10 Ivanti Alternatives and Competitors Compared in 2026

A CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities advisory names an Ivanti CVE. A cyber insurance renewal asks a patch-cadence question nobody in the room can answer cleanly. A migration quote arrives with a number nobody budgeted for. An audit turns up forty Macs that no tool is managing.

Any one of those puts Ivanti alternatives on the agenda.

This guide covers Ivanti and ten alternatives. For each one we set out what it actually is, who it fits, where it breaks, and what it costs when the vendor publishes a price.

It also does something most comparison lists skip. It separates true unified endpoint management from remote monitoring tools and from endpoint security platforms, because four of the products routinely listed as “Ivanti alternatives” are neither UEM nor trying to be. Rank them all in one table and the evaluation falls apart in month three.

One more thing before the list.

“Ivanti alternative” is an ambiguous request, and the answer changes completely depending on which Ivanti product you are replacing. We deal with that first.

The bottom line

The list below is grouped by what each product genuinely is, not ranked. Pick the group that matches your situation.

Heimdal (that’s us). For teams replacing Ivanti’s patch, privilege and endpoint security modules and collapsing several security tools into one platform and one contract. We are not a full UEM and we do not claim to be. More on exactly where our scope ends below.

Microsoft Intune. For organizations already on Microsoft 365 E3, E5 or Business Premium with a Windows-majority estate and mobile devices to manage. The identity-native conditional access is structurally hard for anyone else to match.

IBM MaaS360. Mobile-heavy and BYOD-heavy estates in regulated sectors that need containerization and secure productivity apps.

Google Endpoint Management. For Google Workspace-standardized organizations, education, and ChromeOS or Android-first frontline fleets.

Cisco Meraki Systems Manager. End-of-sale. Cisco announced end-of-sale on 3 December 2025, the last day to purchase was 3 June 2026 and support ends 3 June 2029. It is no longer a purchase option for new buyers. Read the profile below only if you are an existing Systems Manager customer planning a migration.

Citrix Endpoint Management. Existing Citrix Workspace customers with a large BYOD or contractor mobile population, and the tolerance for roadmap uncertainty that comes with it.

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance. For mid-market and public-sector Windows estates carrying real software license compliance obligations and modest mobile needs.

ConnectWise Automate. An RMM, not a UEM, and primarily an MSP tool. Relevant only if you already run ConnectWise PSA.

Atera. An RMM with genuinely published pricing and fast time to value. No native mobile device management, only third-party MDM add-ons through its marketplace, which removes it from UEM shortlists.

N-able N-sight RMM. An RMM aimed at small providers and small internal teams. Licensing basis is unpublished. Confirm it directly.

Ivanti itself. Still the right answer for large, partly on-premises estates that need patching, software distribution, digital employee experience and mobile from one vendor, and that have the security operations maturity to patch the management plane aggressively.

What “unified endpoint management” means in 2026

The category has moved. Most comparison content has not moved with it.

Gartner formalized unified endpoint management in 2018 as a single interface for managing mobile, PC, wearable and IoT devices. By 2026 the research had been retitled the Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools. Vendor announcements referencing that report describe four critical-capability use cases.

They are autonomous endpoint management, unified endpoint management, security-centric management and frontline device management.

In our reading, the rename carries commercial meaning. Managing Windows, Mac, iOS and Android from one console is now assumed rather than differentiating, so the competition has moved to autonomy, security outcomes and specialized device classes.

Three distinctions that decide whether your comparison is useful

UEM is not RMM. UEM manages your own heterogeneous device estate. RMM manages many isolated customer tenants for a service provider, with ticketing, billing and PSA integration as first-class features. They overlap on patching, inventory and remote control. They diverge sharply on identity integration, mobile lifecycle management and multi-tenancy.

UEM is not endpoint security. UEM is a control plane that enrolls, configures, patches and reports on device state. EPP, EDR and XDR detect and respond to active intrusion. The categories are converging, and Gartner now evaluates security-centric management as a distinct use case, but they are still not interchangeable. A tool that patches Windows and blocks malware is not a UEM if it cannot enroll, configure and selectively wipe an iPhone.

“Ivanti alternative” means three different shopping lists. Ivanti sells at least three products you might be trying to replace.

• Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM). The mature, client-based, largely on-premises systems management product descended from LANDESK.
• Ivanti Neurons for UEM. The SaaS platform Ivanti positions as its strategic direction, covering modern management including mobile.
• Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). Formerly MobileIron Core, the mobile management product.

Leaving EPM means shopping for systems management. Leaving EPMM means shopping for MDM. Conflating the two is the single most common flaw in this content category, and it produces shortlists full of products that cannot do the job.

Video: Best UEM Software Compared — Heimdal, IBM, Ivanti, ManageEngine

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Four misconceptions worth killing early

“UEM replaced MDM.” It absorbed it. MDM is now a capability layer inside UEM.

“UEM is a security product.” It enforces configuration, patch level and encryption state, which has real security value. It does not detect or respond to intrusion. Assume you will still run a separate EDR.

“Intune is free if you have Microsoft 365.” Intune is included in specific bundles only. Per Microsoft’s own documentation, Microsoft 365 Business Basic does not include Intune. It includes the older and far more limited Basic Mobility and Security.

“We will consolidate to one agent.” That is a direction of travel, not an outcome. Many organizations that set out to consolidate end up with a management agent, a security agent, and something for identity or network access. Business cases built on single-agent consolidation disappoint.

Where traditional approaches fall short

Client management tools were designed for domain-joined machines that periodically appear on the corporate LAN. Mobile management tools were designed for internet-facing devices talking to operating system vendor APIs. Most estates now need both behaviors at once, and the seams show in predictable places.

Console sprawl. Separate consoles for PC, mobile, Mac, patch and remote control, each with its own policy language and its own inventory. The testable question is not whether a vendor says “single pane of glass”. It is how many consoles your administrators will actually log into after deployment. The goal is a single console for your admins, not just a single vendor relationship.

Agent sprawl and endpoint performance. Multiple agents compete for CPU and disk, and then the tickets about slow machines start. Ask every vendor for a published resource footprint and a credible list of the agents theirs retires.

Third-party patch gaps. OS patching works nearly everywhere. The long tail of third-party applications is where exposure typically concentrates, and it is the gap buyers cite most often in tools that otherwise score well.

The weakest-OS problem. Excellent on Windows, mediocre on macOS, poor on iOS. Vendors present an average across operating systems. Your auditor cares about the worst one.

