Best Lansweeper Alternatives in 2026: 15 IT Asset Discovery and Inventory Tools

Updated August 2026: every figure below was checked against the vendor's own pricing page this month. Where a vendor publishes nothing, or where its pricing page blocks automated access, the number is labeled (reported) and the source is named.

Lansweeper doesn't publish a single dollar or euro figure for any paid plan. Free covers 100 licensed assets, with full-environment scanning and no cap on what it can see, but Starter jumps straight to a 2,000-asset minimum and Pro starts there too, expandable in bands of 1,000. A shop running 150 devices, or 500, gets quoted for capacity it will never use. That gap, not price itself, is the real reason people search for Lansweeper alternatives.

This guide covers 15 replacements, evaluated on published pricing (where it exists), discovery depth, deployment options, and how honestly each vendor prices its own product. Several of these fill the exact gap Lansweeper leaves open at the small end; a few are built for fleets Lansweeper's licensing was never meant to serve either.

Key Facts

• Forescout's Vedere Labs analyzed more than 10 million devices across 700 organizations and found that 65% of connected assets are no longer traditional IT, a mix of IoT, OT and IoMT devices that a name-and-IP discovery scan was never built to classify. (Forescout, via Help Net Security)
• Complete IT asset visibility dropped to 36% among the 512 technology professionals surveyed for Flexera's 2026 State of ITAM Report, published June 2026. (Flexera)
• 64% of organizations in that same Flexera survey were audited by Microsoft in the past three years, and 44% spent over $1 million on software audits in that span, which is the practical cost of not knowing what's actually deployed. (Flexera)
• Gartner predicts that by 2027, 75% of employees will acquire, modify or create technology outside IT's visibility, up from 41% in 2022, which is exactly the blind spot a discovery tool exists to close. (Gartner)
• The median annual wage for computer support specialists was $60,340 in May 2024, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects roughly 50,500 openings a year through 2034, mostly from replacement need rather than growth. Licensing an asset tool is a rounding error next to a loaded headcount line. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Why IT Teams Search for Lansweeper Alternatives

Lansweeper earns a loyal following on the discovery engine itself. It scans network segments agentlessly, fingerprints operating systems, software, and hardware in real detail, and the free tier genuinely works: it scans your whole environment with no cap on scope, only on how many assets get full licensed detail.

That last point is where the friction starts. Free licenses only the first 100 assets it finds; anything past that shows up with just a name, a type, and an IP address, no manufacturer, no installed software, no warranty data. For a lot of small shops that's still useful as an early-warning radar, but it isn't a working inventory. And the paid tiers don't ease you in. Starter is packaged at 2,000 assets. Pro starts at 2,000 too, and grows in increments of 1,000 up to 9,000 before Enterprise takes over. There's no 250-asset or 500-asset paid tier at all.

The second friction point is that none of it has a public price. Lansweeper sells Starter, Pro, and Enterprise through a license-quote request, and searching for "Lansweeper pricing" turns up guesses, not numbers. Lansweeper customers have posted complaints about price increases on the vendor's own community forum, which is worth knowing about, but treat it as customer-reported sentiment, not a confirmed figure. There's no dollar or euro amount here to responsibly repeat.

Sources: lansweeper.com/pricing, docs.lansweeper.com/docs/whats-included-in-the-free-plan. VPCs, containers, and other non-billable records don't count toward the 100-asset free limit.

If your fleet doesn't fit either end of that ladder, the IT asset management buyer's guide walks through how to shop this category from scratch, before you commit to any single vendor's licensing shape.

Quick Comparison Table

What These Tools Actually Cost at Real Fleet Sizes

Asset-based pricing looks abstract until you run it at the sizes people actually have. The contrast below is the point: some tools charge linearly per asset or device, and some charge a flat rate no matter how the fleet grows. Lansweeper can't even be filled in past its free tier, because nothing past 100 assets has a public number.

Snipe-IT's Basic tier caps API calls at 120/minute rather than asset count; a 5,000-asset shop would likely want Small Business or Dedicated for support and API headroom, still at a flat published rate rather than a per-asset one.

