Lansweeper alternatives

Lansweeper alternatives, and what to run beside it

Most people searching for a Lansweeper alternative are in one of two places. Either they want different discovery, or they have worked out that discovery was never going to tell them who is holding the equipment, and the answers to those two problems barely overlap.

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What are the best Lansweeper alternatives, and what should sit beside it?

To replace Lansweeper's discovery, look at ManageEngine AssetExplorer for network scanning, a CMDB and on-premise deployment, or InvGate for agent-based discovery with a service desk. Stackroom is not a replacement: it sits beside a scanner and records who physically holds each item, including the monitors, docks and tools a scan never sees.

Last reviewed 24 September 2026

Why teams start looking

What sends Lansweeper users looking

The licence bands stopped matching the estate

Lansweeper licenses by asset count in bands. The free tier covers 100 licensed assets, the first paid band 2,000, the tier above scales to 9,000, and Enterprise starts at 10,000 and grows in steps of 2,000. Scanning carries on past your licence, but anything unlicensed shows only basic detail, so the full picture you bought it for is capped by the band you are in.

That is a fair model for a discovery tool. It also turns a growing estate into a budgeting event, and an organisation sitting just over a band boundary will go looking for a meter that suits its shape better.

Discovery data wanted to live with the tickets

Knowing what exists on the network is half of IT's day. The other half happens in a service desk. Teams that want both from one vendor, working from one data set, start weighing InvGate, Freshservice or AssetSonar, which bundle the two, rather than keeping a scanner and a helpdesk joined by an integration.

The drawer problem

Lansweeper's documentation lists agentless scanning by IP range, Active Directory and cloud accounts such as AWS and Azure, plus LsAgent, an installed agent that reports from laptops off the corporate network over a cloud relay. That covers a lot of ground. None of it helps with a laptop switched off in a leaver's drawer, which reports nothing whether it was handed back or not.

Lansweeper records basic assignment. It does not capture a signature at handover, condition at return, or a list of what a leaver still holds, and no other scanner on this page does either, because a handover generates no network traffic.

Half the kit never touches the network

Monitors, docks, headsets, test equipment and tools go into Lansweeper by manual entry. None of the automation that justified buying it reaches them, so the manual half drifts and ends up less trustworthy than the scanned half. For many offices it is also the larger half.

When staying on Lansweeper is the right call

Discovery, installed-software inventory and patch or vulnerability posture are what you bought it for, and they still work. Nothing without a scanner replaces that.
Your estate is almost entirely networked and nobody has asked who is physically holding what.
Your estate fits inside the free 100 licensed assets, or comfortably inside a band, and the price is not what is bothering you.
Your real gap is custody. That is an argument for adding a custody tool beside Lansweeper, not for removing the one part of your stack that finds devices on its own.

The shortlist

Alternatives to Lansweeper worth evaluating

Ordered by how well each fits someone leaving Lansweeper. Not all of these are us, and the one that is is labelled.

1.
ManageEngine AssetExplorer
IT asset management
AssetExplorer keeps network scanning and adds a CMDB with relationship mapping and software licence tracking, and it runs on your own infrastructure. Of everything here, it is the closest to doing what Lansweeper does and then some, and it suits teams already using other ManageEngine products such as ServiceDesk Plus.
Pick it if
You want scanning plus configuration management, or your asset data must stay on your own servers.
Watch out for
It is software you install and maintain, and deployment is a project. Licensing is by IT asset count in fixed bands from 250 to 10,000, annual or perpetual, so the shape of the bill is not so different from the one you are leaving. Remote control is a paid add-on.
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2.
InvGate
IT asset management
If discovery should stay automatic but live next to a service desk, InvGate pairs agent-based discovery, software normalisation and licence reconciliation with a service desk working from the same data. That combination is what Lansweeper users most often go looking for.
Pick it if
IT owns the problem and would rather have discovery, licence reconciliation and tickets from one vendor than join two tools.
Watch out for
Discovery comes from agents on endpoints, so expect a rollout rather than pointing a scanner at an IP range. Licensing counts service-desk agents rather than assets: a fixed annual price covers the first five, per-agent pricing applies above that, and on-premise hosting is Enterprise only. That is a different budget conversation from asset bands.
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Stackroom
That is us
Stackroom is here for the drawer problem, not the discovery one. It records who signed for each item, what condition it came back in and where it was last scanned, and registers the monitors, docks and tools a network scan cannot reach. When someone leaves, it lists what they still hold and issues a clearance certificate once everything is back.
Pick it if
You are keeping a scanner, Lansweeper or another, and the gap is custody, offboarding recovery or the non-networked half of the estate.
Watch out for
No agent, no network scanning, no software inventory, no patch view. Swap Lansweeper for Stackroom alone and you lose all of that. Most teams in this position run both and feed device data across through the REST API.
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4.
AssetSonar
Workplace & remote IT
AssetSonar takes device data from prebuilt MDM and discovery integrations, Intune and Jamf among them, rather than running its own network scan, and adds software tracking and service-desk features on top.
Pick it if
Your laptops are already managed through MDM, so the device record exists somewhere, and you want it in an ITAM tool without maintaining a scanner.
Watch out for
Integrations only know what they are connected to, so non-networked kit is still manual. Per-asset monthly pricing keeps you on an asset meter, just a different one, and service management and advanced software tracking each raise the per-asset rate.
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5.
Freshservice
IT asset management
If the real complaint is that discovery data and tickets live apart, Freshservice puts a discovery agent, a CMDB and a well-regarded service desk on one platform.
Pick it if
You need a service desk as well, and most of your asset questions are asked inside incidents and changes.
Watch out for
Two meters: a per-agent subscription plus asset units. Each plan bundles 100 asset units and more are bought on top, and a server or network device uses four units where a laptop uses one. You are buying an ITSM platform to get an asset register.
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6.
Snipe-IT
IT asset management
If you mostly used Lansweeper as a list of who has which laptop and the licence is what hurts, Snipe-IT self-hosted is free with unlimited assets and users. It is the honest answer to most searches for a free Lansweeper alternative.
Pick it if
You have someone who will run a server, and you can live with entering or importing assets rather than discovering them.
Watch out for
Snipe-IT sells itself as a register with a REST API for integrations, not as a scanner, so you give up discovery entirely. Self-hosting also means no automatic backups and community-only support unless you pay for hosting.
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How to choose