Reporting that lags reality. Inventory that depends on polling intervals is stale by definition. During a trial, ask what the data freshness indicator says, not what the dashboard says.

Migration risk. Years of accumulated scripts, packages and policies live in the incumbent tool. Migration and re-enrollment is usually the largest single line item in year one. It is also the line nobody budgets properly.

The management plane is now a target in its own right

This is the change that reframed the whole category. A UEM or RMM server has agent-level code execution on every endpoint, which makes it one of the most valuable targets in an estate. That is documented, not theoretical.

• ConnectWise ScreenConnect CVE-2024-1709. Authentication bypass, CVSS 10.0, affecting version 23.9.7 and prior. Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, chainable with CVE-2024-1708 for remote code execution, and exploited in the wild to deploy ransomware.
• Ivanti Endpoint Manager CVE-2024-13159, CVE-2024-13160 and CVE-2024-13161. CVSS 9.8 per Ivanti’s own scoring as the CNA, though NVD scores CVE-2024-13159 at 7.5. All three were added to the KEV catalog with a federal civilian remediation deadline of 31 March 2025. Public proof-of-concept exploits followed.
• N-able N-central CVE-2026-18556 and CVE-2026-18577. Authentication bypass and account takeover in the N-central management console, both added to CISA’s KEV catalog in the first week of August 2026. CVE-2026-18556 was added on 4 August 2026 and CVE-2026-18577 on 3 August 2026, the second described as the result of an incomplete patch for the first. The freshest example of the pattern, and a live one at the time of writing.

Vendor disclosure history is now a routine procurement input rather than a footnote. Buyers ask for patch service levels, secure-development attestations and a named security contact during evaluation.

Where we fit, and where we do not

We are Heimdal. We build a unified cybersecurity platform, and this is our blog, so let us be precise about what we are offering you rather than letting the word “alternative” do the work.

We are not a unified endpoint management platform. We do not manage the full iOS device lifecycle. We do not support zero-touch enrollment frameworks like Windows Autopilot, Apple Automated Device Enrollment or Android Zero-Touch. We do not offer configuration profile management, a managed application store, or selective work-data-only wipe. Those capabilities define UEM as a category. If you need them, you need one of the UEM platforms further down this page.

What we do is narrower and, for a large share of Ivanti customers, more directly useful. We replace the reason you were paying Ivanti for patch, privilege and endpoint security in the first place.

Two ways to buy, and both are real

Heimdal Patch and Asset Management as a standalone tool. If you have a UEM or a systems management tool you are keeping, and the gap is third-party patching, patch reporting and asset visibility, buy that module on its own. It runs alongside what you already have.

Heimdal Patch and Asset Management as part of our unified security platform. If the real problem is that you are paying five vendors for five agents, you can fold patching into a platform that covers the rest of the stack.

One agent. One console. One contract.

• DNS security for network and endpoint
• Next-gen antivirus and firewall
• Ransomware encryption protection
• Privilege elevation and delegation management
• Privileged account and session management
• Application control
• Email security
• EDR and XDR
• Remote desktop

One dashboard and one support relationship across all of it.

Most comparison articles present a product like ours as a bolt-on for teams that already run something else. That is one valid path. It is not the only one. For teams whose endpoint problem is fundamentally a security problem rather than a device lifecycle problem, the platform path often models cheaper over three years. Run the arithmetic on the tools it actually retires rather than taking our word for it.

The pairing that is genuinely unusual

Patching and privilege management in the same product is rare. Few UEM vendors ship privilege elevation and delegation management. Few privileged access vendors patch anything.

That combination matters because two of the most common findings on a mid-market security questionnaire are slow patch cadence and standing local administrator rights. Solve them in two tools and you get two agents, two policy models and two sets of evidence at audit. Solve them in one and the elevation decision and the patch state are visible in the same place.

How to hold us to this

We are asking you to evaluate a narrower claim than most vendors on this page make. That should come with a way to check it.

Our MITRE ATT&CK coverage is publicly mapped on the Tidal Cyber Registry. Search for Heimdal and you can see exactly which attack techniques and sub-techniques we detect and stop, down to the sub-technique level. We have not paid to participate in the MITRE Engenuity Evaluations, which are a vendor-funded program. Our coverage is transparent and independently verifiable at any time. Pull the mapping into your PoC scorecard and compare it directly against Ivanti and against every other vendor on this list.

Practical buyer guidance

This section is written for internal IT and security teams buying for their own estate. If you are a managed service provider, the economics and the tooling questions are different enough that they deserve their own article.

Do you actually need to replace anything?

Run this before you run a single demo.

• Entitlement audit first. Establish what you already own. If you hold Microsoft 365 E3 or E5, you already have Intune Plan 1, and from July 2026 Microsoft has been rolling out a packaging update, tenant by tenant with 30 days’ Message Center notice, that adds Intune Plan 2, Remote Help and Advanced Analytics at no additional cost, with E5 additionally gaining Endpoint Privilege Management, Cloud PKI and Enterprise App Management. Any competing spend now has to beat zero.
• Name the product you are leaving. EPM, Neurons for UEM, or EPMM. Write it down. The shortlists are not interchangeable.
• Separate the security motive from the functional motive. If you are leaving because of the disclosure record, note that the highest-severity Ivanti issues were in the internet-facing gateways and in EPMM. Replacing EPM with a different systems management tool does nothing about a Connect Secure exposure.

Signals that you have outgrown your current setup

• Your patch compliance report and your vulnerability scanner disagree, and nobody can explain why.
• macOS or Linux devices are managed by a spreadsheet and goodwill.
• A cyber insurance questionnaire asked for time-to-patch on known-exploited vulnerabilities and you had to estimate.
• Standing local administrator rights are still in place because removing them would flood the service desk.
• More than three agents are installed on a standard build and at least one of them has no clear owner.

Warning signs during evaluation

• The vendor demonstrates on Windows and defers every macOS or iOS question to a follow-up call.
• Compliance reporting is shown as a dashboard, never as an exported artifact.
• The price you are quoted is for a tier that does not contain the features you were just shown.
• Roadmap commitments live in a slide deck rather than in a contract.
• No published resource footprint for the agent.

What teams consistently underestimate

Migration and re-enrollment. The largest year-one cost in most projects, and it lands on the same people who still have to run the estate.

Tier gating. Pricing the entry tier rather than the tier that contains the required features is the most common source of budget overrun, and it hits tier-gated products hardest.

