InvenTree vs Snipe-IT
InvenTree and Snipe-IT are both inventory and warehouse software. InvenTree is open source under MIT, with 7.8k GitHub stars. Snipe-IT is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick InvenTree when
- You make or repair physical products, especially electronics, and need parts and BOM tracking without an ERP.
- Pick Snipe-IT when
- Your IT team needs to know who has which laptop and licence, self-hosted or on the paid hosted plan.
Side by side
A self-hosted inventory system for parts, stock locations, suppliers, bills of materials, build orders and purchase and sales orders, with a plugin system and mobile app.
A web app for tracking IT assets, software licences, accessories and consumables, with check-in and check-out to staff, audits and reports.
No accounting module, and the Django stack needs someone to run updates and backups.
Self-hosting means maintaining a Laravel app with MySQL or MariaDB, and AGPL applies to modifications.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Python, Django, TypeScript, React and PostgreSQL
PHP, Laravel and MariaDB
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
7.8k GitHub stars
15k GitHub stars
Established: started 9 years ago, latest release 1.6.4.
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v8.8.3.
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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.