Open Source Alternatives
Open Source IT Asset Management Alternatives to Lansweeper
Agentless network discovery and IT asset inventory.
Lansweeper is a trademark of its respective owner.
Updated Aug 2026
What you gain
- ✓No asset-count tier, so 1,500 devices costs the same as 100
- ✓Licenses, warranties and check-in/check-out without a paid upgrade
- ✓Your inventory sits in a database you can query directly
- ✓Scanning stays inside your network
What you give up
- △No single credentialed scan covering Windows, Linux, VMware and network gear
- △No built-in vulnerability and risk feed
- △You deploy and maintain the scanning agents yourself
- △Report templates get rebuilt rather than imported
Switching Cost
Lansweeper's free tier stops at 100 assets and the next step up is Starter at $239/month for 2,000, so anyone sitting between 200 and 1,500 devices pays for capacity they will never use. That gap is the single best reason teams go looking at Snipe-IT. Migration is easy on data and hard on discovery: asset records export cleanly to CSV, but Lansweeper's agentless credentialed scanning is the actual product and Snipe-IT does not do it. Pair Snipe-IT for the register with OCS Inventory or osquery for discovery and a small team covers it in a week or two. The hidden cost is credential management, because you now own the scanning accounts Lansweeper was quietly handling.
| Snipe-IT | GLPI | OCS Inventory | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overlap | 70% | 65% | 65% |
| Migration | moderate | significant | moderate |
| License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v2.0 |
| Best for | Small teams | Teams with DevOps | Teams with DevOps |
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Drop-in Replacements
Ranked by feature coverage
Snipe-IT
8270% coverageA free open source IT asset/license management system
Snipe-IT answers one question well: who has which laptop, and when does the warranty run out. It tracks hardware, licenses, accessories and consumables, with checkout and check-in against real people.
GLPI
7765% coverageGLPI is a Free Asset and IT Management Software package, Data center management, ITIL Service Desk, licenses tracking and software auditing.
GLPI is three products in one: asset inventory, an ITIL service desk and a CMDB that links them together. That breadth is why it turns up across European public-sector IT more than anywhere else.
OCS Inventory
5365% coverageWebconsole for OCS Inventory NG
OCS Inventory does discovery, not management. Agents sit on your machines, report hardware and installed software back to a central server, and the web console shows what is actually out there.
Snipe-IT is the better asset register and OCS Inventory does the discovery, so together they cover most of Lansweeper. Neither matches Lansweeper's one-pass credentialed scan across Windows, Linux, VMware and network hardware, and neither ships a vulnerability feed. Run the pair if your estate is mostly uniform. Pay Lansweeper if you inherited a messy network and need to find out what is on it.
OSS covers
- ✓hardware and software inventory
- ✓network discovery
- ✓asset register
- ✓license tracking
OSS does not cover
- △credentialed agentless scanning across Windows, Linux, VMware and network gear in one pass
- △built-in vulnerability and risk feed
- △prebuilt compliance report templates
Building Blocks
Lansweeper is a platform. It bundles multiple capabilities into one subscription. These tools each cover one piece. Teams often assemble 2–3 of them instead of paying for the full suite.
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