$795 a year for 50 endpoints on Professional on-premises, $1,045 in the cloud, rising to $1,695 on Security. The list is complete and public, which is unusual.
Three things move the real number: one technician is included at every size and a second adds 43 percent at 50 endpoints, servers are a separate and dearer count, and the security add-ons that decide between UEM and Security have no published price.
- Professional: $795 a year for 50 endpoints, on-premises
- Cloud: about 30 percent more than on-premises annual
- One technician included at every tier
- Servers priced on their own list
- Perpetual: 2.5 times annual, plus 20 percent AMS
Read at the vendor’s own pricing page, read at manageengine.com pricing, edition matrix and FAQ pages on September 11, 2026, with the pricing page, edition matrix, product, asset management, integrations and support pages read again 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | $795 / year | $1,045 cloud | 50 endpoints, 1 technician |
| Enterprise | $945 / year | $1,245 cloud | Adds patch testing and approval |
| UEM | $1,095 / year | $1,395 cloud | Adds laptop lock, wipe and imaging |
| Security | $1,695 / year | $2,045 cloud | Adds vulnerability and device control |
| Extra technician | $345 / year | $445 cloud | Per technician, first one |
ManageEngine Endpoint Central pricing is published in full, which is rarer in this category than it should be: four editions, on-premises and cloud, annual, monthly and perpetual, from 50 endpoints to 10,000, on one page with no form in the way.
The same vendor sits at the other end of the scale with its mobile-only product, Mobile Device Manager Plus, which publishes no price at all.
The product was sold as Desktop Central before its current name, so a search for Desktop Central pricing lands on the same list: the pricing page still lives at the desktop-central address. The edition matrix also carries a column the pricing page leaves out, a free edition at $0 for 25 endpoints.
What each edition costs at 50 endpoints
Every figure below is for 50 endpoints with one technician, which is the smallest paid tier on the page. These are totals for the year, not per endpoint prices.
| Edition | On-premises, annual | On-premises, perpetual | Cloud, monthly | Cloud, annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | $795 | $1,987 | $104 | $1,045 |
| Enterprise | $945 | $2,362 | $124 | $1,245 |
| UEM | $1,095 | $2,738 | $139 | $1,395 |
| Security | $1,695 | $4,238 | $205 | $2,045 |
The tiers fall steeply per endpoint as the count rises. There is no published rate card, so the Endpoint Central price per endpoint is whatever the tier you land in divides down to. Professional on-premises is $15.90 per endpoint a year at 50 and $4.32 at 10,000.
| Professional | On-premises, annual | Per endpoint | Cloud, annual | Per endpoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 endpoints | $795 | $15.90 | $1,045 | $20.90 |
| 250 endpoints | $2,895 | $11.58 | $3,745 | $14.98 |
| 1,000 endpoints | $8,945 | $8.95 | $11,245 | $11.25 |
| 10,000 endpoints | $43,195 | $4.32 | $56,145 | $5.61 |
Cloud costs about 30 percent more than the on-premises annual license at the same tier: 31 percent at 50 endpoints, 26 percent at 1,000. That difference buys not running the server, which is a real cost on the other side and not on this page. Paying the cloud price monthly adds another 19 to 20 percent over paying it annually.
That is the list. Three things the list does not make obvious decide what a real quote comes to.
The billWhat moves the number, and what is not on it
One technician is included, at every size
Every tier says "with 1 technician", including the one for 10,000 endpoints. Anyone else who logs in to the console is a separate line, and at the small end it is a large one.
| Additional technicians | On-premises, annual | Cloud, annual |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $345 | $445 |
| 2 | $595 | $795 |
| 5 | $1,195 | $1,545 |
| 10 | $1,945 | $2,545 |
A second technician on the 50 endpoint Professional license adds $345 to $795, which is 43 percent, and the cloud figures give the same ratio. So the useful question for a small team is not which edition but how many people need a console login, and whether one of them can be the only administrator.
Servers are a separate count
The endpoint tiers are for workstations. Servers have their own list, from $295 a year for 10 on Professional on-premises, and cost more per machine: $21.95 each a year at 100 servers, against $14.45 per workstation at 100 workstations.
The vendor FAQ counts Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a server subscription, Oracle Linux, and virtual machines running any of them as servers, and recommends a server license for any Linux machine used as a server.
