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LibreNMS pricing
LibreNMS publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the networking tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, LibreNMS pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee; commercial support sold by a third-party partner
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
LibreNMS plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| LibreNMS | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where LibreNMS stops being free
LibreNMS, Free
- Full functionality
- No usage limits
- Community forum and GitHub support
No paid tier on record
LibreNMS lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full LibreNMS feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- SNMP auto-discovery
- Device and OS support
- Alerting
- API
- Distributed polling
People bring LibreNMS in for a network team wanting snmp-based device monitoring with zero licence cost and full control over the deployment, an organisation with in-house linux and networking expertise that does not need a vendor support contract, a team wanting an alternative to icinga that is focused specifically on network device polling rather than general infrastructure monitoring, a company wanting sla-backed support for librenms but without wanting to build that capability in-house, contracting the designated partner instead. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to LibreNMS are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Networking
Too few networking tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LibreNMS (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee; commercial support sold by a third-party partner | - | |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | - | vs LibreNMS |
| Cisco Meraki | On request | quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | - | vs LibreNMS |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | - | vs LibreNMS |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | - | vs LibreNMS |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | - | vs LibreNMS |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | - | vs LibreNMS |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the LibreNMS badges page.
Before you pay for LibreNMS
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
LibreNMS runs on linux, web, and is published by LibreNMS (open source project) of Community maintained. The full record is on the LibreNMS review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.
LibreNMS pricing questions
- How much does LibreNMS cost?
- LibreNMS publishes a single tier, LibreNMS, at Free.
- Does LibreNMS have a free plan?
- Yes. The LibreNMS tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no usage limits, community forum and github support.
- Which networking tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside LibreNMS have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
- What am I actually paying for with LibreNMS?
- The record lists 5 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a network team wanting snmp-based device monitoring with zero licence cost and full control over the deployment, an organisation with in-house linux and networking expertise that does not need a vendor support contract, a team wanting an alternative to icinga that is focused specifically on network device polling rather than general infrastructure monitoring.
- Does LibreNMS charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these LibreNMS prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare LibreNMS against before paying?
- The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with LibreNMS covering price, platforms and features.