Read the PDQ Connect and flat-rate rows side by side and the design difference is obvious. Per-device pricing punishes growth; Snipe-IT, Setyl, and GLPI don't care how big the fleet gets, because they meter something other than asset count. Neither approach is wrong, but a shop that expects to double its device count in two years should weigh that difference more than the sticker price at today's size.

1. ManageEngine AssetExplorer: The Vendor That Actually Publishes Its Band Table

AssetExplorer is the most direct answer to Lansweeper's opacity problem, because it prices the same way Lansweeper does, in bands by asset count, but tells you every figure. ManageEngine (part of Zoho Corp) publishes both a cloud and an on-premises table, and the two aren't the same number: cloud runs $1,245/year at 250 assets rising to $16,695/year at 10,000, while on-premises runs $955 to $11,995 across the same range, plus $1,195 for each additional block of 1,000 assets above 10,000.

A 30-day fully functional trial covers up to 250 assets, then downgrades to a free edition licence rather than disappearing. Remote Control, a common add-on need for distributed IT teams, costs $315 per concurrent session per year on top of the base licence.

Pricing: Cloud: 250 assets $115/month or $1,245/year; 500 assets $225/month or $2,345/year; 1,000 assets $360/month or $3,895/year; 2,000 assets $580/month or $6,245/year; 5,000 assets $1,155/month or $12,445/year; 10,000 assets $1,545/month or $16,695/year. On-premises (annual only): 250 assets $955; 1,000 assets $2,995; 2,000 assets $4,795; 5,000 assets $9,595; 10,000 assets $11,995; each additional 1,000 assets $1,195. Remote Control add-on $315 per concurrent session per year. Vendor-published on manageengine.com/products/asset-explorer/pricing.html. Best for: IT teams that want Lansweeper's banded pricing logic without the black box. Not ideal for: Fleets past 10,000 assets, where the on-premises per-block add-on pricing gets expensive quickly.

2. Snipe-IT: Free and Open Source, or a Flat Cloud Rate With Unlimited Assets

Snipe-IT answers the 2,000-asset minimum directly: it doesn't have one. The self-hosted edition is, in the project's own words, "free and always will be," open source, and there's no asset cap because there's no licensing meter at all beyond the server you run it on.

If you'd rather not host it, Snipe-IT's cloud tiers are flat monthly or annual fees with unlimited users and unlimited assets on every tier, from Basic at $39.99/month up to Dedicated options at $5,000 to $7,500 a year. The tiers differ on support level and API rate limit (120, 240, or unlimited calls per minute), not on how much you're allowed to track.

Pricing: Self-hosted: free and open source, unlimited. Cloud: Basic $39.99/month or $399.99/year (120 API calls/min, community support); Small Business $99.99/month or $999.99/year (240 calls/min, email support, automated upgrades); Dedicated (Small) $249.99/month or $2,499.99/year (unlimited API calls, private server, phone support); Medium $5,000/year and Large $7,500/year for dedicated servers at scale. Annual billing saves 16% versus monthly. Vendor-published on snipeitapp.com/pricing. Best for: Small and mid-size fleets that want unlimited assets without paying more as the count grows, whether self-hosted or cloud. Not ideal for: Teams that need Lansweeper-style automated network discovery baked in; Snipe-IT tracks what you enter or import, it doesn't scan the network for you out of the box.

3. PDQ Inventory (Now PDQ Connect and PDQ Deploy & Inventory): A Real Number, With a Naming Change to Know About

If you've bookmarked "PDQ Inventory" as a standalone product, it's worth updating that mentally: PDQ now sells two things. PDQ Connect is the current cloud product, billed per device per year. PDQ Deploy & Inventory is the on-premises successor to the classic desktop tool, licensed per admin rather than per device, at $1,950/year for one non-shareable admin licence covering unlimited endpoints.

Connect's per-device pricing is genuinely transparent: Basic at $12/device/year, Plus at $18, Premium at $28, each with a 100-device minimum and prorated billing when you add devices mid-year. That minimum matters at the small end the same way Lansweeper's 2,000-asset floor does, just at a fraction of the scale, and it's worth knowing before you assume PDQ solves the "too small for Lansweeper" problem completely free.

