What is the closest Lansweeper alternative?

It depends which half of Lansweeper you use. If you use it to sweep subnets and find unmanaged devices, the closest shapes are InvGate Asset Management and ManageEngine AssetExplorer, because both scan networks. If you use it as the register that answers who holds what, the closest shapes are OnTrackio and Snipe-IT, and neither scans a network. Most teams comparing tools discover they were paying for the first job to do the second.

Is there a free Lansweeper alternative?

Four, and the first one is Lansweeper itself: its free tier covers 100 assets, so a team under that line has no pricing reason to move at all. Of the rest: Snipe-IT is free to self-host with unlimited assets and users, and GLPI is a free open-source ITSM suite covering assets alongside requests and workflows. ManageEngine AssetExplorer also ships a free edition on both cloud and on-premises, though neither its pricing page nor its version comparison states the asset limit, so check that before planning around it. None of the three is free in total cost: somebody has to patch, upgrade, back up and secure a self-hosted instance, and that person is the real price.

How much does Lansweeper cost compared with the alternatives?

Lansweeper publishes a full plan table, so a like-for-like comparison is possible. Checked on 2026-10-06, it lists a free tier for 100 assets, Starter at €270, $299 or £245 a month billed annually for 2,000 assets, Pro from €474, $528 or £449 a month for 2,000 assets with a published price at each step up to 9,000, and Enterprise from 10,000 assets. The page labels each figure by currency, and bills GBP in the UK, USD in the Americas and EUR elsewhere. Among the other options, checked on 2026-09-23, published figures are: Snipe-IT free to self-host or from 399.99 US dollars a year hosted, InvGate Asset Management from 1,499 US dollars a year for 500 IP devices, Freshservice from 19 US dollars per agent per month, and OnTrackio from 2,400 euro a year. ManageEngine AssetExplorer is the cheapest of the tools that price per asset: 955 US dollars a year on-premises for 250 assets, or 1,245 in the cloud. Snipe-IT's hosted tier is cheaper still at any size, because it does not meter assets at all.

Can we move our Lansweeper data into another tool?

Export the asset list and import it. OnTrackio ships mapping presets for Lansweeper exports alongside Snipe-IT, ServiceNow, InvGate, Freshservice and GLPI, so column names map without hand editing. The part a one-time import cannot do is stay current, which is why whatever you move to needs its own agent, scan or directory sync.

Do we need to replace Lansweeper at all?

Often not. If your estate is network heavy, with switches, printers, cameras and operational technology that only answers a scan, Lansweeper does a job that custody-first tools do not attempt. The question worth asking is whether you use that capability, or whether you bought a discovery platform to answer custody questions it was never designed around.

Lansweeper alternatives: six options compared

Teams search for Lansweeper alternatives for two reasons, and they lead to different answers. Read the first section before the list, because picking from the list without it is how you end up migrating sideways.

Why teams start looking

Start with the honest version, because our earlier draft of this page had it backwards. Lansweeper is not expensive. Its published plans, checked 2026-10-06, run a free tier covering 100 assets, Starter at €270, $299 or £245 a month by billing currency, billed annually for 2,000 assets, and Pro from €474 a month for the same 2,000 assets, with a published price at each step up to 9,000. Per asset, Starter at 2,000 assets comes to less than two euros a year. If price is your reason for leaving, check those numbers first: you may be about to pay more, not less.

What does recur in public discussions is fit. A team buys a discovery platform, uses a fraction of it, and finds that the questions it actually gets asked at audit time are custody questions: who holds this laptop, when did they accept it, did it come back when they left.

Those are two different products. Discovery answers what exists on the network. Custody answers who is responsible for it. Lansweeper is very good at the first one. Whether you need the second one is the decision, and no comparison table can make it for you.

What to compare on

Four criteria separate these tools more than any feature checklist:

Shape. Does it fill itself by scanning a network, by an endpoint agent, or by a person typing? That determines what it knows and what it misses.
Deployment and jurisdiction. Self-hosted, cloud, and if cloud, whose cloud and under which law. For a European buyer this is often the first filter, not the last.
Published price. A tool that publishes its tiers can be budgeted before a sales call. Every tool here publishes at least its entry price.
What comes out. A dashboard you read, or a document you hand to an auditor. These are not the same artefact.

