Twelve DCIM tools compared for 2026 — open source (NetBox, Nautobot, Ralph, openDCIM, RackTables) and commercial (Sunbird, Nlyte, Device42, Hyperview, Schneider, FNT, EasyDCIM) — with licences, published prices and release dates checked on 26 September 2026.
Mario Marin13 min read
The best DCIM software depends on the job you need it for. Network teams documenting a source of truth usually pick NetBox or Nautobot, both open source and actively released in October 2026. Enterprise facilities teams that need monitoring, capacity planning and change workflows look at Sunbird dcTrack, Nlyte, Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT or Hyperview. Hosting and colocation providers that bill customers for racks, power and IP addresses need DCIM joined to billing: EasyDCIM connects to WHMCS or HostBill, and FluxBilling includes DCIM in the billing platform itself. This guide compares twelve tools on licence, deployment, published price and release activity, first checked on 26 September 2026 and re-checked on 21 October 2026.
How this was sourced. FluxBilling publishes this guide and sells a product that includes DCIM; it has its own clearly marked section below and is not ranked against the others. Every licence, price and release date was read from the vendor's own site, documentation or GitHub repository on 26 September 2026, and the sources are listed at the end. Prices are quoted in the currency each vendor publishes, with no conversion. Where a vendor publishes no price, this guide says so rather than estimating one. Updated 14 October 2026: NetBox and Nautobot release versions and Sunbird's newly published prices were re-checked; EasyDCIM and Hyperview prices were re-read and are unchanged. Updated 21 October 2026: every vendor re-checked; Ralph's latest release, Sunbird's deployment options and FNT's newly published per-user prices are updated, NetBox's free cloud plan is added, and an FAQ closes the guide.
Part of the FluxBilling guide to DCIM software for hosting providers.
| Tool | Best fit | Licence | Deployment | Published price | Latest release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetBox | Network engineering source of truth | Open source (Apache-2.0) | Self-hosted; NetBox Cloud and Enterprise from NetBox Labs | Free; free NetBox Cloud plan (100 devices, 500 IPs); paid editions "contact sales" | v4.7.3, 13 Oct 2026 |
| Nautobot | Network automation platform | Open source (Apache-2.0) | Self-hosted; Nautobot Cloud as SaaS | Free; paid editions not priced in the project | v3.2.7, 13 Oct 2026 |
| Ralph | Asset management, DCIM and CMDB | Open source (Apache-2.0) | Self-hosted | Free | 20261019.1, 19 Oct 2026 |
| openDCIM | Simple data-centre inventory | Open source (GPL v3) | Self-hosted | Free | 26.01, Oct 2026 |
| RackTables | Small server rooms | Open source (GPL-2.0) | Self-hosted | Free | 0.22.0, Feb 2022 |
| Sunbird dcTrack | Enterprise DCIM with power monitoring | Commercial | On-premises (VMware vSphere) or hosted SaaS | From $19.50 per cabinet per month (dcTrack); free trial | — |
| Nlyte | Enterprise DCIM and workflows | Commercial | Not stated on the site | No | — |
| Device42 | IT asset discovery with DCIM | Commercial | — | No; annual subscription by device count | — |
| Hyperview | Cloud DCIM with public pricing | Commercial | SaaS | $3 per asset per year, 500-asset minimum | SaaS |
| Schneider EcoStruxure IT | Monitoring for enterprise and edge sites | Commercial | Cloud and on-premises products | No | — |
| FNT Command | Large enterprise and telco infrastructure | Commercial | On-premises or private, public or hybrid cloud | From €115 per user per month, billed annually; free trial | — |
| EasyDCIM | Hosting and colocation providers | Commercial | — | From $49/month (colocation, 25 services) or $69/month (dedicated, 50 devices) | — |
A dash means the vendor's own materials did not state it on the date we checked. None of the twelve sends invoices to your customers; that matters if you are a provider rather than an operator, and it is covered below.
Five open-source projects cover most of what people mean by open source DCIM. Three are released regularly; two still receive commits but have not published a release in more than two years.
NetBox describes itself as built "specifically to serve the needs of network engineers and operators", and that is the right way to read it: a source of truth for the network, with DCIM and IPAM in one data model. It models racks with rendered elevations, devices, cabling with traced paths, circuits, IP addressing and power distribution, and it has a large plugin ecosystem and a solid API. What it does not do is monitor anything — its own documentation lists network monitoring and facilities management under "What NetBox Is Not". The community edition is Apache-2.0 and self-hosted; NetBox Labs sells NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise, priced on request, and runs a free NetBox Cloud plan capped at 100 devices and 500 IP addresses. Version 4.7.3 was released on 13 October 2026.
