Best License Management Software
View:
Compare the Top License Management Software as of July 2025
Sort By:
What is License Management Software?
License management software helps organizations manage, track, and enforce software licenses to ensure compliance with licensing agreements and optimize the use of software assets. These tools allow businesses to monitor software installations, manage license renewals, and track license usage across different devices or users. License management software typically includes features like license assignment, automated alerts for license expirations, inventory tracking, and reporting. It helps organizations prevent legal issues related to software piracy, reduce costs by ensuring they are not over-licensed, and streamline the overall process of managing software assets. Compare and read user reviews of the best License Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
-
1
ManageEngine Endpoint Central
ManageEngine
ManageEngine's Endpoint Central (formerly Desktop Central) is a Unified Endpoint Management Solution, that takes care of enterprise mobility management (including all features of mobile application management and mobile device management), as well as client management for a diversified range of endpoints - mobile devices, laptops, computers, tablets, server machines etc. With ManageEngine Endpoint Central, users can automate their regular desktop management routines like distributing software, installing patches, managing IT assets, imaging and deploying OS, and more.Starting Price: $795.00/one-time -
2
Reprise License Manager
Reprise Software
At Reprise Software, we simplify software licensing, allowing you to concentrate on creating exceptional software. With a competitive pricing model, our solutions like RLM and Activation Pro offer robust license protection for publishers of all sizes. Our services support both on-premises and cloud licensing, ensuring high-quality, accessible licensing solutions for every developer and enterprise. RLM ensures compliance with your licensing terms, while RLM Cloud provides cloud-based license management, eliminating the need for onsite servers and allowing seamless application integration. Activation Pro gives you, the software publisher, the ability to deliver electronic licenses to your customers 24x7, without customer support involvement. You supply an activation key to your customer, and at a later point in time, your customer activates a license. -
3
Nalpeiron Zentitle
Nalpeiron
The pioneer in Enterprise-Class Cloud Based Software Licensing and Monetization since 2005, as used by the world's leading SaaS, Software and IoT Companies. Software Companies looking to monetize their products and manage their customers use the Zentitle platform. Save engineering time. Reduce infrastructure costs. Get your software to market quickly. If you create and sell software, it is time to adopt modern Licensing Models. Product Managers looking to drive revenue from their products do so much faster with Zentitle. New offerings, plans and tiers can be brought to market fast, with little to no engineering once Zentitle is in place. Allow your customers to buy in all the ways they want to. 1000s of software companies have used Zentitle to launch new software products faster and control their entitlements easily, many going from startup to IPO on our cloud software license management solutions. -
4
10Duke Enterprise
10Duke
10Duke Enterprise is a cloud-based, scalable and flexible software licensing solution enabling software vendors to easily configure, manage and monetize the licenses they provide to their customers in real-time. 10Duke enables you to gain a single point of license control for desktop, SaaS, and mobile apps, APIs, VMs and devices. It’s cloud-native, supports all license models, integrates with CRM & Ecommerce, has a built-in Customer Identity Management solution, and supports offline scenarios. 10Duke Enterprise is used by SMBs and Fortune 500 customers alike, and is SOC2 compliant. 10Duke Enterprise is used across a wide range of industries by the fastest-growing software vendors that offer desktop, SaaS and mobile apps, devices, APIs and VMs. It's specifically designed for fast-growing software businesses looking to scale up licensing & minimize friction. 10Duke Enterprise is used around the world by leading brands including Trimble, Causeway, Seequent, Maxon and SteinbergStarting Price: $999/month -
5
Setyl
Setyl
Setyl is a cloud-based IT asset management platform (ITAM) that combines hardware and software asset management in one. The platform seamlessly integrates with 100+ IT systems, including MDM, RMM, IDP, SSO, HR, finance, helpdesk tools, and more. Use Setyl to gain full visibility and control over your IT assets, SaaS applications and licenses, users, vendors and spend in one place — helping you: ✓ Streamline and scale your IT operations, including employee onboarding and offboarding. ✓ Identify and eliminate wasted IT spend. ✓ Safeguard against compliance risks and prepare for your audits, including ISO 27001 and SOC 2. The user-friendly interface requires little to no learning curve, making it easy to use and implement, and to collaborate with people across your organization. Features include: asset and license register, full asset lifecycle management, app renewal management, employee on/offboarding, shadow IT detection, vendor audits, and IT spend reporting. -
