Ralph vs Snipe-IT
Ralph and Snipe-IT are both asset management software. Ralph is open source under Apache-2.0, with 2.5k GitHub stars. Snipe-IT is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Ralph when
- An IT team runs its own data centre or server rooms and needs to track hardware assets.
- 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
An asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for data centre and back-office hardware, tracking purchases, life cycles and rack layouts.
A web app for tracking IT assets, software licences, accessories and consumables, with check-in and check-out to staff, audits and reports.
Allegro publishes it source-only with no promise to answer issues or accept pull requests.
Self-hosting means maintaining a Laravel app with MySQL or MariaDB, and AGPL applies to modifications.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Python and Django
PHP, Laravel and MariaDB
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
2.5k GitHub stars
15k GitHub stars
Established: started 14 years ago, latest release 20261019.1.
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v8.8.3.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.