Pricing: PDQ Connect (cloud, per device/year, 100-device minimum): Basic $12, Plus $18, Premium $28. PDQ Deploy & Inventory (on-premises, per admin/year): $1,950 flat, one non-shareable licence, unlimited endpoints; volume pricing from 15 admin licences. 14-day free trial on both (Connect covers up to 250 devices). 10-15% discounts for nonprofits, schools, and small businesses under 50 employees. Vendor-published on pdq.com/pricing. Best for: Windows and macOS-heavy IT teams that want patching and inventory from the same tool, at a price they can compute themselves. Not ideal for: Mixed environments with significant Linux, network, or IoT assets outside PDQ's Windows/macOS focus.

4. EZO (EZOfficeInventory): Flat Monthly Pricing, Capped by Items Instead of Users

EZO's EZOfficeInventory flips the usual seat-based model: pricing is flat per month, and the limiting factor is how many tracked items you have, not how many people log in. Essentials starts at $40/month for up to 250 items with unlimited users, which suits a small hardware-heavy operation better than a per-technician rate would.

That structure is also the honest caveat. As your item count grows past a plan's cap, you move up a tier rather than paying a per-item rate, so budget by item count first and user count never.

Pricing: Essentials $40/month, up to 250 items, unlimited users. Advanced $55/month. Premium $65/month. Custom Enterprise on request. Confirm current item caps on ezo.io/ezofficeinventory/pricing before committing, since tier boundaries shift. Best for: Small teams with a large user base but a modest, well-defined item count, like a school or clinic tracking equipment. Not ideal for: Fleets that need automated network scanning rather than manual or integration-driven data entry.

5. Setyl: One Platform for Hardware and SaaS License Spend

Setyl's pitch is consolidation across a line Lansweeper doesn't cross: hardware ITAM and SaaS/software spend management in one system. Alongside asset lifecycle tracking, it does license optimization, onboarding and offboarding workflows, and compliance support for frameworks like ISO 27001 and SOC 2, with over 100 integrations into MDM/RMM tools, HR systems, and SSO providers.

All three plans, Complete, Advanced, and Advanced Managed, start from the same $300/month floor and share the same core feature set; what changes going up the ladder is the level of hands-on implementation and account management, not what the software can track. That floor is worth being honest about: it's flat and unlimited on assets, which is generous at scale, but it's real money for a two-person IT shop with 150 devices and no SaaS-sprawl problem to solve.

Pricing: Complete, Advanced, and Advanced Managed all start from $300/month flat, unlimited hardware and software assets. Advanced Managed adds a dedicated specialist and managed onboarding. Vendor-published on setyl.com/pricing. Best for: IT teams whose real problem is SaaS sprawl and license waste as much as hardware inventory. Our SaaS management software roundup covers that adjacent category if SaaS spend is the bigger pain point. Not ideal for: A very small IT team where $300/month is a hard budget line and hardware, not SaaS, is the only problem.

6. Freshservice (Discovery + Asset Management): ITSM and ITAM Under One Roof

Freshservice bundles asset management into its ITSM platform rather than selling it as a separate product. Every plan, Starter through Enterprise, includes the ITAM Growth package with 100 Asset Units, Freshservice's licensing metric for how many and what type of assets live in its CMDB. Need more capacity, and you buy additional Asset Units in packs of 500 on top of your agent seats.

That's the trade worth weighing against a dedicated ITAM tool: you get ticketing, a service catalog, and an asset database together, but you're paying per agent ($19 to $99/month depending on tier, billed annually) as well as for asset capacity, rather than paying once for assets alone. If ticketing volume, not asset discovery, is your actual bottleneck, our Freshservice alternatives roundup evaluates the ITSM side of that decision in far more depth, including where change and problem management sit in the tier ladder.

Pricing: Starter $19, Growth $49, Pro $99 per agent per month, billed annually; Enterprise custom. ITAM Growth package with 100 Asset Units included on every tier; additional Asset Units sold in packs of 500. No monthly-only rate published. Vendor-published on freshworks.com/freshservice/pricing. Best for: Teams that want their asset data living inside the same platform as their ticket queue. Not ideal for: Shops that only need asset discovery and don't want to pay a per-agent ITSM price to get it.

7. NinjaOne: RMM-Grade Discovery, With the Most Honest Quote-Only Page in the Category

NinjaOne isn't a dedicated ITAM product, it's an RMM platform with strong automated discovery and inventory baked in, and it earns a spot here because a real share of Lansweeper's audience actually wants live endpoint visibility more than a static CMDB. It patches, remotely accesses, and inventories in one agent.

