MoveIt 2 vs MoveIt Pro

The all-new, commercial grade, and ML-enhanced successor to MoveIt 2

  • Full stack robotics solution and developer platform that includes an incredible amount of additional functionality compared to the MoveIt 2 open source motion planners.
  • Leverage MoveIt Pro’s visualizers, debugging tools, and prebuilt Behaviors to simplify ROS 2 development - without sacrificing flexibility or performance.
MoveIt 2 vs MoveIt Pro comparison

Target User

MoveIt 2 OSS

  • Students
  • University researchers

MoveIt Pro

  • Commercial companies
  • Research labs
  • Government agencies

Powerful & Safe Control Algorithms

35x faster

Inverse kinematics solvers

New IK algorithms for planning and control that are deterministic and faster than MoveIt OSS’s KDL and TracIK algorithms.

4x faster

Motion planning algorithms

Reimplemented sampling-based planners are all around more performant than MoveIt 2 equivalents, including collision detection.

30x faster

Cartesian planners

We’ve ditched MoveIt Servo and MoveIt’s Cartesian interpolator and built a Cartesian solver that better avoids singularities and joint limits.

Support for wheeled humanoids Support for wheeled humanoids

Feature MoveIt 2 OSS MoveIt Pro
Navigation support
Not included
Fully Integrated
Whole body control
Limited Implementation
Fully Integrated
Multi-arm support
Limited Implementation
Fully Integrated

Built-In ML & perception algorithms Built-In ML & perception algorithms

Feature MoveIt 2 OSS MoveIt Pro
ML for segmentation
Not included
Find and identify objects using built-in ML models
ML for pose estimation
Not included
Track the position of objects using built-in pose estimation approaches
ML for grasp generation
Not included
Use ML to automatically identify high quality grasp positions
Fiducial marker support built in
Not included
Quickly implement simple computer vision with AprilTag support
Calibration tooling
Limited Implementation
Calibrate the transforms between camera and robot

End to end ML End to end ML

Feature MoveIt 2 OSS MoveIt Pro
Diffusion policies
Not included
Train with simulated or hardware data for complex tasks
Hardware training data collection
Not included
Trajectory recording, teleoperation, and other data collection tooling

Integrated high fidelity physics simulation Integrated high fidelity physics simulation

Feature MoveIt 2 OSS MoveIt Pro
Physics simulation
Gazebo integration limits dexterity
All algorithms work seamlessly in sim, reducing the need for hardware testing with low sim2real gap
Testing and regression checking
Not included
Automatically check for application failures through continuous integration in simulation
Synthetic training data generation
Not included
Leverage your robot in simulation to generate artificial training data, saving human operator time

Behavior tree executor & editor Behavior tree executor & editor

Feature MoveIt 2 OSS MoveIt Pro
Integrated w/behavior trees
Not included
Over 200+ pre-built robotic behaviors already integrated into BehaviorTree.cpp
Behavior tree editor
Not included
Tightly integrated editor with runtime highlighting
Behavior tree debugger
Not included
Insert breakpoints and view variables passed between Behavior Tree nodes

Powerful user interfaces Powerful user interfaces

Feature MoveIt 2 OSS MoveIt Pro
Comprehensive teleoperation suite
Not included
Joint jogging, Cartesian jogging, interactive marker control, game controller support, and waypoint following
Integrated platform
Not included
Visualization, simulation, behavior trees, ML models debugging, and cameras
Realtime parameter tuning
Not included
Easily adjust algorithm variables to adjust robot performance.

Commercial grade software Commercial grade software

Feature MoveIt 2 OSS MoveIt Pro
Production-ready
Not well maintained
Built by professional software engineers
80%+ unit test coverage
Not included
1000s of unit tests to ensure safety.
MISRA compliant
Not included
Automotive industry standards for high quality software development, using linters, static analysis tools, etc

Why this matters

Beyond speed

Beyond speed

MoveIt Pro isn’t just a faster MoveIt. It’s a full-stack solution - combining planning, perception, behavior orchestration, and deployment into one unified platform.

Production-ready

Production-ready

With Dockerized runtimes, commercial SLAs, and error recovery strategies, MoveIt Pro is designed for real-world robotic applications at scale.

Accessible yet powerful

Accessible yet powerful

Visual tools, debugging tools, and prebuilt behaviors simplify development - without sacrificing flexibility or performance.

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