Free for the first 200 endpoints, with every feature and no expiry, and quote only above that. Two rules matter more than the price: the free 200 are the first 200 endpoints you add, with removed licenses reassigned at random, and the free tier comes with no vendor support.
Endpoints over a paid quote, or left over when a subscription lapses, simply go inactive.
- Free: first 200 endpoints, all features, no expiry
- Above 200: quote only, no published price
- Free tier support: community Discord only
- Removed free licenses go to random endpoints
- Over your quote, extra endpoints go inactive
Read at the vendor’s own pricing page, read at action1.com pricing, licensing documentation and support policy on September 11, 2026, with the free edition, patch management, endpoint management and remote access pages read on September 23, 2026. Nothing here comes from a reseller, a competitor’s comparison table or an estimate. How we rank software
PublishedWhat the vendor publishes
| What you buy | Price | Annual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | First 200 endpoints | Every feature, no vendor support |
| Subscription | Quote | Endpoints beyond 200 | Adds vendor support |
| Trial | $0 | 15 days | Support included, reverts to free |
| Vulnerability scan | $0 | Unlimited, once | Extra endpoints go inactive after |
Action1 pricing has one published number, and it is zero. The first 200 endpoints are free, with every feature and no expiry date, and above 200 the pricing page is a quote form. There is no per endpoint figure anywhere on the site, in the browser or in the page source.
The free tier has grown steadily. By the vendor’s own account it was 10 endpoints in November 2020, 50 in January 2021, 100 in January 2022, and 200 from February 2025.
What Action1 does publish in detail is the set of rules that decide what the free tier and a paid quote actually cover, in its licensing documentation. Those rules are worth reading before the first agent goes out, because two of them cannot be undone from the console.
What each license type gives you
| License | Price | Endpoints | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | First 200 | Every feature, forever; community support on Discord only |
| Subscription | Quote | Beyond 200 | Patching and continuous scanning above 200, and vendor support |
| Trial | $0 | By request, 15 days | Scale beyond 200 with support; reverts to the free 200 afterwards |
| First vulnerability scan | $0 | Unlimited, once | Endpoints beyond scope go inactive when it finishes |
The documentation says a paid subscription is required for support and the additional endpoints after the first free 200. Read plainly, the quote covers the endpoints above 200, not all of them. That is worth confirming in writing, because it is the difference between paying for 50 endpoints and paying for 250 when you have 250.
The billWhat moves the number, and what is not on it
The free 200 are the first 200 you add
Action1 does not let you choose which endpoints are covered. In its own words, whichever endpoint is added first gets no feature restrictions up to the first 200, and the rest are assessed only once. If you later remove some of the first 200, their licenses are reassigned randomly to inactive endpoints, and there is currently no option to assign them manually.
That turns rollout order into a decision. On an estate larger than 200, enroll the machines you most need patched first: the servers, the internet-facing systems, the laptops of people with administrative access. Enrolling a lab full of test machines first, then removing them, hands their licenses to whichever endpoints the system picks.
Support is the other thing a quote buys
The free tier has no vendor support. The documentation says customer support is not available within a free subscription unless purchased for a fee, and points free users to the community Discord, which the support policy describes as available at no additional charge.
Paid customers get Standard Support, delivered Monday to Friday, 8 am to 8 pm in the customer’s local time. The published response targets are 2 business hours for a high severity issue, where a business-critical component is inoperable, and 12 business hours for medium.
A high severity problem at 9 pm on a Friday therefore has a response target on Monday. For a patching tool that is usually acceptable; for the tool your remote access depends on, decide whether it is.
What happens at the edges
Three rules decide what happens when the numbers change. Add more endpoints than your paid quote allows and the extra ones switch to inactive, automatically. Let a paid subscription lapse and the managed endpoint count reverts to the free 200.
Let a trial expire without buying and the same thing happens. None of these deletes anything, but an endpoint that is inactive is an endpoint that is not being patched, and nothing on the pricing page warns you about it.
The unlimited scan is a sales tool, and a useful one
Any number of endpoints can be enrolled for a single vulnerability scan at no cost. When the first scan finishes, 60 minutes by default, everything beyond scope goes inactive. The documentation suggests MSPs use it to scan every client endpoint once.
For an internal IT team it is a free inventory of what is missing patches across the whole estate, which is exactly the data needed to decide whether 200 is enough.
The switching offer
Action1 publishes one commercial offer. If you are under contract with another patch management vendor, it adds the remaining months of that contract to your new Action1 contract at no extra charge, on presentation of the current contract.
It removes the usual reason to wait for a renewal date, and it tells you nothing about the price of the months that follow.
MSPs buy the same way
There is no separate public MSP price list. The quote is applied at the enterprise level, and multi-tenancy for managing several organizations is part of the product, so a provider requests a quote for the enterprise and splits it across clients inside the console.
Action1 free 200 endpoints: what no feature limits buys
Is Action1 free is the question the pricing page answers with a slogan: not a free trial, no feature limits, never expires. The free edition page is the more useful one, because it lists what those 200 endpoints get, and the list is the whole product rather than a starter subset.