6
Hector
Hector
Hector is a SaaS tool for monitoring and tracking your equipment and software from the planning phase to the end of the product life cycle. The application allows, among other things, the management of equipment loans, software licenses, asset depreciation, and barcode inventory management. Hector allows companies to build a list of assets from the ground up to gain greater control over their inventory. Plus you can pay only for the number of assets registered in the system ! Hector offers unlimited users and multiple nifty functions to help you manage all your physical assets and software, manage your inventory, and track every piece of equipment wherever they are. Perfect for IT inventory, audiovisual equipment, tools & machinery, medical equipment, or any other asset you need to track.Starting Price: $26.99 USD/month -
7
Quick License Manager (QLM)
Soraco Technologies
Quick License Manager (QLM) is a license protection framework that creates professional and secure license keys to protect your software against piracy. Create trial, subscription, and perpetual licenses keys. Licenses can be node locked or floating/concurrent. Protect applications developed in .NET, ASP.NET, C++, VB6, VBA, Delphi, Excel, MS-Access, Word, Outlook add-ins, Android, Mac OS X, Linux, etc. Manage license keys with a state-of-the-art graphical user interface. Protect your application with a few lines of code. Send email notifications to your customers based on selected triggers. e-Commerce integration to automate the license key generation process with the ordering process. Analytics to understand usage behavior. Self Help portal for your customers. Check for Updates for your application. Trial Registration Form to allow your customers to request a trial license.Starting Price: $200 one-time payment -
8
Total Network Inventory
Softinventive Lab
Softinventive Lab's Total Network Inventory is a PC audit and network inventory software. Suitable for office and large-scale enterprise networks, Total Network Inventory is a simple and cost-effective hardware, software and network inventory tool that scans, identifies, and reports on your systems as comprehensively and efficiently as possible. It gives businesses a clear picture of the OS, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, software, running processes, etc. on remote machines. TNI 5 software inventory tool will show you all the software installed on your network: what version is present, what computers have them, how many copies are found, and whether your licenses actually allow that many. License keys for some applications will be scanned automatically, and you're completely free to manually specify them for the rest. By the use of the filters, tags, grouping, search, and software tracking feature, you can be sure to never overlook anything.Starting Price: $90.00/one-time -
9
GLPI
TECLIB
GLPI is an incredible Service Management software based on open source technologies. It helps you plan and manage IT changes in an easy way, solve problems efficiently, automate your business processes and gain control over your IT infrastructure. Key features of GLPI: 1. Service Desk 2. Asset management and automatic inventory 3. Rationality for data quality control 4. Administrative and financial management of assets 5. Software inventory and licences management 6. Knowledge and frequently asked questions 7. Statistics and reports 8. Profound integration 9. Android-based devices inventoryStarting Price: €19/month/user -
10
elm
evoleap
Comprehensive licensing control, analytics, user feedback, and software release management so you can focus on improving customer experience and scaling your product. With Elm, your team can commission and update licenses for thousands of users in just a few clicks. Leverage powerful software utilization analysis dashboard to empower data driven decision making. elm empowers your Product Management team to make data driven decisions, enables Customer Success teams to drive value generation, and supports Sales with key analytics. Integration with support desk, CRM, and other 3rd party apps drives additional process automation and streamlines access to valuable insights. Your customers, resellers and other partners can have their own service portal. Each can see analytics about their downstream users and manage relevant licenses. -
11
CumulusGate Licensing
CumulusGate