Nautobot began as a fork of NetBox 2.10.4 and is now Network to Code's network source of truth and automation platform. The core models locations, racks, devices, cables, IP addresses and VLANs, and adds a Jobs engine and GraphQL for automation. Discovery, compliance, OS upgrades and other capabilities sit in the paid Professional and Enterprise editions, and Nautobot Cloud is the fully managed SaaS edition, with everything in Enterprise plus cloud-only features. The open-source core is Apache-2.0; version 3.2.7 shipped on 13 October 2026.
Ralph, from Allegro, is an asset management, DCIM and CMDB system with its strength in asset lifecycle — purchases, ownership and flows through a device's life. It is Apache-2.0 and self-hosted, and releases continue (20261019.1 on 19 October 2026), but its README now says Allegro maintains it under a "sources only" model "without guarantees". Budget for supporting it yourself.
openDCIM is a free, lightweight inventory application for the physical data centre, distributed under GPL v3. Data Center Knowledge notes that it does not include network mapping or IPAM. Its latest release, 26.01, came out on 26 October 2026; the lead maintainer calls it the final release and is looking for someone to take the project over.
RackTables documents hardware, rack space and network addresses, and is easy to install and learn. It is GPL-2.0. Its last release, 0.22.0, dates from February 2022, and an unreleased 0.22.1 with PHP 8 fixes sits in the changelog. Fine for a small room; think twice before building a growing business on it.
Sunbird's suite covers asset tracking with 3D floor views, cabling with visual trace routes, change requests and work orders, and — through Power IQ — power monitoring with monthly energy-trend reports. Going by what each vendor documents, it is the broadest operations suite in this list. Prices are now published: dcTrack (DCIM Operations) is listed at $19.50 per cabinet per month ($234 a year), Power IQ (DCIM Monitoring) at $5.50 per node per month ($66 a year), and the DCIM Suite bundle at $27.50 per cabinet per month ($333 a year). Sunbird sells it as an annual subscription or as a perpetual licence with annual maintenance, and offers a free trial with your own data. It runs on-premises, as two virtual machines on VMware vSphere, or as a hosted SaaS service priced on quote.
Nlyte, owned by Carrier since 2021, focuses on inventory, workflows, visualisation and capacity planning, including power-chain planning and AI-assisted placement, and lists more than a hundred integrations with ITSM, CMDB and building-management systems. Pricing is not published.
Device42, now a Freshworks company, is best known for automated discovery and application dependency mapping, with DCIM as part of a wider IT asset management product. It is sold as an annual subscription based on the number of devices, with no published figures.
Hyperview is cloud-native DCIM with the most transparent pricing in this list: $3 per asset per year with a 500-asset minimum, so at least $1,500 a year, plus priced add-ons such as Connectivity at $2 per asset per year, Control at $1 and Asset Tracking at $24 per rack per year. It runs as SaaS in US, Canadian, European, Asia-Pacific and UAE regions; there is no self-hosted option on the pricing page.
Schneider spreads DCIM across several products: IT Expert for cloud-based monitoring of distributed sites, Data Center Expert for on-premises monitoring and control, and IT Advisor for planning and modelling. It is a natural candidate where Schneider power and cooling equipment is already installed. No prices are published.
FNT Command is the data-centre product of FNT Software, a German vendor whose customers are mostly large enterprises, public bodies and telecom operators. It appears on enterprise shortlists such as Virima's 2026 comparison. FNT now publishes per-user prices, billed annually: the CORE Asset Inventory base package is €115 per user per month, with add-on packages on top of it such as Data Center Management at €199 and Cable & Connectivity at €319. There is a free trial, and it runs on-premises or in a private, public or hybrid cloud.
EasyDCIM is the one commercial tool here built for hosting and colocation providers. It automates dedicated servers — power control over IPMI, OS installation over PXE — and hands billing to a billing platform through ready-made WHMCS and HostBill modules or its API. Prices are published: dedicated-server plans run $69, $99, $299 and $799 a month for 50, 100, 300 and 1,000 devices, colocation plans $49, $149 and $299 a month for 25, 100 and 300 services, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. For a side-by-side with a billing-integrated platform, see our EasyDCIM alternative page.