Patching comes first: Windows Server, desktop operating systems and third party applications from a single console, covering security updates, cumulative updates and Windows feature upgrades. Action1 describes the same engine as unified cross-OS patching across Windows, macOS and Linux, naming Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat and SUSE.
There is also no server of your own to run. Action1 describes a cloud platform set up in five minutes with no on-premises infrastructure, and patch deployment that reaches remote endpoints without a VPN, which is part of why the free tier is practical for a small team.
Around it, on the free tier, Action1 lists the rest of the platform:
- Software deployment. Deploy and remove applications ad hoc or at scale, from a built in Software Repository or from your own custom packages.
- Remote access. Reach endpoints from a web browser with no client to download, no inbound ports opened and no VPN, protected by MFA, role based access and TLS 1.2 with 256-bit AES.
- Remote management. Run PowerShell and CMD scripts across many computers from one console.
- Reports and alerts. On demand and scheduled reports covering installed and missing software updates and antivirus status, with alerts when conditions change.
- IT asset inventory. Real time hardware and software inventory across the office and the remote network.
- A REST API. Used to connect Action1 to a ticketing system, an endpoint detection and response product, or anything else in the stack.
- Initial vulnerability assessment. One assessment across an unlimited number of endpoints, which is the free scan described below.
Coverage is not uniform across the three operating systems, and the product pages are specific about it. Vulnerability discovery is described across Windows and macOS endpoints. Browser based remote access is described as connecting to managed Windows endpoints. Patching is the part that spans all three.
Two compliance facts belong beside a free tier, because free often means unaudited. Action1 states that it is certified in SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and it publishes compliance pages for HIPAA, PCI DSS, CIS benchmarks, GLBA and FFIEC, and the ACSC Essential Eight.
Action1 price per endpoint, and why you will not find one
Action1 price per endpoint is the search behind most visits to a page like this, and the answer has not moved. There is no published number. The pricing page was read again on September 23, 2026, in the browser and in the page source, and it carries no dollar figure anywhere.
That is worth saying plainly, because comparison articles do quote a per endpoint rate for Action1. Whatever their source, it is not the vendor. Treat a figure like that as one buyer quote at best, and never as a list price you can budget against.
The quote is therefore the price list, and it is worth getting in writing with four things settled: whether the bill covers the endpoints above 200 or all of them, which support tier it includes, the term, and what happens to endpoints added beyond the licensed count.
CompareHow it sits against the alternatives
With no published paid price, the only fair comparison is the one Action1 invites: what 200 endpoints cost elsewhere, since here they cost nothing. Every other figure below was read on the vendors’ own pricing pages and is published on this site.
| Product | Unit | 200 endpoints, one technician, a year |
|---|---|---|
| Action1 | Per endpoint, above 200 | $0, with community support only |
| Atera | Per technician | $1,788 on the lowest IT department plan |
| ManageEngine Endpoint Central | Per endpoint tier | $2,895 on-premises, 250 endpoint tier |
| NinjaOne | Per endpoint | $3,600 to $9,000, the published range |
The products are not the same shape, which is the caution that matters. Atera and NinjaOne are full remote monitoring and management platforms, and Atera includes a ticketing side as well. Endpoint Central covers device management and mobile devices.
Action1 is patch management first, with vulnerability management, software deployment, remote access and asset inventory around it. If patching is the job, the free tier is the strongest offer in the RMM field. If the job is running an MSP, it is one part of the stack rather than the stack.
The real cost of the free tier is the support line. A small team that can live with a community forum and a patching tool that answers to nobody pays nothing. A team that needs someone to call pays for a subscription even under 200 endpoints, and that price, like everything above the free tier, comes only in a quote.
The shape of the platform, before the free tier decides it
Action1 is a cloud endpoint management platform built around patching: vulnerability discovery and prioritization by severity and exploitability, OS and third party patching, software deployment, asset inventory and browser based remote access, with maintenance windows and ring based rollouts around the deployments.
What it is not is a ticketing system or a network monitoring tool, so a provider replacing a full RMM and PSA stack is not comparing like for like.
A Mac or Linux estate should read the coverage detail too. Patching spans all three operating systems, while the remote access and vulnerability pages name Windows and macOS. The security gap that closes fastest here is the patching one, and the free tier covers it on every platform Action1 patches.
ScoreHow it scores on the rubric
ChangelogWhat changed in this update
- First published, from the Action1 pricing page, licensing and subscription documentation, support policy and switching offer, read on September 11, 2026 locally and in a browser.
- Added the score from the new patch management ranking, where Action1 holds 7.6, fourth of seven, and is the best free option.
- Added what the free 200 endpoints contain, the operating system coverage across Windows, macOS and Linux, the compliance certifications, and the section on why no per endpoint price exists. Read at action1.com pricing, free edition, endpoint management, patch management and remote access pages on September 23, 2026. The pricing page still carries no dollar figure in the browser or the page source. No price added or changed.
