Compare the Top Free License Management Software as of June 2026

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

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    ManageEngine Endpoint Central
    ManageEngine Endpoint Central is built to secure the digital workplace while also giving IT teams complete control over their enterprise endpoints. It delivers a security-first approach by combining advanced endpoint protection with comprehensive management, allowing IT teams to manage the entire endpoint lifecycle, all from a single console. With automated patching across Windows, Mac, Linux and 1,000+ third-party applications, it ensures vulnerabilities are mitigated before attackers can exploit them. Its next-gen antivirus (NGAV) feature, powered by AI-driven behavioural detection, provides 24/7 protection against ransomware, malware, and zero-day threats. Endpoint Central further strengthens enterprise defenses with a broad set of security capabilities, including vulnerability assessment and mitigation, peripheral device control, data loss prevention, application control, endpoint privilege management, encryption with FileVault and BitLocker, and browser security.
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    Starting Price: $795.00/one-time
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    10Duke Enterprise
    10Duke Enterprise is a cloud-based, scalable and flexible software licensing solution enabling software vendors to easily configure, manage and monetize the licenses they provide to their customers in real-time. 10Duke enables you to gain a single point of license control for desktop, SaaS, and mobile apps, APIs, VMs and devices. It’s cloud-native, supports all license models, integrates with CRM & Ecommerce, has a built-in Customer Identity Management solution, and supports offline scenarios. 10Duke Enterprise is used by SMBs and Fortune 500 customers alike, and is SOC2 compliant. 10Duke Enterprise is used across a wide range of industries by the fastest-growing software vendors that offer desktop, SaaS and mobile apps, devices, APIs and VMs. It's specifically designed for fast-growing software businesses looking to scale up licensing & minimize friction. 10Duke Enterprise is used around the world by leading brands including Trimble, Causeway, Seequent, Maxon and Steinberg
    Starting Price: $199/month
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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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    CumulusGate Licensing
    CumulusGate Licensing has been developed for License Management and not an adjunct to hereditary systems. CumulusGate Licensing offers an extraordinary licensing solution that aims to improve and expedite the licensing process and procedure for your products & services. Offering combined identity management & license management through unique device fingerprinting identification. CumulusGate Licensing is built to offer convenience and value to you and your customers, being flexible, fast, and easy to use. We provide a very simple, yet sophisticated API that includes all of the software licensing functionality required by ISV’s and end users today. Providing ‘Floating’ and ‘Node-Locking’ to your Users and a number of other License Models to support your business.
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    FontChecker Pro

    FontChecker Pro

    Reklam5 Digital

    FontChecker Pro helps businesses, agencies, and developers automatically detect unlicensed fonts across their websites. The platform scans Google Fonts, system fonts, and paid fonts, and instantly generates detailed license compliance reports. By identifying potential licensing issues early, FontChecker Pro helps companies avoid costly legal risks and protect their brand reputation. Designed for organizations managing multiple digital properties, creative agencies, and IT compliance teams, the tool simplifies font auditing with automated scans, clear insights, and actionable recommendations. With a free daily scan, PDF reporting, and advanced enterprise features like bulk analysis and scheduled audits, FontChecker Pro is the easiest and most reliable way to ensure font license compliance across all your web assets.
    Starting Price: $19.99/month
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    OpenLM

    OpenLM

    OpenLM.com

    OpenLM is a leading provider of software license management solutions for engineering software applications. OpenLM software provides monitoring, auditing, reporting and management capabilities for engineering software running under all the leading license managers, such as FLEXlm, Sentinel RMS/HASP, Reprise RLM, IBM LUM, DSLS, MathLM, ArcGis etc. Also supports cloud licenses Office 365, Adobe Cloud, Autodesk Cloud and ESRI Online. OpenLM software is compatible with license managers running on Unix, Linux, MacOS, and Windows Operating systems. Infrastructure minimal hardware requirements • Dual core CPU • 4 GB memory (Recommended – 8 GB) • .NET Framework 4.7.2 or higher • Static MAC address (Cloud based servers must use ENI) The OpenLM Server can be installed on a Windows’ machine only.
    Starting Price: $1980.00/one-time
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    KACE by Quest

