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Ag Leader AgFiniti / SMS vs Harvest Profit
Both rows from the comparison table, set side by side. Nothing here is a recommendation; the facts are the vendors' own public statements, cited on each product page.
Capabilities
Ag Leader AgFiniti / SMS describes 3 of 10 capabilities (2 partial); Harvest Profit describes 3 (3 partial). They differ on accounting, grain marketing, field maps & agronomy, weather. Both describe equipment data, mobile app.
| Capability | Ag Leader AgFiniti / SMS | Harvest Profit |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ○ No | ○ No |
| Accounting | ○ No | ◐ Partial |
| Grain marketing | ○ No | ● Yes |
| Field maps & agronomy | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Inputs | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Labor & staff | ○ No | ○ No |
| Weather | ◐ Partial | ○ No |
| Equipment data | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ○ No | ○ No |
| Mobile app | ● Yes | ● Yes |
Ag Leader AgFiniti / SMS: AgFiniti: field mapping, yield analysis, real-time prescriptions, remote view/control of Ag Leader InCommand displays, combining maps from third-party displays; Essentials tier syncs files with John Deere Operations Center, Climate FieldView and 'CNH third-party applications', plus an AgFiniti API. SMS Basic/Advanced desktop: 'File processing from most precision ag displays', crop plans, guidance lines, prescriptions, prescription budget tool, weather history, Sentinel satellite imagery, profit/loss mapping and multi-year analysis (Advanced). Inputs 'partial' = prescriptions/budget tool, not purchasing. Weather 'partial' = weather history in SMS. Mobile: AgFiniti Mobile for iPad and AgFiniti apps on App Store / Google Play; SMS Mobile for field data collection. Ag Leader is primarily a precision-ag display/hardware maker (about 75% aftermarket, 25% OEM sales per Farm Equipment, 2024).
Harvest Profit: Positioned as cost-and-profit tracking rather than general-ledger bookkeeping: real-time farm P&L, field-by-field cost of production and profitability, year-over-year comparison, equipment cost analysis (no bank sync, Schedule F or payroll described). Grain marketing: marketing plan builder with price/date target notifications, contract/hedge tracking, grain inventory management, auto-updating revenue from CBOT price data (live markets US and Canada only). Field maps: 'Profit Maps' and a Crop Planner with interactive map visualization; no imagery or agronomy. Inputs: input cost tracking referenced in testimonials only. Equipment: John Deere Operations Center integration and Agrimatics Libra CART (grain cart scale). No elevator/buyer, weather, labor or AI features described. Mobile app on Apple App Store and Google Play.
Price, data and ownership
| Ag Leader AgFiniti / SMS | Harvest Profit | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Ag Leader Technology, Inc. | Harvest Profit, LLC (Deere & Company (John Deere) — 'Part of the John Deere family since 2020') |
| Category | equipment-machine data | accounting-financials |
| What the AI does | None | None |
| Pricing model | Subscription | Subscription |
| Published price | AgFiniti: free tier ('FREE', create an account); AgFiniti Essentials '$420' per year ('Prices shown in USD'), includes 6000 acres and 250 GB cloud storage; Prescriptions and Multi-Year Analysis license '$0.35/ac'. SMS Basic '$995' one-time plus '$280 yearly maintenance fee'; SMS Advanced '$2,995' one-time plus '$815 yearly maintenance fee'; SMS Mobile price not listed. All from agleader.com, accessed 2026-10-25. | Standard: $1,600 per year (30-day money-back guarantee); 'Hands On' tier: $5,000 USD (billing period not stated; includes pre-season, mid-season and post-harvest meetings and custom data entry); 14-day free trial, no credit card required; no acreage tiers listed. Accessed 2026-10-25 at harvestprofit.com/pricing. |
| Your data | Ag Leader's 'Puts YOU in Control of Your Data' page states 'the grower owns the data, period', that data stays private unless the grower chooses to share it with third parties, and that Ag Leader does not sell seed or chemicals or lease farmland and so has no commercial motive to profit from grower data ('you're always in control'); the AgFiniti data privacy policy page itself could not be fetched on 2026-10-25. | Harvest Profit's privacy link redirects to John Deere's privacy pages; Deere's Data Services & Subscriptions Statement (updated April 2026) is headed 'YOU CONTROL YOUR BUSINESS DATA' and says Deere 'may share in aggregate, statistical form, non-personal information with our partners, affiliates or advisors' and may share data with authorized dealers unless you restrict it; Harvest Profit's Terms (Aug 25, 2025) say 'Company and its affiliates and related entities may use data and other information relating to the provision, use and performance' of the Service and do not contain an explicit customer-ownership clause. |
| Crops and regions | Crop-agnostic (row crops, yield monitoring origin); global via dealers; US-only soil survey import in SMS | Crops not specified; available in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia ('4 countries') |
| Farm size | Not published | Not published |
| Ownership | Private — private | Public company (subsidiary) — subsidiary of public (Deere & Company, NYSE: DE) |
| What else they sell | Equipment maker — part of equipment maker | Equipment maker — part of equipment maker |
| Headquarters | Ames, Iowa (US) | West Fargo, North Dakota (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built ('American-made brand'), family-owned; worldwide dealer network with offices in the Netherlands, Australia and Brazil; US product support | US-built (Fargo/West Fargo, ND team 'that lives, works, and plays in farm country'); support by email (support@harvestprofit.com) and scheduled calls; contracting entities for Canada and Australia/New Zealand are John Deere Canada ULC and John Deere Limited |
| Founded | 1992 | 2015 |
| Status | Active; AgFiniti and SMS both currently sold on agleader.com. | Active, operating under its own brand and website as a John Deere company. Logo reads 'Farm Business Software By John Deere'. Core category recorded as accounting-financials (profit tracking) rather than whole-farm management because the vendor does not offer bookkeeping, labor, weather or agronomy modules. |
| Confidence | verified | partially verified |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 |
Prices are quoted as shown on the vendor page on the review date and change often. Sources with access dates are on each product page: Ag Leader AgFiniti / SMS and Harvest Profit. Request a correction.