Lansweeper vs Snipe-IT
Lansweeper and Snipe-IT are both asset management software. Lansweeper is a commercial product from Lansweeper. Snipe-IT is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 15k 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 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
Network discovery that scans and inventories IT, OT and cloud assets, including hardware, software and users, into a searchable database.
A web app for tracking IT assets, software licences, accessories and consumables, with check-in and check-out to staff, audits and reports.
Pricing is per asset and the deep scanning needs credentials and an on-premise sensor.
Self-hosting means maintaining a Laravel app with MySQL or MariaDB, and AGPL applies to modifications.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service (both)
Not published
PHP, Laravel and MariaDB
Closed source, sold by Lansweeper
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
91 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
15k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v8.8.3.
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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.