Operability with the team you actually have. Reviews and buyer guidance keep pointing the same way. Mid-market teams pick the tool they can operate over the tool that scores highest on features. Usually they are right.

What none of this will fix

• UEM will not detect or respond to an active intrusion. Budget for endpoint security separately unless you are consolidating into a security platform on purpose.
• No tool fixes an estate with no owner. If nobody is accountable for device compliance, a better console produces better-looking non-compliance.
• Consolidation does not remove the identity layer. Conditional access still has to come from somewhere.
• Linux depth is a genuine market gap. Verify per distribution, not per vendor. Support commonly covers a short list of named distributions rather than Linux generally.

How to run a proof of concept without drowning in demos

1. Set the scorecard before the first demo. Here is a starting weighting we would use, offered as our own scorecard rather than as an industry standard. Score OS breadth and depth at around 30 percent, identity and zero-trust integration at 20 percent, security convergence at 18 percent, application, patch and configuration lifecycle at 17 percent, scale and administration at 10 percent, and deployment model and licensing fit at 5 percent. The specific weights matter less than fixing them before anyone sees a demo.
2. Score the weakest relevant operating system, not the average. This one heuristic correctly penalizes Windows-centric tools, including ours.
3. Time-box it to six to twelve weeks. Include a Windows cohort plus the operating system or use case where you expect the candidate to be weakest.
4. Export a real compliance report during the trial. The gap between “has compliance reporting” and “produces an artifact an auditor accepts” is where post-purchase disappointment concentrates.
5. Test coexistence explicitly. Which policy wins when two agents conflict, and how compliance state is computed when more than one tool influences posture.
6. Model three-year total cost in parallel. Subscription at the tier that actually includes the required features across 36 months, plus migration, re-enrollment and onboarding, plus implementation and integration, plus training, plus internal headcount to operate, minus retired point tools and capabilities you already own.
7. Ask for references the vendor did not select. Same size, same sector.
8. Negotiate multi-year price protection at initial purchase. Your negotiating power thins fast once enrollment and policy investment are sunk.

Ivanti, the incumbent under review

What it is. A two-track endpoint portfolio. Ivanti Endpoint Manager is the mature client-based and largely on-premises systems management product, which Ivanti describes as covering Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS and IoT. Ivanti Neurons for UEM is the SaaS platform Ivanti positions as strategic, described in vendor materials as providing real-time discovery, bot-driven automation and self-healing remediation. Ivanti also sells Neurons for Patch Management, Neurons for Digital Experience and EPMM for mobile.

Best for. Large, complex, partly on-premises estates that need patching, software distribution, digital employee experience and mobile management from one vendor, and that have the security operations maturity to patch the management plane aggressively.

Key strengths.

• Portfolio breadth few competitors match from a single vendor. According to Ivanti’s product documentation, the portfolio spans patching, software distribution, remote control, discovery, digital employee experience, IT service management and mobile management.
• Long-term reviewers consistently describe EPM’s software distribution and patching as reliable in complex on-premises estates.
• On-premises and hybrid deployment options that pure-SaaS competitors cannot offer. This matters to sovereignty-constrained, air-gapped and public-sector buyers, and it is a real reason Ivanti retains accounts.
• Continued Neurons investment. Ivanti’s 2025 quarterly release notes document Windows 11 upgrade automation, bot-driven workflows, expanded mobile management and bulk enrollment.

Trade-offs.

• The disclosure record is the defining issue. Between 2023 and 2025 Ivanti sustained critical, actively exploited vulnerabilities across three product families. CISA issued Emergency Directive ED 24-01 in January 2024 covering CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 in Connect Secure and Policy Secure. Supplemental Direction V1 then required federal civilian agencies to disconnect all instances from agency networks by 2 February 2024, perform factory resets, rebuild the devices, upgrade and reissue credentials. Supplemental Direction V2 followed in February 2024 covering CVE-2024-22024. On mobile, CISA and Norway’s NCSC published a joint advisory on active exploitation of EPMM vulnerabilities CVE-2023-35078 and CVE-2023-35081, both added to the KEV catalog in July 2023, followed by CVE-2023-35082, which is rated between 9.8 and 10.0 depending on which scoring source you use. On EPM, CVE-2024-29847 at CVSS 9.8, and the three 2025 KEV entries listed earlier.
• An emergency directive requiring federal agencies to disconnect, factory-reset and rebuild a vendor’s appliances is an extraordinary action, and it is public record rather than interpretation.
• Two-product strategy creates buyer friction. Ivanti has published no end-of-life date for EPM. Investment signals point clearly toward Neurons, which means new EPM buyers are implicitly buying a future migration project.
• Peer reviewers return again and again to complexity and implementation effort. The platform is capable but not self-service. Gartner Peer Insights ratings for Ivanti’s UEM product sat at roughly 4.3 out of 5 across around 880 ratings as of mid-2026.

Pricing. Undisclosed. Ivanti does not publish list pricing. Licensing is module-based and quote-driven, with evidence of both per-user and per-device SKUs depending on the module, so two similarly sized organizations can pay materially different amounts. Model total cost across every module you need rather than per seat. Third-party price estimates circulate. None of them traces to a vendor price list.

Alternatives, grouped by what they actually are

Figures verified as of August 2026 and subject to change. Re-confirm against vendor pricing pages before they inform a budget.

If you are replacing Ivanti’s patch, privilege and endpoint security modules

Heimdal

What we are. A modular unified cybersecurity platform.

One agent. One console. One contract.

• DNS security for network and endpoint
• Next-gen antivirus and firewall
• Ransomware encryption protection
• EDR and XDR, with a managed XDR option
• Patch and Asset Management
• Infinity Management
• Privilege elevation and delegation management
• Privileged account and session management
• Application control
• Email security
• Remote desktop

You license only the modules you need, and everything reports into the same dashboard.

Best for. Windows-dominant SMB and mid-market organizations replacing Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management plus Ivanti’s endpoint security and privilege modules, that either manage mobile devices elsewhere or manage them minimally.

Key strengths.

