GLPI vs Ivanti Neurons for ITAM
GLPI and Ivanti Neurons for ITAM are both asset management software. GLPI is open source under GPL-3.0, with 6.5k GitHub stars. Ivanti Neurons for ITAM is a commercial product from Ivanti.
Which to pick
- Pick GLPI when
- An IT department wants a free, self-hosted helpdesk and asset register and is comfortable with a PHP application.
- Pick Ivanti Neurons for ITAM when
- An organisation already uses Ivanti for service or endpoint management and wants asset records in the same suite.
Side by side
IT asset management and ITIL service desk in one: inventory of computers and software, licences, contracts, tickets, changes and a knowledge base.
IT asset management covering hardware and software lifecycle, contracts and discovery data, within Ivanti's service and endpoint suite.
Configuration is deep and the interface takes training; some plugins and hosted options are sold by Teclib.
Ivanti products have had several serious security vulnerabilities in recent years.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service and self-hosted server
PHP, Symfony, Vue and MySQL
Not published
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Ivanti
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
6.5k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release 12.0.1.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.