    KACE by Quest

    Quest Software

    KACE® by Quest supports your unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy by helping you discover and track every device in your environment, automate administrative tasks, keep compliance requirements up-to-date and secure your network from a range of cyberthreats. Discover, manage and secure all your endpoints from one console as you co-manage your traditional and modern endpoints, including Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, and iOS and Android devices. KACE is a Unified Endpoint Management solution that offers a single point of control for managing IT systems across the entire organization, inside or outside your network. This comprehensive solution takes the stress out of keeping devices secure and compliant so you can do more.
    Starting Price: As low as $3/mo/device
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    Debricked

    Debricked

    Debricked

    Debricked's tool enables for increased use of Open Source while keeping associated risks at bay, making it possible to keep a high development speed while still staying secure. The service runs on state of the art machine learning, allowing the data quality to be outstanding as well as instantly updated. High precision (over 90% in supported languages) in combination with flawless UX and scalable automation features makes Debricked one of a kind and the way to go for open source management. Recently, debricked released their new platform by the name of Open Source Select where open source projects can be compared, evaluated and monitored to ensure high quality and community health.
    Starting Price: Free
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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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    Labs64 NetLicensing
    Labs64 NetLicensing is a first-class solution in the Licensing-as-a-Service (LaaS) sector. Based on open standards, it provides a cost-effective, integrated and scalable platform for software vendors and developers who want to concentrate on their product’s core functionality instead of spending resources on developing an own license management software. NetLicensing allows you to deliver and activate product licenses to your customers 24x7x365, without customer support involvement. With NetLicensing, your licensing back-office can be completely automated. In addition, you can manage licenses in the field with NetLicensing Management Console.
    Starting Price: 0 € / 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: $29/month
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    Open-AudIT

    Open-AudIT

    FirstWave

    ​Open-AudIT is a powerful network discovery and inventory software that intelligently scans an organization’s network and stores the configurations of the discovered devices. This provides immediate access to software licensing, configuration changes, non-authorized devices, capacity utilization, and hardware warranty status reports. Open-AudIT can collect significant amounts of data from large and varying networks that are cataloged and can easily be configured into meaningful reports. It enables users to easily create network discovery profiles for their organization and then run a discovery with a single click or even on an automated schedule. It audits the organization’s network daily without impacting the user experience and intelligently stores the configuration of every discovered component. Open-AudIT tracks and reports on IT asset configuration changes, software licensing, shadow IT, and hardware warranty status.
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    VIZOR

    VIZOR

    Vector Networks

    VIZOR is an ITIL Certified IT Asset Management solution. VIZOR manages the complete IT asset life-cycle combining network discovery and inventory data with purchase, warranty and maintenance details. Allocation of assets to employees and locations is simplified so you always know exactly who has what. VIZOR audits your network or integrates with tools such as Microsoft SCCM, LANSweeper and Chromebook Admin. VIZOR is completely modular so you only purchase the features you need. Try now for Free.
    Starting Price: $2.00/year/user
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    SPBAS

    SPBAS

    SPBAS Business Automation Software

    Automate Your Business: SPBAS is a Complete Solution: for billing & invoicing, customer management, helpdesk, knowledge base, web hosting & domains, software licensing, digital goods delivery and e-mail marketing.
    Starting Price: $199
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    Nuvovis

    Nuvovis

    Nuvovis

    Software licensing and copy protection with cloud based activation services. Designed to make adding license control quick and easy for developers. The licensing complexities are in the cloud leaving a simple and portable client installation. Nuvovis provides cloud based activation and license monitoring services for you. No servers required! Software licensing and copy protection is managed by your software checking for availability of a license with the cloud service. Once acquired from the cloud licenses are cached in memory and in a license file. You can choose to make the license file permanently valid, valid until an expiry date or require a periodic refresh from the cloud service.
    Starting Price: $36 per user per month
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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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    System Locker

    System Locker

    System Locker

    Control the access and distribution of your software product. With dozens of features, flexibility is maximized: you can create short term access keys, notify users when updates are available, view access logs and even give resellers the ability to purchase new keys without contacting you. Choose from registration-required or key-only authentication for each application. If key-only is your preference, your users will appreciate the speed. If you require users to register an account on System Locker, they can choose between verifying their email or verifying their Discord account. Our dedication to reliability remains strong, even as hundreds of new users join every day.
    Starting Price: $10/year
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    Licenseware