• Real consolidation inside the security domain. Patching, privilege management, DNS filtering, next-gen antivirus and XDR under one agent and one contract. That combination is uncommon, and it is a direct answer to agent sprawl.
• Patch coverage tied to speed. As of August 2026 we cover more than 350 third-party applications alongside Windows, macOS and Linux OS updates, with silent deployment, configurable schedules and instant rollback. Our data sheets record automated deployment within roughly four hours of patch release.
• Audit evidence rather than dashboards. CVE and CVSS tracking, patch history and system change logs are built for export against CIS 18, NIST, Cyber Essentials, GDPR and CAF reporting.
• Privilege management in the same platform. Escalation period control with automatic revocation, auto-pilot pre-approvals, and multi-channel approval workflows through dashboard, email or mobile app. Application control with AppFencing sits alongside it.
• One support relationship. Our commitment is a single dedicated support contract per customer, with no third-party escalation chain. Ask us to put it in the contract, as you should with every vendor on this page.
• G2 reviewers keep coming back to two things. One is licensing only the modules you need. The other is low perceived endpoint performance impact.

Trade-offs, stated plainly.

• Windows carries the full module footprint. macOS is supported from macOS 12 upwards, per our current Patch and Asset Management documentation, for DNS Security Endpoint, VectorN Detection, third-party patching, OS updates, next-gen antivirus, ransomware encryption protection and privilege elevation. Firewall, application control and remote desktop are Windows-only. Ask us for the current module support matrix before you assume coverage for a given operating system or version.
• Linux coverage is broader than older comparison content, including our own, has said. Our current Patch and Asset Management documentation lists more than 30 supported Linux distributions for third-party patching, OS updates and Infinity Management. Coverage varies by distribution, version and module, so ask us to confirm against the specific distributions in your estate rather than assuming the whole list applies to you.
• Mobile management is Android-focused. We document mobile device management for Android covering fleet supervision, remote device location and Android group policies. Full iOS device management, we do not offer. On iOS we appear primarily as a privileged access application.
• We are not UEM. No zero-touch enrollment framework support, no configuration profile management, no managed application store, no selective work-data-only wipe.

On AI. Two AI capabilities are live in the platform today and predate anything branded AI Wingman. Predictive DNS applies AI and ML analysis to identify suspicious destinations and likely attack activity before threats fully materialize. AI-powered email fraud prevention uses outlier detection to surface impersonation attempts, CEO fraud and out-of-character communications against normal organizational patterns.

AI Wingman is a separate cross-platform intelligence layer built on top of the platform, delivered in phases.

• AI Wingman Assist. Platform guidance across the dashboard.
• AI Wingman Triage. Multi-agent systems validate incidents and accelerate triage. Included with Threat-hunting and Action Center (TAC).
• AI Wingman SOC. AI acceleration inside our managed SOC. Included with TAC plus MXDR.

On third-party validation. We were named in the Gartner Europe Context: Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection, published 27 May 2026. Named in, and we are deliberately not characterizing placement beyond that. We were also listed as a representative vendor in Gartner’s Market Overview for Workspace Cybersecurity Platforms, published August 2026, alongside vendors including Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Sophos.

We are in an analyst relationship with Forrester, and no Forrester report has published as of August 2026.

Our MITRE ATT&CK coverage is publicly mapped on the Tidal Cyber Registry and can be checked without talking to us.

Pricing. Self-serve and instant. Pick the modules you want, enter your endpoint count, and our pricing calculator returns a price estimate on the page and by email, module by module. You do not need a sales conversation to see a number.

Full unified endpoint management platforms

Microsoft Intune

What it is. Microsoft’s cloud endpoint management service, native to Entra ID and Microsoft 365, sold as Intune Plan 1, Intune Plan 2 and the Intune Suite.

Best for. Any organization already standardized on Microsoft 365 E3, E5 or Business Premium with a Windows-majority estate and mobile devices to manage. For this profile, the burden of proof sits on every competitor to justify net-new spend.

Key strengths.

• Identity-native conditional access is the decisive structural differentiator. Device compliance state flows directly into Entra Conditional Access, which makes compliance enforceable at the point of resource access rather than reportable afterwards. Competitors integrate with identity. Intune is part of it.
• Included in bundles most enterprises already own. Per Microsoft’s licensing documentation, Intune Plan 1 is included in Microsoft 365 E3, E5 and E7, Business Premium, F1 and F3, Enterprise Mobility and Security E3 and E5, and education and government equivalents. The authoritative list is the one Microsoft publishes on its Intune pricing page, so verify your own bundle there. Marginal license cost is zero for a large share of the market.
• Strong Windows modern management, with documented Autopilot and Windows Update for Business integration, plus a Configuration Manager co-management path that allows workload-by-workload migration rather than cutover.
• Strong iOS and Android management via Apple Automated Device Enrollment and Android Enterprise, including app protection policies that secure corporate data on unenrolled personal devices.
• Peer ratings of roughly 4.5 out of 5 on G2 across around 270 reviews as of August 2026.

Trade-offs.

• Third-party application patching is the gap buyers cite most. Many Intune deployments add a dedicated patch tool. Enterprise App Management addresses part of it, sits in a premium SKU, and carries a narrower catalog than dedicated patch specialists. From July 2026 it is included for Microsoft 365 E5 holders.
• Capabilities competitors treat as core sit in premium tiers. Remote Help and Advanced Analytics sit in Plan 2, while Endpoint Privilege Management, Enterprise App Management and Cloud PKI sit outside Plan 1 altogether, sold as standalone add-ons at roughly USD 2 to 5 per user per month on top of Plan 1, or bundled in the Intune Suite. The July 2026 packaging change materially narrows this for E3 and E5 customers specifically, so verify your current entitlement rather than assuming either way.
• Non-Windows depth trails specialists. Apple-heavy organizations frequently deploy Jamf alongside or instead of Intune.
• Reviewers complain about administrative complexity. They cite a large policy surface, difficulty diagnosing policy conflicts and portal navigation friction.
• As of August 2026 Microsoft documents Linux support for four distributions only, Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 and 26.04 LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and 10, with a GNOME desktop requirement. It is oriented toward compliance rather than full lifecycle management, and the supported list moves. Ubuntu 22.04 support ends in August 2026 and RHEL 8 ended in July 2026.

Pricing. As of mid-2026, standalone list pricing is Intune Plan 1 at USD 8 per user per month, Intune Plan 2 at USD 4 per user per month as an add-on to Plan 1, and the Intune Suite at USD 10 per user per month, on annual commitment. Microsoft 365 Business Basic does not include Intune.

IBM MaaS360

What it is. IBM’s UEM platform, historically mobile-first, sold in three priced editions.

Best for. Mobile-heavy and BYOD-heavy enterprises, particularly in regulated sectors, that need containerization, secure productivity applications and rugged or wearable coverage, and that already hold an IBM commercial relationship.

Key strengths.

