ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus vs Salt
ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
manageengine.com
Salt
saltproject.ioSide by side
| Figure | ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus | Salt |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.82/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 1 |
| Spec score · IT Automation Software | 9.1 (#3) | 8.4 (#20) |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include Apple Business Manager, Managed Google Play, Chrome Web Store, Windows Business Store, Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace and Zoho Directory. | SaltStack Config integrates with LDAP, SAML, OIDC, and Active Directory. |
| Support | The product offers technical support requests, a knowledge base, FAQs, user forums, and separate support email addresses for on-premises and cloud users. | The project directs users to GitHub issues for bugs and problems and to Discord for community technical support and discussions. |
Plans
ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
- Free editionFree
- Free editionFree
- Standard edition (Cloud)$1.28 a month
- Professional edition (Cloud)$2.38 a month
- Standard edition (On-premises)$9.90 a year
- Professional edition (On-premises)$17.90 a year
- Standard Edition (Cloud)$64 a month
- Professional Edition (Cloud)$119 a month
- Standard Edition (on-premises)$495 a year
- Professional Edition (on-premises)$895 a year
In their own words
ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus gives enterprise IT teams a unified console to manage and secure devices, apps, and data. It covers phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, TVs, and rugged devices running Android, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, macOS, Windows, or Chrome OS. Administrators can enroll devices, set Wi-Fi and VPN policies, distribute in-house or store apps, review app inventories, and use Kiosk Mode. Work and personal profiles can be separated. Security controls include remote lock and wipe, rooted or jailbroken device detection, role-based permissions, data loss prevention, and device and app access controls. The product also supports managed email with Office 365 and Azure, plus document distribution, remote updates, and restrictions on third-party backups. Cloud and on-premises editions are available, with integrations including ServiceNow, Jira, Active Directory, Entra ID, Google Workspace, and REST APIs. The free edition supports up to 25 devices. Cloud Standard starts at $1.28 a month; a 30-day trial is listed.
Salt
Salt is a free, open-source framework for remote execution, configuration management, provisioning and infrastructure orchestration. A single execution can run commands across thousands of systems in seconds. A typical setup has a master managing minions, but Salt also supports agentless operation through salt-ssh or salt-proxy and stand-alone use. Salt states define configurations that can be extended and layered, while orchestration can order work by dependency, such as preparing a load balancer before a web-server cluster. Salt Cloud provisions systems on cloud hosts and hypervisors and can connect new virtual machines to a master. Its documented providers include Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, Azure, OpenStack, DigitalOcean, Linode, VMware and Proxmox. SaltStack Config adds a web interface, role-based access control, multi-master support, reporting and an enterprise API, along with LDAP, SAML, OIDC and Active Directory integrations. Salt uses RSA key authentication and encrypted master-minion communication. It is self-hosted and licensed under Apache 2.0.