Jaggaer vs Leihs
Jaggaer and Leihs are both procurement software. Jaggaer is a commercial product from Jaggaer. Leihs is open source under GPL-3.0, with 246 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Jaggaer when
- A university, public body or manufacturer needs a full procurement suite with deep sourcing and direct materials support.
- Pick Leihs when
- A university or institution lends cameras, laptops or tools to many users and wants a proven self-hosted system.
Side by side
Source-to-pay procurement suite with sourcing, contracts, supplier management, e-procurement and invoicing, strong in higher education and manufacturing.
Equipment booking, lending, inventory and procurement for organisations, where people reserve items and staff hand them out and track returns.
Enterprise scale and implementation effort.
Built around Swiss university needs with a Ruby and Clojure stack that takes skill to host.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
Ruby, Clojure and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Jaggaer
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
189 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
246 GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 14 years ago, latest release 7.15.3.
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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.