• IBM states the platform manages laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, wearables, IoT and ruggedized devices.
• Containerization and secure productivity components, covering secure mobile mail, chat, browser and content management, are documented in IBM’s packaging materials. These earn their keep in BYOD-heavy and contractor-heavy estates where full device control is never going to happen.
• According to product documentation, a cloud connector integrates with on-premises Active Directory.
• Peer ratings of roughly 4.2 out of 5 on G2 across around 210 reviews as of August 2026.

Trade-offs.

• Capability is gated hard by tier. Mobile threat management and the deeper security integrations sit in the Enterprise tier, so the headline USD 4.24 entry price is not the price of a comparable configuration.
• Desktop and Windows lifecycle management is less deep than client-management-lineage tools, reflecting the product’s mobile-first origins.
• G2 aggregate ratings place MaaS360 below Intune, and reviewer comparison data points the same way on how well each meets requirements, ease of use, ease of setup, ease of administration and perceived partnership quality.
• Strategic signal is better than it looked a year ago. IBM was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools on the strength of MaaS360, with report commentary citing its machine learning and generative AI capabilities including MaaS360 Advisor and predictive analytics. Packaging remains current, a new SMB offering has been added, and there is no evidence of divestiture, end-of-life or maintenance-only status. The caution that survives is narrower and specific. The mobile-first heritage still shows in desktop lifecycle depth, so ask for a written roadmap commitment on the desktop side rather than inferring one.
• Older comparison content lists “incompatible with T-Mobile” as a limitation. That traces to a single user review anecdote and is not supported by IBM documentation. Ignore it.

Pricing. As of August 2026, IBM publishes three priced editions. Essentials is USD 4.24, Premier USD 6.63 and Enterprise USD 9.54 per client device per month. A Deluxe edition is referenced inside IBM’s feature tables but carries no published price. A 30 percent ibm.com discount is running to 31 October 2026. IBM describes its published pricing as indicative and subject to country variation, and large accounts negotiate discounts as standard.

Google Endpoint Management

What it is. Endpoint management bundled into Google Workspace rather than sold standalone, tiered as fundamental, advanced and enterprise endpoint management depending on Workspace edition.

Best for. Google Workspace-standardized organizations, education, and ChromeOS or Android-first frontline deployments.

Key strengths.

• For organizations already licensed at the right Workspace tier, marginal cost is zero. Same commercial logic that makes Intune hard to displace, applied to Google-centric organizations.
• Strong Android management, which is no surprise given Google’s ownership of Android Enterprise, alongside competent iOS management including work profiles and iOS app management.
• ChromeOS management is Google’s strongest endpoint capability, and in education and ChromeOS-standardized frontline fleets it frequently decides the deal on its own.
• Context-Aware Access provides identity-adjacent conditional access for Workspace resources. Check the tier gating before you count on it. It requires Enterprise Standard or Plus, Education Standard or Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Frontline Standard or Cloud Identity Premium, and it is not included at Business Plus.

Trade-offs.

• Windows and macOS management is shallow. Google’s documentation does not describe broad third-party patch management, mature software distribution, or OS update ring management. In practice this is a governance layer over devices accessing Workspace, not a device lifecycle platform.
• No Linux lifecycle management. Google’s documentation covers Linux at the fundamental level only, meaning device visibility, approve, block and unblock, remote sign-out and Endpoint Verification signals, with no patching, software distribution or update management.
• Some users report that policy changes apply globally where group or user-level isolation is needed.
• Advanced endpoint management is a Business Plus capability. Starter and Standard include fundamental endpoint management only.
• Not a realistic candidate for a Windows-majority enterprise replacing Ivanti Endpoint Manager.
• Older comparison content lists “no online templates, battlecards or playbooks” and “takes up too much disk space” as limitations. The first describes sales material rather than product capability. The second is unspecific. Neither belongs in an evaluation.

Pricing. As of mid-2026, per Google’s Workspace edition documentation, Business Starter USD 7 per user per month on an annual plan (USD 8.40 flexible), Business Standard USD 14 (USD 16.80 flexible) and Business Plus USD 22 (USD 26.40 flexible). The flexible-plan figures follow Google’s historical 20 percent flexible premium and were not re-confirmed on the pricing toggle at the time of writing, so check them before they inform a budget. Older content listing USD 6, 12 and 18 reflects a superseded price list. Business Starter, Standard and Plus are capped at 300 users, which matters directly to the education and frontline use cases above. Past 300 users you are into Enterprise editions, which are contact-sales.

Cisco Meraki Systems Manager

Lifecycle status first. This product is end-of-sale. Cisco announced end-of-sale for Meraki Systems Manager on 3 December 2025. The last day to purchase one and three-year licenses was 3 June 2026, and the last day of support is 3 June 2029. Five-year licenses were withdrawn from the price list at the announcement so that no license could outlive support. It stays in this guide because legacy comparison content still recommends it, and because existing customers need a migration plan. It is not a candidate for a new purchase.

What it is. Cloud-managed endpoint management inside the Meraki dashboard, licensed per device and architecturally coupled to Meraki’s networking portfolio.

Best for. No new buyer. For existing Systems Manager customers, the useful question is what has to be replaced before June 2029. The network policy convergence stays with your Meraki networking. The device management does not.

Key strengths.

• Network and endpoint policy convergence is the real differentiator. Because Systems Manager and Meraki network hardware share one dashboard, device posture can gate network access directly. Meraki documentation describes scanning a client device for Systems Manager before permitting network access, and Systems Manager Sentry automates Wi-Fi and VPN provisioning. Few UEM tools do this without custom integration work.
• Operationally simple by design, with a browser-based dashboard, organization-level two-factor authentication, role-based administration and CSV inventory export.
• According to Meraki documentation, Apple support includes Automated Device Enrollment, SCEP and customer certificate signing.

Trade-offs.

• Management depth is modest. Windows and macOS lifecycle management, third-party patching and software distribution are weaker than dedicated UEM tools, reflecting the product’s MDM lineage.
• No Linux management.
• Value is contingent on Meraki networking. Bought standalone it loses most of its differentiation.
• Some users report no direct CLI access, limited advanced troubleshooting and dashboard latency in reflecting real-time state.
• Licensing is co-termed within the Meraki organization model, which creates renewal complexity in mixed estates. With end-of-sale in force, Cisco has offered partial credit for license value that would otherwise run past the 3 June 2029 end-of-support date, so check what your existing co-termination date means for that credit.
• Older comparison content lists “poor encryption” as a limitation. We found no Cisco documentation or credible third-party assessment supporting that, and it should not be repeated.