CumulusGate Licensing has been developed for License Management and not an adjunct to hereditary systems. CumulusGate Licensing offers an extraordinary licensing solution that aims to improve and expedite the licensing process and procedure for your products & services. Offering combined identity management & license management through unique device fingerprinting identification. CumulusGate Licensing is built to offer convenience and value to you and your customers, being flexible, fast, and easy to use. We provide a very simple, yet sophisticated API that includes all of the software licensing functionality required by ISV’s and end users today. Providing ‘Floating’ and ‘Node-Locking’ to your Users and a number of other License Models to support your business. -
12
OpenLM
OpenLM.com
OpenLM is a leading provider of software license management solutions for engineering software applications. OpenLM software provides monitoring, auditing, reporting and management capabilities for engineering software running under all the leading license managers, such as FLEXlm, Sentinel RMS/HASP, Reprise RLM, IBM LUM, DSLS, MathLM, ArcGis etc. Also supports cloud licenses Office 365, Adobe Cloud, Autodesk Cloud and ESRI Online. OpenLM software is compatible with license managers running on Unix, Linux, MacOS, and Windows Operating systems. Infrastructure minimal hardware requirements • Dual core CPU • 4 GB memory (Recommended – 8 GB) • .NET Framework 4.7.2 or higher • Static MAC address (Cloud based servers must use ENI) The OpenLM Server can be installed on a Windows’ machine only.Starting Price: $1980.00/one-time -
13
KACE by Quest
Quest Software
KACE® by Quest supports your unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy by helping you discover and track every device in your environment, automate administrative tasks, keep compliance requirements up-to-date and secure your network from a range of cyberthreats. Discover, manage and secure all your endpoints from one console as you co-manage your traditional and modern endpoints, including Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, and iOS and Android devices. KACE is a Unified Endpoint Management solution that offers a single point of control for managing IT systems across the entire organization, inside or outside your network. This comprehensive solution takes the stress out of keeping devices secure and compliant so you can do more.Starting Price: As low as $3/mo/device -
14
Debricked
Debricked
Debricked's tool enables for increased use of Open Source while keeping associated risks at bay, making it possible to keep a high development speed while still staying secure. The service runs on state of the art machine learning, allowing the data quality to be outstanding as well as instantly updated. High precision (over 90% in supported languages) in combination with flawless UX and scalable automation features makes Debricked one of a kind and the way to go for open source management. Recently, debricked released their new platform by the name of Open Source Select where open source projects can be compared, evaluated and monitored to ensure high quality and community health.Starting Price: Free -
15
xAssets
xAssets
Easy to use, fast, scalable, and configurable full lifecycle asset management with accessible pricing and powerful integration tools. Cloud-based or on-premise with Asset Register, Asset Accounting, Depreciation, MACRS, barcoding, Procurement, Disposal, Planned Maintenance, Contracts, Service Management, Spares and powerful reporting. Can be used from any device or mobile without installation and is security cleared by USAF for SIPRNET and NIPRNETStarting Price: $1000.00/one-time -
16
Alloy Navigator
Alloy Software
Alloy Navigator is an all-inclusive IT Service & Asset Management solution that provides thoughtful answers to your toughest IT challenges. At its core, Navigator comes with a powerful workflow process automation engine fortified by an intelligent interface that automatically creates meaningful relationships between the data that matters. Covering several IT disciplines ranging from Help Desk, Inventory & Knowledge Base Management to ITIL-driven standards such as Change & Configuration Management, Alloy Navigator is the perfect solution for small, medium and enterprise businesses who strive to achieve the highest levels of productivity.Starting Price: $19.00/month/user -
17
licsm (License Server)
amsbctech
licsm License Server is a self hosted license server which easily integrates license keys into your software. It is cheapest in market priced at INR 3000 per license per year. The key features of licsm - License server are: a. Self hosted license server (VPS or DEDICATED server with a dedicated IP and Ubuntu linux) b. 25 characters long keys c. Generate 1000 / 10000 Licenses at a time d. Unlimited keys e. C++ Libraries for windows and Ubuntu software integration f. Secure channel g. Regular updates through website as standalone packages h. Support for classification of products based on features provided. i. Floating license server included for bulk licenses by company. j. Node / hardware ID locked license server. k. It contains Windows C# libraries, Windows C++ libraries, Linux C++ libraries for integration with linux softwares, windows applications, microsoft office plugins and more.. l. The C++ libraries in windows anStarting Price: $60 -