One rule in the FAQ runs in the buyer’s favor: when workstation licenses run out and server licenses are spare, a new workstation takes a server license automatically. The reverse does not happen, so a server never takes a workstation license. Count servers and workstations separately before the quote.
The editions are mostly about what Professional leaves out
ManageEngine publishes an edition matrix, and read row by row it is a list of what the cheapest edition lacks. Professional has automated patching, third-party patching and remote control, but not patch testing and approval, driver and BIOS patching, patch download scheduling, the self-service app catalog, USB device management, or software blocking.
For a team buying the product mainly to patch, the missing test and approve step is the reason to look past it.
Enterprise adds all of those for $150 more at 50 endpoints, 19 percent. What it still lacks is laptop management as the MDM side of the product means it: remote lock and remote wipe for laptops, geo-tracking for laptops, kiosk mode for Windows, FileVault encryption, and Microsoft 365 conditional access for Windows.
The matrix says it directly: MDM on Professional and Enterprise covers mobile devices, and Windows laptops and Macs need UEM or Security. UEM also includes OS imaging and deployment, which is a $345 add-on on the two editions below it.
Security adds vulnerability detection, application control and privilege management, peripheral device control, browser security and BitLocker management, plus data loss prevention on the on-premises version. Ransomware protection, malware protection and EDR remain add-ons even on Security, so the most expensive edition is not the complete one.
What the license covers besides patching
Patching is what most buyers come for, and it is not all the license holds. ManageEngine describes Endpoint Central as automating routine endpoint management: installing patches, deploying software, imaging and deploying operating systems, managing assets and software licenses, monitoring software usage, managing USB device use and taking control of remote desktops.
Software deployment is its own module. The vendor lists app management and distribution for pushing software across the network in a few clicks, with rule-based filtering to block or allow applications, alongside a software repository and, on the editions that carry one, a self-service portal.
Asset management is the piece buyers most often forget to price elsewhere. Endpoint Central runs periodic hardware and software inventory scans, software license management with compliance status, software metering for usage, real-time inventory alerts, and hardware warranty management that ManageEngine says auto-detects warranty for Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba and HP devices.
That matters to any comparison. A patching tool plus a separate asset management tool is two licenses and two agents. Here the asset side is inside the edition price, and ManageEngine lists asset management among the Professional edition features, the cheapest one on the page.
Some add-ons have prices and some do not
At 50 workstations the priced add-ons are Malware Protection at $495 a year on-premises, Ransomware Protection at $145, the DEX Manager at $195, OS Deployment at $345 and Private Access at $345, on-premises only. EDR is cloud only, at $995 a year for 50 workstations, which is almost the price of the Professional cloud license it attaches to.
What is not priced is the part that would settle the choice between UEM and Security. The matrix lists vulnerability detection, application control, device control, browser security and BitLocker management as add-ons for Professional, Enterprise and UEM, and the pricing page gives none of them a figure.
So whether Security at $1,695 is cheaper than UEM at $1,095 plus the two or three of those you actually want cannot be worked out from the published numbers. Ask for those add-on prices by name, at your endpoint count, before comparing the editions.
The page adds one line worth using as leverage: add-ons such as DEX and malware protection can be bundled with Endpoint Central into a unified license, which is another thing to ask sales about rather than assume.
Support is a tier of its own, and the second one has no price
ManageEngine Endpoint Central pricing covers the license, not the support plan. The price buys Classic Support, which ManageEngine describes as the baseline plan that comes with a subscription license, and with the yearly AMS on a perpetual one. It is email and chat during regional business hours, with a remote session at the earliest availability.
The published service levels are specific. Classic acknowledges a support request within 4 hours and offers 24x5 support during business hours, with no telephone support, no weekend cover and no account manager. Online training and onboarding assistance are listed as available at additional cost.
Premium Support adds the rest: acknowledgement within 2 hours, telephone support, weekend support, a dedicated account manager, a global escalation team, periodic health checks and 24/7 assistance. It carries no published price, so it belongs on the same list as the security add-ons: ask for a figure by name.
Where Endpoint Central sits in the ManageEngine product family
ManageEngine sells a separate product for most of the jobs around this one: a help desk, an asset manager, remote access, remote support, mobile device management, browser security management, privileged access management. Endpoint Central is the bundle that covers several of those under one license and one agent.
