Compare the Top On-Premises License Management Software as of November 2025

What is On-Premises 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 On-Premises License Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Reprise License Manager

    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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    GLPI

    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 inventory
    Starting Price: €19/month/user
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    elm

    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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    xAssets

    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 NIPRNET
    Starting Price: $1000.00/one-time
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    licsm (License Server)
    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 an
    Starting Price: $60
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    software_DNA

    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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    Activation Tools

    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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    Cryptlex

    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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    Neocor Fusion Ledger

    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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    Keymint

    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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    CodeMeter

    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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    AWS License Manager
    Set rules to manage, discover, and report software license usage. AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM across AWS and on-premises environments. AWS License Manager lets administrators create customized licensing rules that mirror the terms of their licensing agreements. Administrators can use these rules to help prevent licensing violations, such as using more licenses than an agreement stipulates. Rules in AWS License Manager help prevent a licensing breach by stopping the instance from launching or by notifying administrators about the infringement. Administrators gain control and visibility of all their licenses with the AWS License Manager dashboard and reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages. Independent software vendors (ISVs) can also use AWS License Manager to easily distribute and track licenses.
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    Devolens

    Devolens

    Devolens

    Devolens offers an easy-to-use software licensing system to software developers so they can license and sell any type of application. Start for Free Today! We have comprehensive implementation guides in your programming language so you can implement software licensing within minutes. Our platform makes licensing effortless, no matter what licensing model you want to implement, and no matter what application type you are developing. We have customers making innovative SaaS platforms, desktop applications, consultant companies, SDKs, IoT applications, mobile apps, and other types of software. Our licensing models include try-and-buy, subscriptions, pay-per-use, floating licenses, node-locked licenses, pay-per-installation, and more. Join hundreds of innovative and industry-leading companies worldwide - Start for Free Today!
    Starting Price: $99 per month
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    LicenseBox

    LicenseBox

    LicenseBox

    Introducing LicenseBox – the all-in-one solution for managing licenses and updates for your PHP applications, WordPress plugins, and themes. Our easy-to-use platform offers a user-friendly interface and requires minimal server resources to run. But that’s not all – LicenseBox also comes with integration examples, sample codes, and a built-in helper file generator to make integration into your existing applications a breeze. And if you’re concerned about security, we’ve got you covered with our inbuilt PHP obfuscation service. LicenseBox consists of two parts: the main script (admin panel) that you install on your own server, and a single helper file that you include in your PHP application. You can also easily access the API using any other programming language, thanks to the powerful REST API.
    Starting Price: $65
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    Sassafras AllSight

    Sassafras AllSight

    Sassafras Software

    KeySight is our “set-it-and-forget-it” License Management suite. Whether required by a software vendor for concurrent use license management (Sequencher, Ableton), or configured to help you apply usage restrictions on top of another license manager (preventing overage for Bentley), KeySight gives you full control over when and where managed software is allowed to run. For computer labs in an education environment, LabSight provides dynamic insight into hardware and software inventory and usage. Highly automated, with Active Directory integration and product normalization, you can get comprehensive statistics about your entire IT estate with very little set-up time required. Our cloud-based product recognition service takes a vast array of raw program data and compiles it into a detailed product inventory. Our full-featured IT Asset Management and license management suite is now known as Sassafras AllSight.
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    Bytesafe

    Bytesafe

    Bitfront

    Increase your open source security posture with automated best practices, with a unified workflow for security and developer teams. The cloud-native security platform reduces risk and protects revenue, without slowing down developers. The dependency firewall quarantines malicious open source before reaching developers and infrastructure, protecting data, assets, and company reputation. Our policy engine evaluates threat signals such as known vulnerabilities, license information, and customer-defined rules. Having insight into what open-source components are used in applications is crucial to avoid exploitable vulnerabilities. Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and dashboard reporting give stakeholders a holistic overview with immediate insights into the current situation. Discover when new open-source licenses are introduced in the codebase. Automatically track license compliance issues and restrict problematic or unlicensed packages.
    Starting Price: €1100 per month
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    Snow Software

    Snow Software

    Snow Software

    We have brought together software asset management, cloud management and SaaS management so you can fully optimize all of your technology in one platform that seamlessly integrates with your enterprise ecosystem. Clearly see, understand and manage your entire technology landscape, both on-prem and in the cloud. Maximize the value of your technology investments with deep insights into usage, spend and vulnerabilities. Get the perspective and automation you need to anticipate and align with the rapidly evolving needs of your business. Fast implementation and intuitive design means you are saving money in weeks, not months. Break down your data silos to see on-prem, hybrid and cloud technologies together. Get clean and augmented data, updated daily and powered by the world's largest discovery catalog. Recommendations and self-service drive value, save time and increase productivity.
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