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Flexera One vs Freshservice comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Flexera One improved efficiency, reduced workforce needs, cut cloud costs, accelerated FinOps decisions, and enhanced governance, yielding 30% returns.
Sentiment score
6.5
Freshservice increased efficiency and reduced workload while improving SLA compliance and resource use, despite licensing cost challenges in HR.
Strengthened governance and accountability in my organization.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
I have seen a return on investment with Flexera One, as we need fewer employees.
Item Analyst at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Faster resolution means the average ticket resolution time decreased by roughly twenty-five to thirty percent since alerts are automatically converted into tickets and routed to the right team.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Automation has contributed significantly, resulting in reduced resource counts, which equates to savings in money and time.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
With using Freshservice, only two technicians are needed per one shift, but without Freshservice, for the same company size, we need about four technicians per shift, so it saved money and time.
Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.6
Flexera One customer service is generally praised for responsiveness, though experiences vary, with some noting time zone issues.
Sentiment score
6.8
Freshservice support is generally efficient and professional, though complex issues and communication can sometimes pose challenges.
The customer support for Flexera One is provided by a very responsive and solution-oriented support team.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
They were prompt in getting back to us.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I always get very positive marks from a customer support perspective regarding Flexera One, with no issues.
Ultimately, we saw a 77% reduction in average resolution times with a return on investment realized within 6 months.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
However, they have improved over the period of two years.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Their documentation is also good, making setup easy without needing frequent support requests.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Flexera One is highly scalable, popular in Europe and the US, and efficiently supports large enterprise growth, despite on-premise challenges.
Sentiment score
7.3
Freshservice scales efficiently with added licenses, supporting growth with cloud benefits, though customization and costs may limit larger enterprises.
Flexera One is highly scalable, meaning it can grow with my organization's needs.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
As our organization has grown and ticket volume related to AWS resources increased, Freshservice handled the extra load without any performance issues.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It offers global performance with multi-region data centers to ensure faster responses while adhering to strong security and compliance standards such as GDPR and SOC 2.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Freshservice is easy to use for scalability.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Flexera One is highly stable, though users note occasional data accuracy issues, but upgrades are resolved quickly.
Sentiment score
8.2
Freshservice offers stable performance with minimal downtime, few issues, and reliable cloud hosting on AWS, ensuring consistent uptime.
The stability of the cloud version, which is what I'm currently using, is almost always reliable.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Flexera One is stable and runs reliably, but I think sometimes when it is not reporting properly, that can become an issue for customer data that is not being processed properly.
Item Analyst at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The service runs smoothly most of the time, and performance has been consistent even when ticket volumes and AWS alerts are high.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Freshservice is quite stable as they host it on AWS.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Freshservice provides a stable environment for our needs.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Flexera One needs enhancements in asset discovery, support times, reporting, automation, integrations, hardware handling, mainframe support, and licensing.
Freshservice users seek improvements in reporting, automation, integrations, and customizations to enhance usability and effectiveness for larger enterprises.
For one of my customers, the monitoring aspect has been tricky due to the need for live database information, which could be enhanced using AI technology.
Consultant at KPMG
One feature I would like to see in the tool is the ability to handle everything in one place.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It should provide a single pane of glass across cost, optimization, comments, and sustainability.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
There's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Asset management can definitely be improved because it doesn't pick up every single device on the network or every single piece of information.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Reporting is useful, but the customization is still restricted, and it would be great to build more detailed reports that combine multiple data sources, especially for cloud-related operations.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Flexera One provides competitive, value-driven pricing for ITAM, ideal for small to medium organizations, with some transparency concerns.
Freshservice offers flexible, competitive pricing with tiered plans, varying costs, and value without hidden fees.
They've restructured how it's licensed, making it more fair.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was very fair for the value that was received.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that the cost is not straightforward.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
Switching from previous ITSM tools has led to a 50% reduction in licensing costs.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price was very comfortable for our organization to proceed with the migration from Freshdesk to Freshservice.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