The one it does not cover is the service desk. Ticketing is not on the Endpoint Central feature list. ManageEngine sells that as ServiceDesk Plus, which it describes as combining IT service management, IT asset management and a CMDB, in Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions.
The two are meant to run together. IT service management is one of the integration categories on the Endpoint Central integrations page, and ManageEngine advertises deep native integrations across its own products. If tickets are part of the job, budget for a service desk separately.
Perpetual is two and a half years of subscription, plus maintenance
The perpetual price is 2.5 times the annual price at every tier on the page, and the page adds one line about what follows: AMS charges amount to 20 percent of the invoice total.
If that is 20 percent of the perpetual price each year from the second year, the perpetual license costs the same as subscribing after four years; if the first year carries it too, after five. The page does not say which, so ask.
One reading note. Two cells in the vendor’s own tables use Indian digit grouping, "$1,07,988" and "$2,13,613", which are $107,988 and $213,613, and a third prints $134,988 as "$13,4988". They are the 5,000 server perpetual figures, and they check out against the 2.5 times rule.
CompareHow it sits against the alternatives
Against the MDM field ranked on this site, Endpoint Central is the one that prices in public and also the cheapest at a typical size. The comparison below uses the same case as the other pricing pages here: 250 devices, which on Endpoint Central UEM means 250 endpoints, since the vendor FAQ says one UEM license covers one endpoint, desktop or mobile.
| Product | Unit | 250 devices, a year |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoint Central UEM | Per endpoint | $4,195 on-premises, $5,445 cloud |
| Hexnode | Per device | $9,600 at the $3.20 tier |
| Scalefusion | Per device | $10,500 at the $3.50 tier |
| JumpCloud | Per user | $10,800 for 100 people |
| Jamf | Per device | $25,350 at list, all Apple |
Two cautions keep that from being a verdict. The Endpoint Central figure includes one technician, and a team of three adds $595 a year on-premises. And the products are not the same shape: Endpoint Central is a patching and endpoint management tool with MDM inside it, where Jamf, Hexnode and Scalefusion are device managers first.
If patching Windows and third-party software is the job, that shape is the point. If Apple devices are most of the estate, it is not, and Intune is worth checking first if you already hold Microsoft 365 E3.
The MSP price list is a different product
Endpoint Central MSP, the multi-tenant version for service providers, has its own pricing page and one structural difference: technicians are included by tier. It is one at 50 and 100 endpoints, two at 250, five at 500, ten at 1,000, fifteen at 2,500 and thirty from 5,000.
The cloud Professional list starts at the same $1,045 for 50 endpoints, and extra technicians are cheaper, $295 a year for one against $445 on the IT list.
At 500 endpoints with five technicians the MSP list is $7,195 a year. Reaching five on the IT list means adding four to the one included, and the cheapest way is the five-technician pack, for $8,090 in total.
On-premises, the MSP page shows a single list with no edition choice, starting at $1,195 a year or $2,988 perpetual for 50 endpoints. An internal IT team is not the buyer the MSP product is built for, but a service provider comparing the two lists should start from the one with technicians in it.
ScoreHow it scores on the rubric
ChangelogWhat changed in this update
- First published, from the Endpoint Central and Endpoint Central MSP pricing pages, the edition comparison matrix and the FAQ, read on September 11, 2026 in a browser and as raw HTML.
- Added the score from the new patch management ranking, where Endpoint Central holds 8.1, first of seven, for the broadest coverage.
- Re-read the pricing page, the edition matrix, the product and asset management pages, the integrations page and the support plans page. No published figure had moved. Added what the license covers besides patching, the free edition at $0 for 25 endpoints, the Classic and Premium support tiers, and where the product sits next to ServiceDesk Plus.
FAQFrequently asked questions
How much does ManageEngine Endpoint Central cost?
For 50 endpoints and one technician, Professional is $795 a year on-premises or $1,045 a year in the cloud. Enterprise is $945 and $1,245, UEM $1,095 and $1,395, and Security $1,695 and $2,045. The price per endpoint falls with volume, to $4.32 a year on Professional on-premises at 10,000 endpoints.
What is the Endpoint Central price per endpoint?