Its pricing page is quote-only, but unusually candid about why: NinjaOne says outright it doesn't publicly list full pricing because doing so would interfere with how its partners price their own services. It publishes a band anyway: as low as $1.50 per endpoint per month at 10,000 endpoints, rising to $3.75 at 50 or fewer. Never repeat the $1.50 figure without that volume condition attached; for a small fleet, $3.75 is the number that actually applies. Teams weighing a full ITSM-plus-RMM combo alongside NinjaOne should also see our NinjaOne alternatives roundup and the direct NinjaOne vs. Atera comparison.

Pricing: Quote only, with a published band: from $1.50 per endpoint per month at 10,000 endpoints, rising to $3.75 at 50 or fewer, varying by region and products purchased, commercial non-FedRAMP instances. 14-day trial. Vendor-published on ninjaone.com/pricing. Best for: IT teams that want live endpoint visibility and remote management alongside inventory, not a static asset database. Not ideal for: Shops that specifically need contract tracking, depreciation, or a formal CMDB; NinjaOne is endpoint-first.

8. Atera: Unlimited Devices Per Technician, a Different Cost Curve Entirely

Atera inverts the usual asset-counting logic: instead of charging per device, it charges per technician and includes unlimited managed devices on every plan. For a two-person IT team managing 800 endpoints, that's the cheapest math in this whole list. For a twelve-person team managing 300 devices, it's the most expensive.

The number that matters has moved and a lot of pages haven't caught up. Atera ran a 2026 pricing update, with new rates applying from the first monthly billing cycle in June 2026 and from the first annual renewal on or after late July 2026; AI Copilot is now included on every plan at no extra charge. Evidence class matters here too: atera.com/pricing, atera.com/it-department-pricing, and support.atera.com all return a 403 to automated fetching, so the figures below are search-indexed vendor-page content rather than a page we could load directly ourselves.

Pricing: Reported from $149/technician/month billed annually (or $169 billed monthly) for the entry IT Department tier, Expert at $189/$229 and Master at $219/$269 above it, unlimited devices and AI Copilot on all three. Source: atera.com/it-department-pricing, which blocks automated access, so treat this as reported rather than vendor-verified here. Best for: Small IT teams and MSPs where device count badly outpaces headcount. Not ideal for: Larger service desks, where per-technician pricing starting at $149 gets expensive fast as staff grows.

9. Action1: The Most Generous Free Tier in This Category

Action1's free tier is the strongest small-fleet answer here, and it's frequently misquoted, so get the number right: free covers 200 endpoints, not 100. Action1 raised the limit from 100 to 200 in February 2025, continuing a pattern of increases (10 to start, 50 in January 2021, 100 in January 2022, 200 in February 2025), and there are no feature restrictions on the free tier at any point in that history.

Past 200 endpoints, Action1 moves to a quote-only model via a contact form, so the transparency that makes the free tier attractive doesn't carry all the way up. It's also primarily a patch management and remote access platform with discovery and inventory as part of that story, not a standalone CMDB.

Pricing: Free for the first 200 endpoints, no feature limitations. Above 200 endpoints, quote only via a contact form. Sources: action1.com/pricing, action1.com/free-edition, and action1.com/company-news/action1-expands-its-free-offering-to-200-endpoints (February 2025). Best for: Small IT teams under 200 endpoints that want patch management and discovery together at zero licensing cost. Not ideal for: Fleets past 200 endpoints wanting a self-serve price, or teams that need formal asset lifecycle and contract management.

10. InvGate Assets: A Dedicated ITAM Product With an Actual Per-Device Rate

InvGate sells its asset management product separately from its service desk, and it's one of the few entries here with both a fixed entry price and a transparent per-device rate above it. Starter is $1,499/year flat for up to 500 IP devices, not a per-device calculation at all, which makes it directly comparable to Lansweeper's free-to-2,000-asset gap: InvGate actually sells something in between.

Pro picks up from there at $5 per IP device per year, with a $2,500/year minimum, covering 500 to 5,000 devices, and Enterprise runs custom from $12,000/year up to a million devices. All tiers include automated discovery, agentless network scanning, and agent-based options across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, plus MDM integrations with Jamf, Intune, and SOTI.

