AssetCenter vs Prey

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.

Prey helps locate and recover lost or stolen devices while giving administrators tools to manage device fleets. Its tracking features include active tracking, missing reports, Wi-Fi triangulation, location history, and geofences. Admins can remotely lock screens, sound alarms, send messages, or mark devices as missing. Data protection options include custom wipe, remote encryption, factory reset, file retrieval, and a Windows kill switch. Fleet tools cover automated actions, status dashboards, bulk actions, labels, search, roles, permissions, and a developer API. Prey lists encrypted and authenticated agent communications, two-factor verification, SAML/SSO, and SSL/TLS support. File retrieval handles one file at a time, up to 25 MB, with files hosted for 30 days. A free plan is available; paid plans start at $1.30 per month per slot, billed annually. Prey supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and API access, with Linux support officially limited to Ubuntu.