Pricing. Withdrawn. Systems Manager licenses can no longer be bought, and the five-year SKU was removed from the price list at the December 2025 end-of-sale announcement. While it was still sellable, US partner price lists showed the Systems Manager Enterprise device license at roughly USD 40 for one year and roughly USD 80 for three. Both figures are historical and should not be used to model future cost. Existing licenses run to their co-termination date, subject to the 3 June 2029 end-of-support limit.

Citrix Endpoint Management

What it is. Citrix’s UEM service, descended from XenMobile, covering MDM, MAM and hybrid MDM plus MAM, sold standalone or bundled into Citrix Workspace tiers.

Best for. Existing Citrix Workspace or Virtual Apps and Desktops customers with a significant BYOD or contractor mobile population who value single-vendor integration and can accept roadmap uncertainty.

Key strengths.

• For organizations whose primary application delivery model is Citrix-published applications, managing endpoints from the same vendor reduces integration work.
• According to Citrix documentation, the service supports a broad range of enrollment and authentication options including domain authentication, domain plus security token, client certificate, client certificate plus domain, client certificate plus security token, and Entra ID as identity provider.
• According to product documentation, a mature mobile application management and app-wrapping model supports BYOD scenarios where full enrollment is not viable.

Trade-offs.

• Lifecycle uncertainty is the dominant risk, and it has history. Citrix previously signaled an end-of-maintenance date around December 2025, then reversed course. A November 2022 Citrix statement said there would be no end of sale, no maintenance-only mode and no end-of-maintenance date of December 2025. As of mid-2026 the Citrix product matrix lists the service as supported with end-of-support marked N/A. Yet Citrix’s own removed-and-deprecated-features page documents ongoing feature removals, including Microsoft Intune app management via the Citrix Cloud Library, certain Samsung restrictions and the Monitor tab. The product is supported. Roadmap confidence is a separate question. Get a written commitment.
• Packaging and licensing have changed since the Cloud Software Group acquisition, which should feed into renewal planning.
• Reviewers report difficulty deploying across multiple mobile operating systems, complex initial setup, and troubleshooting logs that are hard to interpret.
• Citrix does not compete on capability-per-dollar against Intune for organizations already licensed for it. Treat “low total cost of ownership” as a vendor claim and model it against a current quote.
• Older content claiming “SecureWeb XenMobile eliminates the need to deploy a VPN” uses retired branding and overstates what a managed secure browser does.
• Citrix has not announced placement in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools.

Pricing. Undisclosed. We were not able to verify current Citrix Endpoint Management or Workspace tier list pricing and will not publish figures we cannot stand behind. Contact sales.

Systems management lineage

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance

What it is. An appliance-delivered systems management product, virtual or physical, covering inventory, patching, software distribution, asset management, service desk and endpoint compliance, complemented by the SaaS-native KACE Cloud for modern and mobile management.

Best for. Mid-market and public-sector organizations in education, local government and healthcare with Windows-majority estates, genuine software license compliance obligations, a preference for an appliance they control, and modest mobile requirements.

Key strengths.

• Genuine breadth for a single mid-market product. Quest’s documentation covers hardware and software inventory, third-party patching, software license compliance, IT asset management, service desk ticketing, and device and application control from one appliance.
• Software license compliance and usage metering. Both are unusually well developed relative to UEM peers, which makes KACE a credible answer to a licensing audit problem as well as a management problem.
• The appliance model reduces infrastructure design burden, which suits mid-market teams without a dedicated platform engineer.
• Actively developed as of early 2026. Quest support documentation includes KACE SMA 14.x release notes, and KACE Cloud release notes through April 2026 introduce new scripting capability, script export and import, and improved filtering.
• According to product documentation, cloud off-board backup targets include Microsoft Azure Blob and Amazon S3.

Trade-offs.

• Ownership and debt are worth pricing in. Quest has been owned by Clearlake Capital since February 2022. In May 2025 Quest completed a lender-led refinancing including a USD 350 million new capital infusion from existing lenders, extending its revolver maturity to November 2028 and aligning new term loans with a February 2029 first-lien maturity. In our reading it was a liability-management exercise, and the rating agencies went further. S&P Global Ratings treated it as a distressed exchange, downgrading Quest Software US Holdings to ‘SD’, selective default, with issue-level ratings cut to ‘D’. Clearlake remains the sponsor, so this was a recapitalization rather than a change of control. Continued product releases support Quest’s framing. An owner carrying significant debt is still a legitimate consideration for a multi-year platform commitment.
• Appliance architecture is dated relative to cloud-native competitors. Reviewers flag complex initial setup, limited back-end access because the appliance is a closed Linux virtual server, and prescriptive upgrade sequencing where deviation causes failures.
• Some users report frequent session logouts, difficulty patching certain applications, and console modernization lagging competitors.
• Mobile management requires KACE Cloud. So KACE is two products rather than one, and that complicates the architecture and the license conversation.
• Quest has not announced placement in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools.

Pricing. Undisclosed. Quote-based per node, dependent on volume and term. Any specific per-node figure in circulation is unverified.

Remote monitoring and management platforms

These three appear on almost every “Ivanti alternatives” list. They are RMM platforms, built primarily for managed service providers running many isolated customer tenants. They are good at that job. They are not UEM, they lack identity-native conditional access, and mobile management ranges from weak to absent. If you are an internal IT team with an iPhone fleet and a compliance obligation, read these as context rather than candidates.

ConnectWise Automate

What it is. An MSP-oriented RMM and IT automation platform, originally LabTech, sold alongside ConnectWise PSA, ScreenConnect and the newer ConnectWise RMM.

Best for. Established managed service providers with existing ConnectWise PSA investment and in-house scripting capability. Rarely the right answer for a direct enterprise buyer.

Key strengths.

• Reviewers credit Automate with the deepest scripting and automation customization of the RMM platforms here.
• Broad integration range, including tight coupling to ConnectWise PSA for ticketing and billing.
• According to product documentation, agentless management of Telnet and SSH-reachable network devices including firewalls, switches and routers.

Trade-offs.

