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Head to head · Survey date: September 2026

Axonius vs Lansweeper: Enterprise Correlation or Fast IT Inventory?

Two different answers to "what do we have?"

Bottom line

Lansweeper wins on getting started: agentless discovery, a 14-day trial and published plans (deployment 86, price 90). Axonius wins on what the inventory can tell you once many tools are connected: coverage, correlation, query and remediation. Axonius scores 76 overall and Lansweeper 70.

Last updated 29 September 2026

How do Axonius and Lansweeper score?

Coverage and trust score, editorial assessment, 0-100. Survey date: September 2026.
CriterionWeightAxoniusLansweeperLeader
Source coverage22%9270Axonius
Correlation and deduplication18%9066Axonius
Data freshness12%7876Axonius
Query and reporting12%8664Axonius
Remediation and write-back14%8250Axonius
Deployment effort12%6086Lansweeper
Price transparency10%1590Lansweeper
Total100%7670Axonius

Axonius leads 5 criteria, Lansweeper leads 2.

Coverage and trust score (editorial assessment, 0-100). It measures how completely and reliably a tool can tell a security or IT team what assets exist, who owns them and what state they are in. It is not a measure of overall product quality: service management platforms and lifecycle tools score lower here because inventory accuracy is one part of what they do.

What is the core difference?

Lansweeper discovers assets itself: network scanning including OT, an optional agent for off-network laptops, cloud discovery and passive detection. Axonius builds its inventory from the tools already in place and reconciles their data. Lansweeper answers what is on the network; Axonius answers what every tool thinks is there and where they disagree.

Where does Lansweeper win?

Price and speed. Starter and Pro list prices are published, the free tier continues up to 100 assets, and scanning works without agents. For an IT team that needs a network inventory feeding a service desk, it is the lower-effort choice.

Where does Axonius win?

Depth. Axonius documents SaaS apps, identities and cloud as full asset classes, correlates data from more than 1,200 adapters and runs enforcement actions. Lansweeper's SaaS coverage on the pages we reviewed is AI usage tracking, and it does not document enforcement actions of its own.

How do pricing and deployment compare?

Published facts, Axonius and Lansweeper. Reviewed September 2026.
FactAxoniusLansweeper
Published pricing

Not published. The homepage offers Get Pricing through sales.

Source: axonius.com · Reviewed Sep 2026

Free up to 100 assets after the trial. Starter (includes 2,000 assets) and Pro (scales to 9,000 assets in bands of 1,000) list prices are published, billed annually. Enterprise is quoted from 10,000 assets.

Source: lansweeper.com/pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026

Free tier or trialNot published14 days of full access, then free up to 100 assets
DeploymentAxonius-hosted SaaS on an AWS EC2 instance separated from other customers' environments, in any EC2 region, or a customer-hosted virtual appliance on the internal network.Agentless scanning, an optional IT agent for off-network laptops and a traffic sensor for passive detection.
How it builds the inventoryAggregates and correlates data from the tools a company already runs, through adapters.Agentless network scanning including OT, an optional agent, cloud discovery and passive detection.
Integrations as published1,200+ adaptersCount not published; lists Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, HaloITSM, Freshservice, TOPdesk, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk and Armis
Coverage grid count6.5 of 75.5 of 7

Which assets does each cover?

Asset coverage grid: which asset classes each tool documentsWeighted coverage counts, documented counts one and partial counts one half: Axonius 6.5 of 7; JupiterOne 4.5 of 7; runZero 5.5 of 7; Lansweeper 5.5 of 7; Armis 4.5 of 7; Oomnitza 4.0 of 7; Device42 3.5 of 7.E1AxoniusE4LansweeperN1Laptops and workstationsLaptops and workstations · Axonius: DocumentedDLaptops and workstations · Lansweeper: DocumentedDN2ServersServers · Axonius: DocumentedDServers · Lansweeper: DocumentedDN3Cloud workloadsCloud workloads · Axonius: DocumentedDCloud workloads · Lansweeper: Partial. Cloud discovery is documented; providers are not named on the product page.PN4SaaS appsSaaS apps · Axonius: DocumentedDSaaS apps · Lansweeper: Partial. AI usage tracking only.PN5IdentitiesIdentities · Axonius: DocumentedDIdentities · Lansweeper: Partial. User data is merged into asset records.PN6OT and IoTOT and IoT · Axonius: DocumentedDOT and IoT · Lansweeper: DocumentedDN7Network devicesNetwork devices · Axonius: Partial. Covered through adapters to network tools; the pages we reviewed do not describe a native network scanner.PNetwork devices · Lansweeper: DocumentedD
DocumentedPartialNot documented
Asset coverage, Axonius and Lansweeper. Status reflects vendor documentation reviewed September 2026.
Asset classAxoniusLansweeper
Laptops and workstationsDocumentedDocumented
ServersDocumentedDocumented
Cloud workloadsDocumentedPartial
SaaS appsDocumentedPartial
IdentitiesDocumentedPartial
OT and IoTDocumentedDocumented
Network devicesPartialDocumented
Weighted count (of 7)6.55.5

Which one fits your team?

Choose Axonius if

  • Security owns the inventory and needs coverage gaps across many tools.
  • SaaS apps and identities must be included.

Choose Lansweeper if

  • IT needs an accurate network and device inventory quickly.
  • A published price matters more than cross-tool correlation.

Frequently asked questions

Is Lansweeper cheaper than Axonius?

Lansweeper publishes its plans and Axonius does not, so a like-for-like comparison needs an Axonius quote.

Which is easier to deploy?

Lansweeper (86 on deployment effort) against Axonius (60). Lansweeper scans without agents; Axonius needs an adapter configured for each source.

Which covers more asset classes, Axonius or Lansweeper?

In our coverage grid Axonius documents 6.5 of 7 asset classes and Lansweeper 5.5, counting Documented as 1 and Partial as 0.5.

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