ManageEngine publishes tiers rather than a rate. Dividing the tier down, Professional on-premises works out to $15.90 per endpoint a year at 50 endpoints, $11.58 at 250, $8.95 at 1,000 and $4.32 at 10,000. The cloud version runs about 30 percent higher at the same counts.
Is Desktop Central the same product as Endpoint Central?
Yes. Desktop Central was the old name, and ManageEngine still serves the list from the desktop-central address, so a search for Desktop Central pricing lands on the current Endpoint Central list. The editions and figures on this page are the current ones.
Is there a free edition of Endpoint Central?
Yes, for up to 25 endpoints, and the edition matrix prices it at $0 and marks almost every feature available in it. What it lacks is multi-technician support and role based administration. The FAQ says servers are allowed in any number as long as the total stays within 25 endpoints.
Is there a free trial?
A 30-day trial, cloud or on-premises, which the vendor describes as managing unlimited endpoints.
What is the difference between Endpoint Central Professional and Enterprise?
Enterprise adds patch testing and approval, driver and BIOS patching, patch download scheduling, the self-service app catalog, USB device management and software blocking, among others. It costs $150 more a year at 50 endpoints on-premises. For a team buying mainly to patch, the test and approve step is the reason to choose it over Professional.
Does Endpoint Central include IT asset management?
Yes, from the Professional edition up. It runs periodic hardware and software inventory scans, software license management with compliance status, software metering, real-time inventory alerts and hardware warranty management, which ManageEngine says auto-detects warranty details for Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba and HP devices.
Does Endpoint Central include a service desk?
No. Ticketing is not on its feature list. ManageEngine sells the service desk separately as ServiceDesk Plus, which it describes as combining IT service management, IT asset management and a CMDB, and IT service management is one of the Endpoint Central integration categories.
What support is included in the Endpoint Central price?
Classic Support, which ManageEngine describes as email and chat during regional business hours, acknowledgement within 4 hours and 24x5 support during business hours. Telephone support, weekend cover, a named account manager and 2 hour acknowledgement belong to Premium Support, which carries no published price.
Which edition do I need to lock or wipe a lost laptop?
UEM or Security. The edition matrix crosses out remote lock and remote wipe for laptops on Professional and Enterprise, and the vendor states that MDM on those two editions covers mobile devices only. UEM is $1,095 a year for 50 endpoints on-premises.
How many technicians are included?
One, at every tier from 50 endpoints to 10,000. An additional technician is $345 a year on-premises or $445 in the cloud, which is a 43 percent increase on the 50 endpoint Professional license. Packs of 2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 are priced on the same page.
Are servers included in the endpoint count?
No. Servers have their own price list, from $295 a year for 10 on Professional on-premises, and cost more per machine than workstations. Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a server subscription, Oracle Linux and virtual machines running them count as servers. A spare server license can cover an extra workstation, but not the other way around.
Do phones and tablets need a separate license?
Not on UEM. The vendor FAQ says one UEM license covers a single endpoint, desktop or mobile device, and that iOS and Android devices can be managed with UEM licenses without an MDM add-on.
Should I buy perpetual or subscribe?
Perpetual is 2.5 times the annual price, and annual maintenance is 20 percent of the invoice total. If that maintenance starts in the second year, perpetual matches four years of subscription; if it applies from the first year, five. Beyond that point perpetual is cheaper, provided you keep paying maintenance.
Is the cloud version more expensive?
By about 30 percent at the same tier: $1,045 against $795 for 50 endpoints on Professional, $11,245 against $8,945 at 1,000. Paying the cloud price monthly adds another 19 to 20 percent. The on-premises price does not include the server you run it on.
Is EDR included in Endpoint Central?
Not in any edition. EDR is an add-on, offered for the cloud version only, at $995 a year for 50 workstations. Ransomware protection and malware protection are add-ons too, including on the Security edition.
Does ManageEngine have separate pricing for MSPs?
Yes, for Endpoint Central MSP, which is a separate product with its own list. Its tiers include more technicians as they grow, five at 500 endpoints and ten at 1,000, and extra technicians are $295 a year each against $445 on the IT list.
Are these figures current?
They were read on the vendor pricing pages on September 11, 2026, in a browser and as raw HTML, and the two readings matched. The pricing page and edition matrix were read again on September 23, 2026 with no figure moved. The add-on prices the page does not publish are the ones to ask for in writing.
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