tabloid with overlap, registration marks and a 100 mm check ruler, or one piece; peg coordinates |
| Cut list and cut lengths | Cut and strip lengths through the same add-onsource: cableteque.com · checked | Cut and strip lengths through the same add-onsource: cableteque.com · checked | Your allowances per connector and splice end, loops, slack, rounding; strip length, terminal and seal per end | Your allowances per connector and splice end, loops, slack, rounding; strip length, terminal and seal per end | Your allowances per connector and splice end, loops, slack, rounding; strip length, terminal and seal per end | Your allowances per connector and splice end, loops, slack, rounding; strip length, terminal and seal per end |
| Labels | Not mentionedsource: cableteque.com · checked | Not mentionedsource: cableteque.com · checked | Wire-end, connector and bundle labels: PDF sheets and CSV for label software | Wire-end, connector and bundle labels: PDF sheets and CSV for label software | Wire-end, connector and bundle labels: PDF sheets and CSV for label software | Wire-end, connector and bundle labels: PDF sheets and CSV for label software |
| BOM | BOM and wire list built by AI from customer drawingssource: cableteque.com · checked | BOM and wire list built by AI from customer drawingssource: cableteque.com · checked | BOM CSV, wire and covering in metres | BOM CSV, wire and covering in metres | BOM CSV, wire and covering in metres | BOM CSV, wire and covering in metres |
| Quote and costing | Labour templates from your work centres, every quantity break, NRE, margins, branded PDFsource: cableteque.com · checked | Labour templates from your work centres, every quantity break, NRE, margins, branded PDFsource: cableteque.com · checked | Labour from operations, setup, quantity breaks, margin, customer PDF: 3 a month | Same, unlimited; your labour table and price list | Same, for 5 users; quote PDF with your logo | Same, plus NRE lines and several price lists |
| Missing information before quoting | RFQ Intake add-on flags missing files and informationsource: cableteque.com · checked | RFQ Intake add-on flags missing files and informationsource: cableteque.com · checked | Missing part numbers and prices flagged | Flagged; basic RFQ checklist | Full RFQ checklist: missing customer information, unidentified parts, supplier price requests | Full RFQ checklist |
| Revisions | Compare a new customer revision and repricesource: cableteque.com · checked | Compare a new customer revision and repricesource: cableteque.com · checked | Last 2 revisions | Full history; diff of inputs, cut list, BOM and operations | Full history with diff | Full history with diff |
| Imports | PDF, scans, Excel, CSV, XML, CAD exportssource: cableteque.com · checked | PDF, scans, Excel, CSV, XML, CAD exportssource: cableteque.com · checked | Excel and CSV with column mapping | Excel, CSV and WireViz YAML | Excel, CSV and WireViz YAML | Excel, CSV and WireViz YAML |
| Cutting-machine export | Not statedsource: cableteque.com · checked | Not statedsource: cableteque.com · checked | Generic metric cut-list CSV | Generic metric cut-list CSV | Generic metric cut-list CSV | Saved machine column profiles (planned)planned |
| Languages | Website in English, German, French, Italian; AI translation in quotingsource: cableteque.com · checked | Website in English, German, French, Italian; AI translation in quotingsource: cableteque.com · checked | 32 interface languages; native text in English, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian | 32 interface languages; native text in English, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian | 32 interface languages; native text in English, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian | 32 interface languages; native text in English, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian |
| Try before buying, support | No free plan or trial; a demo meeting, then a dedicated customer success manager and 20 h of implementationsource: cableteque.com · checked | No free plan or trial; a demo meeting, then a dedicated customer success manager and 20 h of implementationsource: cableteque.com · checked | Free plan, no card; community support | E-mail support | E-mail support | Priority support |
Price difference per year
| Any shop | Price on requestsource: cableteque.com · checked | Shop €790 a year for 5 users; Pro €1,490 for 15 | Not stated: Cableteque publishes no price to compare |
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Directive 2006/114/EC asks for verifiable prices in a comparison, so we state no difference where the vendor publishes none.
Looking for a Cableteque alternative?
Zorowire publishes its prices, starts free, and includes the 1:1 formboard and the cut list with every quote.
Switching from Cableteque?
Show us a paid Cableteque licence or invoice and get your first year of Shop at the founding price, €49 a month instead of €79. We help you import your first harnesses.
How to switch
- Export the BOM and wire list of a quoted assembly to Excel.
- Import the wire list into Zorowire and map the columns.
- Enter your labour times per operation and your material prices in your Zorowire labour table and price list.
- Quote the assembly and compare it with your last Cableteque quote before you rely on it.
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