18
Labs64 NetLicensing
Labs64
Labs64 NetLicensing is a first-class solution in the Licensing-as-a-Service (LaaS) sector. Based on open standards, it provides a cost-effective, integrated and scalable platform for software vendors and developers who want to concentrate on their product’s core functionality instead of spending resources on developing an own license management software. NetLicensing allows you to deliver and activate product licenses to your customers 24x7x365, without customer support involvement. With NetLicensing, your licensing back-office can be completely automated. In addition, you can manage licenses in the field with NetLicensing Management Console.Starting Price: 0 € / month -
19
Mend.io
Mend.io
Trusted by the world's leading companies, including IBM, Google, and Capital One, Mend.io's enterprise suite of application security tools is designed to help you build and manage a mature, proactive AppSec program. Mend.io understands the different AppSec requirements of developers and security teams. Unlike other AppSec solutions that force everyone to use a single tool, Mend.io helps them work in harmony by giving each team different, but complementary, tools - enabling them to stop chasing vulnerabilities and start proactively managing application risk.Starting Price: $1,000 per developer, per year -
20
Lansweeper
Lansweeper
Discover your IT with Lansweeper, build your centralized IT Asset System of Record. With the Lansweeper Deepscan IP Scanner engine, you can audit all assets in your company network without installing software on them. Build an accurate network inventory of all your hardware, software and users. Scan Windows, Linux, and Mac devices. Keep track of your licenses, serial numbers and warranties of major brands like Dell, IBM, HP, Toshiba and many more. Detect Unauthorized Local Admins, unify Office 365 and AD User Data, get the netbios domain name, check for Windows updates and more. Discover all assets in your IT environment that you didn’t even knew about & take full control of your network. Download your free trial and start your IT asset management.Starting Price: $495.00/year -
21
FlexNet Manager
Flexera
FlexNet Manager helps enterprises manage and take control of their hardware and software assets. An all-in-one hardware and software asset management, license compliance, and software license optimization solution, FlexNet Manager offers businesses complete and accurate data on their hardware and software assets so they can manage and cut costs. FlexNet also offers powerful data analytics for greater visibility on software assets and utilization. -
22
VIZOR
Vector Networks
VIZOR is an ITIL Certified IT Asset Management solution. VIZOR manages the complete IT asset life-cycle combining network discovery and inventory data with purchase, warranty and maintenance details. Allocation of assets to employees and locations is simplified so you always know exactly who has what. VIZOR audits your network or integrates with tools such as Microsoft SCCM, LANSweeper and Chromebook Admin. VIZOR is completely modular so you only purchase the features you need. Try now for Free.Starting Price: $2.00/year/user -
23
AssetLabs Streamline License Tracker
AssetLabs
Track all your software licenses by normalizing, categorizing, and automatically identifying license types using your SCCM or other inventory data. Easily identify Auditable vs free and open source. Streamline differentiates Office Suites from standalone office apps. Automatically finds license deficits, de-duplicates multiple installs and applies product use rights and downgrade rights. Free trial for unlimited users!Starting Price: $1.00/month -
24
software_DNA
softWORKZ Innovation Inc
software_DNA is a pay-as-you-sell, cloud-based software licensing solution. software_DNA Version 6 now includes Web Activation and Android support. License virtually any device across all platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, mobile devices and browser-based Web Apps. Hosted Environment means we worry about 24/7 operations, we worry about operational costs, and you benefit from all our development actions. All mobile applications are supported regardless of OS platform. Each activated mobile app counts as a licensed device. All major OS's are supported. License Activation codes can be used across any platform. The software_DNA API's are the same across the platform, making it easy and fast to port to new OS's and expand your sales. Connect your eCommerce store-front to software_DNA for a real-time and automated license fulfillment process. All major eCommerce solutions are supported.Starting Price: One-time license fee. -
25
SPBAS
SPBAS Business Automation Software
Automate Your Business: SPBAS is a Complete Solution: for billing & invoicing, customer management, helpdesk, knowledge base, web hosting & domains, software licensing, digital goods delivery and e-mail marketing.Starting Price: $199 -