    Licenseware

    Licenseware

    Automated license management for any data source. Prevent audit exposure and optimize software costs with swift and reliable analysis that works with your data. Start to optimize your IT cost and reduce risks to a minimum. Automate license requirement analysis of Microsoft deployment data. Data-driven cost optimization for your hybrid organization. Transform MLS and entitlement data into clear license inventories and compliance reports. Reduce your risks by increasing visibility. Automate the analysis and determination of Oracle DB usage and license requirements. Identify cost reduction scenarios at a glance. Automate the license analysis for Java and get visibility into versions, editions, and components installed and license requirements. Automate the analysis for middleware usage, bundling, and license requirements. More insight, more control, and less compliance risk. Assess and optimize RHEL subscriptions. Provides insight into subscription usage, and helps identify cost savings.
    Starting Price: €0.5 per device per month
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    Snipe-IT

    Snipe-IT

    Grokability

    Snipe-IT is open source software. Transparency, security and oversight is at the heart of everything we do. No vendor lock-in again, ever. Our cloud platform offers a 99.99% SLA uptime guarantee, with servers in data centers across the globe for reliability and speed. Both Snipe-IT as a software product and our cloud-hosting infrastructure were designed with security at the forefront. Snipe-IT is improved constantly, with new releases every few weeks. Bug-fixes and new features ship daily. Our full-time in-house support team is ready to answer all technical difficulties customers may encounter with any of our products. Our simple and intuitive developer JSON REST API allows you to develop custom automations based on your own individual needs. Snipe-IT offers a low latency worldwide network for fast connections no matter where you are. Your data never leaves the region you select when you sign-up.
    Starting Price: $39.99 per month
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    KEYZY

    KEYZY

    KEYZY

    KEYZY is a software license manager that can help you to generate, deposit and deliver licenses for your business.
    Starting Price: $24.00/month
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    LicenseSpring

    LicenseSpring

    Cense Data Inc.

    LicenseSpring is a modern Licensing-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform, offering software vendors everything they need to manage entitlements within applications that they distribute to their end users. We support all common licensing models, such as node-locking, trial, concurrent, metered-usage, and subscription, and key-based as well as user based authorization. We also provide support for offline license activation and offline license checks. We offer SDKs for C++, Java, .NET/C#, and Swift/Obj-C to make it easy to implement LicenseSpring in your project. Contact us for a demo account today!
    Starting Price: $99/Month
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    Devolens

    Devolens

    Devolens

    Devolens provides a software licensing system for teams building and selling software. It handles license creation, validation, and management so companies can avoid building and maintaining their own licensing infrastructure. The system is designed for advanced production use, while keeping implementation practical for technical teams. Licensing often becomes harder to change as products grow. Pricing updates, new plans, or access logic require coordination across multiple systems. Devolens centralizes this, so changes can be made without rebuilding internal logic. Our pricing plans are transparent, and you can sign up, access the system, and begin implementation without going through a lengthy sales process. The platform can be implemented via our comprehensive SDKs and AI features and fits into your existing stacks via APIs and integrations..
    Starting Price: $199 per month
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    Traffic Orchestrator

    Traffic Orchestrator

    Traffic Orchestrator LLC

    Traffic Orchestrator is a domain-bound software licensing API deployed across 300+ edge locations worldwide. Validate license keys in under 10ms with Ed25519 cryptographic signatures, domain binding, floating licenses, and offline validation. SDKs available for Node.js, Python, Rust, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Laravel, .NET, and Terraform.
    Starting Price: Free to start
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    SLASCONE

    SLASCONE

    SLASCONE

    SLASCONE is not just a license generation tool. It is a cross-departmental license management solution which helps you easily implement software licensing models such as subscriptions, pay per use, floating, trials or perpetual, while analyzing the usage of your applications with advanced analytical dashboards. Consumer apps such as educational, content management and entertainment apps Server applications such as database and reporting platforms. SLASCONE protects your application while giving you the flexibility to offer all kinds of software licensing models such as named and floating, subscriptions, pay per use, trials or lifetime licenses with minimal engineering effort. Out-of-the-box analytical dashboards enable product managers to monitor and analyze the usage of their solutions. Real time data assists fact based product management decisions.
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    Corma

    Corma

    Corma

    Corma is a unified license and access governance platform built for modern IT teams. It helps organizations manage software spend, identity access, and security from a single, centralized system. Corma provides full visibility into all SaaS applications, users, and permissions across the IT stack. The platform uses AI-powered agents to automate onboarding, offboarding, and access reviews with zero manual effort. Corma enables least-privilege access enforcement and simplifies compliance with standards like ISO 27001 and SOC 2. It also helps reduce software costs by identifying unused licenses and preventing surprise renewals. With fast setup and automation-first workflows, Corma allows teams to go live in minutes.
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