FAQFrequently asked questions
How much does Action1 cost?
Nothing for the first 200 endpoints, with every feature and no expiry. Above 200, Action1 publishes no price: the pricing page is a quote form, and the quote covers the endpoints beyond the free 200 plus vendor support.
Is Action1 really free for 200 endpoints?
Yes. The vendor describes it as not a trial, with no feature limits, and says it never expires. What the free tier lacks is vendor support: free users get the community Discord, and customer support has to be purchased.
What happens when I add my 201st endpoint?
It is assessed once and then stays inactive unless you buy a subscription. The first 200 endpoints you added keep full features; the rest are not patched or continuously scanned.
Can I choose which 200 endpoints are free?
Not directly. The first 200 endpoints added are the ones covered. If you remove some, the documentation says their licenses are reassigned randomly to inactive endpoints, with no option to assign them manually. Enroll the machines you most need patched first.
Do I pay for all endpoints or only those above 200?
The documentation says a paid subscription is required for support and the additional endpoints after the first free 200, which reads as paying for the endpoints above 200. Confirm it in the quote, because at 250 endpoints it is the difference between paying for 50 and for 250.
Does Action1 have a free trial?
Yes, 15 days, which lets you run beyond 200 endpoints with technical support during the evaluation. If you do not buy afterwards, you keep the free 200.
What support does Action1 include?
On the free tier, community support on Discord only. Paid subscriptions get Standard Support, Monday to Friday from 8 am to 8 pm local time, with a 2 business hour response target for high severity issues and 12 for medium.
What happens if my Action1 subscription expires?
The number of managed endpoints reverts to the free 200. Endpoints beyond that stop being managed until you renew. A warning appears in the console five days before expiry.
Can I scan more than 200 endpoints for free?
Once. Any number of endpoints can be enrolled for a single vulnerability assessment at no cost; when the scan finishes, 60 minutes by default, the endpoints beyond the free 200 go inactive.
Does Action1 have MSP pricing?
Not a published one. The quote is applied at the enterprise level, and multi-tenancy for managing several client organizations is part of the product. The first-scan allowance is suggested in the documentation as a way for MSPs to assess every client endpoint once.
Is Action1 cheaper than NinjaOne or Atera?
Under 200 endpoints, yes: it is free, against about $1,788 a year for one Atera technician on the lowest IT department plan and $3,600 to $9,000 for 200 NinjaOne endpoints across its published range. Above 200 it cannot be compared, because Action1 publishes no price. It is also a narrower product, centered on patching.
Are these figures current?
They were read on the Action1 pricing page, licensing documentation and support policy on September 11, 2026, and that date is printed at the top of this page. The comparison figures come from the other vendors’ pricing pages, read the day before or the same day.
Is Action1 free, or is it a trial?
Free, and not a trial. The vendor states in its own words that this is not a free trial, that there are no feature limits and that it never expires, for the first 200 endpoints. A separate 15 day trial exists for running beyond 200 with technical support during an evaluation.
What do the Action1 free 200 endpoints include?
The whole product: patching for Windows, macOS, Linux and third party applications, software deployment, browser based remote access, PowerShell and CMD scripting, reports and alerts, IT asset inventory and a REST API. The piece that is missing is vendor support, which has to be purchased.
What is the Action1 price per endpoint?
There is no published one. The pricing page carries no dollar figure in the browser or in the page source, and everything above 200 endpoints is quoted. A per endpoint rate quoted in a comparison article did not come from Action1, so treat it as one deal rather than a rate card.
Which operating systems does Action1 patch?
Windows desktops and servers, macOS and Linux, with Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat and SUSE named on the Linux side, plus third party applications. Vulnerability discovery is described across Windows and macOS, and browser based remote access as connecting to managed Windows endpoints.
Is Action1 certified for compliance work?
Action1 states that it is certified in SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and it publishes compliance pages for HIPAA, PCI DSS, CIS benchmarks, GLBA and FFIEC, and the ACSC Essential Eight. Certification of the vendor is not the same thing as compliance of your own estate.
Keep comparingRelated rankings
- Best Patch Management Software, and What Each One Reaches Seven tools, one 40 point rubric, every subscore published. Check the Windows Autopatch you may already own, t...
- JumpCloud Alternatives: Directory, SSO or Devices? JumpCloud is three products sold as one, identity, access and device management, and every alternative ranked...
- Ivanti Alternatives, by Which Ivanti You Are Leaving Ivanti is LANDESK, HEAT, MobileIron and Pulse Secure under one name, sold across endpoint management, IT servi...
- Atera Alternatives, and Why There Is No Half to Keep Atera is one product on one database, which is why people choose it and why leaving is all or nothing. It is a...
- ConnectWise Competitors, and the Half You Can Leave ConnectWise tops its ranking at 8.5, so nobody leaves it because it cannot do the job. They leave over price o...
- NinjaOne Competitors, and Why One of Them Is Not Leaving NinjaOne is the deepest endpoint management in its ranking, and its own site now publishes a PSA as well. So m...