Only what each vendor's own materials state. "Not stated" means we could not confirm it, not that the tool lacks it.
| Tool | Rack elevations | Power | IPAM | Cabling | Bills your customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetBox | Yes | Modelling only, no monitoring | Yes | Yes, with traces | No |
| Nautobot | Racks, yes | Not stated | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ralph | Visualisation, yes | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | No |
| openDCIM | Not stated | Capacity plus PDU/UPS polling | No | Optional, per cabinet | No |
| RackTables | Rack space, yes | Not stated | Basic | Not stated | No |
| Sunbird dcTrack | Yes, 3D | Monitoring (Power IQ) | Not stated | Yes, traced | No |
| Hyperview | Not stated | Sensors and polling add-ons | Listed as coming soon | Connectivity add-on | No |
| EasyDCIM | Locations and racks | PDU power-cycling | Yes, Basic plan and up | Not stated | Via WHMCS or HostBill |
| FluxBilling | Yes, U-positions | Budgets per rack, SNMP polling | Yes, IPv4 and IPv6 | Patch panels and cables | Yes, built in |
If your racks are revenue, the question that decides the purchase is not "which tool models racks best" but "how does a rack unit, a power allocation and an IP address become an invoice line". Every tool above except EasyDCIM leaves that entirely to you, and EasyDCIM answers it by connecting to a separate billing system. That is a working design — many providers run EasyDCIM with WHMCS — but it is two products, two licences and a sync to keep healthy.
The four questions that sort providers quickly:
Disclosure: FluxBilling is our product. It is billing software for hosting providers that includes DCIM on every tier rather than a DCIM tool with billing bolted on. Racks carry U-positions and a power budget (kW, circuit amps, voltage and redundancy); devices are placed by U; out-of-band control runs over IPMI and Redfish; switches and PDUs are polled over SNMP; patch-panel ports record cabling; and IPv4 and IPv6 are allocated from the built-in IPAM. Because those records share a database with the invoices, a colocation customer's rack space, committed power, IP transit and addresses are billed from the same rows that describe them — see colocation billing. Plans start at €4.95 a month and DCIM is included on every tier.
Where it is the wrong choice: it is not a facilities tool for power-chain and cooling modelling, so Sunbird, Nlyte or Schneider fit an operator running the building better; it is not a network automation source of truth, where NetBox and Nautobot are stronger; and it is younger than every commercial product here. If you only need documentation, the open-source tools are free.
Related reading: the DCIM feature spec, visual rack management and power billing, commit or metered.
Yes. NetBox, Nautobot and Ralph (Apache-2.0), openDCIM (GPL v3) and RackTables (GPL-2.0) are free to self-host, and NetBox Labs runs a free hosted NetBox Cloud plan capped at 100 devices and 500 IP addresses. Check release activity before you commit: openDCIM’s maintainer calls its October 2026 release, 26.01, the final one, and RackTables last released in February 2022.
For active development, NetBox and Nautobot, which both shipped releases on 13 October 2026. Ralph is strongest on asset lifecycle and still releases, but Allegro maintains it "without guarantees", so plan to support it yourself.
Yes. Hyperview is SaaS-only at $3 per asset per year with a 500-asset minimum. NetBox Cloud has a free plan and paid tiers priced through sales, Nautobot Cloud is a managed edition, Sunbird offers hosted SaaS on quote, and Schneider's IT Expert is cloud-based monitoring.
Among vendors that publish prices: Hyperview from $1,500 a year (500 assets at $3), Sunbird dcTrack at $19.50 per cabinet per month, EasyDCIM from $49 a month for 25 colocation services or $69 for 50 dedicated devices, and FNT from €115 per user per month, billed annually. Nlyte, Device42 and Schneider price on request.
DCIM records the physical layer: racks, U positions, power, cabling and floor space. A CMDB records configuration items and how they relate to IT services. Some products span both: Ralph describes itself as asset management, DCIM and CMDB, Device42 combines DCIM with a CMDB and IT asset management, and Hyperview sells a ServiceNow CMDB sync add-on.
Not always. NetBox's own documentation excludes network monitoring and facilities management, and the other open-source tools document rather than monitor. Sunbird Power IQ, Schneider EcoStruxure IT and Hyperview monitor power and environment.
NetBox, Nautobot, Ralph, openDCIM, RackTables, dcTrack, Power IQ, Nlyte, Device42, Hyperview, EcoStruxure, FNT Command and EasyDCIM are trademarks of their respective owners. FluxBilling is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Third-party details are as published by each vendor on the dates above and may have changed since.
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