Samanage vs ServiceNow comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

ServiceNow and Samanage compete in the IT service management space. ServiceNow has the upper hand in scalability and customization, while Samanage holds an advantage for ease of use and quicker implementation times.

Features: ServiceNow integrates IT and business processes and features workflow automation and extensive integration options, suitable for large-scale environments. Samanage provides a user-friendly design with robust incident management and configurable IT asset management, appealing to smaller organizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ServiceNow requires a more involved deployment process due to its complexity but offers extensive customization. Samanage offers a simpler deployment model with intuitive onboarding and faster setup. Its customer service is recognized for responsiveness and an easier start.

Pricing and ROI: ServiceNow incurs higher setup costs, leading to a significant initial investment with long-term ROI through automation and integration. Samanage offers a more competitive pricing structure and quicker financial return for smaller setups due to lower initial costs and efficient deployment.

To learn more, read our detailed Samanage vs. ServiceNow Report (Updated: December 2025).

Samanage vs. ServiceNow

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Samanage

Ranking in Help Desk Software

17th

Ranking in IT Asset Management

13th

Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)

16th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

License Management (10th)

ServiceNow

Ranking in Help Desk Software

1st

Ranking in IT Asset Management

1st

Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

223

Ranking in other categories

Rapid Application Development Software (2nd), No-Code Development Platforms (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the IT Service Management (ITSM) category, the mindshare of Samanage is 1.5%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow is 17.8%, down from 25.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Service Management (ITSM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ServiceNow	17.8%
Samanage	1.5%
Other	80.7%

IT Service Management (ITSM)

Featured Reviews

Meechai C.

Consult at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Detects incidents quickly, improves our SLA performance and solves issues faster

We mainly use it for incident logging. We'd like to add service request functionality, but we don't have the knowledge to configure the requests and the workflows properly. We'd like to integrate our workflows with the incident management, so we use it to manage our work better. We'd like to implement the service request feature. Right now, we just record everything as incidents. Some activities can take a long time, maybe one or two weeks. This makes it hard to maintain a good SLA, even if we work hard. So, response speed and workflow improvements.

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Shafqat Paracha

General Manager at sPerception IT

Adopting flexible workflows with customized automation delivers measurable benefits

There are things that I would like to see improved in ServiceNow, such as the pricing, as it is a very costly solution compared to other tools. Additionally, its presence in the local market is very limited; in Pakistan, for example, I don't see any vendor or distributor of ServiceNow available. They need to increase their sales spectrum globally so people can easily access them and engage them for client meetings and more. From a functionality perspective, the features in ServiceNow are acceptable as, at the moment, the ITSM modules rank highly, being 13 plus Pink Elephant certified, which is a good aspect to have. When providing advice to users, I would suggest they consider making strategic decisions about their per user pricing since it is very high. In our region, people normally start with 5 to 10 users, but the per user price is quite steep. Moreover, ServiceNow does not charge based on data uploaded or downloaded, so they should reconsider their pricing and data policies to align better with the financial capabilities of the region.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution has a great filtering feature."

"The best part is the ability to keep records, especially incident records. It's easy to use the tool to store data and monitor it."

"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of development for customization."

"Everything about the schema, including the design of ServiceNow, is great."

"ServiceNow offers a range of ITSM, IT incident management, and PRCPs."

"Some of the valuable features I have found the solution to have are it can serve many different types of businesses, it has strong platform capabilities, provides application development, built-in predictive intelligence, and performance analytics reports."

"The feature that I have found most valuable from ServiceNow is the ability to assign sub-tasks to different teams, including problem tickets and the regular and chain tasks."

"The flow designer feature of ServiceNow has had the biggest impact on our productivity because it has helped me reduce manual efforts by creating automation and robotics."

"ServiceNow gives us a lot for free: workflows, organizational structures, service portal, forms, reporting, disaster recovery, and so on."

"Operations and maintenance costs have been reduced using this solution. We have been able to deliver faster solutions to our customers and track progress using live data."

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Cons

"The setting up process is not quite easy. It's quite difficult."

"The system shuts down about once a month which is frustrating."

"It would be nice if we could, with some specific access rights, move histories from one squad to another, as they generate dependencies or duplicate or flag them."

"We are struggling with the scheduling part, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it is a ServiceNow issue. It could be the way we have configured it. We don't have it configured in a way where you can schedule a support call with our end users. We are looking for more automation in the box and the chat feature."

"Data access is a bit difficult, where you sometimes wish you had a relational database for some queries. The flexibility of data access in general is a bit on the low end. Of course, there is flexibility in some ways, but when I need a certain combination of data for some report, it can become a challenge."