Flexera One offers comprehensive reporting, asset discovery, and multi-cloud management, enhancing cost savings, resource efficiency, and IT asset management.
Freshservice enhances IT operations with user-friendly features, seamless integrations, automation, and efficient asset management, boosting productivity and SLA compliance.
Sometimes I see cost savings in excess of 40 to 60 percent, with resources also in the same percentage area, depending on what the use case is and how much work and preparation was put into actually designing it appropriately for the use of the tool.
Flexera includes what I call canned reports, straight out of the box, but they also offer flexibility in creating custom reports.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The feature that I find most valuable in Flexera One is the discovery, which is crucial from an ITAM point of view to capture the entire environment and all the software installed in my customer's environment.
Consultant at KPMG
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Incident management is very helpful, and the system is straightforward, making it easy to use for our enterprise-level company.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Overall, Freshservice provides cutting-edge AI automation for agents and end-users, effortless no-code workflows and ITIL-aligned operations, robust asset, incident, change, problem, and major incident management backed by the live CMDB, unified service desk with self-service and multi-channel support, and strong analytics reporting features, making it a powerful tool for any IT function.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
 

Categories and Ranking

Flexera One
Ranking in IT Asset Management
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Management Platforms (2nd)
Freshservice
Ranking in IT Asset Management
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (5th), Project Management Software (10th), Cloud Management (12th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (4th), Configuration Management Databases (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th), AI IT Support (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of Flexera One is 4.6%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Freshservice is 5.4%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Asset Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Freshservice5.4%
Flexera One4.6%
Other90.0%
IT Asset Management
 

Featured Reviews

TarunKumar9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Back End Developer at Nestlé
Unified insights have cut cloud waste and now drive daily data‑driven decisions
Flexera One offers a very complex yet powerful platform that manages everything at once. I love that it particularly finds and lists all software, hardware, and cloud services in one place. It also allows me to manage my cloud bill by taking all data from different sources and cleaning it in a standard format. The feature that stands out most for me in my day-to-day work is the asset discovery and self-service user interface. The self-service user interface is straightforward and easy to use, providing a marketplace presence that helps automate post-provisioning and integration with ITSM. I would also add that the asset discovery capabilities provide good asset discovery functionalities, which allow data import from beacons and agents installed. This has been useful for many users in getting a comprehensive view of their assets across different clouds.
RF
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Automation and AI have transformed our service delivery and have made IT support faster and more efficient
I always keep up with Freshservice's roadmaps and new features. Freshservice has been very good at listening to feedback and adding those feature requests into their next iterations. I wish they would offer more granular data export options for utilizing in Power BI, along with predictive analytics for capacity planning and SLA breaches to enable more proactive support management and reduce firefighting. While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira. I would also appreciate deeper integrations, especially for niche apps requiring development coding work to enable advanced orchestration. Native integrations for DevOps pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with stronger API flexibility for complex workflows, would enhance functionality. Although the CMDB and asset management are solid, they do lack advanced dependency mapping compared to other enterprise tools. My wishlist includes automated impact analysis for changes and improved visualization of asset relationships, enabling quicker resolutions from an agent's perspective when alerts come in. I acknowledge that Device42 may enhance this, but it is an extra cost beyond what we already pay. While Freddy AI is excellent for triage and suggestions, some users desire more proactive automation, such as predictive ticket routing based on historical patterns and AI-driven capacity forecasting. Lastly, the pricing tiers might seem rigid for mid-sized teams, so a more granular add-on option for features such as Device42 or pay-per-use for orchestration workflows could be beneficial.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Retailer
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Educational Organization
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FlexNet Manager?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was very fair for the value that was received, and the pricing and implementation, especially in the early days, was very well rece...
What needs improvement with FlexNet Manager?
People are pretty active from a product feedback perspective, so there is a variety of different features and things that I am sure could be improved, but I do not have one directly in mind.
What is your primary use case for FlexNet Manager?
My main use case for Flexera One is enterprise cost controls, as well as complete visibility and control across all public and private cloud environments. A recent project with a customer that was ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
I do not have any experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, as it was assigned to the infrastructure team.
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
Freshservice has an AI agent that needs improvement for finding knowledge base articles. When issues or incidents are received in Freshservice, new users should be able to receive direct help from ...
What is your primary use case for Freshservice?
Freshservice is used to redirect ticket handling and acknowledge tickets and incidents received. Tickets are redirected with their short description and subject line in Freshservice, which allows f...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

FlexNet Manager Suite, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, Flexera SaaS Manager
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Foray Technologies, BMC
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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