Lansweeper vs Ralph
Lansweeper and Ralph are both asset management software. Lansweeper is a commercial product from Lansweeper. Ralph is open source under Apache-2.0, with 2.5k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Lansweeper when
- An IT team needs to find out what is actually on its network before doing asset management or security work.
- Pick Ralph when
- An IT team runs its own data centre or server rooms and needs to track hardware assets.
Side by side
Network discovery that scans and inventories IT, OT and cloud assets, including hardware, software and users, into a searchable database.
An asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for data centre and back-office hardware, tracking purchases, life cycles and rack layouts.
Pricing is per asset and the deep scanning needs credentials and an on-premise sensor.
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
Not published
Python and Django
Closed source, sold by Lansweeper
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
91 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
2.5k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 14 years ago, latest release 20261019.1.
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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.