Best License Management Software for Freelancers
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What is License Management Software for Freelancers?
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 for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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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. -
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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. -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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. -
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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. -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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. -
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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 -
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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. -
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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. -
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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 -
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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 -
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baramundi Management Suite
baramundi Software USA
Modular, scalable and highly cost-effective Unified Endpoint Management system for comprehensive IT management, security and workflow automation. Modules work together via a single database in a single user interface. Select any of 18 available modules now and add others as needed for OS Install & Cloning, Patch Management, Vulnerability Management, MDM, Remote Control, Inventory, VM Management, SNMP Device Management, Application Control, Disaster Recovery, Personal Backup and more.Starting Price: $5000.00/one-time -
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Neocor Fusion Ledger
Neocor Technologies
Gain complete visibility of your software and IT asset landscape. Allows you to reduce cost and limit the organization’s risks in software entitlements, usage, deployment, decommission and overall compliance. Consolidate all licensing entitlements from enterprise license agreements, purchases and other records to ensure software compliance and minimize audit risks. Can help you identify unused software licenses and recommend appropriate license harvesting and reassignment. You can perform reconciliation of contracts, purchase, and entitlement information with normalized inventory data. Allows you to track changing software license structures. Provides consumer centric shopping catalog to end users. Gain better visibility into your organization’s software licenses across on-premise, cloud, and SaaS environments and identify unused programs. Easily calculate your license usage and automatically reconcile Effective License Position (ELP) reports.Starting Price: $5 per user per month -
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CloudM
CloudM
CloudM is an award-winning SaaS company whose humble beginnings in Manchester have grown into a global business in just a few short years. Our team of tech-driven innovators have designed a SaaS data management platform for you to get the most from your digital workspace. Whether it’s Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or other SaaS applications, CloudM drives your business through a simple, easy-to-use interface, helping you to work smarter, not harder. By automating time-consuming tasks like IT admin, onboarding & offboarding, archiving and migrations, the CloudM platform takes care of the day-to-day, allowing you to focus on the big picture. With over 35,000 customers including the likes of Spotify, Netflix and Uber, our all-in-one platform is putting office life on auto-pilot, saving you time, stress and money. If you want to streamline your business, free up your IT team, and get the most out of your digital workplace, then let us show you how. Join the Cloud revolution. Join -
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System Locker
System Locker
Control the access and distribution of your software product. With dozens of features, flexibility is maximized: you can create short term access keys, notify users when updates are available, view access logs and even give resellers the ability to purchase new keys without contacting you. Choose from registration-required or key-only authentication for each application. If key-only is your preference, your users will appreciate the speed. If you require users to register an account on System Locker, they can choose between verifying their email or verifying their Discord account. Our dedication to reliability remains strong, even as hundreds of new users join every day.Starting Price: $10/year -
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Keymint
Keymint
Keymint is a modern, developer-friendly software licensing management platform designed to help you protect, validate, and monitor usage of your desktop and SaaS apps. Whether you're launching your first product or managing a full suite of commercial tools, Keymint offers flexible license generation, user tracking, seat-based controls — all through a clean API and dashboard. Key use cases: Restrict access to paid features in desktop apps Prevent piracy or unauthorized distribution Monitor activation, usage, and churn Integrate license enforcement without adding friction to your users Built by indie devs for indie devs, Keymint cuts through the noise of overbuilt enterprise tools and gives you exactly what you need to secure your software and scale confidently.Starting Price: $20/month -
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NetSupport DNA
NetSupport
