GLPI vs Lansweeper
GLPI and Lansweeper are both asset management software. GLPI is open source under GPL-3.0, with 6.5k GitHub stars. Lansweeper is a commercial product from Lansweeper.
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 Lansweeper when
- An IT team needs to find out what is actually on its network before doing asset management or security work.
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.
Network discovery that scans and inventories IT, OT and cloud assets, including hardware, software and users, into a searchable database.
Configuration is deep and the interface takes training; some plugins and hosted options are sold by Teclib.
Pricing is per asset and the deep scanning needs credentials and an on-premise sensor.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service (both)
PHP, Symfony, Vue and MySQL
Not published
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Lansweeper
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
91 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
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.