• Strategic ambiguity is the material risk. ConnectWise states that Automate and ConnectWise RMM are separate products, and all recent platform investment has gone into RMM. At IT Nation Connect Global 2025 ConnectWise announced RMM had been rebuilt on the ConnectWise Platform, with third-party patching covering roughly 7,000 applications and bi-weekly security patch validation. No Automate end-of-life is published. In our reading, buying Automate new in 2026 means buying into an eventual migration.
• Reviewers single out the user interface and the learning curve, along with patch reporting and inventory staleness attributable to polling intervals. Automate held a G2 rating of roughly 4.1 out of 5 across around 140 reviews as of mid-2026.
• Adjacent-product exposure. ScreenConnect, which most Automate deployments use for remote control, was the subject of CVE-2024-1709. On-premises instances required upgrade to 23.9.8 or later. ConnectWise remediated its cloud-hosted instances centrally. If you ran on-premises ScreenConnect during the disclosure window, post-patch review of administrator accounts and installed extensions is necessary, not optional.
• Not a UEM. Mobile device management is not a meaningful capability and there is no identity-native conditional access.

Pricing. Undisclosed. ConnectWise does not publish list pricing for Automate. Licensing is endpoint-based, and resellers commonly report volume-tiered rates with a minimum agent commitment. Any circulating per-endpoint figure is an estimate. Get a written quote.

Atera

What it is. A cloud-native all-in-one IT management platform, commercially distinguished by per-technician licensing with unlimited managed endpoints.

Best for. Lean internal IT teams managing predominantly Windows estates with some macOS, at high device-to-technician ratios, that prioritize predictable cost and fast deployment over configurability. Atera also serves small and mid-sized managed service providers, which is where much of its published material is aimed.

Key strengths.

• Published, transparent pricing. Genuinely rare in this market.
• The per-technician model with unlimited endpoints inverts the economics for environments with a lot of devices and few administrators.
• Reviewers point to fast time to value and ease of use for IT generalists. Atera holds the highest peer rating in this comparison set at roughly 4.6 out of 5 on G2 across around 1,250 reviews as of August 2026.

Trade-offs.

• There is no native mobile device management. Atera sells third-party MDM through its marketplace, such as Miradore MDM and ESET MDM and Security, both priced per device, but that is an add-on rather than a native capability, which removes Atera from true UEM shortlists regardless of its other strengths.
• Scripting and advanced patching are less deep than ConnectWise Automate or N-able. Reviewers describe a learning curve on custom scripting and thin error messaging when scripts or deployments fail, which makes troubleshooting slower than it should be.
• Remote control depends on Splashtop integration rather than a native stack. Older comparison content claims this lacks multi-monitor support. Splashtop’s current documentation does not support that claim, and Atera’s tier tables distinguish plans by concurrent session limits instead. Professional allows up to two concurrent Splashtop sessions, while Expert and above are unlimited and add AnyDesk, which includes multi-monitor support.
• Per-technician pricing becomes expensive at low device-to-technician ratios, and creates friction where many part-time administrators need occasional access.
• No identity-native conditional access, and enterprise compliance reporting is limited relative to dedicated UEM.

Pricing. Per Atera’s IT Department pricing page as of August 2026, Professional USD 149 per technician per month billed annually (USD 169 monthly), Expert USD 189 (USD 229 monthly), Master USD 219 (USD 269 monthly), Enterprise custom. All tiers include unlimited endpoints, Windows, macOS and Linux support, ticketing, IT automation and 24/7 chat support. Network Discovery is a USD 29 per technician per month add-on, included at the Enterprise tier, and Work From Home is USD 5 per end user per month.

N-able N-sight RMM

What it is. N-able’s platform for smaller providers and IT teams, positioned below its more enterprise-oriented N-central, combining monitoring, patching, remote access, ticketing and billing.

Best for. Small internal IT teams and small managed service providers wanting one tool across Windows and macOS estates with little or no mobile requirement.

Key strengths.

• N-able positions N-sight as covering monitoring, patch management, antivirus management, remote access, ticketing and billing in one console. For a very small team, that breadth is genuinely attractive.
• Vendor states cross-platform support for Windows, macOS and Linux, with Apple support historically a stated strength. Not independently tested here.
• Reviewers report fast deployment relative to N-central.

Trade-offs.

• Reviewer complaints cluster around support responsiveness, occasional agent and console reliability issues, and a narrower integration range than ConnectWise.
• Product-line ambiguity between N-sight and N-central forces a growth path decision early, and migrating between them is a project rather than an upgrade.
• Not a UEM. Mobile management is negligible and there is no identity-native conditional access.
• The management plane carries its own disclosure record. CISA added two N-central authentication-bypass and account-takeover vulnerabilities to the KEV catalog in early August 2026, CVE-2026-18556 and CVE-2026-18577, the second the result of an incomplete patch for the first. Apply the same patch service level and disclosure history questions here that you would apply to Ivanti.
• A note on ratings. N-sight RMM holds roughly 4.3 out of 5 on G2 across around 360 reviews, while the larger N-central listing sits at roughly 4.4 across around 560, as of August 2026. Check which product a cited figure refers to before you use it.

Pricing. Undisclosed and contested. N-able does not publish list pricing for N-sight. Secondary sources describe roughly USD 99 per technician per month, while older comparison content describes “starting at $99 for 3 users”, which implies a different model entirely. N-able has historically used device-based licensing for parts of its portfolio. Confirm the licensing basis directly with N-able rather than trusting either figure.

Vendors missing from most Ivanti alternatives lists

A 2026 UEM shortlist assembled from requirements rather than from search results usually contains several vendors that legacy comparison content omits. Gartner placed eight vendors in the Leaders quadrant of the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools, published 5 January 2026. They are Adaptiva, HCLSoftware, IBM, Jamf, Microsoft, NinjaOne, Omnissa and Tanium. Two of those eight, Microsoft and IBM, are profiled in depth earlier in this guide, which is worth stating plainly rather than leaving the impression that the Leaders sit outside the list above. ManageEngine was placed as a Challenger in the same report, scoring above 4 out of 5 across all four use cases.

• Omnissa Workspace ONE. The former VMware AirWatch lineage. Deep cross-platform UEM with its own identity layer, and, in our reading, the closest like-for-like replacement for Ivanti Neurons for UEM. It also scored highest of the sixteen vendors evaluated in all four use cases of the 2026 Critical Capabilities companion report.
• Jamf. Apple-exclusive by design, with day-zero macOS and iOS support. The default answer for Apple-heavy estates.
• Tanium. Real-time query and remediation at very large scale, positioned around autonomous endpoint management.
• HCLSoftware BigFix. Peer-to-peer content distribution as a documented core architecture, which determines whether large deployments are feasible without distribution infrastructure at every site.
• Adaptiva. Also peer-to-peer, focused on content distribution and patching at scale.
• NinjaOne. Cloud-native endpoint management and patching, positioned around automation and ease of operation.
• ManageEngine Endpoint Central. Broad mid-market UEM with published pricing, frequently shortlisted on cost.

