GLPI vs Ralph
GLPI and Ralph are both asset management software. GLPI is open source under GPL-3.0, with 6.5k GitHub stars. Ralph is open source under Apache-2.0, with 2.5k GitHub stars.
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 Ralph when
- An IT team runs its own data centre or server rooms and needs to track hardware assets.
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.
An asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for data centre and back-office hardware, tracking purchases, life cycles and rack layouts.
Configuration is deep and the interface takes training; some plugins and hosted options are sold by Teclib.
Allegro publishes it source-only with no promise to answer issues or accept pull requests.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
PHP, Symfony, Vue and MySQL
Python and Django
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
6.5k GitHub stars
2.5k GitHub stars
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release 12.0.1.
Established: started 14 years ago, latest release 20261019.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.