As the use of technology increases in schools, NetSupport DNA provides the complete solution to help monitor and manage its use, support staff in achieving ISTE standards best practice, and protect students, both in the classroom and across the school or district. This award-winning solution gives technicians IT asset management features to effectively track, monitor, and manage IT assets across a school and its sites from one single point, helping them to save time, identify cost savings, and increase security – plus improve staff and student productivity. A built-in internet safety toolkit is included, as standard, to help schools improve their internet safety policies; its range of proactive and reactive features is specifically designed to protect students without impacting learning outcomes. Meanwhile, teachers can access the classroom management toolkit (NetSupport School, also available as a stand-alone solution) to gain dedicated assessment and collaboration.Starting Price: $10 one-time payment -
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Snipe-IT
Grokability
Snipe-IT is open source software. Transparency, security and oversight is at the heart of everything we do. No vendor lock-in again, ever. Our cloud platform offers a 99.99% SLA uptime guarantee, with servers in data centers across the globe for reliability and speed. Both Snipe-IT as a software product and our cloud-hosting infrastructure were designed with security at the forefront. Snipe-IT is improved constantly, with new releases every few weeks. Bug-fixes and new features ship daily. Our full-time in-house support team is ready to answer all technical difficulties customers may encounter with any of our products. Our simple and intuitive developer JSON REST API allows you to develop custom automations based on your own individual needs. Snipe-IT offers a low latency worldwide network for fast connections no matter where you are. Your data never leaves the region you select when you sign-up.Starting Price: $39.99 per month -
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CodeMeter
Wibu-Systems
CodeMeter is the award-winning protection, licensing, and security system that gives software publishers and ISVs as well as intelligent device makers a complete arsenal to protect IP and fight cyber-threats while harnessing the power of smart licensing to monetize and grow their business. CodeMeter includes a complete lineup of license containers - hardware-, software-, or cloud-based - to store secret license keys safely, a set of stealthy encryption modules, and a versatile array of backend and frontend tools for license management, augmented by professional services. CodeMeter License Central is the versatile gateway to license creation, delivery, management, and monitoring across the complete license lifecycle. The integral CodeMeter Protection Suite comprises a suite of tools that automatically encrypt the compiled code to protect software from piracy, counterfeiting, reverse engineering, and tampering. -
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Thales Sentinel
Thales
Sentinel Software Monetization solutions combine licensing, protection, and entitlement management to drive business growth. Let Sentinel help you extract the most value from your software. Our software solutions help customers generate new revenue streams, improve operational efficiency, increase customer satisfaction, and gain valuable business insights. Based on award-winning technology, Sentinel has a strong global customer base with over 10,000 customers, in 30 industries located in over 100 countries. Sentinel solutions enable you to offer flexible business models, capture new revenue opportunities, and minimize revenue leaks. Sentinel solutions enable you to simplify supply chain processes, ensure business continuity, reduce risk, and eliminate operational overhead. Sentinel solutions enable you to create a highly personalized and fully connected user experience to increase customer satisfaction, reduce churn, and strengthen brand loyalty. -
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KEYZY
KEYZY
KEYZY is a software license manager that can help you to generate, deposit and deliver licenses for your business.Starting Price: $24.00/month -
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KEYLOK
Keylok
Our philosophy at KEYLOK is a simple one: reliable products, reasonable prices, out-service the competitors, and deliver it all with the KEYLOK Attitude. You've invested time creating your products and want to protect them with just as much care. Being in business for four decades, we know how to develop and deliver solid, reliable products. With a 99% reliability rate, you can expect that our security dongles will work for you and your end customer, time and time again. We keep our prices reasonable and competitive. While we're not the least expensive option on the market (and we wouldn't recommend that route anyway), our software protection dongles are up to 40% less expensive than other reputable providers, while delivering the same level of security. KEYLOK is attentive to our customers. We actively listen and respond quickly and competently to any inquiry. Customers who switch to us from competitors consistently tell us that KEYLOK provides outstanding customer service. -
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LicenseSpring
Cense Data Inc.
LicenseSpring is a modern Licensing-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform, offering software vendors everything they need to manage entitlements within applications that they distribute to their end users. We support all common licensing models, such as node-locking, trial, concurrent, metered-usage, and subscription, and key-based as well as user based authorization. We also provide support for offline license activation and offline license checks. We offer SDKs for C++, Java, .NET/C#, and Swift/Obj-C to make it easy to implement LicenseSpring in your project. Contact us for a demo account today!Starting Price: $99/Month