
Ralph
Ralph is the CMDB / Asset Management system for data center and back office hardware.
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Aug 2026
Ralph came out of Allegro, one of the largest e-commerce operations in Europe, and it shows. This is a data-center CMDB built by people who had to track thousands of servers, racks and back-office hardware, not a general-purpose asset app retrofitted for infrastructure.
It is Python and Django under Apache 2.0, free with nothing held back. There is no paid tier and no company selling a hosted version, which cuts both ways: nobody upsells you, and nobody picks up the phone either.
Data-center modeling is where it earns its place. Racks, physical assets, deployment and a transitions system for asset lifecycle, all with a usable API. Solo and small teams: heavier than you need, use Snipe-IT. Large teams running real physical infrastructure: worth a serious look.
The catch is momentum. Development is steady rather than fast and the community is small next to GLPI or NetBox. Confirm the integrations you depend on are still maintained before you commit a hardware estate to it.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree: Everything. Apache 2.0, no paid edition, no hosted offering, no feature gate.
Self-hosted cost: Python and Django with a Postgres or MySQL backend. Docker Compose setup is documented. Moderate effort to stand up, more to model your estate accurately.
Paid: None. There is no commercial vendor behind Ralph, which means no support contract to buy.
Completely free and open source, with no vendor to sell you anything or to call when it breaks.
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License: Apache License 2.0
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