26
Activation Tools
softWORKZ Innovation Inc
One cloud-based solution to work across Windows, Mac, iOS, LINUX, VM’s, Android, Raspberry Pi, and Web Activation. Over 20 years, we've developed our software licensing platform based on customer discussions and feedback. One-time license activation fee of $0.95 or less after your sale. Never pay anything else. Pay only when you sell your software. No monthly fees, no bandwidth fees, no code packs. All major OS's and all browsers are supported. License Activation codes can be used across any platform and are not OS specific. The software_DNA API's are the same across any platform, making it easy and fast to port to new OS's. License your software with Multi-seat, Concurrent/Floating, Subscription, Feature-Based, etc., whether your application is for individual users, Small Businesses, large Enterprises, or institutions. Integrations with eCommerce include 2Checkout, BlueSnap, Direct DNA, DPD, eJunkie, FastSpring. myCommerce, PayPal, PayPro Global, Shopify, Stripe.Starting Price: $0.95 per software license. -
27
EZO AssetSonar
EZO
EZO AssetSonar is a comprehensive IT asset management platform that provides real-time visibility into your entire digital infrastructure. Track and optimize hardware, software, and license management to reduce risks, control IT spend, and improve compliance. With powerful features like software discovery, license tracking, and software normalization, EZO AssetSonar helps businesses overcome challenges such as SaaS sprawl, shadow IT, and redundant software licenses. Seamlessly integrating with leading ITSM tools like Jamf, Zendesk, Intune, and SCCM, AssetSonar simplifies workflows and ensures continuous monitoring of your technology ecosystem. Automating manual tasks and consolidating data from diverse sources enables IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives while maintaining control and compliance. Optimize your IT asset lifecycle, boost efficiency, and make smarter purchasing decisions with EZO AssetSonar’s powerful IT asset management capabilities. -
28
Nuvovis
Nuvovis
Software licensing and copy protection with cloud based activation services. Designed to make adding license control quick and easy for developers. The licensing complexities are in the cloud leaving a simple and portable client installation. Nuvovis provides cloud based activation and license monitoring services for you. No servers required! Software licensing and copy protection is managed by your software checking for availability of a license with the cloud service. Once acquired from the cloud licenses are cached in memory and in a license file. You can choose to make the license file permanently valid, valid until an expiry date or require a periodic refresh from the cloud service.Starting Price: $36 per user per month -
29
Cryptlex
Cryptlex
Cryptlex is a software licensing solution that helps enterprises maximize their software revenue by providing protection against software piracy. Cryptlex’s main features include online activations, timed trials, and floating licenses. In addition, it hosts a variety of other features such as product key generation, automated purchases, and software analytics that is designed to assist enterprises with all of their software licensing needs. Users can customize the entire licensing process using custom license fields as well as create trial extensions for customers to continue using and testing a product after their trial expires. Cryptlex functions across all major platforms, supporting use on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Cryptlex offers the most secure type of software protection through node-locked licensing on online activations, effectively preventing casual piracy with the aim of increasing software revenue. Users can manage all their licensing features on the dashboard.Starting Price: $50.00/Month -
30
License4J
LICENSE4J
LICENSE4J is a powerful licensing library and license server designed to simplify software licensing for developers. It enables easy integration of licensing features into Java applications with minimal coding required. The user-friendly, web-based License Manager works seamlessly on both desktop and mobile devices, enhancing accessibility for all users. The basic concept of software licensing involves creating a unique license key. This key, along with additional information about the client's device, is sent to a license server. The server then returns encrypted and signed license data to the client, which can be saved either on the disk or in the Windows registry. This saved license data is used for validation each time the software is launched. The landscape of licensing includes various models and terminology, but it remains relatively straightforward. There are two primary types of licenses: node-locked and floating. A node-locked license is restricted to a specific device,Starting Price: 19/month