Auvik vs. KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Auvik | Score9.9 out of 10 | N/A | Auvik Network Management is a vendor-agnostic cloud-based network monitoring and management solution providing automated network discovery. Auvik requires no service hardware or disruptive maintenance cycles and provides onboarding and training for new and existing users. Auvik delivers visibility and automation to reduce friction for IT teams and allow them to give end users the freedom to work wherever and however they… | N/A |
 KACE Systems Management Appliance | Score10 out of 10 | N/A | Quest now offers the KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) as an IT Asset tracking and management appliance (also available as a virtual deployment if hardware requirements are met). Beyond discovery, inventory tracking and license management, KACE emphasizes automating software upgrade distribution with minimal end-user disruption, featuring remote replication for multi-site upgrades and rollouts. KACE SMA may be bundled with KACE Cloud Mobile Device Management (MDM) to form a complete UEM… | N/A |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | Pricing is calculated per number of switches, routers, firewalls, and controllers. Everything else is monitored for free. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.3 | 10.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.8 | - |
| Usability | 7.3 | 8.6 |
| Availability | 9.1 | - |
| Performance | 8.2 | - |
| Support Rating | 9.7 | 9.5 |
| Product Scalability | 9.1 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 10.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 10.0 | - |