"The asset management application could be improved. They have a lot of the infrastructure built, but it does not come with already made compatibility with some of the most popular vendors, such as Cisco and Microsoft. You have to fix it yourself."

"Complexities in the organization made the initial deployment complex."

"I know that discovery tools are not meant to be simple, but somehow, if they could make it more simple and robust, that would be great."

"It's a little expensive compared to other tools."

"We find it good in general. Obviously, there are areas of improvement for every capability. As they evolve more, if they keep on adding more intelligence into the capabilities, it will improve. The improvement areas are more integration across the landscape and more intelligence for the overall capability of the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is expensive."

"The cost is quite high."

"The price of the solution is comparable to industry standards. For the features that we received, it is reasonable."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten. The pricing for ServiceNow is based on a SaaS platform with annual contracts. However, it may not offer much flexibility for adjusting usage in the short term."

"For the modules we use, we found it competitive. I can't think of any costs in addition to the licensing fees."

"Certainly, from a product-platform perspective, the price is not too bad."

"The pricing is reasonable and affordable, making it suitable for businesses ranging from small to large scale."

"ServiceNow pricing is an art, not a science. The deal depends on how commercially savvy you are, which does make it something that is quite difficult to get right. It is most definitely an opportunity area for ServiceNow to improve and have more visibility around pricing of the different products within the platform."

"The first impact for the customer is that it is expensive, but do not forget that it is a solution that includes infrastructure; a single cost, easy to justify."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	55
Midsize Enterprise	35
Large Enterprise	164

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Samanage?

The best part is the ability to keep records, especially incident records. It's easy to use the tool to store data and monitor it.

What needs improvement with Samanage?

What is your primary use case for Samanage?

I use it for incident recording based on your inventory.

Which solution is better for developing non-ITSM applications: OutSystems or Service Now?

The short answer is that OutSystems is far better for 2 main reasons. Firstly, with Service Now you are locked into that platform for good. The business model is to lock in and then keep pumping th...

Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?

Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...

What do you like most about ServiceNow?

The solution has a user-friendly interface.

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Overview

"Samanage enables organizations worldwide to deliver a superior service experience. Samanage’s IT service management software accelerates efficiency and visibility into services requested and delivered across an organization, making it easy to continuously streamline process improvement and greater productivity. The fully integrated service desk and asset management solution utilizes a SaaS/multi-tenant platform, allowing IT and other service providers to effectively manage and connect service requests to IT assets. The revolutionary user interface delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust ITSM solution in days not months or years. "

SolarWinds

ServiceNow is a cloud-based task-management platform that specializes in IT operations management (ITOM), IT services management (ITSM), and IT business management (ITBM). ServiceNow allows users to manage their teams, projects, and customer interactions using a variety of different plugins and apps with which it easily integrates.

ServiceNow offers prebuilt applications to support any process, as well as a framework and tools that allow you to build your own.

ServiceNow’s service management solutions include change, request, incident, problem, and cost management, as well as HR, IT, field service, and facilities management solutions. They also cover business management solutions such as vendor performance management, financial management, performance analytics and project portfolio suite, as well as governance, risk, and compliance.

“The Smarter Way to Workflow”

ServiceNow’s activities, processes, and tasks are overseen as part of a comprehensive managed workflow that supports such features as real-time collaboration, communication, and resource sharing. ServiceNow’s suite of products allow for operation using serverless computing, and include the categories of Business Apps, Customer Service, HR, IT, and Security.

ServiceNow can be used to support most workflows because of the wide range of tools it offers. These include on-suite ticketing tools, predictive modeling to manage workflows, and benchmarking for the tracking of progress. ServiceNow can assist with artificial intelligence and machine learning processes and can be used to organize the cases of a help/service desk as well as for instance management and problem management. It also smoothly integrates with many legacy systems.

ServiceNow offers service management software for industries including:

Cloud services
Education
Financial services
Government
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Telecommunications

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users prefer ServiceNow to its competitors because of its scalability, stability, and ease of use. It helps everyone in the company to be on the same page by creating a single source of record across all departments. One user stated that “I’ve definitely used over 20 project management solutions, but they can't be compared with ServiceNow.” Another said that “ServiceNow is an industry leader in multiple areas and provides an excellent ROI.”

Sample Customers

SXSW, PRA Group, Fandango, Inteva Products, Amherst College, Tensator

AAA, AstraZeneca, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Broadcom, Christus Health, Epicor, Equinix, GE Capital, Intuit, KPMG, Loyola Marymount University, OshKosh, Quantas, RedHat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Re, U.S. Department of Energy, Safeway, Yale University, and Zillow

Samanage vs. ServiceNow