What Asset Inventory Tools Cost in 2026: Published Prices Compared

Price transparency is one of the seven criteria in our ranking, weighted at 10%. It measures one thing: whether a buyer can model a price before a sales call. It does not measure whether a tool is cheap. This note sets out what each vendor published on its pricing page when we reviewed it in September 2026, and how to budget when there is nothing to model.

Which tools publish prices?

• JupiterOne publishes annual list prices by tier: Small-Market $25,000; Mid-Market $50,000 per 12 months for up to 200,000 data points; Enterprise $100,000 per 12 months for up to 400,000 data points; and custom pricing above 1 million data points. The pricing page mentions no free tier or trial.
• runZero publishes a free Community Edition for 100 or fewer assets, with 30-day data retention, and a Platform plan that starts at $5,000, with three-year retention, a self-hosted console option and AI-assisted reporting. There is a free, full-featured 21-day trial.
• Lansweeper publishes Starter and Pro list prices, billed annually. Starter includes 2,000 assets; Pro scales to 9,000 assets in bands of 1,000. Enterprise is quoted from 10,000 assets. After a 14-day trial, Lansweeper continues free for up to 100 assets. We do not quote Lansweeper's amounts here because the figures we extracted were ambiguous; check lansweeper.com/pricing for current amounts.

JupiterOne scores 92 on price transparency, Lansweeper 90 and runZero 82.

Which publish a model but not amounts?

Device42 states that pricing is an annual subscription based on the number of devices, and offers a free trial download. It publishes no amounts, which is why it scores 35 on price transparency: a buyer knows the unit but not the rate.

Which quote only through sales?

Axonius, Armis and Oomnitza publish no prices on the pages we reviewed. Axonius offers "Get Pricing" through sales. Each of the three scores 15 on price transparency. That is a large gap on one criterion, and it is one of the reasons Axonius, which ranks first overall, loses 4 of seven criteria to other tools.

What do the pricing units mean?

• Data points (JupiterOne): JupiterOne says pricing is based on the number of data points in an environment and the length of the subscription. A data point is not the same as an asset, so ask the vendor to estimate your count from a sample of your integrations before comparing tiers.
• Assets (runZero, Lansweeper): runZero's Platform uses contract-based asset counts; Lansweeper's plans are sized by assets included. Decide in advance whether cloud workloads, containers and user accounts count as assets in your estate.
• Devices (Device42): an annual subscription by number of devices.

Because the units differ, a $25,000 tier and a $5,000 starting price are not directly comparable. The useful comparison is the price each vendor quotes for your estate, for the same term.

How do you budget when there is no published price?

• Count your assets by class first: laptops, servers, cloud workloads, SaaS apps, identities, OT and network devices. The coverage grid uses the same seven classes.
• Ask each vendor which of those classes it counts toward the price, and how growth is billed during the term.
• Ask what is included: integrations or adapters, retention, deployment option, and whether modules are sold separately. Armis, for example, sells asset management, OT and IoT security and medical device security as separate modules of Armis Centrix, and ServiceNow sells Discovery separately from ITSM.
• Ask for the price in writing for your asset count and term before a proof of concept, so the evaluation compares like with like.
• Add the cost of your team's setup time. Deployment effort is a separate criterion in our ranking because an integration-heavy tool can cost more in people than in licenses during the first months.

Does a published price make a tool better?

No. It makes a tool easier to evaluate. A team that already runs many security and IT tools and needs them reconciled may still choose a tool that quotes through sales, because coverage and correlation carry 40% of our weights together. A team that needs a first inventory on a known budget this quarter will usually shortlist the tools that publish prices. The calculator shows both: it re-ranks the tools with your weights and lists each published price next to the score.