The six options

OnTrackio, for custody and audit evidence

Ours, so read it with that in mind. It is a custody register: the endpoint agent for macOS and Windows reports daily, and the record tracks who holds each device, whether they accepted it, and what state it came back in. Offboarding blocks until the hardware is returned. It generates evidence documents for NIS2 Article 21, SOC 2 CC6, ISO 27001 A.8 and GDPR Article 30, each with a label saying what the document does and does not cover.

There is no network scanner. If sweeping subnets is the core job, this is the wrong tool and the honest answer is one of the two below.

EU workspaces run in Frankfurt under European jurisdiction on every tier, and US workspaces in us-east-1, with public pricing from 2,400 euro a year and Google or Microsoft sign-in included at every level.

Say the uncomfortable part plainly: 2,400 euro covers 500 devices, and Lansweeper’s free tier covers 100 assets for nothing. We are not the cheap option and this page will not pretend otherwise. What the money buys is the custody record, the generated evidence documents, and a single European jurisdiction. If none of those three is the problem you have, buy on price.

Best for: 200 to 2,000 people, mostly managed laptops and SaaS, with an audit or a customer security review on the calendar.

Not for: estates whose main problem is unidentified devices on a network.

Snipe-IT, for free and self-hosted

The most mature open-source asset register, and the one we ran ourselves before building anything. Free to self-host with unlimited assets and users. Hosted plans start at 399.99 US dollars a year, rising to 999.99 and 2,499.99 for larger dedicated instances, with 5,000 and 7,500 US dollar tiers above that.

Self-hosting gets community support only; email support starts with the hosted plans. It has no discovery of its own, so rows arrive by CSV, API or typing.

Best for: teams who want to own the database, and have somebody whose job includes patching it.

Not for: teams who cannot name that person.

InvGate Asset Management, for network discovery with a CMDB

The closest shape to Lansweeper on this list, and the strongest competitor to us on features. Agentless scanning across eleven protocols plus its own agents for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, MDM federation with Jamf, Intune and SOTI, cloud inventory from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and automatic configuration database mapping.

Published tiers as of 2026-09-23: Starter at 1,499 US dollars a year for 500 IP devices, Pro at five US dollars per IP device per year starting at 2,500, and Enterprise from 12,000 for up to a million devices.

Read the tier boundaries before comparing headline prices. Single sign-on, software metering, licence contract management and role-based permissions all start at Pro, not Starter.

Data residency is not one of those boundaries, and an earlier version of this paragraph said it was. InvGate’s compliance FAQ states that customers select a hosting region when the instance is set up, that EU customers are hosted in EU AWS regions by default, and that Frankfurt is one of eight standard regions. The Enterprise-only line covers country-specific requirements beyond those eight. A European buyer on the 1,499 dollar Starter gets EU hosting.

Best for: heterogeneous estates that genuinely need scanning, with budget for the tier that holds the features you need.

Not for: buyers who want licence metering or single sign-on at the entry tier, both of which start at Pro.

GLPI, for open-source breadth

A free open-source suite that centralises requests, assets, workflows and support in one place, maintained by a French project with a commercial partner network for paid support. Broader than an asset register: if you want ticketing and assets from one codebase without licence cost, this is the option.

The cost is operational. It is a large application to run well, and the configuration work is real.

Best for: teams with in-house capacity who want one open-source system for service management and assets.

Not for: two-person IT teams already short on hours.

ManageEngine AssetExplorer, for published per-asset pricing

A long-established asset management product covering discovery, lifecycle and licence tracking, and it publishes the most granular price list of anything on this page. You pay by the number of assets you manage.

Cloud starts at 1,245 US dollars a year for 250 assets, then 2,345 for 500, 3,895 for 1,000 and 6,245 for 2,000. On-premises is cheaper still: 955 US dollars a year for 250 assets, 1,795 for 500, 2,995 for 1,000. There is also a free edition on both cloud and on-premises, although neither the pricing page nor the version comparison states its asset limit.

