The Netpicker Alternative for Network Configuration Management

Yes. rConfig does the same multi-vendor configuration backup, compliance and automation job as Netpicker. Both are self-hosted and both ship a free edition, but rConfig ships single sign-on in every edition, LDAP and RBAC from Starter, and a public benchmark past 50,000 devices.

Netpicker is made by Flock9, an independent software company focused on practical network automation. Flock9 also makes Slurp'it, a sister discovery and inventory product. Both companies describe themselves as bootstrapped and independently owned, funded by customers rather than investors.

Netpicker publishes three tiers on netpicker.io, checked 26 September 2026. Foundation is free for life for unlimited devices on a single user licence. Professional starts at $7,500 per year for under 250 devices. Enterprise starts at $33,500 per year for under 1,000 devices. Netpicker does not publish a price above these device bands.

Yes. rConfig Core is free and open source, with no device limit, multi-user local accounts and single sign-on included, so you can run the everyday backup job without a licence.

Partly. Netpicker is built on open source libraries, including Netmiko, pytest and TextFSM, and Flock9 calls this an “open source foundation”. The platform itself ships as prebuilt container images under an end user licence agreement: its public GitHub repository holds deployment files, Docker Compose, a Helm chart and scripts, rather than the application's own source code, and carries no application source licence.

Enterprise, Netpicker's top tier, from $33,500 per year for under 1,000 devices, per Netpicker's own pricing page. rConfig ships single sign-on in every edition including the free Core, and LDAP and RBAC from Starter. See the full breakdown on the rConfig pricing comparison.

Yes. rConfig backs up SCADA, PLCs, roadside signage, legacy voice systems and other specialised OT equipment over SSH, Telnet, API or the SIE, including in air-gapped networks. Netpicker's own supported-vendors page does not list OT, ICS or industrial vendors.

rConfig's latest benchmark backs up over 50,000 devices in under 21 minutes on a single host, with the method published, and a reference architecture documented past 100,000 nodes. Netpicker does not publish a per-server or per-agent device figure.

Yes. Vector provides hierarchical role-based access control for MSPs, and Vector Prism is a branded customer portal with mandatory multi-factor authentication. Netpicker lists multi-tenancy for MSPs as an Enterprise add-on.

Three places, stated plainly. Netpicker's pytest framework for pre and post change validation suits teams that already write Python; rConfig covers compliance policy and change detection, not a pytest test suite. CVEasy gives Netpicker vulnerability scanning from Professional upward; rConfig is not a CVE scanner. And Netpicker ships native NetBox and Nautobot plugins plus a sister discovery product, Slurp'it; rConfig integrates with NetBox and Nautobot as a source of truth rather than as a plugin inside them.

Export your device inventory, or sync it from NetBox or Nautobot, which both products support. Install rConfig, import devices and map credentials, or point rConfig at your existing HashiCorp Vault. Run a first backup and diff it against your latest Netpicker backup, then run both tools in parallel for one change cycle before retiring Netpicker's schedules. If you already have a pytest suite against Netpicker, keep it, and run it from your pipeline against rConfig-managed configurations instead.