10 Best ConnectWise Alternatives for MSPs & IT Teams (2026 Comparison)

If you're looking at ConnectWise alternatives, you probably already have a reason. ConnectWise may be costing more than you want to spend or taking too much work to maintain. And with a renewal coming up, staying can be just as much of a decision as leaving.

So we've taken a close look at 10 alternatives and what switching to them would involve. The comparison covers the products themselves, their pricing, and the migration questions worth answering before you make a decision.

ConnectWise gives MSPs both PSA and RMM tools, so ConnectWise alternatives can serve very different purposes. You might need a new system for tickets, contracts, and billing, an RMM for managing client endpoints, or one platform for both.

ConnectWise Manage (now called ConnectWise PSA) helps MSPs manage ticketing, time tracking, agreements, billing, and other service processes.

Automate is an RMM for monitoring and managing endpoints, with patching, scripting, software management, and alerting. The company also offers ConnectWise RMM, a newer product that requires less specialized administration than Automate.

If you're replacing the PSA, a tool like HaloPSA should be on your shortlist. If Automate or ConnectWise RMM is the problem, you should be looking more closely at RMM options like N-able N-sight. And if you want to replace both systems, Atera and SuperOps combine PSA and RMM capabilities.

There isn't one reason MSPs decide to leave ConnectWise. Some of the concerns we hear most often are:

• Automate takes work to maintain. You can customize scripts, monitors, policies, and configurations, but someone has to keep them up to date. ConnectWise describes its newer RMM as requiring less specialized expertise.
• Costs can add up as the MSP grows. Adding technicians, endpoints, or more ConnectWise products can change what you pay. Other tools also price differently, including per technician or per endpoint, so it’s worth running the numbers for your team.
• Contract terms can complicate the timing. Your renewal date and notice period may affect when you can leave without paying for another contract period.
• The setup may have become more complicated than you need. If you're paying for and maintaining multiple ConnectWise products, you may prefer a platform that handles both PSA and RMM or simply fewer tools to manage.

Our advice is to check if related records will stay connected when you migrate. A ticket, for example, may arrive without its links to the customer, agreement, or configuration item.

Start with the ConnectWise product you use now. The options you'll want to consider depend on whether you're replacing Manage, Automate or ConnectWise RMM, or ScreenConnect.

Searches for “ConnectWise Manage alternatives” and “ConnectWise PSA alternatives” are about the same product, now called ConnectWise PSA. So when you compare replacements, look beyond ticketing to how your MSP actually uses the PSA. Agreements, time tracking, billing, projects, and custom workflows can rule out tools that don't cover what you need.

HaloPSA replaces the PSA, while Atera, Syncro, SuperOps, and NinjaOne can also take over the RMM. Once you know how much of the ConnectWise stack you're replacing, the ConnectWise migration guides can help you prepare your data for the move.

Your shortlist of ConnectWise Automate alternatives or ConnectWise RMM alternatives depends partly on which RMM you use and how much you've customized it. Scripts may be reusable with editing, but monitors, policies, alert rules, device groups, and automation logic may need equivalents in the new RMM.

ConnectWise RMM is generally simpler to manage than Automate, so there may be less custom configuration to recreate when you leave. NinjaOne, N-able N-sight, Datto RMM, Pulseway, and Kaseya VSA 10 are the RMM choices we'll look at below. Some of the PSA products cover RMM too.

If you're looking for ConnectWise ScreenConnect alternatives, you may not need to change anything else. You can keep your current PSA and RMM and replace ScreenConnect with another remote-access tool.

If the RMM is going too, check what the replacement offers for remote access first. You may find you don't need a separate tool at all.

ConnectWise Cloud Backup alternatives and ConnectWise SIEM alternatives have their own competitive sets, so we haven't included them in this comparison.

Feature lists only get you so far when comparing alternatives to ConnectWise. Two products may tick the same boxes but require very different work from your technicians. So use your own processes, costs, and technical environment to test the shortlist.

Before choosing a replacement, check what will happen to the ConnectWise data you want to keep. A platform may let you import current customers and assets, for example, but give you fewer ways to bring over ticket history, attachments, or custom data.

Once you know what the platform can take, you can decide how to move the rest. That might mean using CSV files or APIs, or getting help with the migration. Our data migration checklist walks you through what to prepare and test before the move.

The list of ConnectWise alternatives depends on which part of the stack you want to replace and how your MSP operates. We compared the products on PSA and RMM coverage, automation, pricing, contract options, and the work involved in moving from ConnectWise.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM + ConnectWise PSA

NinjaOne added PSA to its RMM offering in Q1 2026. It connects ticketing, documentation, asset management, agreements, and billing with NinjaOne RMM. Technicians can also work on a device directly from a ticket, including running scripts and remote troubleshooting.

Migration note: Plan the PSA and RMM portions separately. Service history and billing need different checks from endpoint policies, scripts, and automations. See what you can move with Help Desk Migration's NinjaOne migration service.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM + ConnectWise PSA

Syncro combines endpoint management with ticketing, billing, contracts, and other PSA functions. MSP plans charge per user and allow unlimited endpoints, so the core subscription doesn't increase with every additional device.

Migration note: List what currently passes between your PSA and RMM, then check how alerts, tickets, customers, and billing will connect after the move. Help Desk Migration supports migrations to Syncro if you want to automate the data transfer.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM + ConnectWise PSA

Atera also uses per-technician pricing with unlimited devices and customers. Each MSP plan combines ticketing with monitoring, patching, remote management, scripting, and IT automation. AI Copilot is now included in Atera's plans, so you don't pay extra to use it for things like script generation and ticket assistance.

