**AssetTiger is a good product at a fair price, and for a lot of companies the
right answer is to stay on it.** The case for moving is narrower and more
specific than most comparison pages will tell you, and it is worth being clear
about where it applies before anyone spends an afternoon on a migration.
*Editorial disclosure: Wurxa publishes this comparison and sells one of the two
products in it. Competitor pricing is quoted from their published pricing page,
checked on 31 August 2026, and linked at the end so you can verify it. Prices
change; the page is the source, not this article.*
What AssetTiger actually is
A mature, US-built asset tracking tool that has been doing one job for a long
time. Barcode and QR tagging, check-in and check-out, maintenance schedules,
depreciation, audits, mobile scanning. It is not a thin product, and its pricing
is not predatory.
Two things about it are genuinely well judged. It charges for assets rather than
seats, so a paid account gets unlimited users and the whole team can look things
up without a procurement conversation. And the entry price is low enough that a
small company can just buy it.
Most comparison articles skip past this and go straight to the differences. That
tells you more about the author than the product.
The pricing, side by side
Their published annual tiers, checked on 31 August 2026:
Wurxa Assets, from the same live pricing that the application reads:
Above 15,000 assets Wurxa has no published tier. You talk to somebody. That is a
real limitation and it is listed here rather than buried.
Read the bands, not the headline
The interesting comparison is not tier against tier. It is what a company with a
given number of assets has to buy.
The 1,500 and 5,000 rows are where the difference comes from, and it is not a
discount. It is band shape. A company with 1,500 assets is buying a 2,500-asset
band because that is the next one up, and a company with 5,000 is buying a band
built for twice that. Finer bands mean fewer people paying for capacity they will
not reach.
The 40,000 row is the honest one in the other direction. At that size AssetTiger
has a self-service answer and Wurxa does not.
The free tier is the actual difference
Everything above is arithmetic. This part is a difference in kind.
AssetTiger's free offering is a 30-day trial at 250 assets and 2 users. When it
ends, in their own words, accounts that have not upgraded "automatically
transition to view-only status" and you "may not add, edit, or delete assets or
users". The data is not taken from you, which is decent behaviour. But the tool
stops being a tool.
Wurxa Assets is free at 100 assets, with unlimited users, permanently. No card,
no expiry, no view-only cliff. A company with 60 laptops and a van never pays,
and never has to think about it again.
That is a deliberate trade. The free tier is small enough that a company with a
real register outgrows it, and useful enough that a company with a small one
stays on it forever. If you have 200 assets, AssetTiger's Basic tier at $220 is a
perfectly sensible purchase and this article is not trying to talk you out of it.
Where a standalone tool runs out
The strongest argument for moving has nothing to do with price.
An asset register exists to answer two questions: what do we own, and who has it.
The first is a property of the asset. The second is a property of a person, and a
standalone asset tool has no idea who your people are.
So custody becomes a text field. You type "Ahmed" into a box. Then Ahmed leaves,
and nothing happens, because the asset system has never heard of offboarding and
the HR system has never heard of the laptop. The two facts sit in two databases
and the connection between them is somebody remembering.
In Wurxa, custody points at an employee record that also has a joining date, a
department, a visa expiry and a last working day. Which means the questions
change shape:
None of that is clever. It is what happens when custody points at a real record
instead of a string. A standalone asset tool cannot do it and no amount of
product work will change that, because the employee data is not there.
The reverse is also true and worth saying: if you have no people to speak of and
lots of things, that integration is worth nothing to you. A rental company
tracking 8,000 items across sites with six staff should probably buy AssetTiger
and get on with it.
When to stay put
Four cases, all real:
It works and nobody is complaining. Migration costs hours. If the register is
clean, the team knows the tool, and nothing is broken, the return is close to
zero. Working software you have already learned is worth more than a slightly
better price.
You are above 15,000 assets. Wurxa has no self-service tier there. You would
be entering a conversation, and if you do not want one, that settles it.
You need something specific that only they have. Long-tenured products
accumulate features. If yours depends on one, check before assuming parity. This
article does not claim feature-for-feature equivalence, and nobody should believe
a vendor who does.
You are mid-audit or mid-year-end. Move a register between systems at a quiet
moment, not while somebody is counting.
When moving is worth it
Your assets and your people are the same problem. Custody, handovers,
offboarding, department views. This is the case the whole comparison turns on.
You are at 1,000 to 5,000 assets. The band shape works hardest here, and the
saving is real rather than rhetorical.
You have under 100 assets and are paying for the privilege. The free tier
covers you permanently.
You already run Wurxa for attendance or payroll. Assets is a module on the
same workspace with the same logins and the same employee records. Nothing new to
administer.
What a migration actually involves
The export is trivial and the mapping is the work.
Get a CSV out of the old system with asset tag, description, category, location,
purchase date, cost and current custodian. Every tool exports this.
Then three things will not line up cleanly. Categories rarely match, and this is
the moment to collapse the twelve you invented into the six you use. Locations
are usually free text and want tidying before import, not after. Custody history
generally does not export at all, so accept a fresh start on the trail and record
current holders as new handovers.
Tags are the pleasant surprise. Existing barcode labels keep working if you
import the same asset tag values, so nothing needs relabelling.
For a few hundred assets this is an afternoon. For a few thousand it is a day,
most of it spent on category decisions rather than on the import.
The summary
AssetTiger is worth its money. If you are on it and it works, that is a complete
answer and you can stop reading.
Move if your assets and your employees are the same problem, if you sit in the
band range where the shape of the pricing works in your favour, or if you are
small enough that permanently free beats cheap. Otherwise, keep what you have and
spend the afternoon on something else.
Verify the prices yourself before deciding anything. Both pages are linked below
and both companies are free to change them.
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