Zluri does SaaS management and identity governance. It doesn’t do hardware anywhere, and that isn’t so much a gap in the product as a deliberate boundary around what it set out to be. If you arrived looking for alternatives because your laptops are unaccounted for, you’re looking in the wrong category.

TL;DR

  • Zluri covers SaaS management, identity governance, identity visibility and security posture across apps and cloud.
  • Hardware, procurement and shipping appear nowhere on its pricing page.
  • It publishes no price. The route is a demo or a discovery session.
  • Most teams asking this question need to add a hardware product, not swap Zluri out.
  • Electric AI is the closest thing to a single product spanning both, and publishes a per-user ladder.
  • If you need devices physically moved across borders, that is a third category again.

What Zluri covers

Read 24 October 2026. Its pricing page describes SaaS management, identity governance, identity visibility and identity security posture across SaaS, cloud and enterprise applications.

That’s a coherent and increasingly busy category. Knowing which applications your people actually use, what you’re paying for, who has access to what, and what happens to that access when somebody leaves, is real work that nobody did properly five years ago.

No prices are published. The calls to action are a demo and a personalised discovery session, and the page doesn’t state whether pricing is quote-based, though the route rather implies it.

Why people search for alternatives

Two reasons, and they lead to completely different answers.

The first is price or fit within SaaS management. Then you want a like-for-like comparison, and the relevant question is which competitors publish, how they discover applications, and how deep the identity governance goes. That’s a genuine SaaS-management bake-off and Zluri belongs in it.

The second is that somebody asked where the laptops are. Then the answer isn’t an alternative at all. You need a second product, because nothing in this category tracks or moves hardware, and replacing Zluri with another SaaS tool leaves the question exactly where it was.

What to do:

  • Say out loud whether the trigger was software cost or missing hardware.
  • If it was software, compare within the category and keep hardware out of it.
  • If it was hardware, stop evaluating SaaS tools and start a separate shortlist.
  • If it was both, accept you are buying two things and sequence them.

The products that span both

A few try. Worth knowing how far each one actually reaches.

Electric AI is the nearest single product and it publishes real figures, which almost nobody here does. A free tier covers hardware visibility, asset tracking and an embedded hardware store. Essentials at $10 per user per month adds SaaS management, licence utilisation and shadow IT detection. Pro at $25 adds MDM, patch management and compliance policy. Note the unit carefully: it is per user rather than per device, which changes the arithmetic on most estates.

Rippling IT reaches furthest of all, covering identity, device management, inventory from procurement through retrieval and buyback, helpdesk and SOC 2 evidence, with more than 130 countries stated for shipping. It publishes no price for IT, and the large dollar figure on its page is a customer savings claim.

Oomnitza covers hardware and software asset management together as a record, quote-based after a scoping call, with no shipping mentioned anywhere.

A team that added rather than replaced

A 110-person company ran Zluri and was happy with it. Shadow IT was visible, licence waste had come down, offboarding revoked access reliably.

Then an audit asked how many laptops existed and where. Nobody could answer, because the tool that handled offboarding beautifully had never claimed to know about physical objects. The instinct was to replace Zluri. That would have thrown away a system working perfectly well in order to solve a problem nobody had ever asked it to touch.

They kept it and added a hardware platform. Total cost went up, total disruption stayed near zero, and the audit question got answered in about three weeks.

The hardware half, honestly

If that’s what you’re adding, the category splits again. Record systems know what you own and never touch it. Logistics platforms move it, store it and bring it back again, and they generally know only about the devices they handled themselves rather than your whole estate.

RemoAsset is our own product, and it sits firmly on the logistics side: procurement and retrieval across 80+ countries with each device tracked from issue through return, from $1,499 a year on the Subscription tier for companies with 50 to 5,000+ employees, including a 60 per cent reduction on retrieval charges.

Three limits matter here. It has no network discovery, so it knows about the devices it handled itself rather than everything sitting on your network. It has no software licence management, which means it replaces none of what Zluri does for you. And only the Subscription tier publishes a figure, with pay-as-you-go quoted.

Workwize, Firstbase, GroWrk, allwhere, Esevel and Deel IT occupy the same logistics ground. Not one of them publishes a rate card.

Sequencing, if you need both

Do the software side first. That sounds counterintuitive when hardware is the thing somebody is chasing you about, and there is a practical reason for it.

Software tooling pays for itself quickly through licence waste you can see immediately, and it is installed rather than shipped, so the whole thing lands in days. A hardware platform takes longer to show value because its first job is building a register that did not exist, and that work runs at the speed of people replying to emails about what they currently hold.

So if budget forces a sequence, take the fast win first and use it to fund the slower one.

Checklist

Checklist:

  • The actual trigger, written down: software cost, or missing hardware.
  • A decision on replace versus add, made before any demo.
  • If adding, a separate shortlist built on hardware criteria only.
  • Per-user and per-device quotes converted to one basis before comparison.
  • Your country list, if anything physical has to move.
  • Every vendor savings claim flagged as marketing rather than price.

Final Thoughts

Zluri isn’t weak at hardware. It simply isn’t a hardware product, and the honest version of this comparison starts by saying so rather than scoring it against things it never set out to do.

Most teams who search for alternatives here end up keeping what they have and buying a second thing. That costs more than switching and disrupts far less, and it tends to be the right answer when the product you already own is doing its job well.

Frequently asked questions

Does Zluri manage hardware or devices?

No. Its pricing page describes SaaS management, identity governance, identity visibility and identity security posture across SaaS, cloud and enterprise applications, with no mention of hardware, procurement or shipping. That’s a boundary of the product rather than a shortcoming, and it means a hardware question needs a second product rather than a replacement.

How much does Zluri cost?

No price is published as of 24 October 2026. The page offers a demo and a personalised discovery session and doesn’t state whether pricing is quote-based, though that route strongly implies it. Budget for a sales conversation rather than a self-serve sign-up.

Should I replace Zluri or add to it?

Add, in most cases. If the trigger was a hardware question, replacing a working SaaS management tool with something broader throws away value to solve a problem Zluri never claimed. Replacing makes sense only when you’re genuinely unhappy with its SaaS and identity work on its own terms.

Is there one product that covers software and hardware?

A few get close. Electric AI publishes a per-user ladder spanning asset visibility, SaaS management and MDM, and Rippling IT goes furthest by adding identity, inventory, helpdesk and compliance with more than 130 countries stated for shipping. The trade is that a suite replaces several things you may already run well.

What does a hardware platform not do?

Generally software licensing and network discovery. Logistics platforms know about the devices they handled rather than everything on your network, and they don’t manage application licences. So adding one alongside Zluri covers the physical half without duplicating a single thing you already pay for, which is usually why that particular pairing works so well.

Which hardware vendors publish pricing?

Almost none. Workwize, Firstbase, GroWrk, allwhere, Esevel, Deel IT and Oomnitza all publish nothing relevant. RemoAsset publishes a Subscription figure. Electric AI publishes a separate per-user ladder covering asset visibility, SaaS management and device management. Expect a discovery call as the category norm here rather than treating it as a warning sign about any one particular vendor on your list.