We have not profiled these in depth here because our research pass did not verify their pricing and capability claims to the same standard as the vendors above. They belong on your longlist regardless.

Which one, by situation

You already pay for Microsoft 365 E3 or E5. Start with Intune and make every other vendor beat zero marginal license cost. Then price the specific gap honestly, which is usually third-party patching, privilege management or Apple depth, and the headcount cost of leaving it open.

You are leaving Ivanti because of the disclosure record, not the functionality. Identify which product family the exposure was in. Gateway exposure is not fixed by changing systems management tools, and EPMM exposure is not fixed by changing patch tools.

You are replacing Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management plus Ivanti’s security and privilege modules. This is the case where we are a direct fit, either as standalone Patch and Asset Management or as the full platform. Score us on Windows depth, patch catalog breadth, privilege workflow and audit evidence, and score us down hard on iOS.

You are replacing Ivanti Neurons for UEM or EPMM. You need a real UEM. Omnissa Workspace ONE, Intune, MaaS360 or Jamf depending on your operating system mix. We are not a candidate and neither are the RMM platforms.

Your estate is Apple-heavy. Jamf, alone or alongside whatever manages Windows.

You are Google Workspace-standardized or ChromeOS-first. Google Endpoint Management at the Business Plus tier, and check the tier gating before you budget. Context-Aware Access, for example, is not included at Business Plus.

Meraki is your network standard across many sites. Systems Manager is end-of-sale and can no longer be purchased, so this is a migration question rather than a purchase one. Existing deployments are supported until 3 June 2029. New buyers should shortlist a full UEM and keep Meraki’s network access controls as a separate layer.

You have a software license audit problem as well as a management problem. Quest KACE, with the ownership and appliance trade-offs priced in.

You need on-premises or sovereign hosting. This narrows the field faster than anything else on this page, and it is one of the strongest remaining reasons to stay with Ivanti EPM.

Whatever the shortlist, score the weakest operating system you actually have to support, price the tier that contains the features you were shown, and export a real compliance report during the trial. Those three habits eliminate most bad outcomes in this category.

Frequently asked questions

Which Ivanti product am I actually replacing?
Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) is client-based systems management descended from LANDESK. Ivanti Neurons for UEM is the SaaS platform Ivanti positions as strategic. Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) is the former MobileIron Core mobile product. The replacement sets differ materially, so name the product before building a shortlist.

Is ServiceNow an Ivanti alternative?
Only partially. ServiceNow is an ITSM platform built around tickets, requests and service-desk workflows, not a UEM. It competes with Ivanti’s own service management products, not with Ivanti Endpoint Manager, Ivanti Neurons for UEM or EPMM. If you are replacing Ivanti’s service desk rather than its device management, ServiceNow belongs on that shortlist. It is out of scope for this guide.

Is Ivanti still safe to use?
That is a risk decision rather than a yes or no. The public record is that Ivanti sustained critical, actively exploited vulnerabilities across Connect Secure and Policy Secure, EPMM and EPM between 2023 and 2025, and that CISA issued Emergency Directive ED 24-01 requiring federal civilian agencies to disconnect, factory-reset and rebuild Connect Secure and Policy Secure instances. Many organizations continue to run Ivanti successfully with aggressive patching of the management plane. Ask Ivanti for patch service levels, disclosure history and a named security contact, and apply the same questions to every vendor you shortlist.

Do I need UEM if I already have EDR?
Yes, if you need to enroll, configure, patch and evidence device state. EDR detects and responds to intrusion. It does not enforce configuration baselines or manage device lifecycle. The reverse also holds, which is why most estates run both.

Is Intune included with my Microsoft 365 license?
It depends on the bundle. Intune Plan 1 is included in Microsoft 365 E3, E5 and E7, Business Premium, F1 and F3, and Enterprise Mobility and Security E3 and E5. It is not included in Microsoft 365 Business Basic. From July 2026 Microsoft has been rolling out a packaging update, tenant by tenant, that includes Intune Plan 2, Remote Help and Advanced Analytics in E3 and E5 at no additional cost, with E5 additionally gaining Endpoint Privilege Management, Cloud PKI and Enterprise App Management. Verify your own tenant rather than trusting any article, including this one.

Is Heimdal a UEM?
No. We are a unified cybersecurity platform. We patch Windows, macOS and Linux across more than 30 distributions, manage assets, handle privilege elevation and application control, and cover DNS, antivirus, ransomware protection, email security and XDR. We do not support zero-touch enrollment frameworks, configuration profiles, managed app stores or selective work-data-only wipe, and our mobile device management is Android-focused. If you need full iOS device lifecycle management, you need a UEM.

Can I buy Heimdal Patch and Asset Management on its own?
Yes. It is available as a standalone module alongside whatever you already run, and it is also available as part of our unified platform. Which one makes sense depends on whether your problem is a patch gap or a stack consolidation problem. You can price either path yourself in our pricing calculator, module by module, and the estimate arrives on the page and by email.

How long does a UEM migration take?
Plan for a six to twelve week proof of concept before any decision, then treat migration and re-enrollment as the largest single line item in year one. Ask every vendor for documented coexistence support and a workload-by-workload plan with named milestones rather than a cutover date.

Are RMM tools a cheaper alternative to UEM?
Per-technician RMM pricing is genuinely cheaper at high device-to-technician ratios. It is not a substitute at enterprise scale, because RMM platforms lack identity-native conditional access and full iOS and Android lifecycle management. If those two things are on your requirements list, price UEM.

How much should I trust analyst placement?
Placement without the accompanying evaluation criteria and use-case weightings is close to meaningless, because a vendor can be a Leader on criteria that are irrelevant to your estate. Use it to build a longlist. Score against your own requirements to build a shortlist.

Pricing, analyst placements and peer review figures in this article were verified as of August 2026 and change without notice. Re-confirm against vendor pricing pages before they inform a budget.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools, 5 January 2026, and Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Endpoint Management Tools, 2026. Gartner, Europe Context: Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection, 27 May 2026. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates, and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Danny Mitchell

Head of Content at Heimdal. A journalist by trade who cares about helping MSPs and security teams make better decisions, enjoy their work, and see real results.