AssetCenter vs Device42

AssetCenter tracks durable assets individually, recording what a team owns, who has each item, where it is, and its lifecycle history. Records can include categories, serial numbers, status, photos, documents, and barcode or QR access. A unified timeline covers purchases, assignments, moves, condition checks, maintenance, repairs, warranties, costs, tasks, and decommissioning. It also tracks software licenses and recurring services, including vendor, plan, seats, billing frequency, contract terms, renewal date, and cost. Reports cover straight-line depreciation, asset end of life, asset events, recurring subscription costs, locations, and assignment history. Access controls include roles, permissions, category-level restrictions, and two-factor authentication. API access is included on every plan, subject to plan and rate limits. The service can be installed on a phone or tablet home screen in PWA mode. Its scope is durable items tracked one by one: it does not manage stock quantities, reordering, fulfillment, or consumable inventory bins. The Free plan allows 25 assets and has no reports; paid plans start at $39 per month.

Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. Its scope includes CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM, password management, and application dependency mapping, in a self-hosted deployment. It can discover network devices through SNMP and cloud resources across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack.

For data centers, its visual models cover buildings, rooms, racks, cabling, and patch panels, with power and temperature heat maps. Core includes discovery, inventory and asset management, integrations, REST APIs and webhooks, warranty and SSL certificate management, cable and password management, and IPAM. Device42 also tracks software licenses, contracts, and barcodes, and lists more than 30 integrations. Licenses count devices with IP addresses; non-IP assets do not count, and user seats are unlimited. If the device limit is exceeded, the software keeps running but stops collecting additional information until the license is increased. Pricing is available on request, and a free trial is offered.