Pricing: Starter $1,499/year fixed, up to 500 IP devices. Pro $5 per IP device per year, minimum $2,500/year, 500 to 5,000 devices. Enterprise custom, from $12,000/year, up to 1,000,000 devices. Annual billing only. Free trial available. Vendor-published on invgate.com/asset-management/pricing. (InvGate's separate service management product carries its own pricing; don't conflate the two if you're evaluating InvGate for ITSM as well.) Best for: Small and mid-size IT teams that want a dedicated ITAM product with a real number to budget from, above Lansweeper's free tier but well under its 2,000-asset Starter floor. Not ideal for: Teams under 500 devices who'd rather pay per-device than a flat annual fee.

11. Device42: Deep CMDB for Data Centers and Hybrid Infrastructure

Device42 goes where Lansweeper and most of this list don't: deep dependency mapping across data center racks, virtualization, cloud instances, and application-to-infrastructure relationships. If your actual problem is understanding what depends on what before a migration or a decommission, Device42's CMDB depth is built for exactly that question.

The pricing situation is stark, though. Device42 confirms only that it's "an annual subscription model, based on the number of devices," with zero tiers, editions, or figures published anywhere on its own site. There's a free trial download to explore the product, but nothing to budget against before that conversation happens.

Pricing: Quote only. Annual subscription, based on device count, with no published figures. Free trial download available. Vendor-published on device42.com/pricing. Best for: IT and infrastructure teams managing complex hybrid data center environments who need dependency mapping, not just an inventory list. Not ideal for: Small IT teams with a simple, mostly end-user-device fleet; this is more infrastructure CMDB than everyday IT asset tracking.

12. Asset Panda: Fully Configurable, Fully Unpriced

Asset Panda's whole pitch is configurability: it can be shaped to track almost any asset type, from IT hardware to fleet vehicles to facilities equipment, with custom fields and workflows built around what you're actually tracking rather than a fixed IT-only schema.

That flexibility comes at the cost of any pricing transparency at all. The vendor's own pricing page states plainly that you'll get "a clear, custom quote based on exactly what you need," with no tier names, no floor price, and no billing basis disclosed anywhere public. A 7-day free trial is the only way to see the product before a sales conversation.

Pricing: Quote only. No tiers, floor price, or billing basis published anywhere on assetpanda.com. 7-day free trial. Vendor-published on assetpanda.com/pricing. Best for: Organizations tracking a mix of IT and non-IT assets that need a highly configurable system more than a cheap one. Not ideal for: Anyone who wants to budget before a sales call; there's nothing here to estimate from.

13. Ivanti Neurons for ITAM: Consolidation With Endpoint and Patch Management

Ivanti's pitch is the same one it makes for ITSM: one vendor for asset data, endpoint management, and patch, rather than stitching an ITAM tool to a separate device management stack. For an organization already standardized on Ivanti elsewhere, the automation between an asset record and the device it describes is tighter than an integration would give you.

Pricing is where this becomes unusable for planning. Ivanti publishes nothing for Neurons for ITAM, and the third-party estimates that circulate for Ivanti's broader ITSM/ITAM stack don't just vary, they contradict each other by an order of magnitude, roughly $25 to $59 per user per year on some comparison sites against roughly $130 per agent per month named (and $185 concurrent) on others. Both can't describe the same product. Run any Ivanti quote through a proper vendor diligence checklist before you commit to a number nobody else can verify.

Pricing: Quote only. No public price list for Neurons for ITAM. Circulating third-party estimates for the broader Ivanti stack run from roughly $25 to $59 per user per year at one end to around $130 per agent per month named, $185 concurrent, at the other; both reported, mutually inconsistent, and not something to budget from. Best for: Enterprises already standardized on Ivanti for endpoint management that want asset data on the same platform. Not ideal for: Anyone who needs to model cost before a sales conversation, or a straightforward small-fleet replacement.

14. GLPI: Free and Open Source, With a Managed Cloud Option If You'd Rather Not Host It

GLPI is more capable than its "free helpdesk software" reputation suggests: full ITSM plus IT asset management, a mature plugin ecosystem, and a large install base, especially in Europe. Self-hosted, it costs nothing to run indefinitely, and the CMDB and asset inventory are part of the core product, not an add-on module.

