Lansweeper vs ServiceNow IT Asset Management
Lansweeper and ServiceNow IT Asset Management are both asset management software. Lansweeper is a commercial product from Lansweeper. ServiceNow IT Asset Management is a commercial product from ServiceNow.
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 ServiceNow IT Asset Management when
- An enterprise already on ServiceNow wants licence compliance and hardware lifecycle tracking in the same platform.
Side by side
Network discovery that scans and inventories IT, OT and cloud assets, including hardware, software and users, into a searchable database.
ServiceNow module for tracking hardware, software licences and cloud assets through their lifecycle, tied to the CMDB and ITSM.
Pricing is per asset and the deep scanning needs credentials and an on-premise sensor.
Expensive add-on licensing, and value depends on a well-maintained CMDB.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Lansweeper
Closed source, sold by ServiceNow
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
91 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
No Wikipedia article of its own
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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.