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LogMeIn Central vs LogMeIn Pro comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

LogMeIn Central
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) (14th)
LogMeIn Pro
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (27th)
 

Mindshare comparison

LogMeIn Central and LogMeIn Pro aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. LogMeIn Central is designed for Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) and holds a mindshare of 3.3%, down 4.7% compared to last year.
LogMeIn Pro, on the other hand, focuses on Remote Access, holds 1.5% mindshare, up 1.2% since last year.
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
LogMeIn Central3.3%
Kaseya VSA16.4%
NinjaOne11.5%
Other68.8%
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)
Remote Access Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
LogMeIn Pro1.5%
TeamViewer Business10.2%
Microsoft Intune9.3%
Other79.0%
Remote Access
 

Featured Reviews

Kelsey Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at Allegheny Coupling
Has good stability and an easy initial setup process
We use the solution for remote access control and endpoint protection features The solution has the best remote access control and protection features. They should provide intermediate device limit options. It would be helpful for users who require more remote control capabilities than the lower…
Kelsey Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at Allegheny Coupling
Good remote services feature and easy to setup
With LogMeIn Pro, we could connect up to 10 computers, and having an option for something in between would be good. Like, we went from 10 to the next level, which was around 50 or so. If there was a tier, perhaps around 20, that I would have probably purchased, and it would have been a better fit for what I needed.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Provides remote access, allows me to get inside our network to be able to fix problems."
"The ability to remotely access machines with no user intervention required at the remote terminal. Other software we used needed someone to click a link and do a download for me to provide support. Now, with LogMeIn Central, I can get in and fix things while they are away from their desks."
"I like the encryption and security of LogMeIn. I think the end-to-end security on it, in and of itself, is really good. I use the two-point login system and it's great."
"Unattended remote assistance."
"One of the improvements they made was a LogMeIn Central client - that was a couple years ago - and that has been great. You no longer have to use their web interface. There's actually a client that you can install, which lists all of the machines and servers that you can access. That works really well."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Unattended Access, allows me to do support on machines that people are having trouble with, during non-working hours."
"I would not want to tell other companies about it because it is so powerful, it does so much, and it makes me look so good."
"It's even simple to remotely add a computer to our group. We can send a link to that computer and they just follow the prompts on the screen and they are ready to go - we can access it. It's very user-friendly."
"The ability to easily connect back and retrieve data from the computer systems that I have."
"You don't have to remember the password and the login all the time. Once you get it in there, it's in there, and you can go about your business."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"They recently included the Kaspersky Security Suite as part of their Central Product."
"I can connect to them remotely and do all the functions I would have to do by manually driving to them, so it does make things a lot easier."
"The biggest thing is the flexibility, you can use it as long as you can get an internet connection. You can use it pretty much anywhere you're at. It just makes it a lot easier. We are a small staff, and if nobody is in the office, LogMeIn gives us secure access to get in there."
"The remote services feature is definitely the most valuable, along with the capability to print remotely."
 

Cons

"There are some screens that are just ugly and difficult to manipulate."
"The screen. Make it clearer. The screen resolutions don't always line up. So clarity of the screen, and speed."
"It needs backwards compatibility for non-Microsoft-supported operating systems, for example, XP and 2003. In situations where I have no options but to run older operating systems, I would like for it to be backwards compatible."
"Do not use the technical support."
"The initial load is terribly slow and often has delays with the login page loading."
"I have had issues where LogMeIn has not been useful, then we have not been able to work that day. This happens probably two or three times a year."
"​File transfer on the free version needs improvement. Allow file transfer with drag and drop to and from Remote Desktop. ​"
"Compared to other products, I feel that their biggest weakness has been customer service. They are very nice, but things take forever to resolve. It has been a major issue there. Otherwise, we're happy. We haven't moved away from them because we haven't found anybody with comparable pricing for our business model."
"It's never cheap enough. If we got it for free, that would be perfect. But I know it's not and won't be free. It's always going to be too expensive for me because we're a small company."
"As far as the usability of it, I'd like to see if printing could be enabled in the basic version or the medium version. Some of the remote printing isn't available unless you go to the premium versions, and that's disappointing."
"Maybe they can come up with a plan if you only use it for login and, occasionally, printing. Maybe you can charge what you used to charge and then if we want to use it for files or things that are more sophisticated, charge a little more."
"Unfortunately, LogMeIn is a long ways from being perfect. It has a lot of really great features, though they don't always work well."
"​Everything has to be done over the web, via email, or something like that. You can't talk to a human being. That bothers me a lot.​"
"Remote Access for external and internal customers."
"The only issue is that they could have a tier between 10 seats and 50."
"With Windows 10 we've had some issues with it crashing, and certain antivirus products cause it to fail. For the most part it's stable, but we do have an occasional crash mainly related to new operating systems. The new Microsoft Server and the new Windows operating systems sometimes have issues with it. But for the most part, in anything under, say, Windows 7, Windows 8, those seem to be pretty stable, and with the Microsoft Server 2012 and below, it's all stable. And I don't necessarily think it's LogMeIn. I think it may be Microsoft, to be honest with you."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The only thing I found is that they've gotten very, very expensive over the years. I started out with about about 100 users on it. Two years ago it was about $600 for 100 users. Now, it's that price for 25 users."
"Pricing is a little high. They require for LogMeIn Central to go into brackets. If you go over a certain amount of PCs or servers to access, going up to the next bracket is a big jump."
"It really is an expensive product for me.​"
"Coming from where it was free, it's getting to be expensive."
"It's probably worth the value, but the price increases over the last five years are getting harder to justify."
"We are an educational institution, so anything to make it cheaper would be better because we don’t grow money on trees."
"It sucks that I am paying for LogMeIn Central, LogMeIn Pro, and LogMeIn Rescue, plus LogMeIn Ignition, which is the mobile app​. It costs me a lot of money every month at LogMeIn. ​"
"Having to spend so much money on remote access is what I feel to be a necessary evil."
"My company needs to make annual payments toward the licensing cost of the product. There are no extra costs in addition to the standard license fees of the product."
"The price point has gone up significantly. We used to have a lot of other customers. I used to sell it to other customer sites. But they've moved to TeamViewer, SiteSecure, and several others. There are four or five others that they went to because they're being more competitive on their pricing."
"We're paying $839 a year, so we're paying about $70 a month. We're using the smallest version of Pro."
"It is very good."
"I think it's competitively priced. I haven't priced it out since we started with it, but the yearly subscription fee is worth it. It's not outrageous, and I believe that it's worth it for our company to pay the fees for the use of the product."
"It's pretty fair for up to five computers I think (it might be three - it's either three or five). After that, it gets a little expensive, so if they could get a little bit more aggressive on how many computers you can add in, that would be great."
"If you subscribe the package of 100 Agents, but install 5, you are still paying for the 100 agent package."
"It is pricey. When they renew me, they always boost it up, I call them and they cut it back a little bit."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Performing Arts
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Educational Organization
8%
Insurance Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Large Enterprise5
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Au Bon Pain, BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
The North Face, Slingbox, Lutron, The Weather Company
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