ITFlow vs ServiceNow IT Service Management
ITFlow and ServiceNow IT Service Management are both IT service management software. ITFlow is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1k GitHub stars. ServiceNow IT Service Management is a commercial product from ServiceNow.
Which to pick
- Pick ITFlow when
- A small MSP wants one self-hosted tool for tickets, client documentation and billing instead of several subscriptions.
- Pick ServiceNow IT Service Management when
- A large enterprise needs ITIL-aligned service management at scale and will fund a platform team.
Side by side
A system for managed service providers combining ticketing, client IT documentation, assets, passwords, contracts, invoicing and a client portal.
Enterprise IT service management covering incidents, problems, changes, requests, CMDB and service portal on the Now Platform.
Stores client passwords and network details, so hosting and security are critical, and the latest release rebuilt most pages.
Expensive, and it needs dedicated admins and developers to run well.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
PHP, JavaScript and MySQL
JavaScript
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by ServiceNow
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.
1k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v26.11.
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.