Xcellerate RMM vs ConnectWise Automate
A modern open-core platform against a legacy giant — lighter, faster and radically cheaper.
Xcellerate RMM
Country of origin: Bulgaria
Bulgaria is an EU jurisdiction — aligned with your data-sovereignty and GDPR obligations, with no third-country access to worry about.
ConnectWise Automate
Country of origin: United States
Headquartered in United States, outside the EU. Data can fall under United States law (e.g. the US CLOUD Act), which clashes with EU data-sovereignty and GDPR expectations.
No legacy baggage
ConnectWise Automate carries two decades of technical debt, thick-client consoles and complex on-prem servers. Xcellerate RMM is a modern web platform with a single lightweight agent.
Transparent pricing
ConnectWise requires sales calls and multi-year contracts. Xcellerate RMM's core is free and Cloud pricing is public: €1.25 per device.
Open by design
Audit our agent's source code, host your own relays, export everything. No black boxes on your customers' machines.
Inventory that goes deeper
Xcellerate RMM inventories MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL databases, scheduled tasks, certificates, local users and listener ports — and backs up BitLocker keys. Automate carries none of this out of the box.
| Capability | Xcellerate RMM | ConnectWise Automate |
|---|---|---|
| Open-source core you can audit | Yes | No |
| Self-hosted deployment option | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited technicians at no extra cost | Yes | No |
| SSO & MFA included — no SSO tax | Yes | Partial |
| Extended inventory: databases, certificates, BitLocker keys, listener ports | Yes | No |
| OS + third-party patch management | Yes | Partial |
| Built-in remote access | Yes | Paid add-on |
| Automation & scripting engine | Yes | Yes |
| Network inventory: switches, ports, VLANs & IPAM | Yes | Paid add-on |
| White-label reporting | Yes | Partial |
| Open REST API & data export | Yes | Partial |
| Transparent public pricing | Yes | No |
The bottom line
Teams leaving ConnectWise Automate typically report 60–80% lower total cost and dramatically simpler operations. If you're tied to ConnectWise PSA, our certified connector keeps tickets and billing in sync.
Switching is easier than you think
Our migration team moves your devices, policies and scripts — most fleets are fully migrated within two weeks.
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