Three questions that separate this shortlist

Do you still need something scanning the network?

If yes, the realistic list is ManageEngine AssetExplorer, InvGate, or keeping Lansweeper. AssetSonar leans on MDM and discovery integrations instead, and Freshservice on its own ITSM platform with asset units metered on top of agents. Snipe-IT and Stackroom do no discovery at all, so on this question they only fit as a register or a companion.

Is the problem the scanner, or the meter?

Lansweeper bills by licensed assets in bands. InvGate counts agents, Freshservice counts agents plus asset units, AssetSonar charges per asset per month, AssetExplorer uses asset bands again, and Snipe-IT self-hosted charges nothing but your time. Moving for price means modelling your real estate against each meter, not comparing entry tiers.

Where do you actually lose track of equipment?

If it is at a handover, such as a laptop going to a starter or not coming back from a leaver, no discovery tool will fix it. That is a custody question, and it is the one Stackroom is built around: a signature at handover, condition at return, a clearance certificate once the leaver has returned everything.

Migration

Moving your data out of Lansweeper

Decide first whether this is a replacement or an addition. If discovery is moving to another scanner, move that on its own and run the two side by side for a scan cycle so you can compare device counts before switching Lansweeper off. If discovery is staying, nothing migrates: Lansweeper keeps finding devices and Stackroom takes a device list from it once, then holds the physical record. Stackroom is not a destination for scan data.

For the Stackroom seed file, export only the devices that matter physically, meaning laptops, phones and anything issued to a person, with serial number, manufacturer, model and current user where Lansweeper records one. Skip the servers and switches nobody carries. Import people by CSV first so each laptop lands against a named holder. Serials map to the serial field, device types to categories, and anything without an obvious home, such as model, to a custom field you set up beforehand.

Then add what the scan never saw: monitors, docks, adaptors, headsets, test equipment, tools. This has nowhere to come from except a walk round with a phone and a sheet of QR labels. Scan each item once to attach its label and record who holds it, and finish with a scoped audit of each site so you start from a count rather than an assumption.

Installed software, hardware specifications, vulnerability data and scan history do not carry across and should not; they belong in the discovery tool. If you want serials and models kept current, a scheduled job against Stackroom's REST API can push discovery updates in without anyone retyping them.

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FAQ

Lansweeper alternatives — common questions

Is there a free alternative to Lansweeper?

Start with Lansweeper's own free tier of 100 licensed assets. Beyond that, Snipe-IT self-hosted is free with unlimited assets and users, but it is a register rather than a scanner and you run the server. Stackroom has a free plan with unlimited users, again with no discovery, so it is free only for the custody side. The discovery tools on this page are trial-then-paid.

Which Lansweeper alternatives do their own discovery?

On this shortlist, ManageEngine AssetExplorer scans the network and InvGate uses agents on endpoints. Freshservice has a discovery agent within its ITSM platform, with asset units metered on top of agents. AssetSonar gets device data through MDM and discovery integrations. Snipe-IT and Stackroom discover nothing; assets arrive by import, API or, in Stackroom's case, a phone scanning a label.

Is Lansweeper agentless, and do the alternatives need agents?

Lansweeper's documentation lists agentless scanning by IP range, Active Directory and cloud accounts, with LsAgent as the installed option for remote laptops. InvGate's discovery is agent-based, so moving there means an endpoint rollout. AssetExplorer scans the network. Stackroom installs nothing on devices at all; a QR label and a phone camera are the whole footprint.

What is the difference between discovery and custody?

Discovery answers what exists on the network and what runs on it, automatically. Custody answers who signed for an item, when it is due back and whether it came back damaged, which only a person recording a handover can know. Lansweeper is a discovery tool. Stackroom is a custody tool, and many teams run both, keeping the shared device record aligned through the REST API.

What about equipment Lansweeper cannot see?

That is the strongest reason to add Stackroom. Anything without a network connection, such as monitors, docks, headsets, cameras and tools, is registered by importing a list or scanning a QR label with a phone, and gets the same custody workflow as a laptop: signed out, signed back, condition recorded.

Does Stackroom track warranties the way Lansweeper holds warranty data?

It records cover rather than looking it up: manufacturer and extended warranties plus AMC and CMC contracts, with policy number, claim contact, cost, terms and renewal history. One contract can cover many assets, and alerts fire as expiry approaches and again when it passes. Dates are entered or imported, not fetched.

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