Head to head · Survey date: September 2026

Lansweeper vs Device42

Two asset inventory tools on the same seven criteria.

Bottom line

Lansweeper (70) ranks above Device42 (57) on our weighted rubric. Lansweeper leads on source coverage, correlation and deduplication, data freshness, query and reporting, deployment effort and price transparency; Device42 leads on remediation and write-back. Lansweeper publishes prices; Device42 publishes its pricing model but not amounts.

Last updated 29 September 2026

How do Lansweeper and Device42 score?

Coverage and trust score, editorial assessment, 0-100. Survey date: September 2026.
Criterion	Weight	Lansweeper	Device42	Leader
Source coverage	22%	70	60	Lansweeper
Correlation and deduplication	18%	66	58	Lansweeper
Data freshness	12%	76	70	Lansweeper
Query and reporting	12%	64	60	Lansweeper
Remediation and write-back	14%	50	52	Device42
Deployment effort	12%	86	56	Lansweeper
Price transparency	10%	90	35	Lansweeper
Total	100%	70	57	Lansweeper

Lansweeper leads 6 criteria, Device42 leads 1.

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.

Where does each one win?

Lansweeper leads

Source coverage: 70 vs 60. Separate discovery for the network including OT, off-network laptops and cloud; SaaS coverage is limited to AI usage tracking on the pages we reviewed.
Correlation and deduplication: 66 vs 58. Merges duplicate records on MAC address, serial number and hostname rather than IP address.
Data freshness: 76 vs 70. Passive detection runs by default alongside scheduled scans.
Query and reporting: 64 vs 60. Inventory reports and dashboards; less cross-source query depth than graph or aggregation platforms.
Deployment effort: 86 vs 56. Agentless scanning, an optional agent for remote laptops, and a 14-day trial with no credit card.
Price transparency: 90 vs 35. Starter and Pro list prices published, billed annually; free up to 100 assets; Enterprise quoted from 10,000 assets.

How do pricing and deployment compare?

Published facts, Lansweeper and Device42. Reviewed September 2026.
Fact	Lansweeper	Device42
Published pricing	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	Annual subscription based on the number of devices; amounts not published. Source: device42.com/pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026
Free tier or trial	14 days of full access, then free up to 100 assets	Free trial download
Deployment	Agentless scanning, an optional IT agent for off-network laptops and a traffic sensor for passive detection.	Not described on the pages we reviewed; the free trial is a download.
How it builds the inventory	Agentless network scanning including OT, an optional agent, cloud discovery and passive detection.	Agentless discovery and dependency mapping from mainframes to cloud containers, SNMP network devices, AWS and Azure.
Integrations as published	Count not published; lists Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, HaloITSM, Freshservice, TOPdesk, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk and Armis	30+ integrations
Coverage grid count	5.5 of 7	3.5 of 7

Which assets does each cover?

DocumentedPartialNot documented

Asset coverage, Lansweeper and Device42. Status reflects vendor documentation reviewed September 2026.
Asset class	Lansweeper	Device42
Laptops and workstations	Documented	Not documented
Servers	Documented	Documented
Cloud workloads	Partial	Documented
SaaS apps	Partial	Partial
Identities	Partial	Not documented
OT and IoT	Documented	Not documented
Network devices	Documented	Documented
Weighted count (of 7)	5.5	3.5

Which one fits your team?

Choose Lansweeper if

you need a published price to model before a sales call (Lansweeper 90 vs 35)
you need a useful inventory with little setup (Lansweeper 86 vs 56)
Best for IT teams that want a fast, priced start.

Choose Device42 if

findings must become tickets, workflows or corrected records in other systems (Device42 52 vs 50)
the inventory must reflect changes quickly (Device42 70 vs 76)
Best for data center dependency mapping.

Frequently asked questions

Is Lansweeper or Device42 better for asset inventory?

On our rubric Lansweeper scores 70 and Device42 57. Lansweeper leads 6 of 7 criteria and Device42 leads 1. Scores are editorial and weighted as described in the methodology.

Which is cheaper, Lansweeper or Device42?

Lansweeper: 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. Device42: Annual subscription based on the number of devices; amounts not published. A like-for-like comparison needs a quote from the vendor that does not publish amounts.

Which covers more asset classes, Lansweeper or Device42?

In our coverage grid Lansweeper documents 5.5 of 7 asset classes and Device42 3.5, counting Documented as 1 and Partial as 0.5.