Cartography vs Device42
Cartography
cartography.dev
Device42
device42.comSide by side
| Figure | Cartography | Device42 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Application Dependency Mapping Software | 8.1 (#9) | 8.4 (#7) |
| Deployment | The install guide supports Docker Compose or native installation and requires a reachable Neo4j database. | self_hosted |
| Integrations | The project documentation lists integrations including AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Okta, Entra ID, CrowdStrike, and more than 30 other platforms. | The company lists 30+ integrations, including Freshservice, Jira, ServiceNow, Puppet, Splunk, and Zapier, along with REST APIs and webhooks. |
| Purpose | Cartography is an open-source tool for mapping infrastructure assets and their relationships in a Neo4j graph database. | Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. |
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In their own words
Cartography
Cartography has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Device42
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.