Device42 vs SolarWinds IPAM comparison

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Device42 and SolarWinds are both solutions in the IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools category. Device42 is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2, while SolarWinds is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.0. Device42 holds a 8.7% mindshare in IT, compared to SolarWinds’s 15.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Device42 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Device42 and SolarWinds IPAM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Device42

Ranking in IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Asset Management (6th), Configuration Management Databases (1st), Data Center Infrastructure Management (1st)

SolarWinds IPAM

Ranking in IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools category, the mindshare of Device42 is 8.7%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds IPAM is 15.1%, down from 15.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Device42	8.7%
SolarWinds IPAM	15.1%
Other	76.2%

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Featured Reviews

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Granular discovery has ensured confident workload migration and optimized cloud move group planning

Device42 offers the best features for workload assessment, particularly useful for cloud-to-cloud workload or on-premise data center workload, especially when planning for workload migration to the public cloud. For application and infrastructure discovery, Device42 has enabled me to know the number of machines running in the on-premise environment and has managed to capture complete utilization metrics or trends of their utilization. This has benefited me in right-sizing systems for my public cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) planning, providing me granularity to right-size these systems while planning a migration to the public cloud. Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud. Device42 has improved my migration projects by providing granularity around system dependencies that gave me confidence knowing which systems communicate with each other parked in a particular move group. My move group planning became so robust that I am not leaving any system behind in the on-premise data center from my planning, which saves a lot of time and effort, leading to cost optimization—a value addition.

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Yashokanth Partkunan

Managed Services Engineer at Loop1 Systems

Manages integrated IP and DHCP with ease and could improve with better alert customization and faster support response

I normally do not have other tools experience to compare with, but with SolarWinds IPAM, they actually integrate with the DHCP DNS server, allowing us to get the scopes, and from there, we can retrieve the information, which is a good feature for managing the DNS DHCP server. The automated discovery feature of SolarWinds IPAM is fine, but I am unable to compare it with other products from different vendors due to my lack of experience with them. It starts with discovery, and we can discover things through the gateway router or even subnet, so supernet, which is possible and a good feature. The benefit of integrated DHCP and DNS management in SolarWinds IPAM is significant. It can gather proper information such as MAC addresses from the DHCP server, so having DHCP and DNS servers integrated is vital to get complete information, otherwise some details may be missed. I commonly use the centralized dashboard for multiple products in SolarWinds IPAM. SolarWinds IPAM effectively helps resolve IP address conflicts. The centralized dashboard has significantly helped resolve IP address conflicts. SolarWinds IPAM has provided a centralized dashboard for a long time now rather than requiring separate management of individual features such as managing IP addresses across separate subnets, which used to be very difficult. Nowadays, there are tools to manage them easily, integrating them with the DHCP server, DNS server, and even IP request-related functionality, which helps a lot in management.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The asset inventory is great because previously we had devices all over the place. We have been able to do multiscans to find devices that we didn't know about, which was great."

"The solution's automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality are top-notch. The thing I like is that it's open-source. If I need to change them — and they've given me links on GitHub to have them — I can go and change them to pull exactly what I want, as frequently as I want."

"The IP address tracking [is valuable]... We have a lot of different devices and some of them have many IP addresses, so keeping track of which ones are assigned where is very critical for putting new devices on the network and giving them new addresses. All of our devices are statically assigned, so if we don't keep good records then we could accidentally assign a duplicate, which would cause problems on the network."

"A big plus for Device42 was the auto-discovery. With it, we have updated devices, updated systems, and up-to-date systems."

"It's nice to know that you can set up the scan, schedule it, and sit back."

"The REST API abilities enables us to run scripts that pull information from our servers about software, storage, etc. Anything we need is pushed through REST API to the Device42 server and reflected in the report it generates."

"The time saved by using Device42, across the teams, is easily equivalent to a couple of people at least."

"Device42 positively impacts my organization because we build the as-is as soon as possible, avoiding the delays we would face with the network or security teams, and I captured more than 100 traffic entries in just two weeks, which was great."

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"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds IPAM is its automated IP address management; instead of working with Excel sheets, it's automated and saves a lot of time and effort, and additionally, it is adaptable, IT managers enjoy it, and it is high quality."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"I would recommend this solution for all companies that have to deal with a lot of networks."

"Its setup is simple. Its interface is simple. It's very easy to manage."

"SolarWinds IPAM has provided a centralized dashboard for a long time now rather than requiring separate management of individual features such as managing IP addresses across separate subnets, which used to be very difficult."

"I am impressed with the product's reports."