If you don't want to run the server, GLPI Network Cloud prices per staff agent rather than per asset, and both cloud tiers explicitly guarantee unlimited assets and unlimited end users regardless of plan. Public Cloud is €19/agent/month with a 1-agent minimum and a 97% SLA; Private Cloud is €21/agent/month with a 25-agent minimum, dedicated infrastructure, and a 99% SLA. The honest cost of the self-hosted route isn't the licence, it's whoever on your team keeps Linux, PHP, and MySQL healthy.

Pricing: Free and open source when self-installed, unlimited assets. GLPI Network Cloud Public €19 per IT agent per month, 1-agent minimum, unlimited assets and end users, 5GB disk, 97% SLA. Private Cloud €21 per IT agent per month, 25-agent minimum, dedicated server, 50GB disk, 99% SLA. Vendor-published on glpi-project.org/en/pricing. Best for: Teams with Linux and PHP skills wanting full ITSM and ITAM with no licence fee, or a low-cost managed version of the same thing. Not ideal for: IT teams without in-house technical depth who want a vendor to call at 2am on the base tier.

15. ServiceNow ITAM: The Ceiling, Priced Only Behind a Sales Call

ServiceNow is what this category looks like at full enterprise scale: IT Asset Management woven into a broader platform alongside ITSM, ITOM, and whatever else the organization runs on the Now Platform. The workflow depth, integration surface, and CMDB maturity have no real equivalent on this list.

For everyone else, the same three problems that apply to ServiceNow's ITSM side apply here. There's no public price list, servicenow.com blocks automated access to any pricing information, and deals are negotiated per customer against fulfiller counts and module selection. Since April 2026, ServiceNow has restructured its offering into AI-native tiers, Foundation, Advanced, and Prime, with fully autonomous agent capability reserved for Prime. Third-party estimates put per-user costs roughly in the $90 to $200+/month range, reported only, never vendor-confirmed.

Pricing: Quote only. No published ITAM list pricing; the site blocks automated access, so treat any circulating per-seat figure as unverified. Restructured into Foundation, Advanced, and Prime AI-native tiers since April 2026, with autonomous agents reserved for Prime. Third-party estimates run roughly $90 to $200+ per user per month (reported). Best for: Large enterprises building ITAM into a broader platform strategy with the budget and staffing to run one. Not ideal for: Mid-market or small IT teams; the cost and implementation profile is a different category of decision entirely.

Free Tier Comparison: Who Actually Gives You Something for Nothing

Since the whole premise of this list is Lansweeper's licensing gap at the small end, it's worth lining up exactly who has a genuine free option and who only has a trial.

Two tools here beat Lansweeper's free tier outright at small scale: Action1 covers twice as many endpoints (200 versus 100 licensed assets) with no feature restrictions, and self-hosted Snipe-IT or GLPI cap nothing at all if you're willing to run the server yourself.

What Is Actually Metered: Billing Basis by Tool

A "starting price" column means little in this category without knowing what triggers the bill. This table sorts by what each vendor actually counts.

Deployment and Sizing Fit

How to Choose: Decision Framework

Start by matching fleet size and device mix to each vendor's discovery depth, deployment model, and billing unit. Those constraints narrow the list faster than feature counts.

What to Do Next

Count your actual assets before you shop, not the number you assume you have. If it's under 200, start with Action1's free tier or self-hosted Snipe-IT and confirm they cover your device mix before spending anything. If it's between 200 and 2,000, ManageEngine AssetExplorer or InvGate Assets give you a real published rate to model against, which is more than Lansweeper's own Starter and Pro plans offer. Either way, run the shortlist through a proper TCO model before signing, since add-on packs (Freshservice's Asset Units, InvGate's per-device Pro rate) change the real cost more than the sticker price suggests.

If you're consolidating this purchase alongside other IT tools rather than buying it in isolation, our guide to SaaS consolidation is worth reading before you sign anything new. And if Lansweeper itself is still on your shortlist because free covers your current fleet, keep an eye on your asset count against that 100-licensed-asset line; that's the number that will force the next decision, not a subjective sense that you've "outgrown" the tool.