Read that against our own tiers honestly. At 500 assets AssetExplorer publishes 1,795 US dollars a year on-premises, or 2,345 in the cloud. Our Starter tier is 2,400 euro for 500 devices, and Business, with the evidence pack, is 3,600 euro. We cost more. What the difference buys is custody workflow and generated audit evidence rather than more asset rows, and if neither is the job you are trying to do, the cheaper register is the right answer.

Two things do not come with it. The on-premises edition drops asset acknowledgement, self-audit and lifecycle workflow, which the cloud edition has, so the cheapest tier is also the thinnest on custody. And it is a suite product, so the practical question is whether you want to run ManageEngine.

Best for: teams who want a published per-asset price and are comfortable inside the ManageEngine estate.

Not for: teams who need custody workflow on the on-premises edition, where acknowledgement and lifecycle are absent.

Freshservice, for service desk first

A service desk with asset management attached, rather than the reverse. Published pricing starts at 19 US dollars per agent per month. If your primary unmet need is ticketing and the asset register is a secondary benefit, this is the honest recommendation on this list, and it is not us.

Best for: teams whose main gap is a service desk.

Not for: teams who already have one and need custody records.

Side by side

Tool	Fills itself by	Deployment	Published price	Strongest at
Lansweeper	Network scan, agents, connectors	Cloud or self-host	Free to 100 assets, then Starter at €270, $299 or £245 a month for 2,000	Discovery breadth, IT and OT
OnTrackio	Endpoint agent, importers	Cloud: Frankfurt (EU) or us-east-1 (US)	From 2,400 euro a year	Custody and audit evidence
Snipe-IT	Manual, CSV, API	Self-host or hosted	Free, or from 399.99 dollars a year	Owning your own data
InvGate	Network scan, agents, MDM	Cloud, on-premise at Enterprise	From 1,499 dollars a year	Discovery and CMDB
GLPI	Manual, inventory agent	Self-host	Free	Open-source breadth
AssetExplorer	Network scan, agents	Self-host or cloud	From 955 dollars a year for 250 assets	Published per-asset pricing
Freshservice	Discovery agent, integrations	Cloud	From 19 dollars per agent a month	Service desk

Prices checked on 2026-09-23 against each vendor’s own pricing page. They change, so verify before you budget.

Picking by situation

Network heavy, lots of operational technology. Stay on Lansweeper, or look at InvGate. Custody tools do not replace a scanner.
Mostly laptops, audit coming. A custody register with an agent covers it. That is the case for us, and the comparison is laid out in detail on our Lansweeper alternative page.
No budget, technical team. Snipe-IT self-hosted, or GLPI if you want ticketing too.
European data requirement. Check the tier, not the marketing page. Cloud region and legal jurisdiction are different promises, and ours is set out on the security page.
Tight budget, but you want a paid and supported product. AssetExplorer publishes the lowest per-asset price here. Check the on-premises feature list first: asset acknowledgement, self-audit and lifecycle workflow are cloud only, and acknowledgement is the custody part.
Ticketing is the real gap. Freshservice.

Moving the data

Whatever you choose, the migration is the same three steps: export from Lansweeper, map the columns, then connect something that keeps rows current.

OnTrackio ships mapping presets for Lansweeper exports along with Snipe-IT, ServiceNow, InvGate, Freshservice and GLPI, so the column names line up without hand editing. After the import the agent takes over the part an import cannot do, which is staying true next month.

What this page cannot tell you

We have run Snipe-IT. We have not operated Lansweeper, InvGate, GLPI, AssetExplorer or Freshservice, so every description of those is drawn from their public documentation and pricing pages as of 2026-09-23, and where they are stronger than us the sections above say so.

We also have no switcher testimonials to show you, because we are early and would rather say that than borrow someone else’s. What we can offer is a trial against your own fleet, which is better evidence than a quote anyway. Talk to us if the custody half is the half you are missing.