"The product is user-friendly and valuable."

"SolarWinds products are always priced lower than you’d expect for great software."

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Cons

"In my experience I believe that the key concern is the pricing strategy of the solution. Instead other solutions such as lanweber are much more cost effective. Previously, Device42 operated on perpetualysis without any fees. But recently they have altered the pricing model to include a subscription fee which I see as a very costly affair. Therefore I would like to suggest that they evaluate their pricing strategy and licence scheme, conduct a market research and ensure that they provide the right product in the market at the right price."

"Device42 can improve in the area of updates."

"The only thing which I have noticed so far that is not good is that we had an issue with some reporting from the tool, reporting we had to export. We couldn't do it in the way we wanted to, so we tried to reach out to their support but it took pretty long until we understood how we can manage the reports. We still haven't received a complete explanation of what we need to do and how to do it."

"I think Device42 can be improved by adding more features around the CMDB aspect and lifecycle management."

"Device42 is a main part of our processes. We need reliability, not only in terms of the data but with the solution itself. It's really difficult when we have 10 minutes of Device42 downtime because none of our teams can work for those 10 minutes, and it's more time lost if there is longer downtime. An improvement would be to have a cluster implementation of Device42 to have high-availability and ensure that we don't have downtime in case of failure."

"The solution’s automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality functions pretty well. There could be some improvement if there were some automated scripts to get it off the ground. I know it takes a bit of effort to get all of various managed devices into one place. We have to go and change how they are managed and make sure they are all linking up correctly so they can be tracked in Device42. Some type of automated script for each to get over that initial activation."

"Device42 is a main part of our processes. We need reliability, not only in terms of the data but with the solution itself."

"We have not yet seen ROI. The solution has not reduced the time spent managing IT assets."

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"The installation and storage could be improved."

"From any improvement perspective, SolarWinds IPAM should consider working on the area where the tool lacks, which is its network management capabilities."

"However, disabling the local SQL instance proved to be much more difficult than we anticipated. It’d be great to have a built-in method in IPAM to disable the local database components without impacting the application."

"Because I'm still not able to utilize my IPAM on the AWS cloud environment, I would rate it a 7 out of 10, but I'm happy with it on the on-prem side."

"They should provide more details on the full stack feature. It needs to be integrated with the hypervisor."

"SolarWinds IPAM offers premium support, but the customer has to pay more money, and then they will have minimal response times."

"Sometimes we have to wait for screens to load, so faster operations would be better."

"My understanding is that IPAM cannot be used for the AWS environment. I might be wrong, but that's what I believe it cannot do. On AWS, SolarWinds IPAM cannot do what it does on the on-prem side. They should explore how to make IPAM capable and scalable on AWS and Azure environments."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Functionality-wise, Device42 is on par with industry standards, but price-wise, the solution is expensive. I'm rating the pricing for the solution as eight out of ten."

"It's in the top-three most expensive solutions in terms of cost, but it has all the features that are needed."

"I am not involved in its pricing, but I have seen their plans during a discussion with the customer. For 500 servers, they were asking 50,000 USD. The cost of BMC Discovery was less than half. For the same thing, they were charging only 10,000 USD. Its pricing needs to be improved. As compared to other discovery tools, such as BMC Discovery and ServiceNow Discovery, its price is a little bit higher."

"We pay $100,000 per year."

"The product cost is low. It is quite cheap."

"Our licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

"The problem with using other vendor, like BMC, is the pricing. The price is so horrible and nobody wants to pay this money."

"On a yearly basis, our licensing is $10,000. However, our license is now nearly full with devices. We need the next bigger license with 5,000 devices, which will cost us $19,000. We pay for a set of licenses, a maximum number of devices, and a maximum number of IP addresses. We have the smallest amount of features, which is enough for us at this time."

"The product is costly."

"On a scale of one to five, where one is high and five is good, I would rate this solution as a four."

"I would rate the product's pricing a six out of ten."

"The price of SolarWinds IPAM is good. After the second year, you have to pay additional for maintenance, because the first year is included with the license maintenance and support. It's from the second year on, you have to pay about 20% of the list price for maintenance and support."

"It's on the costlier side. It's expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	20

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Device42?

The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable. I do not know if a small organization would be able to afford it, but I presume it would also be co...

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What needs improvement with Device42?

I think Device42 can be improved by adding more features around the CMDB aspect and lifecycle management. I do not think many people use it for that functionality, but if they were to expand the su...

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What is your primary use case for Device42?

My main use case for Device42 is that we use it as a CMDB and affinity map to check out network topology or determine when we need to decom something in a life cycle. We use it for many different p...

