How much does Snipe-IT cost?

Snipe-IT publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Self-Hosted up to $5000/year for Dedicated Hosting Medium/Large. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Self-Hosted and Basic Hosting on Snipe-IT?

Basic Hosting costs $399.99/year against Free, and adds ssl certificate, auto backups, email support, priority requests.

Is the Dedicated Hosting Medium/Large plan on Snipe-IT worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs $5000/year against $399.99/year for Basic Hosting. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which inventory tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 inventory tools listed alongside Snipe-IT have a free tier: Megaventory, Fiix.

Does Snipe-IT charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 Snipe-IT 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 Snipe-IT against before paying?

The closest inventory tools in this directory are Fishbowl Inventory, Quartzy, Megaventory, Fiix. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Snipe-IT covering price, platforms and features.

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Snipe-IT pricing

Snipe-IT publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Snipe-IT pricing is free, then $39.99/year across 5 published tiers. 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, then $39.99/year
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Yes

Snipe-IT 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.

Snipe-IT pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Self-Hosted	Free	3	Entry tier
Basic Hosting	$399.99/year	6	+$399.99/year, 4 more features
Small Business Hosting	$999.99/year	6	+$600/year
Dedicated Hosting Small	$2499.99/year	3	+$1499.9999999999998/year, 1 more feature
Dedicated Hosting Medium/Large	$5000/year	3	+$2500.01/year

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Self-Hosted

Free

The entry tier. It covers unlimited users, unlimited assets, complete asset management functionality.

Basic Hosting

$399.99/year

Over Self-Hosted, this tier adds:

SSL certificate
Auto backups
Email support
Priority requests

Small Business Hosting

$999.99/year

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Basic Hosting on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Dedicated Hosting Small

$2499.99/year

Over Small Business Hosting, this tier adds:

Dedicated infrastructure

Dedicated Hosting Medium/Large

$5000/year

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Dedicated Hosting Small on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Where Snipe-IT stops being free

Self-Hosted, Free

Unlimited users
Unlimited assets
Complete asset management functionality

Basic Hosting, $399.99/year

The first thing you pay for:

SSL certificate
Auto backups
Email support
Priority requests

What the product covers

The full Snipe-IT 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

Asset tracking
License management
Audit logs
Check-in/out

Integrations

LDAP
SAML
API
Slack
Email

Platform

Web support
Cloud/Self-hosted support

People bring Snipe-IT in for tracking it hardware assets and their assignment to staff, managing software licences, accessories and consumables, running a self hosted open source asset register. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Snipe-IT are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Inventory

Too few inventory 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.

Snipe-IT entry price against other Inventory tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Snipe-IT (this page)	Free, then $39.99/year	freemium	-
Fishbowl Inventory	On request	quote	-	vs Snipe-IT
Quartzy	$50/month	Per month by user tier	-	vs Snipe-IT
Megaventory	Free, then $135/month	subscription	-	vs Snipe-IT
Fiix	Free	subscription	-	vs Snipe-IT
QuickBooks Enterprise	On request	subscription	-	vs Snipe-IT
Linnworks	On request	subscription	-	vs Snipe-IT

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 Snipe-IT badges page.

Before you pay for Snipe-IT

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: 5 tiers between Free and $5000/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Snipe-IT runs on web, cloud/self-hosted, and is published by Snipe-IT of Remote. The full record is on the Snipe-IT review, and the rest of the category is under best inventory tools.

Snipe-IT pricing on the vendor's own site

Snipe-IT pricing questions

How much does Snipe-IT cost?: Snipe-IT publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Self-Hosted up to $5000/year for Dedicated Hosting Medium/Large. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Snipe-IT have a free plan?: Yes. The Self-Hosted tier costs nothing and covers unlimited users, unlimited assets, complete asset management functionality. Paying starts at $399.99/year for Basic Hosting.
What is the difference between Self-Hosted and Basic Hosting on Snipe-IT?: Basic Hosting costs $399.99/year against Free, and adds ssl certificate, auto backups, email support, priority requests.
Is the Dedicated Hosting Medium/Large plan on Snipe-IT worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs $5000/year against $399.99/year for Basic Hosting. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which inventory tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 inventory tools listed alongside Snipe-IT have a free tier: Megaventory, Fiix.
What am I actually paying for with Snipe-IT?: The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for tracking it hardware assets and their assignment to staff, managing software licences, accessories and consumables, running a self hosted open source asset register.
Does Snipe-IT charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 Snipe-IT 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 Snipe-IT against before paying?: The closest inventory tools in this directory are Fishbowl Inventory, Quartzy, Megaventory, Fiix. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Snipe-IT covering price, platforms and features.