Migration note: Check the Atera tier you plan to use first, since the available features vary by plan. For the data itself, Help Desk Migration can move supported records to Atera.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM, ConnectWise PSA, or both

SuperOps has separate PSA and RMM plans, or you can use them together. With the combined plan, an RMM alert can open a ticket with the device details already attached, and technicians can manage patching and scripts from the same product. You can also replace the PSA and RMM at different times if moving everything at once is too much.

Migration note: If you move in stages, ConnectWise and SuperOps will need to work together for a while. Plan where your team will manage tickets, customer records, and endpoint data until the move is complete.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM

VSA 10 uses scripts and workflows to automate endpoint work. For example, an endpoint event can trigger a script, restart a service, or kick off another action. Policies let you apply monitoring, patching, and device settings to specific endpoints, with child sites and groups inheriting settings from above.

Migration note: If you're coming from Automate, you'll need to recreate your monitors and automation rules as VSA 10 policies and workflows. You may be able to reuse some scripts, but you'll still need to set up the rules for when and where they run.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM

Datto RMM covers endpoint monitoring, patching, software management, remote support, and alerts. If your MSP already uses other Kaseya products, such as Kaseya PSA or IT Glue, it's also worth checking how Datto RMM works with the tools you already have.

Migration note: Moving to Datto RMM takes care of the RMM side, but you'll still need a plan for the data in ConnectWise PSA. Treat these as separate moves, especially if you need to keep your ticket and customer history.

Replaces: ConnectWise PSA/Manage

HaloPSA brings tickets, contracts, billing, projects, and SLAs into the PSA. You can also connect it to an RMM from another vendor, so switching from ConnectWise PSA doesn't mean changing your RMM too.

Migration note: Your records aren't the only thing to think about when moving from ConnectWise. You'll also need to recreate things like statuses, custom fields, agreement rules, and parts of your workflows in HaloPSA. Help Desk Migration has a dedicated ConnectWise-to-HaloPSA migration service to help you with that.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM

N-sight's Automation Manager includes more than 650 prewritten scripts, and technicians can add their own. Its drag-and-drop policy builder lets you turn these scripts into automated tasks without writing everything from scratch, which may save some rebuilding if you're moving from Automate.

Migration note: Go through your Automate scripts and monitors before recreating them in N-sight. Some may already have an equivalent in its automation library, leaving you with fewer custom jobs to rebuild.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM; PSA available separately

Pulseway gives technicians a lot of control from its mobile app. They can respond to alerts, run scripts and automation workflows, patch endpoints, use a terminal, and start remote sessions from their phones. This can come in handy when they’re working on-site or on call. Pulseway RMM also integrates with Pulseway PSA.

Migration note: First, decide whether you're moving to Pulseway PSA too. If you keep your current PSA, there's less data to move, but you'll need to test how it works with Pulseway RMM.

Replaces: ConnectWise Automate/RMM + ConnectWise PSA

MSP Central is ManageEngine's product for MSPs that want their PSA and RMM in the same system. It handles the service side, including tickets, contracts, billing, and client assets, as well as endpoint management. You can also monitor servers and networks, which isn't something every product in this comparison offers.

Migration note: Start by separating what you're moving from ConnectWise PSA from what you're moving from the RMM. Tickets and service history go to the PSA, while endpoint settings and monitoring rules need to be recreated on the management side.

We made this table to help you narrow your shortlist before comparing individual plans. Pay particular attention to how pricing works: depending on the vendor, you may pay per technician or per device, while some don't publish their prices at all.

*G2 ratings and review counts checked in September 2026.

The right ConnectWise alternatives also depend on who will be using them and what you're replacing.

Your ConnectWise contract and data migration need to line up. Keep access to ConnectWise while you test the migrated data and fix any problems you find.

Your order and agreement determine when you can leave, so find the subscription end date, required notice period, and instructions for submitting notice.

It’s a good idea to allow some overlap between the migration and the end of your ConnectWise access. You may need the original records while checking tickets, attachments, dates, or field values in the new system.

A ConnectWise PSA migration can include companies, contacts, members, and tickets, along with ticket comments, attachments, dates, and custom fields.

Contracts, billing rules, SLAs, and configuration data depend more on the new PSA, and some may need to be recreated. In a ConnectWise-to-HaloPSA migration, for instance, Help Desk Migration can transfer company and ticket data associated with agreements, while the agreements and their billing configuration are recreated in HaloPSA.

Test the relationships too. Open several migrated tickets and confirm that the company, contact, comments, attachments, and custom fields are all where you expect them.

Record count alone can't give you a reliable timeline because attachments, custom fields, API limits, field mapping, and the new platform all affect the amount of work.

But there is a pretty standard sequence:

1. Connect both systems and map the supported fields.
2. Run a sample migration and inspect the results.
3. Correct the mappings where needed.
4. Run the full migration.
5. Transfer records created or updated during the move.
6. Check the migrated data before closing ConnectWise.

You can migrate a sample of your data for free with Help Desk Migration to get a sense of how much work your migration will take before you commit to moving everything.

Doing the migration yourself can work if you don't have much data to move and the new platform can import what you need. It gets harder with years of ticket history, where comments, attachments, dates, and other details all need to stay connected to the right tickets.

Help Desk Migration can handle supported ConnectWise records for you and gives you a chance to test the migration before moving everything. Once the full migration is done, compare the totals and open a selection of tickets to make sure the data came across correctly. Lastly, keep your ConnectWise account available until you're happy with the result.

The right ConnectWise alternative depends on which parts of your current stack you want to replace and which ones you're happy to keep. Once you've narrowed down the products, look at the migration before you commit. Make sure you know what will happen to the data you need and whether your ConnectWise contract affects when you can make the switch.

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