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What advice do you have for others considering SolarWinds IPAM?

I do not deal with the pricing of SolarWinds IPAM; my focus is solely on the technical side. I usually recommend SolarWinds IPAM for various types of companies. It is useful everywhere rather than ...

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds IPAM?

In terms of improvement for SolarWinds IPAM, I think there needs to be a greater focus on the alert side. If they can work more on complicated alerts, that will be useful, and I believe we need to ...

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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds IPAM?

I have been working with SolarWinds IPAM whenever there is a requirement, but it is not a day-to-day product. NTA, NCM, and NPM are the products I work with daily, while I work on SolarWinds IPAM o...

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Overview

Device42 empowers enterprises with automatic IT asset discovery, application dependency mapping, and agentless discovery, streamlining asset management, improving decision-making, and supporting migration initiatives.

Device42 automates network discovery and provides comprehensive IT data management, making it indispensable for asset and infrastructure management. The platform’s integration capabilities, such as with ServiceNow, allow seamless management of physical and virtual environments. Its application dependency mapping is a critical feature for efficient cloud migration, while advanced search and dashboards enhance operational tasks. Device42's ease of deployment coupled with integration into cloud services offers robust operational insights and simplifies onboarding.

What are Device42's key features?

Automatic IT Asset Discovery: Enables detailed information collection on hardware and software.
Application Dependency Mapping: Facilitates tracking of application dependencies for effective cloud migration.
Agentless Discovery: Assists in uncovering assets without the need for specialized agents.
Network Topology Visualization: Assists in visual representation of network connections.
Cloud Integration: Simplifies the integration with cloud services for enhanced insights.

What benefits should be evaluated in Device42?

Improved Decision-Making: Optimizes resource utilization and boosts strategic initiatives.
Seamless Integration: Enhances connectivity with platforms like ServiceNow.
Efficiency in Auditing: Eases compliance and auditing processes.
Simplified Onboarding: Streamlines initial setups and deployment.
Enhanced Operational Insights: Supports better management through comprehensive data visualization.

Device42 is widely used across sectors for IT asset and infrastructure management, where automation in inventory and documentation aids compliance and resource optimization. It excels in industries requiring integration with existing systems and comprehensive network solutions. Application dependency mapping bolsters cloud migration efficiency in enterprise environments.

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SolarWinds IPAM offers streamlined and automated IP address management through a user-friendly interface. With centralized IP range handling and integration with DHCP and DNS servers, it supports efficient network management.

SolarWinds IPAM facilitates comprehensive IP address management, accommodating user needs through its adaptable and automated solutions. Centralizing dashboard functions, it streamlines handling of IP ranges while integrating seamlessly with DHCP and DNS servers. Tools like powerful search and IP authentication boost its effectiveness. Organizations benefit from automated discovery, eliminating reliance on outdated manual methods. Managing networked devices is expedited, aided by the inclusion of hostnames and VLAN IDs. While enhancements in update frequency and performance speed are suggested, its integration with AWS and Azure is promising for future adaptability. Improved dashboard prioritization, better support, and alert enhancements are sought by users, while more detailed information on features and design updates is anticipated.

What features stand out in SolarWinds IPAM?

Automated IP Management: Streamlines processes with automation, making tasks efficient.
Centralized Dashboard: Simplifies IP range management by offering a unified platform.
Seamless Integration: Easily connects with DHCP and DNS servers for cohesive network management.
Powerful Search: Enables quick data retrieval and enhances management capabilities.
Efficient Reporting: Provides actionable insights for informed decision-making.

What benefits and ROI can users anticipate?

Time Savings: Reduces manual effort with automated tasks, freeing up resources.
Enhanced Security: Centralized and reliable IP management supports compliance.
Scalability: Flexible integration capability allows growth alongside organizational needs.
Improved Visibility: Centralized data offers better oversight of network activities and resources.

In industries where IP management and security compliance are critical, SolarWinds IPAM proves invaluable. Organizations employ it for on-premises solutions to maintain a secure environment, ensuring efficient IP address management across devices. Its long-standing use by teams highlights the customization and integration strengths essential for comprehensive network infrastructure management.

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Sample Customers

Computershare, Concur, Doosan, Fitch Ratings Inc., Fujitsu, HomeAway, Jasper Wireless, Mercedes-Benz, Square, Twitch, UCSB, Zayo Group Inc.

Andr. L. Riis AS, Air Rarotonga, REA Group, Air Rarotonga, Open Line, Monroe City Schools, CTV Inc.

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